Dominic Jacotin Gamble

Dominic Jacotin Gamble CB (15 August 1823 – 21 November 1887) was a British Army officer from 1844 until his death in 1887. He played a significant role in the New Zealand wars under Lieutenant General Duncan Cameron and the 4th Foot Regiment.

Family background Gamble was born in Ireland on 15 August 1823. Nothing is known of his family or early years.

He was the father of Brigadier-General Richard Narrien Gamble C.B. (1860–) and Sir Reginald Arthur Gamble, Kt (1862–).

Early career Gamble was first commissioned (brevet) as an ensign in the 4th Foot Regiment in 1844 and then as a lieutenant was posted at ‘Maker Barracks’ Vaulters Home Maker, St Germans in Cornwall where he passed his exam in native languages (on 26 January 1847) and worked to become captain and to serve in Turkey between 1854 and 1855,

Family Possibly while attending the British Army's recently established staff college at Farnborough he met Mary Eleanor, daughter of Benjamin Macnair and Mary Rennie Miller of Greenfields. They married on 23 June 1859 at Falkirk, Stirlingshire in Scotland and the couple subsequently had three children, two boys Richard (in 1860) and Reginald (1862) and later a daughter (1864 in Auckland New Zealand).

He returned to England and was then governor of the viceroy of Egypt's son in England between 1868 and 1869, before becoming major-general in 1870 and knight of the Egyptian Order of the Medjidie (3rd Class). He was made assistant-quartermaster-general at Aldershot from 1869 to 1874, and made Lieutenant-Colonel of brigade depot from 1876.

British West Indies After he was promoted to major-general (1877) he arrived at Barbados on 1 October 1878 and took command of British forces in the West Indies and even held the post as Deputy Governor of Barbados and the Windward Islands during 1880.

Returning to England, he was appointed director-general of military education in 1887, but, aged 64, Gamble died at South Kensington, London, on 21 November 1887.