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Sir Thomas Westropp McMahon, 3rd Baronet, (14 February 1813 – 23 January 1892) was a senior British Army officer.

Biography

He was born the eldest son of

Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas McMahon, 2nd Baronet (1779–1860) was a British Army officer. Family He was the youngest son of John MacMahon, comptroller of the Port of Limerick, and his second wife Mary Stackpoole, daughter of James Stackpoole. ...

, an Army officer who was Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army, and Emily Anne, the daughter of Michael Roberts Westropp and Jane Godsell. The younger Sir Michael Roberts Westropp, Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay, was his cousin. He succeeded his father as 3rd baronet in 1860. He obtained a

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in the

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on 24 December 1829, and was transferred to the

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the following year. In the latter regiment, he was promoted lieutenant in 1831 and captain in 1838, transferring in 1842 as captain to the

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. He went with the Lancers to India, under the command of Sir

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, where he took part in the Sutlej campaign, seeing action at the

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in 1846. He was promoted to a majority unattached on 13 July 1847. He then served in Turkey and the Crimea as assistant quartermaster-general of the cavalry division and was present at the battles of the

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, Bokklava (with the Heavy Brigade), the Tchettaya, and

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. He was afterwards awarded a C.B., the Turkish medal and fifth class of the Medjidie. While in the Crimea, on the promotion of Sir

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, he was made lieutenant-colonel of the

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in 1854, and commanded that regiment until he went on half-pay in 1861. He became a major-general in 1869; commanded the Cavalry Brigade at Aldershot, and was inspector-general of cavalry from 1871 to 1876. He was promoted lieutenant-general in 1877, and full general on 12 April 1880. In 1874 he received the honorary colonelcy of the

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, transferring in 1885 to his old regiment, the

, a position he held until his death. McMahon died at the Sycamores, Farnborough, Hampshire in 1892. He had married three times; firstly Dora Paulina, the youngest daughter of Evan Hamilton-Baillie, secondly Frances Mary, the daughter of John Holford and thirdly Constance Marianne, the widow of John Brooking. By his second wife, he had four sons, including Aubrey, his heir, all of whom served in the army, and one daughter.

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