Background
George Tomkyns Chesney was born at Tiverton, Devonshire, on April 30, 1830.
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George Tomkyns Chesney was born at Tiverton, Devonshire, on April 30, 1830.
George Tomkyns Chesney was educated at Blundell's School, Tiverton, and at Addiscombe Military Seminary, he entered the Bengal Engineers as second lieutenant in 1848.
George Tomkyns Chesney was employed for some years in the public works department and, on the outbreak' of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, joined the Ambala column, was' field engineer at the battle of Badli-ke-serai, brigade-major of engineers throughout the siege of Deihi, and was severely wounded in the assault (medal and clasp and a brevet majority).
In 1860 he was appointed head of a new department in connexion with the public works accounts. His work on Indian Polity (1868), dealing with the administration of the several departments of the Indian government, attracted wide attention and remains a permanent text-book. The originator of the Royal Indian Civil Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, Staines, he was also its first president (1871 - 1880).
In 1871 he contributed to Blackwood's Magazine, " The Battle of Dorking, " a vivid account of a supposed invasion of England by the Germans after their victory over France. This was republished in many editions and translations, and produced a profound impression. He was promoted lieutenant-colonel, 1869; colonel, 1877; major-general, 1886; lieutenant-general, 1887; colonel-commandant of Royal Engineers, 1890; 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. He was made a C. B. at the jubilee of 1887, and a K. C. B. on leaving India in 1892. In that year he was returned to parliament, in the Conservative interest, as member for Oxford, and was chairman of the committee of service members of the House of Commons until his death on the 316t of March 1895. He wrote some novels, The Dilemma, The Private Secretary.
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Chesney married, in 1855, Annie Louisa. They had four sons and three daughters.
