George Greaves (British Army officer)

General Sir George Richards Greaves GCB KCMG (9 November 1831 – 11 April 1922) was a British Army officer.

[1] He served in the response to the Indian Rebellion of 1857 before becoming Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General for the Eusufzye Expedition in 1858 and Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General in New Zealand in 1862.

[2] After that he was appointed Assistant Adjutant General at Headquarters in 1874, Administrator of Cyprus in 1879 and Adjutant-General, India later that year.

[2] He then commanded a Division in the Bengal Army from 1885 before serving as Chief of Staff for the Second Suakin Expedition in 1885 and Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army from 1891.

[2] In 1859 Greaves married Ellen Hutchison; following the death of his first wife, he married Julia Rose Venour (née Morris) in 1908.