Lieutenant-General Sir George Cornish Whitlock (1798–1868) was a British Madras Army officer, who commanded the Madras Column (also called the Saugor and Nerbudda field force) during the Indian Mutiny.[1][2][3]

Life

Whitlock was baptised on 3 August 1803 at Ottery St Mary, Devon, son of George and Charlotte. He was colonel of the 108th Regiment of Foot (Madras Infantry) from 1862 to his death.

He died aged 69 on Thursday 30 January 1868 at Exmouth, Devon.

Family

Whitlock married Harriet, daughter of Sir Samuel Toller on 19 February 1825 in Bangalore, Madras, India. Col. Charles James Toller Whitlock (died 1912) was their son.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Low 1880, pp. 105–125.
  2. ↑ Dodwell 1929, p. 202.
  3. ↑ Forrest 2001, p. 81.
  4. ↑ "Deaths". Northern Whig. 23 August 1912. p. 1.

References

  • Forrest, G.W. (2001), The Indian Mutiny 1857-58 (illustrated ed.), Asian Educational Services, p. 81, ISBN 8120615514
  • Low, Charles Rathbone (1880), Soldiers of the Victorian age, Chapman and Hall, pp. 105–125 online copy: Lieutenant-General Sir George Cornish Whitlock, K.C.B., www.archerfamily.org.uk, 1 September 2008, archived from the original on 13 November 2013, retrieved 1 March 2013
  • Dodwell, Henry Herbert, ed. (1929), The Cambridge History of the British Empire: British India, 1497-1858, vol. 4, CUP Archive, p. 202


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