Scudamore Winde Steel
Lieutenant-General Sir Scudamore Winde Steel KCB (1789 – 11 March 1865), also known as S. W. Steel, was a British Army officer of the East India Company.[1]
He was the son of barrister David Steel and Mary, daughter of Scudamore Winde, judge of the Supreme Court of Jamaica. Steel joined the East India Company's service as a cadet in 1805, and the following year was promoted to lieutenant in the Madras Army. He was slightly wounded in the Third Anglo-Maratha War of 1817–18. He was promoted to captain in 1821, and joined the 51st native infantry in 1824. He served on the quartermaster-general's staff at Nagpur and in the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1826. Steel was promoted to major in 1832, and from 1832 to 1845 served as secretary in the military department at Madras.[1]
In 1834, Steel took part in the capture of Coorg, and the following year was promoted to lieutenant-colonel.[1] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1838 Coronation Honours.[2]
In 1845, Steel was appointed military auditor-general and promoted to colonel of the Madras fusiliers in 1847. He commanded the Madras army during the Second Anglo-Burmese War in 1852–53. He was knighted KCB in December 1853.[3] He was promoted to major-general and given the command of the Pegu division and the Martaban provinces in 1854. Steel returned to England in 1856 and was promoted to lieutenant-general in 1861.[1]
He married Elizabeth Margaret, the eldest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel William Read, in 1840. He died at his home at Hyde Park, London, in 1865.[1]
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 E. M. Lloyd, rev. M. G. M. Jones, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 Steel, Sir Scudamore Winde (1789–1865) accessed 24 August 2016
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 19638. p. 1661. 20 July 1838.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 21501. p. 3619. 9 December 1853.