George Morrison (British Army officer)

General George Morrison (1703 – 26 November 1799) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

[1] He was involved in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1745 and as a result was sent to Royal Military Academy, Woolwich as an Officer Cadet.

[1] Morrison led the construction of a series of roads in Scotland on the orders of Field Marshal George Wade.

[1] In 1757 he was commissioned as a Captain-Lieutenant and in 1758 he served in the Seven Years' War in which he led the destruction of a number of forts in France.

[3] In 1782 he was made Colonel of the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot and in 1792 was made Colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), a command he held until his death.