George Whitmore (British Army officer)

Sir George Whitmore KCH (12 May 1775, Lower Slaughter – 19 November 1862, Amiens) was a British Army officer.

[1] Whitmore headed the Royal Engineers detachment on Malta as its Colonel Commandant between 1811 and 1829.

When Sir Thomas Maitland was high commissioner of the Ionian Islands, he designed the Palace of St. Michael and St. George in Corfu City.

Their second daughter Cordelia Winifreda married Captain Montagu Stopford, RN, on 25 August 1827.

[3] Their grandson, Sir George Stoddart Whitmore (1829–1903), was born on Malta to Lieutenant (later Major) George St Vincent Whitmore RE and to the chief justice of Malta, Sir John Stoddart's, daughter.