Charles Edmund Webber

Charles Edmund Webber (5 September 1838 – 23 September 1904) was a British soldier, engineer and author. Early life and family Born in Dublin, Ireland, Charles was the third son of Rev. Thomas Webber, of Leekfield, County Sligo and Frances Kelly, daughter of the noted evangelical preacher and hymn writer Thomas Kelly. He was educated in private schools prior to his military education. Military career Webber entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich in 1853 and was commissioned as lieutenant in the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1855. India Webber served in India during the Indian Mutiny, 1857–1860 In September 1857 he was posted with the 21 company Royal Engineers who joined the 1st Brigade seeing action at the Betwa River and Jhansi and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He remained in the field until April 1859, then served in the public works departments at Gwalior and Allahabad before returning to England in May 1860. On his return to England, he served in the Brighton district and it was here in 1861 that he married Alice Augusta Gertrude Hanbury Tracy, fourth daughter of Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley.