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Joseph Frederick Laycock
Brigadier General Sir Joseph Frederick Laycock KCMG, DSO, TD (12 June 1867 – 10 January 1952) was a British soldier, and Olympic sailor.
==Military career==
Laycock served with the Nottinghamshire (Sherwood Rangers) Yeomanry in South Africa during the Second Boer War 1899-1900, for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order (DS) in November 1900.
Back in the United Kingdom, Laycock was the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire in 1906.
He was the first colonel of the Nottinghamshire Royal Horse Artillery when it was formed in 1908 as part of the new Territorial Force. He funded the founding of the battery himself.〔Nottingham Evening Post 20 May 1997〕
During the First World War he served with his battery in the Middle East and also served with the Duke of Westminster's armoured car unit when it was involved in a widely reported incident where it rescued prisoners of war from Senussi tribesmen.〔(The Western Frontier Force )〕 Later he became the Commander Royal Artillery for the ANZAC Mounted Division. During the Second World War, he commanded the Nottinghamshire Home Guard.〔Burke, Sir Bernard (1969), (''Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry: Volume 2'' ), Burke's Peerage (p. 390)〕
He was friends with Hugh Grosvenor, 2nd Duke of Westminster,〔 and they competed together in the 1908 Olympics at Water Motorpsort.〔
He lived at Wiseton Hall in Nottinghamshire.〔 and was a Deputy Lieutenant and Lord Lieutenant for that county.
One of his children, Sir Robert Laycock, was also knighted and awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his services in the Second World War.
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