William Lockhart (Indian Army officer)
| Sir William Lockhart | |
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| Born | 2 September 1841 |
| Died | 18 March 1900 (aged 58) |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom
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| Service/branch |
 British Indian Army
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| Rank | General |
| Commands held | Indian Army |
| Awards |
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire |
General Sir William Stephen Alexander Lockhart GCB KCSI (2 September 1841 – 18 March 1900) was a British General.
Lockhart was born at the Manse in Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland, where his father Dr Laurence Lockhart D.D. was the minister. Lockhart's uncle was John Gibson Lockhart, eminent writer, poet and biographer of Sir Walter Scott. His mother Louisa was a daughter of David Blair, a manufacturer in Glasgow and Janet Muir, sister of the Scottish political reformer Thomas Muir of Huntershill.
He entered the Indian Army in 1858, in the 44th Bengal Native Infantry. He served in the last months of the Indian Mutiny, the Bhutan Campaign (1864–66), under Napier in the Abyssinian Expedition (1867–68; mentioned in dispatches) and the Hazara Black Mountain Expedition (1868–69; mentioned in dispatches).
From 1869 to 1879 he acted as Deputy-Assistant and assistant quartermaster-general in Bengal. In 1877 he was military attaché with the Dutch Army in Acheen (modern Aceh). He was Road Commandant of the Khyber Pass and served in the Second Anglo-Afghan War of 1878–80, was mentioned in dispatches and made a CB, and from 1880 to 1885 he was Deputy Quartermaster-General in the Intelligence Branch at headquarters. He commanded a brigade in the Third Burmese War (1886–87), and was made KCB and CSI and received the thanks of the government.
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