Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
George Luck | |
Birth Date: | 24 October 1840[1] |
Birth Place: | Blackheath, Kent, England |
Death Place: | Salisbury, Wiltshire, England |
Allegiance: | ![]() |
Rank: | General |
Commands: | Bengal Command |
Battles: | Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Awards: | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
General Sir George Luck, (24 October 1840 – 10 December 1916) was a British Army officer.
Luck was commissioned into the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1858. He commanded the 15th Hussars during the Second Anglo-Afghan War between 1878 and 1880.[2] He became Inspector-General of Cavalry in India in 1887,[3] and Inspector-General of Cavalry in the UK in 1893. Returning to India in 1898, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Bengal Command. In early November 1902 he left India on eight months′ sick leave,[4] at the end of which he retired from the army in 1903.[5]
He was given the colonelcy of the 15th (The King's) Hussars in 1904, a position he held until his death in 1916. He was promoted full general on 23 May 1906.
In retirement he lived at Landford Lodge near Salisbury, Wiltshire[6] and was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower (1905–07).[7]
He married Ellen Georgina Adams; they had no children.[6]