Edward Hamley (British Army officer)


Sir Edward Hamley

"English Strategy"
Lt-General Hamley as caricatured by Ape (Carlo Pellegrini) in Vanity Fair, April 1887
Born(1824-04-27)27 April 1824
Died12 August 1893(1893-08-12) (aged 69)
Allegiance United Kingdom
Branch British Army
RankLieutenant-General
CommandsStaff College, Sandhurst
ConflictsCrimean War
Anglo-Egyptian War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Bruce Hamley KCB KCMG (27 April 1824 – 12 August 1893) was a British general and military writer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.