About Samuel Robert Wesley
Lived 1795 – 1877 (aged 81–82). Samuel Robert Wesley was a military personnel.
Lieutenant-General Sir Samuel Robert Wesley ( – 5 January 1877) was an Anglo-Irish Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
Early life Wesley was the son Robert Wesley and Ellen Butt of Lismoat or Lismote Castle, County Limerick, Kingdom of Ireland, where he was born around 1791.
Military career Wesley was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery. He saw action in Spain during the First Carlist War He became Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in December 1854 and directed the involvement of the Royal Marines during the Crimean War before retiring in January 1862.
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Royal Marines officer
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Samuel Robert Wesley was born in 1795.
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Samuel Robert Wesley died in 1877 in Woolwich.
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