(2.) Stephen Henry Edward Chamier was born on 17th August 1834. He joined the Madras Artillery on 11th June 1853, and became Lieutenant on 27th April 1858. Like his brothers, his services were in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny. He was present at the actions of Nusrutpore, Chanda, Ummeerpore, Badshagunge, Sultanpore, and Dhowrara, siege and capture of Lucknow, relief of Azinghur, actions of Munnihar, Tonse Bridge, Nughal, Munnuhar, Shropore Ghaut, Jugdespore, Dullespore, Metahi, Chowbeypore, engagements at Cawnpore, and defeat of Gwalior Contingent. He was twice mentioned in the despatches, and received a medal with a clasp. He was promoted to be Captain in the Royal Artillery with the brevet-rank of Major in 1864. He was Major of Artillery in 1872, and a brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in 1874; Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery in 1876, and a Brevet-Colonel in 1879; Colonel of Artillery on 21st May 1884. He was promoted to be Major-General on 14th March 1885. He was Deputy Inspector-General of Ordnance at Madras from 18th September 1878 to 10th September 1880, and Superintendent of the Gun Carriage Manufactory at Madras from 20th September 1880 to 20th September 1881. Major-General Chamier is now Inspector-General of Ordnance at Madras, an appointment which he received on 20th September 1881.
Layard. — Many descendants of the good refugees have served in the army. I have already mentioned (see chapter xv.) his grandsons, brothers of the Dean of Bristol, Lieut.-General Anthony Lewis Layard, and Lieut- General John Thomas Layard. The Dean’s eldest son, founder of the first branch of the Layard family, Rev. Brownlow Villiers Layard, served in his youth as a lieutenant in the 7th Fusiliers; two of his sons were Lieutenant-Colonels, as is his grandson and principal representative; three other sons were in the army, viz., Lieut. George Henry Layard of the 89th Foot (born 1806, died 1848), Captain John Beville Layard of the 22nd Madras Native Infantry (born 1809, died 1846), and Lieut. Augustus Villiers Layard of the 23rd Madras Native Infantry, who died in 1848.
As to the second branch, represented by Sir Henry Austen Layard, I have already named Lieut.-General Frederic Peter Layard, born 6th May 1818; he was of the Bengal Staff Corps, having entered the army on 11th November 1838, and became a Lieut.-General on 7th September 1884; his son Julian Henry Layard, an officer of the 37th Foot, died near the Shipka Pass during the Russo-Turkish War on 24th September 1877; another son is Lieut. Arthur Austen MacGregor Layard of the Royal Engineers. General Layard had a brother, Captain Arthur John Layard of the 38th Foot. Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General of the Second Division in the Crimea, who died at Balaclava on 7th August 1855, aged thirty-six.
As to the third branch, Sir Charles Peter Layard has two brothers in the army, viz., Captain Brownlow Edward Layard of the Ceylon Rifles, born 15th April 1810; and General William Twistleton Layard, born 4th August 1813; he entered the army on 22nd February 1833; he earned a medal for services in Burmah, and commanded the troops in the Kornegalle district of Ceylon in the year 1848; he was in active service as a Colonel in i860; his son Colonel Charles Edmund Layard, born 18th September 1838, is Lieut.-Colonel in command of a battalion of the East Yorkshire regiment, and became a Colonel in the army in 1885.
Boileau. — A large number of members of this family and of their connections have served their country in the Army and Navy. Major General Boileau (the head of the family) has already been mentioned. Major-General Samuel Brandram Boileau of the 22nd Foot is deceased. The late Major General Henry Alexander Edmonstone Boileau of the Royal Bengal Engineers (born 1807, died 1866), was the youngest son of Thomas Boileau, sixth son of Simeon; this officer’s name is on a tablet in the pediment of the porch of the Free Church Institution at Nagpore, in India, as the beneficent designer of the building; his next elder brother[1] is Major-General John Theophilus Boileau.
John Theophilus Boileau, seventh son of Simeon, had a son, the late George Wilson Boileau, Esq., father of Colonel George Wilson Boileau. This gallant officer is Honorary Colonel of the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the Norfolk Regiment, and is Lieut-Colonel of the late Bengal Infantry on retired full pay. He saw good service in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, 1857-8, when he was present at the actions near Benares and at Guggah, commanded in the action at Mundooree, was present at the capture and second siege of Fort Atrowlea. He commanded the Fort of Jounpore, and the Oudh military police at the assault and capture of Birwah. He was thanked by Government, was twice mentioned in the despatches, and received a medal and the brevet rank of Major.
- ↑ Here we may name the only married sister, Elizabeth Magdalene, Mrs. John Samuel Bosanquet. The eldest brother was the late Thomas Ebenezer John Boileau, Esq., whose daughter, Ellen Leah, is the wife of Reginald John Graham, Esq. of Edmond Castle, near Carlisle, and Mother of Thomas Henry Boileau Graham and other children.
