Dictionary of Indian Biography/Anson, Hon. George
ANSON, HON. GEORGE (1797–1857)
General : second son of the first Viscount Anson : served at Waterloo in the Guards : was M.P. from 1818 for many years : in 1853, appointed to command a Division in India : C. in C. Madras, 1854, and C. in C. in India, 1856 : was at Simla when the mutiny broke out in May, 1857, and hastened down to the plains : while on the march from Umbala to Delhi with a force, he died of cholera at Karnal, May 27, 1857.