Hamley

Hamley, SIR EDWARD BRUCE, K.C.B., lieutenant-general, was born at Bodmin, 27th April 1824, served in the Crimea, was commandant of the staff college in 1870-77, did delimitation work on the Balkan and Armenian frontiers, and commanded the second division at Tel-el-Kebir in 1882 (where Lord Wolseley and he fell out). In 1885-92 he was Conservative member for Birkenhead; and he died 14th August 1893. He wrote on the war in the Crimea (3d ed. 1891); Wellington's Career (1860); The Operations of War (1866; 4th ed. 1878); and Voltaire (1879); besides several clever novels, and other works. See the Life by Innes Shand (1895).