Wolseley, Garnet Joseph, Field Marshal, 1st Viscount Wolseley, Sir, 1833 - 1913

Person

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 3 Collections and/or Records:

Bill Barnes Collection

Fonds

Reference code: NFA0172

Scope and Contents

Programmes, posters and photographs mainly related to the Poole family's travelling Myriorama show.

Dates: 1881 - 2017

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive

Programmes , 1881 - 2016

Series

Reference code: 178K53

Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1881 - 2016

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection

Temperance Hall Poster, 19 January 1880

Item

Reference code: 178R53.47

Scope and Contents Aberdare.Poole & Young's New Series of Excursions, Zulu War, Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, India, Afghanistan, Cetewayo the Zulu King, British Troops Fighting Through the Bush, The Isandula Disaster, Buffalo River Waterfall, The Great Battle of Ginghilova, Relief of Col. Pearson, Defence of Rorke's Drift, Singers, Ventriloquist and Band. Black and red type on white background, illustration of African warriors in the centre, in the corners yellow, black and white illustrations of Garnet...

Dates: 19 January 1880

Found in: National Fairground and Circus Archive / Bill Barnes Collection / Posters

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