Herman Landon

Herman James Shelley Landon CB CMG
Landon, presumably between 1911 and 1914
Born	23 August 1859
Died	16 October 1948 (aged 89) Scottow, Norfolk
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1879 to 1918
Rank	Major General
Unit	6th Regiment of Foot Royal Warwickshire Regiment General Staff
Commands held	2nd Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1st Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment 3rd Brigade 1st Division 9th (Scottish) Division 33rd Division 35th Division 64th Division
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) Mentioned in Despatches (5)

Major-General Herman James Shelley Landon, CB CMG, (23 August 1859 – 16 October 1948), was a British Army officer. During the Boer War he commanded a battalion, and was promoted in the interwar period to take command of a brigade in the British Expeditionary Force. He commanded the brigade during the early fighting on the Western Front in the First World War, and succeeded to the command of 1st Infantry Division when his commanding officer was killed at the First Battle of Ypres; he later commanded four more New Army divisions during the war.

Herman Landon was born in August 1859, the son of James Landon and Mary Maria Landon; he had one elder sister, Leititia, and a substantially older stepsister, Geraldine Leigh. The family was comfortably well off, living in the respectable area of Paddington, London.

James Landon was an Indian cotton merchant; though predominantly involved in growing rather than processing, he had been responsible for setting up one of the first successful cotton mills in India, at Bharuch in Gujarat, in 1854. Later in the decade he advised Ranchhodlal Chhotalal on the development of a similar mill in Ahmedabad. He died in March 1879, leaving a substantial estate of eight to nine thousand pounds.