| Sir George Greaves | |
|---|---|
 Sir George Greaves | |
| Born | 9 November 1831 Windermere, Westmorland |
| Died | 11 April 1922 (1922-04-12) (aged 90) Saundersfoot, Pembrokeshire |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1849–1893 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands | Bombay Army |
| Battles / wars | Indian Mutiny Third Anglo-Ashanti War Suakin Expedition |
| 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 GCB KCMG (9 November 1831 – 11 April 1922) was a British Army officer.
Military career
Greaves was commissioned in November 1849. 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. 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. After that he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General at Headquarters in 1874, Administrator of Cyprus in 1879 and Adjutant-General, India later that year. 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. He retired in March 1893.
Family
In 1859 Greaves married Ellen Hutchison; following the death of his first wife, he married Julia Rose Venour (née Morris) in 1908.
References
- ^ Queen's Royal Surreys (Archived) Retrieved 8 January 2020
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
| Military offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byPeter Lumsden | Adjutant-General, India 1879–1884 |
Succeeded byThomas Baker |
| Preceded byThe Duke of Connaught | C-in-C, Bombay Army 1890–1893 |
Succeeded bySir John Hudson |
- 1831 births
- 1922 deaths
- British Army generals
- Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
- Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
- 19th-century British Army personnel
- Military personnel from Cumbria
- British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
- British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Ashanti War
- British Army personnel of the Mahdist War