Alexander Champion (East India Company officer)

Brigadier-General Alexander Champion (died 15 March 1793) was Commander-in-Chief, India.

Champion was commissioned into service for the British East India Company in 1768.

[2] On 23 April 1774 Champion defeated the Rohillas (Afghan Highlanders) at Miranpur Katra, killing their leader, Hafiz Rahmat Khan, and ending the Rohilla War.

[2] He retired to Hatchlands Park near Guildford[4] and died at Bath on 15 March 1793: there is a monument to him in Bath Abbey by Nollekens, which says, 'he rose, in the course of twenty years' active service in India, to the chief command of the company's troops in Bengal.

[6] Whilst in India he lived with Johanna Barr of Calcutta and left her a house and goods in trust for her natural children Ganny Cummings and Alexander Champion.

Memorial to Alexander Champion