List of Victorian era British generals

This is an incomplete list of British generals who served during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 to 1901).

  • Major General Sir Geoffrey Barton: Commanded the 6th Infantry Brigade during the Second Boer War.
  • Major General Sir Bindon Blood: Commander of British forces on the North-West Frontier in the 1890s.
  • General Sir George Brown: British divisional commander during the Crimean War
  • Lieutenant General Sir William Francis Butler GCB, PC (Ire) (31 October 1838 – 7 June 1910) was an Irish 19th-century British Army officer, writer, and adventurer. He was Commander in Chief of British Forces in South Africa at the outbreak of the Boer War.
  • General Sir Redvers Henry Buller, VC, GCB, GCMG (7 December 1839 – 2 June 1908) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. He served as Commander-in-Chief of British Forces in South Africa during the early months of the Second Boer War and subsequently commanded the army in Natal until his return to England in November 1900.

Lieutenant-General Douglas Mackinnon Baillie Hamilton Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald: Commanded the irregular mounted division during the Second Boer War

  • Major-General Sir George Townshend Forestier-Walker KCB (2 August 1866 – 23 January 1939) was a Commander of British forces in the Cape Colony and senior British Army officer during World War I.[2]
  • General Sir Ian Hamilton: Brigade commander, Tirah Field Force; held various positions during the Second Boer War; commanded Allied troops during the fruitless Gallipoli campaign.
  • Major General Sir Henry Havelock: Commanded units in the Indian Mutiny, including the column that retook the captured city of Cawnpore (too late to prevent the massacre of Europeans inside) and relieved the siege of Lucknow for the first time; died of dysentery just after the siege was finally lifted.
  • General Sir Bruce Meade Hamilton, GCB, KCVO (7 December 1857 – 6 July 1936) was a British Army general during the Second Boer War and the First World War.


  • Major-General Andrew Gilbert Wauchope CB CMG (5 July 1846 – 11 December 1899) was a British Army officer, killed commanding a brigade at the Battle of Magersfontein in the South African War.