Edward Hutton (officer)

Sir Edward Thomas Henry Hutton (born December 6, 1848 in Torquay , † August 4, 1923 in Chertsey ) was a British officer.

Life

Hutton attended Eton College and joined the King's Royal Rifle Corps in 1867 . He took part in the Zulu War in 1879 , 1880–81 in the First Boer War , in 1882 in the British-Egyptian War and in 1884–85 in the Gordon Relief Expedition . During this time he rose to major and commanded the mounted infantry in England from 1888 to 1892 . As an eloquent army reformer he was part of the circle around Viscount Wolseley .

In 1889 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and married Eleanor Mary of the house of the Marquess of Winchester . In 1892 he became adjutant to Queen Victoria in the rank of colonel, in 1893 he was major general in command of the New South Wales Military Forces , whose reform he pushed forward despite financial restrictions.

In 1898 Hutton went to Ottawa as commander of the Canadian Militia . His political involvement led to conflict with the Canadian government, and Hutton took over a mounted brigade made up of Australian, New Zealand, Canadian and British units during the Second Boer War .

In 1901 he was knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George and commissioned by the first all-Australian government to form a national army from the country's various colonial forces. Despite significant political problems - there were four prime ministers and six defense ministers in three years, and Hutton was often very undiplomatic in pursuing his goals - he made significant progress here, making him the first organizer of the Australian Army . The officers he promoted and who continued his work include WT Bridges , Harry Chauvel and Brudenell White .

Upon his return to Great Britain in late 1904, Hutton became General Officer Commanding of the 3rd Division . In 1905 he assumed a post in the administration of the Eastern Command and in 1907 was promoted to lieutenant general and deactivated. In 1912 he was inducted into the Order of the Bath as Knight Commander . During World War I , from 1914 to April 1915, he led the 21st Division , one of the newly formed divisions of the New Army .

literature

• Craig Stockings: Britannia's Shield: Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hutton and Late-Victorian Imperial Defense , Cambridge University Press, 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-09482-6 .

Web links

• Australian Dictionary of Biography - Hutton, Sir Edward Thomas Henry
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography - Hutton, Sir Edward Thomas Henry

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Knights and Dames at Leigh Rayment's Peerage