William McMurdo
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Sir William Montagu Scott McMurdo GCB (30 May 1819 – 2 March 1894) was a British army officer who rose to the rank of general. He saw active service in India, helped to run a military railway in the Crimean War and then managed various groups of volunteers working with the army. He was eventually knighted.
Biography
He was the son of Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald McMurdo of Loch Arthur,
78th Highlanders. In 1844 he married Napier's daughter, Susan Sarah Napier, 1827-1912. When Napier returned to India in 1849, McMurdo went with him as his aide-de-camp.[1]
In 1853 he was promoted to
Mejidiye (fourth class). After the end of the Crimean War the Land Transport Corps was converted into the Military Train in 1857 and McMurdo was made its colonel-commander. From 1860 he became involved with the volunteers working with the army and became the inspector-general of volunteers. In 1865 he established the Engineer and Volunteers Staff Corps. He also became the colonel of the Inns of Court Volunteers and of the Engineer and Volunteers Staff Corps.[1]
From 1866 to 1870 he commanded a brigade in the Dublin district, then in the
15th Foot in 1877 and the 22nd Foot (Cheshire Regiment) in 1888. In 1881 he was made KCB
and subsequently GCB in 1893.
He was a councillor of the Oxford Military College in Cowley and Oxford Oxfordshire from 1876 to 1894. He died in Nice in 1894.[1]
His daughter Caroline Amelia married the explorer and writer Charles Montagu Doughty; their elder daughter Dorothy Doughty was a sculptor and potter.[4][5]
References
Notes
- ^ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [1]. Retrieved 25 February 2007
- ^ Cooke 1990, p. 76.
- ^ Cooke 1990, p. 96.
- ^ The Life of C. M. Doughty, David George Hogarth, Doubleday, Doran, Inc., 1929, p. 125
- ^ The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal, The Mortimer-Percy Volume, Melville Henry Massue, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994 (reprint), pp. 523
Bibliography
- Cooke, Brian (1990), The Grand Crimean Central Railway, Knutsford: Cavalier House, ISBN 0-9515889-0-7
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