Thom's Irish Who's Who/Somerville, Colonel Thomas Cameron Fitzgerald

SOMERVILLE, Colonel Thomas Cameron Fitzgerald, M.V.O. (1911). Educ.: Clifton College; Sandhurst; 2nd Lieut. 1/4th The King's Own Royal Regt., 1879; A.D.C. to G.O.C. China and Straits Settlements, 1885-89; A.D.C. to G.O.C. S. Africa, 1891-95: commanded 1st Batt. The King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regt.), 1906-10; Commandant Royal Military School of Music. Kneller Hall, June, 1910-May, 1919; selected to command the massed bands (1,660 bandsmen drawn from 21 British and 25 Indian Army Bands) at the Delhi Coronation Durbar, 1911. Recn.: music; eldest son of late Lieut.-Col. Thomas Henry Somerville, D.L., J.P., of Drishane, Co. Cork, and Adelaide (d. 1895), dau. of Adm. Sir J. Coghiil, 3rd Bart.; b. 1860. Res.: Drishane House, Skibbereen, Co. Cork.