George Thomas Colomb

George Thomas Colomb (4 June 1787 – 20 March 1874) was a British Army general and a talented amateur artist.

He was born in Twickenham, London, the son of Swiss émigré Pierre Philippe Colomb (1744–1799) and his wife Maria Elizabeth Burchell (1746–1828).

[1] By that time he was living in Dublin and exhibited several of his paintings at the Royal Hibernian Academy.

In 1843 he was appointed Commandant of the Royal Hibernian Military School in Phoenix Park, a position he vacated when promoted major-general in 1858.

His eldest son, George Halton Colomb, was a colonel in the Royal Artillery and also a competent amateur painter.