| Administrative History | Henry Edward Colvile (1852-1907) was the son of Charles Robert Colvile. He joined the Grenadier Guards in 1870, serving as Department Assistant Adjutant General Intelligence Department during the Nile expedition, 1884-1885. He was appointed by the War Office to write the official history of the Sudan campaign in 1886 (published HMSO, 1889). He served with the Intelligence Department, Burma in 1893 and was Acting Commissioner of Uganda, 1893-1895, commanding the Unyoro [Buganda] expedition, of 1894. He was promoted to Major-General in 1898, and became commander of the Infantry Brigade at Gibraltar in 1899. He served in the Boer War, commanding the Guards Brigade and later the 9th Division in South Africa, 1899-1900. He retired in 1901. |