Kenneth Hargreaves

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Brigadier Kenneth Hargreaves CBE TD (23 February 190327 March 1990) was a British soldier and industrialist who held several local offices in Yorkshire.

Hargreaves was commissioned into the West Yorkshire Regiment in the Territorial Army in 1922. He later transferred to the Royal Artillery.

Hargreaves married Else Markenstam (d. 1968) in 1958, and adopted his stepchildren by that marriage, Ingrid Mary and Peter Hargreaves-Allen. He subsequently married Hon. Margaret Lane-Fox, the daughter of George Lane-Fox, 1st Baron Bingley, on 15 February 1969.

Hargreaves served as Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1970 until 1974, when, as a result of the reorganization of county governments, he became Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire until 1978. He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of West Yorkshire on 4 May 1978.[1]

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  1. ^ London Gazette, issue no.47529, 9 May 1978
Honorary titles
Preceded by
Sir Richard Graham, Bt
High Sheriff of Yorkshire
1962–1963
Succeeded by
Kenneth Wade Parkinson
Preceded by
James Noel Tetley
Honourary Colonel of The Leeds Rifles
1963–1966
Succeeded by
John Houston Taylor
Preceded by
The Earl of Scarbrough
Lord Lieutenant of the West Riding of Yorkshire
1970–1974
Office abolished
Preceded by
Office created
Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire
1974–1978
Succeeded by
William Bulmer