George Warren (East India Company officer)

George Warren (cir 1801-1884) was a British General who was a major figure in the Afghan and Indian wars of the early 19th century.

George Warren was born in Topsham, Devon about 1801. He joined the Honourable East India Company's 1st Bengal European Regiment (which, much later after several mergers, became the Royal Munster Fusiliers) and was stationed to India. On 4 March 1823, Lieutenant Warren arrived in Madras aboard the HMS Warren Hastings. On 18 January 1826, he took part in the Storming of the Jungeena Gate at Bhurtpore. On 16 March 1839, as a Brigadier, he described the soldiers' appearance during the passage of the Bolan Pass as "an army retreating under every disaster; public stores and private property lying about scattered and abandoned in every direction"

On 17 September of the same year, he was awarded the Order of the Dooranee Empire, 3rd class. He progressed quickly to the rank of General and remained in India until the early 1860s. He retired to the United Kingdom, firstly to Sudley Lodge, South Bersted, Sussex, and then to Portsea, Portsmouth and Southsea, where he died.

His medals from the 1839 campaign are in the Watson Medal Collection (Afghan War), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Family
On the 15 August 1840 at Calcutta Cathedral, India, Lt-Col George Warren married Isabella Barry Fitzgerald (1818 Dublin - 15 January 1900 'Granville', Pelham Road, Portsea, Hampshire), the daughter of William Fitzgerald of Dublin, and had issue:
 * 1) William Henry Oakes Warren (born 19 January 1843 Calcutta)
 * 2) Isabella Palmer Warren (28 June 1846 Calcutta - 1880 Portsea)
 * 3) Emily Grace Warren (29 July 1848 Calcutta - 1915 Slinfold, Sussex), who married Roger Granville Pulteney Eliot (a grandson of Francis Perceval Eliot) in 1871
 * 4) Frederick Warren (born 1850 Calcutta)
 * 5) Edward Harrington Warren (born 16 August 1852 Barrackpore, India - 1893 Portsea), who married Eliza Pearson in 1876
 * 6) Florence Temple Warren (born 1860 Brompton, London) who married Arthur Nathaniel Davis in 1883
 * 7) Harriette Annie Sloper (Annie) Warren (born 1863 Belgium) who married Harry Bingham Thomas on 8 January 1885 at St John's Church, Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia

On 22 June 1884, at his home in 1 Brandon Terrace, Southsea, Hampshire, Warren died, aged 83.