William Julius Gascoigne

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Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Major-General Sir William Julius Gascoigne Template:Post-nominals (29 May 1844 – 9 September 1926) was a British Army officer and served as General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada from 1895 to 1898.

Military career

William Julius Gascoigne was born in London on 29 May 1844.[1] He was commissioned into the Scots Fusilier Guards in 1863.[2] He was appointed Adjutant in 1867,[3] served in Egypt in 1882 and in Sudan in 1885.[4]

In 1895 he was promoted to major-general[4] and appointed General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada.[5] In 1898 he was appointed Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong.[6]

Gascoigne was also the last Lieutenant Governor of Hong Kong (serving from 1898 to 1902), but the role was ceremonial and in lapsed use since the 1870s.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in 1899, and knighted as a Knight Commander (KCMG) of the same order in November 1900 in recognition of services during the Boxer Rebellion in China.[7]

He died in Boscombe on 9 September 1926.[8]

Gascoigne Road in Kowloon, Hong Kong is named after him.[9]

Family

In 1875, he married Helen Smith, daughter of Martin T. Smith, and widow of Hon. Arthur F. Egerton.[4]

References

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