Samuel Robert Wesley

Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Robert Wesley KCB (c. 1791 – 5 January 1877) was an Anglo-Irish Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.

Wesley was the son Robert Wesley and Ellen Butt of Lismoat or Lismote Castle, County Limerick, Kingdom of Ireland, where he was born around 1791.

[2] Wesley was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery.

[3] He saw action in Spain during the First Carlist War[3] before becoming Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters Royal Marine Forces.

[4] He became Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in December 1854[5] and directed the involvement of the Royal Marines during the Crimean War before retiring in January 1862.