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The son of Thomas and Lucy (née Caroline), he served in the Persian War (1857), Central India Defence Force (1858), in the Abyssinian War (1867–68), in the Mediterranean (1878), before going to Burma. His recreations were listed as "boxing, fencing, sword-play, running, cricket, football, hunting and polo".
He was educated at Brighton College, and, in later years, he was President of their old boys association. There is a bronze memorial tablet to him in Brighton College Chapel, but his sword that used to hang above it was stolen.
His last field command was to lead the Burma Field Force in 1885-86 at the start the Third Anglo-Burmese War. In 1908 he was appointed Colonel-Commandant of the Royal Engineers.
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