Lieutenant-General Sir George Cornish Whitlock (1798–1868) was a British
Madras Army
The Madras Army was the army of the Presidency of Madras, one of the three presidencies of British India within the British Empire.
The presidency armies, like the presidencies themselves, belonged to the East India Company until the Government ...
officer, who commanded the Madras Column (also called the Saugor and Nerbudda field force) during the
Indian Mutiny
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a major uprising in India in 1857–58 against the rule of the British East India Company, which functioned as a sovereign power on behalf of the British Crown. The rebellion began on 10 May 1857 in the fo ...
.
Life
Whitlock was
baptised
Baptism (from grc-x-koine, βάπτισμα, váptisma) is a form of ritual purification—a characteristic of many religions throughout time and geography. In Christianity, it is a Christian sacrament of initiation and adoption, almost inv ...
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
Bangalore (), officially Bengaluru (), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of Karnataka. It has a population of more than and a metropolitan population of around , making it the third most populous city and fifth most ...
, Madras, India.
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1798 births
1868 deaths
British military personnel of the Indian Rebellion of 1857
British East India Company Army generals
People from Ottery St Mary
Military personnel from Devon
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