Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet

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Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet (born January 21, 1826 in Edinburgh , † February 5, 1907 in London ) was a British general who, among other things, was in command of Staff College Sandhurst between February and May 1878 and in command of Aldershot from 1883 to 1889 District Command was.

Life

Family origins and military career

Alison was the son of the lawyer and historian Archibald Alison , who was raised to 1st Baronet of Possil House in the County of Devon on June 25, 1852 , and his wife Elizabeth Glencairn Tytler. His sister Ella Frances Catherine Alison was married to Robert Cutlar Fergusson, 18th of Craigdarroch , from 1854 until his death in 1859 , and to Lieutenant General James Charlemange Dormer between 1861 and his death in 1893 .

Alison himself began studying at the University of Glasgow after finishing school and joined the 72nd Regiment, Duke of Albany's Own Highlanders , as an ensign in 1846 . With this regiment he was promoted to first lieutenant on September 11, 1849 and then transferred to Barbados and in 1851 to Nova Scotia , where he was promoted to captain on November 11, 1853 . In May 1855 he arrived in Russia to take part in the Crimean War. In June 1855 he served in the Highland Brigade in the siege of Sevastopol . 1856 carried his promotion to Major and as such he was in 1857 during the Sepoy uprising as Military Secretary Lieutenant General Colin Campbell , the commander in British India (Commander-in-Chief in India) . During this time he lost his left arm in the second siege of Lucknow in 1857.

On his return to Great Britain, Alison was promoted to lieutenant colonel on March 24, 1858 , and on March 1, 1861, was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath . Between 1862 and 1864 he was assistant to the adjutant general of the inspector general of the infantry. He then found from 1864 to 1867 use as assistant to the adjutant general in the South Western Military District (South Western District) and was last promoted to colonel on March 17, 1867 . When his father died on May 23, 1867, he inherited the title of 2nd baronet.

After 1870 Assistant Adjutant General in Aldershot Command was, he was brevet of brigadier general (Brevet Brigadier) 1873-1874 commander of a brigade on the west coast of Africa in the Third Ashanti War , under the command of General Garnet Wolseley were who was also the governor of the Gold Coast . Alison was one of the 35 officers that Wolseley had selected for this mission and who later formed the so-called Ashanti ring (the group gained significant influence on the Victorian British Army through mutual support and assumed the leading positions by the end of the century). At the same time he became a member of the Legislative Council for the settlement of the Gold Coast on December 22, 1873 . During the third Ashanti War he took part on January 29, 1874 in the Battle of Amoaful , the capture of Bekwai and the capture of Kumasi . Upon his return, he succeeded Colonel James Maurice Primrose as Deputy Adjutant General in Ireland on October 16, 1874 . On March 31, 1874 he was promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB).

Promotion to general

Grave of Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet, in Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh

Alison, who was promoted to major general with effect from January 1, 1878 , succeeded Major General Edward Bruce Hamley as commandant of Staff College Sandhurst in February 1878 . However, he gave this post three months later in May 1878 to Major General Charles Creagh-Osborne , while he himself was Deputy Quartermaster General for the Intelligence Service as the successor to Lieutenant General Patrick Leonard MacDougall .

To suppress the Urabi uprising , the British government sent a force under Wolseley to Egypt in 1882 . Alison commanded the Highland Brigade . This belonged to the 2nd Infantry Division commanded by Lieutenant General Edward Bruce Hamley, so that he was indirectly under Lieutenant General Garnet Wolseley again. Alison took part in the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir on September 13, 1882, in which the Egyptian army was crushed. After the campaign that established British rule in Egypt , Alison was promoted to Extraordinary Local Lieutenant General (Supernumerary / Local Lieutenant-General) in 1882 and appointed commander of an army of the British forces in Egypt (Egypt Command) .

Alison returned to Britain in 1883 and took over on August 1, 1883, succeeding General Daniel Lysons the post of commander ( General Officer Commanding ) of Aldershot District Command , which was one of the native troops. In February 1885 he temporarily took over the traditional office of Adjutant-General to the Forces , since the incumbent General Wolseley took over command of the Gordon Relief Expedition in Egypt. As commander of the Aldershot District Command took place on April 1, 1887, his promotion to lieutenant general. He held this post until January 1, 1889 and was then replaced by Lieutenant General Evelyn Henry Wood . Furthermore, he was since July 25, 1883 Colonel of Honor of 5th Lanarkshire . In addition, in 1886 he became a member of a royal commission of inquiry into arms deals.

On June 21, 1887 he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB). In 1889, Alison was promoted to general . On January 21, 1893, he retired from active military service.

On January 1, 1897, he succeeded Charles Staveley, who died on November 23, 1896, as Colonel of Honor of the Essex Regiment . However, he was replaced on May 11, 1897 at this post by Lieutenant General John Jocelyn Bourke , while he himself was Colonel of Honor of the Seaforth Highlanders (Duke of Albany's Own, Ross-shire Buffs) . He held the post of Colonel of Honor of the Seaforth Highlanders until his death, whereupon Major General Mostyn de la Poer Beresford was his successor on March 8, 1907.

Marriage and offspring

His marriage to Jane Black on November 18, 1858 had a daughter and a son.

His daughter Margaret Frances Alison was married to Major General Charles Walker Robinson , who also served in the Sepoy Uprising and the Third Ashanti War , but also in the First Boer War , and was assistant adjutant general to his father-in-law in the Aldershot Command between 1884 and 1889 . Most recently, Major General Robinson was assistant to the military secretary at the headquarters of the army between 1889 and 1892 and was commander of the armed forces in Mauritius from 1892 to 1895 .

His son Archibald Alison inherited the title of 3rd Baronet on his death in 1907.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 21018, HMSO, London, September 11, 1849, p. 2784 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 21493, HMSO, London, November 11, 1853, p. 3034 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 21951, HMSO, London, December 19, 1856, p. 4248 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 22117, HMSO, London, March 24, 1858, p. 1571 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 22485, HMSO, London, March 1, 1861, p. 1006 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  7. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23248, HMSO, London, May 7, 1867, p. 2641 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  8. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24043, HMSO, London, December 9, 1873, p. 5780 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24047, HMSO, London, December 23, 1873, p. 6075 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24073, HMSO, London, March 7, 1874, p. 1573 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24141, HMSO, London, October 16, 1874, p. 4731 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  12. ↑ a b Knights and Dames: A – BEC at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
  13. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24531, HMSO, London, December 14, 1877, p. 7188 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  14. ↑ His successor as Deputy Adjutant General in Ireland was Colonel George Byng Harmon with effect from January 1, 1878 .
  15. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24569, HMSO, London, April 5, 1878, p. 2394 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  16. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24580, HMSO, London, May 10, 1878, p. 2990 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  17. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25168, HMSO, London, November 17, 1882, p. 5108 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  18. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25252, HMSO, London, July 20, 1883, p. 3653 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  19. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25445, HMSO, London, February 24, 1885, p. 811 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  20. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25688, HMSO, London, April 1, 1887, p. 1916 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  21. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25253, HMSO, London, July 24, 1883, p. 3702 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  22. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25634, HMSO, London, October 15, 1886, p. 5007 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  23. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25712, HMSO, London, June 21, 1887, p. 3362 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  24. ↑ London Gazette . No. 25773, HMSO, London, January 5, 1888, p. 214 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  25. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26365, HMSO, London, January 20, 1893, p. 333 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  26. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26809, HMSO, London, January 1, 1897, p. 4 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  27. ↑ London Gazette . No. 26851, HMSO, London, May 11, 1897, p. 2603 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
  28. ↑ London Gazette . No. 28002, HMSO, London, March 8, 1907, p. 1740 ( PDF , accessed October 3, 2016, English).
predecessor Office successor
Archibald Alison Baronet, of Possil House
1868–1907 		Archibald Alison
Edward Bruce Hamley Commandant of Staff College Sandhurst
1878 		Charles Creagh-Osborne
personal data
SURNAME Alison, Archibald, 2nd Baronet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British general
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1826
PLACE OF BIRTH Edinburgh
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 1907
Place of death London