James Metcalfe (Bengal Army officer)

Lieutenant-Colonel James Metcalfe CB (1817 – 8 March 1888) was an Anglo-Indian military officer in the Bengal Army.

Metcalfe was born in India, an illegitimate son of Charles Metcalfe and a Punjabi Sikh mother whom his father had met whilst envoy to the court of Ranjit Singh at Lahore[1] He had three full brothers.

[2] He was educated at the East India Company Military Seminary at Addiscombe in Surrey.

[3] During the Indian Rebellion of 1857 he was appointed interpreter to the Commander-in-Chief in India General Sir Colin Campbell as well as aide-de-camp and commandant to the headquarters.

[3] In 1852 he married José Eliza, daughter of Evelyn Meadows Gordon of the Bengal civil service.