Strathnairn

Strathnairn, LORD, commander-in-chief in India. Hugh Rose, son of Sir George Rose, was born 1801, and entered the army in 1820. He was military attaché to the Turkish army in the war with Mehmet Ali in 1840, was consul-general for Syria, and as secretary to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was chargé d'affaires at Constantinople in 1853-54. He was commissioner at the French headquarters during the Crimean war, and, now K.C.B., was sent to India in 1857 to command the Central Indian army. In command of this force he virtually reconquered Central India; and, though his campaign was overshadowed by those of Sir Colin Campbell, it is generally admitted that the operations of Sir Hugh Rose were more brilliant and skilful than those of his chief. On the death of Lord Clyde Sir Hugh Rose became commander-in-chief in India; in 1865-70 he held the same post in Ireland. Raised to the peerage in 1866, and made field-marshal in 1877, he died 16th October 1885. See Sir O. T. Burne, Clyde and Strathnairn (1891).