11 Facts About Edward Greathed

General Sir Edward Harris Greathed KCB was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Eastern District.

Edward Greathed was born in London, one of the five sons of Edward Harris and Mary Elizabeth Glyn of Uddens, Dorset and baptised in Chalbury, Dorset.

Edward Greathed was educated at Westminster School before being commissioned as an ensign in the 8th Regiment of Foot on 22 June 1832.

Edward Greathed rose through the ranks to become commanding officer of the 8th Regiment of Foot and, in that capacity, commanded the a column which defeated and dispersed some 5,000 rebels at the Battle of Agra in August 1857 during the Indian Rebellion.

Edward Greathed then participated in the capture of Ludlow Castle in the vicinity of Kashmiri Gate in the northern walls of Delhi.

Edward Greathed was made CB in 1858 and elevated to KCB on 28 March 1865.

Edward Greathed was given the colonelcy of the 108th Regiment of Foot in 1880 continuing, after its amalgamation later that year into the Inniskilling Fusiliers, as colonel of the 2nd Battalion of the new regiment until his death.

Edward Greathed was promoted full general on 1 July 1880 and was placed on the retired list on 1 July 1881.

Edward Greathed died at his home, Uddens House in Chalbury, Dorset on 19 November 1881 and was buried in nearby All Saints churchyard, Hampreston.

Edward Greathed had married three times; firstly in India to Louisa Archer on 8 March 1854; secondly Ellen Mary Tuffnell on 18 December 1868 by whom he had a daughter, Helena Mary, born 26 April 1862, who married 1884, Major Keppel Stephenson; and thirdly Charlotte Frederica Caroline Osborn, eldest daughter of Sir George Robert Osborn, 6th Baronet on 4 August 1869.

Edward Greathed had at least two sons by his early marriages, and one son and three daughters by his last marriage:.