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General A general officer is an Officer (armed forces), officer of highest military ranks, high rank in the army, armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry. In some usages the term "general officer" refers t ...
Charles Philip de Ainslie (18 March 1808 – 23 March 1889) was a
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officer.


Early life and education

Ainslie was son of Colonel Charles Philip Ainslie, of the 4th Dragoons, and Mary Ann, daughter of James Atkinson, of Newcastle upon Tyne. His paternal grandfather was the landowner Colonel Sir Philip Ainslie of Pilton, whose wife Elizabeth was daughter of
John Gray, 11th Lord Gray Lord Gray is a title in the Peerage of Scotland. The Barony of Gray was created circa July 1445 for the Scottish diplomat and politician Sir Andrew Gray. The first Lord Gray was a hostage in England for the good conduct of James I of Scotland ...
. His uncle
George Robert Ainslie George Robert Ainslie (1776–1839) was a Scottish general of the British Army, with a short lived and controversial career in the Caribbean, a Lieutenant Governor of Cape Breton, and noted for his coin collecting pursuits. Biography Mili ...
was a soldier and colonial governor. The Ainslie family were Scottish gentry, senior representatives of the ancient chiefly family of that name of
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, Lanarkshire, and held a
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. They had considerable mercantile interests. Ainslie was educated at Charterhouse School.


Military career

Ainslie was commissioned as a
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in the Rifle Brigade on 10 April 1825. He transferred to the 4th Regiment of Light Dragoons on promotion to
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on 29 January 1826. He was promoted to
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on 16 March 1830 and transferred to the 1st Regiment of Dragoons on 29 June 1830. Promoted to
major Major (commandant in certain jurisdictions) is a military rank of commissioned officer status, with corresponding ranks existing in many military forces throughout the world. When used unhyphenated and in conjunction with no other indicators ...
on 14 October 1842, Ainslie transferred to the 14th Regiment of Light Dragoons on 3 February 1943. Promoted to
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on 22 October 1847, he was given command of the
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on 23 February 1849 before being promoted to full
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on 2 November 1854. Ainslie was promoted to
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on 7 July 1862, to
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on 25 October 1871 and to full
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on 1 October 1877. He changed his name from Ainslie to de Ainslie by deed poll in 1879. He served as colonel of the 1st Royal Dragoons from 1869 until his death in 1889.


Personal life

In 1834, Ainslie married firstly his cousin Jane Anne, daughter of the politician
Francis Gray, 14th Lord Gray Sir Francis Gray, 14th Lord Gray Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS FRSE PSAS (1 September 1765 – 20 August 1842) was a Scottish peer, politician and soldier. Life He was born in Edinburgh on 1 September 1765 the youngest of twelve children to J ...
(his grandmother's brother); he married secondly, in 1843, Lady Sarah Eliza, daughter of
Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 11th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne (3 May 177327 August 1846) was a Scottish nobleman and peer. He was the third son of John Bowes, 9th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and Mary Bowes, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorn ...
. He had no children from either marriage.Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed., vol. 2, ed. Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage Ltd, 2003, p. 1643


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:de Ainslie, Charles Philip 1808 births 1889 deaths British Army generals People educated at Charterhouse School