page_title: Herbert Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore
section_title: First World War and after
hierarchical_section_title: Herbert Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore / First World War and after
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial to Major-General Herbert Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore (1930) by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Victoria Embankment Gardens, London
context_page_description: Major-General Herbert Francis Eaton, 3rd Baron Cheylesmore, GBE, KCMG, KCVO was a British Army officer, sportsman, and peer. He was Chairman of London County Council, chairman of the National Rifle Association and presided over courts martial during the First World War.
context_section_description: At the outbreak of the First World War, Cheylesmore became commandant of a School of Musketry at Bisley Camp, where the ranges were put at the disposal of the Army Council. The school was to train and provide instructors in musketry from those who had passed the age of military service. The School  trained some 14,500 officers, NCOs and civilians for service in the Army and Territorial Force.
  Of Cheylesmore it was said "He is never happier than when the boys have their week at Bisley, and he can devote a portion of his well-earned holidays to “teaching the young idea to shoot. Loves rifle shooting as much as marksmen like him – which is indeed saying a very great deal. Has done more to advance the “nation of marksmen” ideal than any other nobleman in the country".
  During World War I  he presided over several courts-martial including that which condemned the spy Carl Hans Lody to death.
  Cheylesmore was honoured Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in June 1925. He died a month later aged 77, in a motor accident,the first peer to suffer such a fate in Britain. He was buried in Highgate Cemetery in a grade 2 listed mausoleum designed by the American firm of architects, Carrère and Hastings. The family was desolated and it is said that a great ballroom, known as the Pillar Hall at Coopers Hill (which had been the library and lecture hall of the Engineering College), which was being built for the coming of age of their heir, was left unfinished. This is incorrect. The 21 birthday of the heir took place in 1914 <ref 6 March 1914. Coventry Standard>the elaborately decorated hall is seen in photographs of a 1925 reuinion of the Cooper's Hill Society.<ref BL Mss Eur F329/77> He is commemorated by a monument by Sir Edwin Lutyens in Victoria Embankment Gardens, London. The Cheylesmore Range at Bisley named after him was opened for the 1948 Summer Olympics.
  His son Francis Ormond Henry Eaton, 4th Baron Cheylesmore succeeded to the Barony: on the fourth Baron's death in 1974, the Barony became extinct.
caption: The Cheylesmore Memorial by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Victoria Embankment Gardens, London
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