John Miller Adye

Sir John Miller Adye (1819–1900), British general, son of Major James P. Adye, was born at Sevenoaks, Kent, on the 1st of November 1819. He entered the Royal Artillery in 1836, was promoted captain in 1846, and served throughout the Crimean War as brigade‐major and assistant adjutant‐general of artillery (C.B., brevets of major and lieutenant‐colonel). In the Indian Mutiny he served on the staff in a similar capacity. Promoted brevet‐colonel in 1860, he was specially employed in 1863 in the N.W. frontier of India campaign, and was deputy adjutant‐general, Bengal, from 1863 to 1866, when he returned home. From 1870 to 1875 Adye was director of artillery and stores at the War Office. He was made a K.C.B. in 1873, and was promoted to be major‐general and appointed governor of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in 1875, and surveyor‐general of the ordnance in 1880. In 1882 he was chief of staff and second in command of the expedition to Egypt, and served throughout the campaign (G.C.B. and thanks of parliament). He held the government of Gibraltar from 1883 to 1886. Promoted lieutenant‐general in 1879, general and colonel commandant of the Royal Artillery in 1884, he retired in 1886. He unsuccessfully contested Bath in the Liberal interest in 1892. He died on the 26th of August 1900. He was author of A Review of The Crimean War ; The Defence of Cawnpore; A Frontier Campaign in Afghanistan; Recollections of a Military Life; and Indian Frontier Policy.

(Source: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica)