George Greaves (British Army officer) explained

Honorific Prefix:Sir
George Greaves
Birth Date:9 November 1831
Birth Place:Windermere, Westmorland
Death Place:Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire
Branch: British Army
Serviceyears:1849–1893
Rank:General
Commands:Bombay Army
Awards:Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

General Sir George Richards Greaves (9 November 1831 – 11 April 1922) was a British Army officer.

Military career

Greaves was commissioned in November 1849.[1] He served in the response to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 before becoming Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General for the Eusufzye Expedition in 1858 and Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General in New Zealand in 1862.[1] He went on to be Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at Headquarters in 1870, Chief of Staff for the Third Anglo-Ashanti War in 1873 and then became Chief of Staff and Chief Secretary to Government of Cyprus in 1878.[2] After that he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General at Headquarters in 1874, Administrator of Cyprus in 1879 and Adjutant-General, India later that year.[2] He then commanded a Division in the Bengal Army from 1885 before serving as Chief of Staff for the Second Suakin Expedition in 1885 and Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army from 1891.[1] He retired in March 1893.[2]

Family

In 1859 Greaves married Ellen Hutchison; following the death of his first wife, he married Julia Rose Venour (née Morris) in 1908.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160323033919/http://queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/colonels/075.html Queen's Royal Surreys (Archived)
  2. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50003 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography