Search Results

Sign in Modify your search

Narrow Your Choices

Format

Type

Articles containing

Sex

  • Male (1,205)

Life event

Date

Occupations

Religious Affiliation

 1-20 of 1,205 Results  for:

  • Armed forces and intelligence services x
  • army officer (British army) x
Clear all

Article

Abbott, Sir James (1807–1896), army officer  

R. H. Vetch

revised by Roger T. Stearn

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Abbott, Sir James (1807–1896), army officer, third son of Henry Alexius Abbott of Blackheath, Kent, a retired Calcutta merchant, and his wife, Margaret, daughter of William Welsh, writer to the signet, of Edinburgh, was born on 12 March 1807. He was the brother of ...

Image

Cover Abbott, Sir James (1807–1896)

Abbott, Sir James (1807–1896)  

Maker: B. Baldwin

In 

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004
Sir James Abbott (1807–1896) by B. Baldwin, 1841 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Article

Abercromby, Sir Robert (1740?–1827), army officer and administrator in India  

Raymond Callahan

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Abercromby, Sir Robert (1740?–1827), army officer and administrator in India, son of George Abercromby (1705–1800) of Tullibody and his wife, Mary, née Dundas (d. 1767), was baptized at his family's Scottish estate, Menstrie, near Tullibody, in Clackmannanshire, on 13 October 1740, which was possibly also the day of his birth. He came from one of those Scottish landed families that were to play an important role in British military and imperial history over the next two centuries. ...

Article

Acland, John Dyke (1747–1778), army officer and politician  

W. P. Courtney

revised by S. J. Skedd

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Acland, John Dyke (1747–1778), army officer and politician, was born on 18 February 1747 and baptized the following day at North Petherton, Somerset, the elder of the two sons of Sir Thomas Acland, seventh baronet (1722–1785), a landowner and politician, and his wife, ...

Article

Adam, Sir Ronald Forbes, second baronet (1885–1982), army officer  

Jeremy A. Crang

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Adam, Sir Ronald Forbes, second baronet (1885–1982), army officer, was born on 30 October 1885 in Bombay, the eldest son of Sir Frank Forbes Adam, first baronet (1846–1926), a Scot who was a well-known industrialist in Lancashire and Bombay, and his wife, Rose Frances Kemball (1863–1944)...

Article

Adams, Thomas (1730?–1764), army officer  

G. J. Bryant

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Adams, Thomas (1730?–1764), army officer, remains of unknown birth and parentage. He commenced his military service in 1747 as a volunteer with the army under the command of the duke of Cumberland in the Netherlands. On 25 June of the same year he obtained a commission as ensign in the ...

Article

Adye, Sir John Miller (1819–1900), army officer  

E. M. Lloyd

revised by James Lunt

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Adye, Sir John Miller (1819–1900), army officer, was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, on 1 November 1819, the son of Major James Pattison Adye, Royal Artillery, and Jane, daughter of J. Mortimer Kelson of Sevenoaks. His grandfather Major Stephen Payne Adye, Royal Artillery, had three sons in the regiment. ...

Image

Cover Adye, Sir John Miller (1819–1900)

Adye, Sir John Miller (1819–1900)  

Maker: Maclure & Macdonald

In 

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004
Sir John Miller Adye (1819–1900) by Maclure & Macdonald, pubd 1882 (after Fradelle) © National Portrait Gallery, London

Article

Adye, Stephen Payne (d. 1794), army officer and writer on military justice  

H. M. Chichester

revised by Roger T. Stearn

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Adye, Stephen Payne (d. 1794), army officer and writer on military justice, entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet in June 1757, and was appointed second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in September 1762; he was promoted first lieutenant in May 1766, captain lieutenant in March 1773, and captain in June 1780. After the Seven Years' War he was on the staff of ...

Article

Airey, Sir James Talbot (1812–1898), army officer  

E. M. Lloyd

revised by James Lunt

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Airey, Sir James Talbot (1812–1898), army officer, born on 6 September 1812, was the son of Lieutenant-General Sir George Airey (1761–1833) and his wife, Catherine, sister of the second Baron Talbot de Malahide. Richard Airey was his brother. He was commissioned ensign in the ...

Article

Airey, Richard, Baron Airey (1803–1881), army officer  

John Sweetman

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Airey, Richard, Baron Airey (1803–1881), army officer, was born at Newcastle upon Tyne in April 1803, the eldest son from the six boys and three girls of Lieutenant-General Sir George Airey (1761–1833) and his wife, Catherine Talbot (d. 1852), third daughter of ...

Image

Cover Airey, Richard, Baron Airey (1803–1881)

Airey, Richard, Baron Airey (1803–1881)  

Maker: Lock & Whitfield

In 

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004
Richard Airey, Baron Airey (1803–1881) by Lock & Whitfield, pubd 1878 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Article

Alderson, Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey (1859–1927), army officer  

C. V. Owen

revised by James Lunt

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Alderson, Sir Edwin Alfred Hervey (1859–1927), army officer, was born at Capel St Mary, Suffolk, on 8 April 1859, the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Mott Alderson, of Poyle House, Ipswich, and his wife, Catherine Harriett Swainson. In 1876 he joined the Prince of Wales's Own Norfolk artillery militia...

Article

Alderson, Sir Henry James (1834–1909), army officer  

J. H. Leslie

revised by James Lunt

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Alderson, Sir Henry James (1834–1909), army officer, was born at Quebec on 22 May 1834, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Ralph Carr Alderson (1793–1849), Royal Engineers, and his wife, Maria , daughter of Henry Thorold of Cuxwold, Lincolnshire. John Alderson (bap. 1757, d. 1829), physician, was his grandfather. Educated at ...

Article

Alexander, William, styled sixth earl of Stirling (1726–1783), army officer in America  

Paul David Nelson

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Alexander, William, styled sixth earl of Stirling (1726–1783), army officer in America, was born on 25 December 1726 in New York city, one of seven children of James Alexander (1691–1756), a surveyor, lawyer, and politician, and Mary Spratt Provoost (1693–1760), a rich merchant and the daughter of ...

Image

Cover Alison, Sir Archibald, second baronet (1826–1907)

Alison, Sir Archibald, second baronet (1826–1907)  

Maker: Maclure & Macdonald

In 

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004
Sir Archibald Alison, second baronet (1826–1907) by Maclure & Macdonald, pubd 1882 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Article

Alison, Sir Archibald, second baronet (1826–1907), army officer  

E. M. Lloyd

revised by James Lunt

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Alison, Sir Archibald, second baronet (1826–1907), army officer, was born at Edinburgh on 21 January 1826, the eldest son of Sir Archibald Alison, first baronet (1792–1867), historian, and his wife, Elizabeth Glencairn (1799–1873), youngest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Tytler. In 1835 Possil House...

Article

Allen, John (d. 1855), Irish nationalist and army officer  

Nancy J. Curtin

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Allen, John (d. 1855), Irish nationalist and army officer, was a native of Dublin, where he was also for some time a partner in a drapery business. His participation in the United Irish movement brought him the unwanted attention of the authorities and he left ...

Image

Cover Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861–1936)

Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861–1936)  

Maker: Eric Kennington

In 

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004
Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861–1936) by Eric Kennington, pubd 1926 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Article

Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861–1936), army officer  

Matthew Hughes

Publication History:

Published in print:
23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Allenby, Edmund Henry Hynman, first Viscount Allenby of Megiddo (1861–1936), army officer, was born on 23 April 1861, St George's day, on the estate of his mother's family at Brackenhurst Hall, near Southwell, Nottinghamshire, the second child and eldest son of six children (three boys, three girls) of ...