George Wetherall

Sir

George Wetherall
Sir; George Wetherall
	Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order
Relations	father Frederick Augustus Wetherall, mother Elizabeth Mytton

KH (1788 – 8 April 1868) was a senior British Army

officer.

Military career

As the son of General

Madras, and in 1826 was appointed deputy judge-advocate-general in India.^[1]

General Wetherall is most famous for his services during the rebellion in Canada of 1837/38 during which he was the Commander of the Royals' 2nd battalion in the

Patriote rebels.^[1] After the victory, he and his troops unearthed the Colonne de la liberté, a column erected in Saint-Charles by the Patriotes for the Assembly of the Six Counties, and brought it back as a war trophy to Montreal

, along with a number of prisoners.

For his services, Wetherall was made a

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath

in 1865.

In 1860 he was in overall charge of the Royal Volunteer Review in Holyrood Park in Edinburgh for Queen Victoria. The 21,000 men on parade stood before a grandstamd holding 3000 spectators plus upward of 200,000 spectators on the northern slope of Arthur's Seat.^[2]

Legacy

The Memorials to Governors in the Chapel of the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst includes: In Memory of General Sir George Augustus Wetherall, G.C.B., K.H., Colonel of the 84th Foot. Died 8th April, 1868, aged 80 years. He was Governor of this College from 1866 to 1868. ^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
^ Cassells Old and New Edinburgh vol.4 ch,37
^ "Major Augustus F. Mockler-Ferryman F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. `Annals of Sandhurst : a chronicle of the Royal Military College from its foundation to the present day, with a sketch of the history of the Staff College` (London: William Heinemann, 1900)". Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2012.

Military offices
Preceded by Sir George Cathcart	Adjutant General 1854–1860	Succeeded by Sir James Yorke Scarlett
Preceded by Sir John Pennefather	GOC Northern District 1860–1865	Succeeded by Sir Sydney Cotton
Preceded by Sir Harry Jones	Governor of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst 1866–1868	Succeeded by Sir Duncan Cameron
Preceded by Sir Loftus William Otway	84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot 1854–1868	Succeeded by Thomas Wood

[dcb-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

[2] Cassells Old and New Edinburgh vol.4 ch,37

[3] "Major Augustus F. Mockler-Ferryman F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. `Annals of Sandhurst : a chronicle of the Royal Military College from its foundation to the present day, with a sketch of the history of the Staff College` (London: William Heinemann, 1900)". Archived from the original on 29 July 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2012.

[1]

[2]

[3]

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF
National	Germany
People	Deutsche Biographie
Other	SNAC