Dictionary of Indian Biography/Chesney, Sir George Tomkyns
CHESNEY, SIR GEORGE TOMKYNS (1830–1895)
Son of Capt. Charles Cornwallis Chesney of the Bengal Artillery : born April 30, 1830 : educated at Blundell's school, Tiverton, and Addiscombe : entered the Bengal Engineers, 1848, and became General in 1882 : went to India in 1850 : in the P.W.D. until the mutiny : in the Badli-ka-sarai action, June, 8, 1857 : at the capture of the ridge at Delhi : Brig-Major, R.E. at Delhi : in the assault on Sep. 14 : was President of the Engineering College at Calcutta, and head of the P.W.D. Account Department in 1860 : President of the Royal Indian Civil Engineering College at Cooper's Hill, 1871–80, of which he had prepared the constitution, etc. : Secretary to the Government of India in the Military Department, 1880–6 : Military Member of the Supreme Council, July, 1886–April, 1891 : M.P. for Oxford, 1892 : C.S.I. 1883 : C.I.E. 1886 : C.B. 1887 : K.C.B. 1890 : died March 31, 1895. He wrote a number of books : the principal were Indian Polity : The Battle of Darking, a military-political Magazine article which made a great action : The True Reformer, The Dilemma, The Private Secretary, besides other articles in Magazines and Reviews.