Major General George Elphinstone Erskine was a senior British Indian Army officer who served in India during the Indian Mutiny in 1857.
Occupation
military officer
Citizenship
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Born
January 20, 1841
Died
September 12, 1912
Overview
Major-General George Elphinstone Erskine (1841-1912) was a senior British Indian Army officer who served in India during the Indian Mutiny in 1857.
Biography
Born on 20 January 1841, George Elphinstone Erskine was educated at Bedford School. He entered the British Indian Army in 1857 and served in India during the Indian Mutiny, between 1857 and 1858. He served on the Oudh Commission between 1863 and 1889 and was appointed commissioner to investigate landlord-tenant relations in Oudh State in 1883. He was appointed to the commission for the amalgamation of the governments of the North-Western Provinces and Oudh State in 1889.
Erskine retired in 1895 and died in Brighton on 10 February 1905.
