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The late General Wemyss, 1890. Creator: R. Taylor.

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The late General Wemyss, 1890. 'This veteran officer of Indian military service, who recently died at Guildford, was General William Binfield Wemyss, born in 1810, son of Mr. James Wemyss, of the Bengal Civil Service, and grandson of the Hon. James Wemyss and Lady Elizabeth Sutherland; he was also great-grandson of the fourth Earl of Wemyss. Entering the Bengal Army in 1826, he was Colonel of a regiment of Light Cavalry thirty years later, anil was appointed, after the Sepoy war, to organise a European regiment in India, which eventually became the 18th Hussars. Having attained the rank of General, he was in 1880 placed on the retired list'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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