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Sir George Luck, (24 October 1840 – 10 December 1916) was a
British Army
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officer.
Military career
Luck was commissioned into the
15th Regiment of Foot
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Mathematics
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in 1858. He commanded the
15th Hussars during the
Second Anglo-Afghan War
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between 1878 and 1880. He became Inspector-General of Cavalry in India in 1887,
[Badsey, p. 67] and Inspector-General of Cavalry in the UK in 1893. Returning to India in 1898, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief,
Bengal Command
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. In early November 1902 he left India on eight months′ sick leave, at the end of which he retired from the army in 1903.
He was given the colonelcy of the
15th (The King's) Hussars in 1904, a position he held until his death in 1916. He was promoted full general on 23 May 1906.
In retirement he lived at
Landford
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Lodge near
Salisbury
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, Wiltshire
[Obituary, The Times, 12 December 1916] and was appointed
Lieutenant of the Tower (1905–07).
[Vanity Fair, 4 December 1907]
He married Ellen Georgina Adams; they had no children.
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References
1840 births
1916 deaths
Military personnel from Kent
British Army generals
Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Bengal Presidency
British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Afghan War
People from Blackheath, London
15th The King's Hussars officers
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