Henry Hope Crealock

Lieutenant-General Henry Hope Crealock CB CMG (31 March 1831 – 31 May 1891) was a British soldier, artist, and author.

Crealock entered Rugby School in February 1844 and obtained a commission in the 90th Light Infantry on 13 October 1848.

On 26 December 1856 he attained the rank of major, and in March 1857 he was appointed deputy adjutant quartermaster-general to the China expeditionary force in the Second Opium War.

He was present during the operations at Canton in December 1857 and January 1858, and received the brevet rank of lieutenant-colonel and a medal with a clasp.

Crealock was an accomplished draughtsman, who made sketches of scenes in the Indian mutiny and China campaign are valuable records.

In 1885 he republished a series of papers which had appeared between 1870 and 1879 on 'the Eastern question' (London), written from a point of view hostile to Russia.