- John Miller Adye
Sir John Miller Adye GCB (
November 1 1819 –1900), Britishgeneral , son of Major James P. Adye, was born atSevenoaks ,Kent , on1 November 1819 . He entered theRoyal Artillery in 1836, was promoted to captain in 1846, and served throughout theCrimean War as brigade-major and assistant adjutant-general ofartillery (awarded C.B., brevets of major and lieutenant-colonel).In the
Indian rebellion of 1857 he served on the staff in a similar capacity. Promoted brevet-colonel in 1860, he was specially employed in 1863 in the Northwest frontier of the India campaign, and was Deputy-Adjutant-General,Bengal , from 1863 to 1866, when he returned home. From 1870 to 1875 Adye was Director of Artillery and Stores at theWar Office . He was made a K.C.B. in 1873, and was promoted to be major-general and appointed governor of theRoyal Military Academy ,Woolwich , in 1875, andSurveyor-General of the Ordnance in 1880. In 1882 he was chief of staff and second in command of the expedition toEgypt , and served throughout the campaign (awarded G.C.B. and thanks of Parliament). He held the government ofGibraltar from 1883 to 1886.At some time in his career he became good friends with both William Armstrong and
Stuart Rendel , so much so that his daughter, Winifreda, married the former's grand-nephew and heir, William Henry Watson-Armstrong in 1889. His other daughter, Evelyn Violet, was to becomeJohn Meade Falkner 's wife on18 October 1899 . His son, Sir John Adye, would become a Major-General.Adye was also a writer, describing his experiences in such works as "A Review of the Crimean War" (1859), "Sitana: a Mountain Campaign on the Borders of Afghanistan in 1863", and "Recollections of A Military Life" (1895).
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* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7021 Project Gutenberg: text of Adye's "Indian Frontier Policy; an historical sketch"]
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*1911
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