George Wolseley

Sir George Wolseley
Sir George Wolseley
Born	1839
Died	1921
Allegiance	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]

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