Edward Selby Smyth

Edward Selby Smyth

General Sir Edward Selby Smyth, KCMG (b.31 March, 1819, Belfast, Ireland – d.22 September, 1896) was a British General. He served as first general officer commanding the Militia of Canada from 1874 to 1880. In this time he lead pioneering expeditions to the North-West Territory, the Rocky Mountains and British Columbia.

He married Lucy Sophia Julia Campbell, daughter of Major-General Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet and Pamela FitzGerald in 1848.

External links

* [http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007498 Sir Edward Selby Smyth] at The Canadian Encyclopedia
* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0031969 The Canadian Biographical Dictionary and Portrait Gallery of Eminent and Self-Made Men, Ontario Volume, 1880 biography]


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