William Lockhart (Indian Army officer)

General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart, GCB KCSI (2 September 1841 – 18 March 1900) was a British general.

Military career

Lockhart was born in Scotland, his father being a Lanarkshire clergyman.

He entered the Army of India in 1858, in the Bengal native infantry. He served in the Indian rebellion of 1857, the Bhutan campaign (1864–66), the Abyssinian expedition (1867–68; mentioned in dispatches), the Hazara Black Mountain expedition (1868–69; mentioned in dispatches).

From 1869 to 1879 he acted as deputy-assistant and assistant quartermaster-general in Bengal. In 1877 he was military attaché with the Dutch army in Acheen (modern Aceh). He served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878–80, was mentioned in dispatches and made a C.B., and from 1880 to 1885 was Deputy Quartermaster-General in the intelligence branch at headquarters. He commanded a brigade in the Third Burmese War (1886–87), and was made K.C.B., C.S.I., and received the thanks of the government.

An attack of fever brought him to England, where he was employed as assistant military secretary for Indian affairs; but in 1890 he returned to India to take command of the Punjab frontier force, and for five years was engaged in various expeditions against the hill tribes. After the Waziristan campaign in 1894–95 he was made K.C.S.I. He became full general in 1896, and in 1897 he was given the command against the Afridis and Mohmands, and conducted the difficult Tirah campaign with great skill. He was made G.C.B., and in 1898 became Commander-in-Chief of India. He died on 18 March 1900.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.