GCB recipients

PC 1904; GCB created 1900; KCSI created 1896; General 1901; Colonel Commandant RA 1897; born Bolingbroke, Lines, 1 September 1837; married 1st, 1861, Emilia (died 1905), daughter of E S Halswell and widow of Reginald Morley; 2nd, 1905, Edith, daughter of Louis Desanges.  Educated at Eton; RMA Woolwich. Joined RA 1850; served Central Indian Campaign, 1857-58; Franco-German War, 1870-1871; Ashanti War, 1873-74; Zulu War, 1879-80; Private Secretary to Viceroy of India, 1880; Military Attache at Paris, 1881-82; assistant Under Secretary to Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, 1882 ; commanded river column, Egypt, 1884-85; promoted Major General for distinguished service in the field; Director of Military Intelligence, 1880-91; Member of Council of Viceroy of India, 1891-90; President, Ordnance Committee, 1890-99; Director General, of Ordnance at War Office, 1899-1904; retired, 1904.  Decorations: CB, KCB, and GCB for military services; KCSI for service as Member of Council in India.  Publications: The Last Campaign of Hanover, 1870; The Tactics of the Three Arms, 1873; Narrative of the Ashantee War (2 vols), 1874; The River Column, 1885; Some Memories of My Spare Time, 1909.  He died on 20 Apr 1914.

Clarke, Lieutenant General Baronet C M

Third baronet of Dunham, GCB (1901), GCVO (1903), eldest son of Reverend Sir Chas Clarke, 2nd baronet, of Dunnam.  Born 1839, married 1867, Gemma C, only child (died  1922) of W Pitt Adams; in Indian mutiny campaign 1858; New Zealand wars 1861, and 1868-6; in Zulu war 1879, commandant general of Colonial forces at Cape 1880-2; commanding an infantry brigade at Aldershot 1889-92, DAG to the forces 1892-3, Commander in Chief Madras and Member of Council 1893-95; Lieutenant General commanding the forces, Madras 1895-8; QMG to the forces 1899-1903, General 1902.  Governor of Malta 1903-7, ret. 1907.

Methuen, Lord, Lieutenant General P S

Commissioned into Scots Fusilier Guards, later the Scots Guards.  Served between 1873-74 in the First Ashanti Campaign.  In 1882 was in Egypt in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir.  Between 1884-85, he served in Bechuanaland.  1899-1900 commanded 1st Division.  Although very senior he served throughout the rest of the war largely devoting his efforts to trying to capture General De La Ray in the Western Transvaal.  1908-12 C-in-C South Africa where he did much to improve relations with the Boers. 1915-19 Governor of Malta.