Colley

Colley, SIR GEORGE, major-general, was born in 1835, and in 1852 received an ensigny in the 2d or Queen's Foot, whose headquarters, then in the eastern frontier of Cape Colony, he joined in 1854. He was a border magistrate in 1857-58, surveyed the Trans-kei country, and served with his regiment in China in 1860. He was then for some years major of brigade at Plymouth, and a professor at the Staff College. He ably managed the transport service in the Ashanti expedition, and in 1875 accompanied Sir Garnet Wolseley to Natal, where he was for some time colonial treasurer, and prepared a valuable report and map of the Transvaal and Swaziland. From 1876 to 1880, except for a short period of service as chief of Wolseley's staff in Zululand and the Transvaal, he was private secretary to Lord Lytton, then viceroy in India. Appointed governor and commander-in-chief of Natal in April 1880, he commanded his small force against the Boers at Laing's Nek and Ingogo, and fell, shot through the forehead at Majuba Hill, February 27, 1881. See Life by Sir W. Butler (1899).