Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales,mystery novels,and horror fiction. He was a leading ghost story writer of his time,central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era. M. R. James described Le Fanu as "absolutely in the first rank as a writer of ghost stories". Three of his best-known works are the locked-room mystery Uncle Silas,the lesbian vampire novella Carmilla,and the historical novel The House by the Churchyard.
George Vere Arundel Monckton-Arundell,8th Viscount Galway,was a British politician. He served as the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand from 1935 to 1941.
Lieutenant General George Noble Molesworth,was an officer commissioned into the British Army serving in India. He saw active service in the Third Anglo-Afghan War,later transferred to the British Indian Army and rose to oversee intelligence and to be Deputy Chief of General Staff of Army Headquarters India. He also served as Military Secretary to the India Office.
Major-General Sir Borlase Elward Wyndham Childs was a British Army officer who also served as Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1921 to 1928.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Michael Patrick Pollock,was a senior officer in the Royal Navy who rose to become First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff in the early 1970s. In the Second World War,he was an officer on ships tasked with protecting convoys in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean,and was gunnery officer on the cruiser HMS Norfolk when she fought the German battleship Scharnhorst during the Battle of North Cape. He later commanded the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal,and hosted Ian Smith on HMS Tiger. In retirement,he held the position of King of Arms of the Order of the Bath and Gloucester King of Arms,with responsibility for heraldry in Wales.
Major Donald Fraser Callander OBE MC &Bar was one of the last serving British Army officers to lead his men into battle wearing the kilt.
Events from the year 1864 in Ireland.
Lieutenant General Sir Reginald Arthur Savory was a British Indian Army officer who served during both World War I and World War II.
The Serjeant at Arms of the House of Commons is a parliamentary official responsible for order in the House of Commons. The office dates to 1415 and traditionally included responsibility for security. The role is now mainly ceremonial.
General Sir Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan of MacMillan and Knap,was a Scottish professional soldier who rose to become a general in the British Army. As a young officer during the First World War,he displayed outstanding bravery and was awarded a Military Cross and two Bars. At the age of 19 and while still a second lieutenant,he was appointed acting adjutant of the 2nd Battalion,Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. Between the World Wars,MacMillan remained in the army,occupying posts of increasing seniority. He married Marian Blakiston Houston in 1929,and they had one daughter and four sons.
General Sir Thomas Sheridan Riddell-Webster,was a British Army officer who served as Quartermaster-General to the Forces during the Second World War.
Lieutenant General Sir William Bridgeford,was a senior officer in the Australian Army. He began his military career in 1913 and fought on the Western Front during the First World War,before rising to command the 3rd Infantry Division during the Bougainville campaign in the Second World War. Later he served as the Commander in Chief of British Commonwealth Forces Korea during the Korean War. He retired from the military in 1953 and worked on the organising committee of the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games,as well as being the director of several companies and treasurer of a returned services organisation.
Major General Sir Charles Edward Corkran,was a senior British Army officer who served as Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District from 1928 to 1932.
Major-General Beauchamp John Colclough Doran,CB was a British Army officer who commanded the 25th Division during the First World War. Commissioned in 1880,Doran saw service on the staff and with the Royal Irish Regiment through a number of colonial campaigns in the late nineteenth century,culminating in command of a mobile column in the Boer War,where he was seriously wounded. He then commanded a battalion of his regiment,followed by a brigade in the British Expeditionary Force. His brigade was mobilised in 1914,and he saw service during the first months of the First World War before being dismissed in October. He was later reinstated as commander of a brigade in the New Armies,and promoted to the 25th Division before it was sent to France in 1915;he led it on the Western Front until June 1916,when he was relieved and sent home. From 1916 to 1918 he commanded the Army forces in southern Ireland,and then held an administrative post in France before retiring in 1920.
Major-General Sir Ivor Thomas Percival Hughes,was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the world wars. During the Second World War he commanded the 44th Division during the Battle of Alam el Halfa and the Second Battle of El Alamein in late 1942 and later became Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons.
Major-General Sir Randle Guy "Gerry" Feilden was a general officer in the British Army. During the Second World War,he was the Deputy Quartermaster General (DQMG) of the 21st Army Group in the North-West Europe Campaign of 1944–45. After the war,he became the senior steward of the Jockey Club. He is commemorated by the annual Feilden Stakes at Newmarket Racecourse.
Sir Peter Nevile Wake Jennings,is a retired British public servant,who served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons from 1995 to 1999. Before joining the staff of House of Commons in 1976,he was an officer in the Royal Marines.
Ivan Nikolaevich Shkadov was an army general of the Soviet Army and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Major-General Roland Le Fanu was a senior British Army officer.
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