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Sir George Richards Greaves (9 November 1831 – 11 April 1922) was a

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officer.

Military career

Greaves was commissioned in November 1849.Queen's Royal Surreys (Archived)
Retrieved 8 January 2020 He served in the response to the

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before becoming Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General for the Eusufzye Expedition in 1858 and Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General in

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in 1862. He went on to be Deputy Assistant Adjutant General at Headquarters in 1870, Chief of Staff for the

Third Anglo-Ashanti War The Anglo-Ashanti wars were a series of five conflicts that took place between 1824 and 1900 between the Ashanti Empire—in the Akan interior of the Gold Coast—and the British Empire and its African allies. Though the Ashanti emerged victorio ...

in 1873 and then became Chief of Staff and Chief Secretary to Government of

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in 1878.Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
/ref> After that he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General at Headquarters in 1874, Administrator of Cyprus in 1879 and Adjutant-General, India later that year. He then commanded a Division in the Bengal Army from 1885 before serving as Chief of Staff for the Second

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in 1885 and Commander-in-Chief of the

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from 1891. He retired in March 1893.

Family

In 1859 Greaves married Ellen Hutchison; following the death of his first wife, he married Julia Rose Venour (née Morris) in 1908.

References

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