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SIR GEORGE TOMKYNS CHESNEY (1830-1895)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 93 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR GEORGE TOMKYNS CHESNEY (1830-1895)  ,
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English general,
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brother of Colonel C . C . Chesney, was born at
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Tiverton, Devonshire, on the 3oth of
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April 1830 . Educated at Blundell's school, Tiverton, and at Addiscombe, he entered the Bengal Engineers as second
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lieutenant in 1848 . He was employed for some years in the public
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works department and, on the outbreak' of the
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Indian Mutiny in 1857, joined the Ambala column, was' field engineer at the
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battle of Badli-ke-serai, brigade-major of engineers throughout the siege of
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Delhi, and was severely wounded in the assault (medal and clasp and a brevet majority) . In 186o he was appointed head of a new department in connexion with the public works accounts . His
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work on Indian Polity (1868), dealingwith the administration of the several departments of the Indian government, attracted wide attention and remains a permanent text-
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book . The originator of the Royal Indian
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Civil
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Engineering College at Cooper's Hill,
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Staines, he was also its first president (1871-1880) . In 1871 he contributed to Blackwood's
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Magazine, " The Battle of
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Dorking," a vivid account of a supposed invasion of England by the Germans after their victory over France . This was republished in many
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editions and
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translations, and produced a profound impression . He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, 1869; colonel, 18i7; major-general, 1886; lieutenant-general, 1887; colonel-commandant of Royal Engineers, 189o; and general, 1892 . From 1881 to 1886 he was secretary to the military department of the government of India, and was made a C.S.I. and a C.I.E .

From 1886 to 1892, as military member of the

governor-general's council, he carried out many much-needed military reforms . He was made a C.B. at the jubilee of 1887, and a K.C.B. on leaving India in 1892 . In that
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year he was returned to parliament, in the Conservative
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interest, as member for Oxford, and was chairman of the committee of service members of the House of
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Commons until his
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death on the 31st of March 1895 . He wrote some novels, The Dilemma, The Private Secretary, The Lesters, &c., and was a frequent contributor to periodical literature .

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