Charles Ellice

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Charles Ellice in a caricature by Carlo Pellegrini in Vanity Fair magazine (October 20, 1877)

Sir Charles Henry Ellice , GCB (born May 10, 1823 in Florence , † November 12, 1888 ) was a British general in the British Army , who held one of the highest posts in the army as adjutant general from 1876 to 1882 .

Life

Family origins and career as an officer

Charles Henry Ellice was one of five children and the younger of two sons of General Robert Ellice and his wife Eliza Courtney , an illegitimate daughter of the politician Charles Gray, 2nd Earl Gray from an affair with Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire , leading to the Time still married to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire . His older sister, Eliza Ellice, was married to the Speaker of the House of Commons and later 1st  Viscount Hampden , Henry Bouverie William Brand . His uncle was the wealthy businessman and politician Edward Ellice , who was among other things a member of the House of Commons , Treasury Secretary of the Treasury and Secretary of State in the War Department.

He completed officer training at the Royal Military College Sandhurst and entered on May 10, 1839 lieutenant (Second Lieutenant) in the Guards Grenadier Regiment Coldstream Guards a. On May 8, 1845, he became the captain (Captain) promoted and transferred as such on March 20, 1846 Infantry Regiment 82nd Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) and only two weeks later, on April 3, 1846 Line Infantry Regiment 24th (2nd Warwickshire ) Regiment of Foot , where his father was regimental colonel between 1842 and 1846. He took for the British East India Company at the Second Sikh War (April 1848-March 1849) part and was on 21 December 1849 Major , on 8 August 1851 to Lieutenant Colonel (Lieutenant-Colonel) and on 28 November 1854 Colonel (Colonel) transported. In the following years he took part in the Indian uprising of 1857 as well as in the Battle of Jhelam on July 7, 1857.

Quartermaster General and Adjutant General

As a Brigadier (Brigadier) Ellice was between May 1863 and March 1864 commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade and then as a major general (Major-General) from March 1864 to September 1867 commander of the Shorncliffe garrison. He then broke in September 1867, Major General William Anson McCleverty as Commanding General ( General Officer Commanding ) of the district Southeast (South-Eastern District) and had this position, held until June 1868 after which Lt. Gen. David Russell took over his succession. In April 1871 he succeeded Major General Frederick Haines General Quartermaster of the Army (Quartermaster-General to the Forces) and held this office for five years until April 1876, after which General Daniel Lysons succeeded him. For his services he was beaten on May 24, 1873 to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB), so that from then on he carried the suffix "Sir". A few months later he was on 28 September 1873 and to lieutenant general (Lieutenant General) promoted. At the same time he was between 1874 and 1881 regimental colonel of the line infantry regiment The 49th (Princess of Wales's Hertfordshire) Regiment .

This was followed by Lieutenant General Charles Ellice in November 1876 as a successor to General Richard Airey Adjutant General (Adjutant General) , one of the highest posts in the army, and remained in this use until his replacement by General Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley in April 1882 On February 15, 1882, he was raised to the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB). Most recently he was from 1884 until his death in 1888 Colonel of the Line Infantry Regiment South Wales Borderers

He was married to Louisa Caroline Lambton since 1862, niece of the politician John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eliza Ellice in The Peerage
  2. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 87
  3. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 97
  4. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 96
  5. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 8
  6. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
  7. ↑ SENIOR ARMY APPOINTMENTS SINCE 1860, p. 6
  8. ↑ KNIGHTS AND DAMES
personal data
SURNAME Ellice, Charles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ellice, Charles Henry (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British general
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH November 12, 1888