William Earle (British Army officer)

Major General William Earle CB (18 May 1833 – 10 February 1885) was a British Army officer of the 19th century.

[2] He fought in the Crimean War and was later part of the Nile Expedition attempting to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum.

[1][2] He was born in Liverpool, the son of the merchant Sir Hardman Earle, 1st Baronet and his wife Mary (née Langton).

There is a bronze statue of him outside St George's Hall, Liverpool, by sculptor Charles Bell Birch.

[2] There is also a stone bust of General Earle at St Mark's Anglican Church in Alexandria, Egypt.