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词条 Oliver Newmarch
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  1. Military career

  2. Family

  3. References

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Major-General Sir Oliver Richardson Newmarch {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KCSI}} (1834–1920) was a senior British Indian Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary to the India Office.

Military career

Born the son of Doctor Newmarch and Violet, daughter of Colonel Sherwood, Royal Artillery, Newmarch was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford.[1] Newmarch was commissioned into the Bengal Staff Corps and posted to the 44th Native Infantry.[2]

He saw service during the Indian Mutiny.[3]

He was appointed Military Secretary to the India Office in 1889[4] and in that role was appointed KCSI in 1894.[5]

Family

In 1858 he married Mary Isabella Parke and they went on to have one son and one daughters. She died in 1867 and he then married Agnes Mary Norman in 1874.[6][7]

References

1. ^Who's Who, 1916
2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=22686|page=6160|date=2 December 1862}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Indian_Biographical_Dictionary.djvu/345|title=Oliver Newmarch|publisher=The Indian Biographical Dictionary|year=1915|accessdate=14 November 2018}}
4. ^[https://books.google.com/books?id=YSK8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA265&lpg=PA265&dq=%22General+Sir+John+Coleridge%22&source=bl&ots=NwVnNcTTdI&sig=IIYH-9gPoMiezd7vY-OKjRXD7m4&hl=en&ei=-8_mS5eSKJamsQb48fmcBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CCcQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=%22General%20Sir%20John%20Coleridge%22&f=false The military in British India: the development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947 By T. A. Heathcote, Page265] Manchester University Press, 1995, {{ISBN|978-0-7190-3570-8}}
5. ^{{London Gazette|issue=26516|page=3117|date=26 May 1894}}
6. ^Who's Who, 1916
7. ^William Walker's relatives
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6 : 1834 births|1920 deaths|British Indian Army generals|Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India|People educated at Charterhouse School|Alumni of Merton College, Oxford

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