John Cheape

General Sir John Cheape GCB (5 October 1792 – 30 March 1875) was a Scottish military officer of the Bengal Army in British India.

The son of John Cheape of Rossie, Fife, he was educated at Woolwich and Addiscombe, and entered the Bengal Engineers as a second lieutenant on 3 November 1809.

[1] When the Second Anglo-Burmese War broke out in 1852, Cheape was made a brigadier-general and appointed second in command to General Henry Godwin.

Although the British successfully overcame resistance from the Burmese army, their commanders underestimated local resistance and Captain Loch was killed in an ambush by the rebel Nga Myat Tun, Nya Myat Toon, or Myat-thoon near Danubyu in early February 1853.

He was successful[3] and concluded the war, with the provinces of Pegu and Tenasserim annexed to the territories of the East India Company.

[1] Cheape married in 1835 Amelia, daughter of T. Chicheley Plowden of the Bengal civil service.