Richard Luard

Lieutenant-General Richard George Amherst Luard (29 July 1827 – 24 July 1891) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding the Militia of Canada.

Military career Born the eldest son of Lieutenant-Colonel John Luard in India and educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, Luard was commissioned into the 51st Regiment of Foot in 1845. Later that year he transferred to the 3rd Regiment of Foot. They had seven children including Edward Bourryau Luard (1870–1916), who achieved the rank of lieutenant colonel in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry and was killed near Ypres in the First World War. Another son was Charles Camac Luard.

He was a cousin of the antiquarian Henry Richards Luard and the organist Bertram Luard-Selby, and his grandchildren included the singer Sir Peter Neville Luard Pears.