Wolseley, Garnet Joseph, Field Marshal, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Sir, 1833 - 1913
Dates
- Existence: 4 June 1833 - 25 March 1913
Biography
Field Marshal Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley was an Anglo-Irish officer in the British Army and one of the most influential and admired British generals of his time. He played a key role in modernising the British Army and promoting efficiency.
Wolseley was born in Dublin on 4 June 1833, the eldest son of Major Garnet Joseph Wolseley of the King's Own Scottish Borderers (25th Foot) and Frances Anne Wolseley.
After Wolseley’s father’s death in 1840, the family was left in financial difficulties and he took a job in a surveyor’s office aged fourteen years old. Although he had considered a career in the church, the family’s situation pushed him into a military career instead, which he started aged eighteen as an ensign in the 12th Foot. From this point his career in the army took off and he served in most of the major battles the British Empire led during the second half of the nineteenth century including Burma, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, China, Canada and Africa. Wolseley had a prolific career in the armed forces gaining many medals, military honours and aristocratic titles and served as Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1895 to 1900.
Wolseley died of influenza on 26 March 1913 at the age of 80.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Bill Barnes Collection
Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.
Gomp-Ertz Grand Diorama Programme, c1882
Market Hall Poster, Monday 6 August 1883
St. Austell. Entry of Sir Garnet Wolseley with British Forces into Cairo. Alexandria Bombardment on Fire and in Ruins, Poole's World Diorama, Events in Egypt, Review of British Troops, Mr Harry Stewart, Mr Felix Somers, Mr Oscar Hartwell, Poole's Splendid Bands. Black type on stripey orange and white background. Printed by Theophilus Crever, Steam Printer, Unition Street, Phymouth.
Messrs. Poole, The World Programme, 25 September 1882
Mr Harry Poole's New Trips Abroad Programme, c1880 - 1889
Red type and illustrations of Egypt and battles, portraits of Wolseley, Gordon and Burnaby on green background on the front cover. Blank programme of overprinting location and programme, 2p.p
Poole's World Diorama Programme, 16 November 1885
Programmes , 1881 - 2016
Pre-Film and variety and music hall programmes mainly related to the travelling shows of Joseph Poole and Harry Poole, Harry H. Hamilton, Mapleston Brothers and Adams but it also includes other showmen.
Stuart Hall Poster, 12 October 1878
Cardiff. Two More New Views of Cyprus, Sir Garnet Wolseley, Famacosta, Mr Felix Somers, Miss Alice Turner, Mr Fred Hilton, Mr F. Neave, Poole & Young's Excursions to Russia, Turkey and Cyprus, War, The Congress at Berlin, Lord Beaconsfield, Lecturer Mr Arthur Chistie, The Band. Green, red and black type on white background with Red and black wavy border. Printed by Stafford and Co, Printers, Nottingham.
Temperance Hall Poster, 19 January 1880
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