Royal Artillery

He was an officer in the Royal Artillery , until he was suspended from his military duties in March 1861 following the scandal of his contested marriage. At his father's death on 24 October 1870...

DA 's father, Lawrence Francis Imbert Athill , was from a family of gentry who did not, however, own land. His father, a clergyman, had shot himself in rage over some domestic crisis. Lawrence Athill...

Mary Anne Stewart was married in the cathedral at Spanish Town, Jamaica, to George Robert Barker (fourteen years her senior), a captain in the Royal Artillery who had been her father's aide-de-camp for about...

In fact, before sailing for France with the Royal Artillery , he applied for just a few hours' leave to travel to Oxford and propose marriage to May. His request for leave was turned down...

Her father, the Reverend Henry Vaughan Palmer , Rector of St Margaret's Church in York, was, she says, a scholarly gentleman, whose influence counterbalanced his daughter's resistance to learning during her youth. He...

John Kendall had retired from the Royal Artillery in 1904, a year after he was sent home from India because of illness. He returned to the army during the First World War as a Major...

ES 's father, Major-General John Hall Smyth of the Royal Artillery , firmly opposed her career in music, as he believed that all artists, like foreigners, were of low moral fibre. In her memoirs...

She said she married to get away from her family's theological discussions, and with the feeling that James Peck would keep her safe. He had been a university lecturer and inspector of schools before...

After his death, Arthur's widow requested that CM should write a biography of her husband, which she agreed to do.CM recounts his boyhood Sunday school attendance, and how the death of his mother...

MAB arrived at Calcutta in India (where her husband had accepted command of the Bengal Royal Artillery following the Indian Mutiny) on a ship badly damaged by a hurricane.