General Sir Josceline Heneage Wodehouse GCB CMG (17 July 1852 – 16 January 1930) was a senior British Army officer.
Born the elder son of Vice-Admiral George Wodehouse[1] and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, Wodehouse was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1873.
When Kitchener was promoted over him to be Sirdar (Commander-in-Chief) of the Egyptian Army in 1892, he retired from the Egyptian Army and went to India where he was made Commander of the 3rd Brigade of the Malakand Field Force during the Siege of Malakand in 1897[4] and appointed General Officer Commanding the Presidency District of Bengal in 1898.
[5][6] A year later, on 11 April 1901, he was appointed in command of a First Class District in India (possibly Secunderabad or Lahore).
[7] He went on to be Governor of Bermuda in 1907 and General Officer Commanding the Northern Army in India in 1908.