sentences:  He was the first of six children born to Major Charles Hesketh Fleetwood-Hesketh (1871–1947) and his wife Anne Dorothea (Brocklebank) Fleetwood-Hesketh (1877–1940).His mother died in the torpedoing and sinking of the ocean liner SS "City of Benares" in September 1940.Hesketh was educated at Eton from where, in 1922, he was commissioned into the Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry as a 2nd Lieutenant.