Gleig

Gleig, GEORGE ROBERT, writer, born at Stirling, 20th April 1796, was the son of George Gleig, bishop of Brechin (1753–1840). He entered the army, and served in Spain (1813) and in America (1814). He subsequently (1820) took orders, and became inspector-general of military schools (1846–57), and chaplain-general of the army (1846–75). He deserves mention as the author of the story The Subaltern (1825), founded on incidents of the Peninsular war. He wrote several other novels, none equal to the first, and several volumes of military history and biography, as Campaigns at Washington and New Orleans (1847), Lives of Warren Hastings (1841), Clive (1848), and Wellington (1862), &c. He died 9th July 1888, near Winchfield, in Hampshire.