George Wolseley

Sir George Wolseley

Sir George Wolseley
Born 1839
Died 1921
Allegiance United Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch Indian Army
Rank Lieutenant-General
Commands held Madras Command
Battles/wars Indian Mutiny
Anglo-Egyptian War
Mahdist War
Awards Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant-General Sir George Benjamin Wolseley, GCB (11 July 1839 - 10 May 1921[1]) was an Indian Army officer.

Military career

Wolseley was the fourth son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley, of the King's Own Borderers, by his wife Frances Anne Smith (daughter of William Smith, Co. Dublin), and was the younger brother of Field Marshal Lord Wolseley.[1]

He was commissioned into the 84th Regiment of Foot in 1857 and saw active service in the response to the Indian Mutiny.[2] He became Assistant Adjutant-General with the Candahar Field Force in 1878, Assistant Adjutant-General in Egypt in 1882 (seeing action again at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir in September of that year) and Assistant Adjutant-General in the Nile Expedition of 1884.[2] He became commander of a brigade in Burma in 1889 (which secured the town of Wuntho in 1891) and General Officer Commanding the Lahore District in India in March 1895.[2] He went on to be General Officer Commanding the forces in the Punjab in 1897 and Commander-in-Chief Madras Command in 1898.[3]

Family

Wolseley married, in 1867, Esther Louise Andrews, daughter of William Andrews. They had one son who died young. Lady Wolseley died at Hillside, Whitechurch, Oxfordshire, on 11 March 1902.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 WOLSELEY, Gen. Sir George Benjamin’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2014; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014
  2. 1 2 3 High ranking officers
  3. ↑ Whitaker's Almanck 1903
  4. ↑ "Deaths". The Times (36714). London. 13 March 1902. p. 1.
Military offices
Preceded by
Sir Charles Clarke		 C-in-C, Madras Command
1898–1903 		Succeeded by
Sir Charles Egerton
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