George_Morrison_(British_Army_officer)

George Morrison (British Army officer)

George Morrison (British Army officer)

British Army general

General George Morrison (1703 – 26 November 1799) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

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Military career

Morrison joined the British Army as a gunner in 1722.[1] He was involved in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1745 and as a result was sent to Royal Military Academy, Woolwich as an Officer Cadet.[1]

Morrison led the construction of a series of roads in Scotland on the orders of Field Marshal George Wade.[1] In 1757 he was commissioned as a Captain-Lieutenant and in 1758 he served in the Seven Years' War in which he led the destruction of a number of forts in France.[1]

In 1763 he was appointed Quartermaster-General to the Forces,[1] although this was not gazetted until 1773,[2] From 1779 to 1782 he was Colonel of the short-lived 75th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Regiment).[3] In 1782 he was made Colonel of the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot and in 1792 was made Colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), a command he held until his death.[4]

In 1796 he was promoted to full General.[5]

Family

He married Mary and together they had six children.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    George Morrison at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. [2]
    "No. 11319". The London Gazette. 16 January 1773. p. 1.
  3. [3]
    "75th Regiment of Foot". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. [4]
    "General George Morrison". King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
  5. [5]
    "No. 13892". The London Gazette. 14 May 1796. p. 459.
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