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Sir Walter Gilbert, 1st Baronet

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[[File:The grave of Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Kensal Green Cemetery.JPG|thumb|200px|The grave of Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Kensal Green Cemetery]]
[[File:GilbertArms.png|thumb|200px|Arms of Gilbert: ''Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field''<ref>Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.886</ref>]]
[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, 1st Baronet''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB}} (18 March 1785, [[Bodmin]] – 12 May 1853, Stevens' Hotel, [[Bond Street]], London) was an army officer in the [[British East India Company]].

==Life==
He was the third son of the Reverend Edmund Gilbert (d. 1816), Vicar of [[Constantine, Kerrier|Constantine]] and Rector of [[Helland]], Cornwall, and his wife, the daughter of Henry Garnett of Bristol. Like Sir [[Humphrey Gilbert]], he was a member of the Devon family of Gilbert of Compton and he was named after Sir Humphrey's stepbrother Sir [[Walter Raleigh]].

He gained a cadetship in the [[Bengal Infantry]] in 1800, and in September the following year was posted to the 15th [[Bengal Native Infantry]] (commanded by Colonel [[John Macdonald (EIC soldier)|John Macdonald]]) as ensign. Arriving in [[India]] in October 1801, he then became Lieutenant on 12 September 1803 and Captain on 16 April 1810. Participating in the defeat of Perron's brigades at [[Koil]], [[Aligarh]], the battles of [[Battle of Delhi, 1803|Delhi]], [[battle of Laswari|Laswari]] and the storming of [[Agra]]. He also attracted the attention of [[Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake|Lord Lake]] by his participation in the four unsuccessful attacks on [[Bharatpur, India|Bharatpur]]. In 1814, in [[Calcutta]], he married [[Isabella Rose Gilbert|Isabella Rose Ross]], the daughter of Thomas Ross, a major in the [[Royal Artillery]] - the marriage produced [[Sir Francis Hastings Gilbert, 2nd Baronet]] in 1816 (later British consul at [[Shkodër|Scutari]]), Geraldine Adelaide (b. 1830 in Bodmin).

Next he was successively Barrack-Master and Cantonment Magistrate at [[Cawnpore]], Commandant of the Calcutta native militia, and Commandant of the [[Ramgarh Cantonment|Ramgarh]] local battalion. Promoted to Major on 12 November 1820, he then became Lieutenant-Colonel of the newly formed 39th Bengal native infantry in 1824, Colonel of the 35th native infantry and of the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers in 1832, Major-General in June 1838 and finally Lieutenant-General in November 1851. During the [[First Anglo-Sikh War]] he commanded a division of [[Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough|Sir Hugh Gough]]'s army at the battles of [[Battle of Mudki|Mudki]] and [[Battle of Ferozeshahr|Ferozeshahr]] (December 1845), and at [[Battle of Sobraon|Sobraon]] (10 February 1846) - Gough mentioned him favourably in his dispatches.

[[File:Memorial to Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Bodmin. 01.jpg|thumb|The memorial to Gilbert at Bodmin]]
He was made a [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] in April 1846 and again commanded a division under Gough in the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]], at the 1849 battles of [[Battle of Chilianwala|Chilianwala]] and [[Battle of Gujrat|Gujrat]] before leading his division (which included [[Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala|Robert Napier]]) across the [[Jhelum River]] to pursue the remnants of the Sikh army and receiving their surrender in [[Rawalpindi]] on 3 and 6 March. He next pursued the Sikhs' Afghan allies from [[Attock]] right up to the [[Khyber Pass]], and in reward was appointed [[Order of the Bath|GCB]] in June 1849 and a Baronet in 1850. Becoming known as a sportsman as well as a soldier in [[India]], on his death a memorial obelisk was erected on the Bodmin Beacon, though his baronetcy became extinct on his son Francis's death.

Sir Walter is buried on the west side of the southern section of the central north-south path in [[Kensal Green Cemetery]] in [[London]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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*{{ODNBweb|id=10704|title=Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh}}
*[http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/famous-cornish-people/gilbert.htm www.cornwall-calling.co.uk]

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Sir Walter Gilbert, 1st Baronet

2021-12-24T11:05:24Z

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{{Short description|British Army officer}}{{distinguish|text=the American scientist [[Walter Gilbert]]}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2022}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1853|5|12|1785|3|18}}
| birth_place = [[Bodmin]]
| death_place = Stevens' Hotel, [[Bond Street]], London, England
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[[File:The grave of Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Kensal Green Cemetery.JPG|thumb|200px|The grave of Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Kensal Green Cemetery]]
[[File:GilbertArms.png|thumb|200px|Arms of Gilbert: ''Argent, on a chevron gules three roses of the field''<ref>Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.886</ref>]]
[[General (United Kingdom)|General]] '''Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, 1st Baronet''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|GCB}} (18 March 1785, [[Bodmin]] – 12 May 1853, Stevens' Hotel, [[Bond Street]], London) was an army officer in the [[British East India Company]].

==Life==
He was the third son of the Reverend Edmund Gilbert (d. 1816), Vicar of [[Constantine, Kerrier|Constantine]] and Rector of [[Helland]], Cornwall, and his wife, the daughter of Henry Garnett of Bristol. Like Sir [[Humphrey Gilbert]], he was a member of the Devon family of Gilbert of Compton and he was named after Sir Humphrey's stepbrother Sir [[Walter Raleigh]].

He gained a cadetship in the [[Bengal Infantry]] in 1800, and in September the following year was posted to the 15th [[Bengal Native Infantry]] (commanded by Colonel [[John Macdonald (EIC soldier)|John Macdonald]]) as ensign. Arriving in [[India]] in October 1801, he then became Lieutenant on 12 September 1803 and Captain on 16 April 1810. Participating in the defeat of Perron's brigades at [[Koil]], [[Aligarh]], the battles of [[Battle of Delhi, 1803|Delhi]], [[battle of Laswari|Laswari]] and the storming of [[Agra]]. He also attracted the attention of [[Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake|Lord Lake]] by his participation in the four unsuccessful attacks on [[Bharatpur, India|Bharatpur]]. In 1814, in [[Calcutta]], he married [[Isabella Rose Gilbert|Isabella Rose Ross]], the daughter of Thomas Ross, a major in the [[Royal Artillery]] - the marriage produced [[Sir Francis Hastings Gilbert, 2nd Baronet]] in 1816 (later British consul at [[Shkodër|Scutari]]), Geraldine Adelaide (b. 1830 in Bodmin).

Next he was successively Barrack-Master and Cantonment Magistrate at [[Cawnpore]], Commandant of the Calcutta native militia, and Commandant of the [[Ramgarh Cantonment|Ramgarh]] local battalion. Promoted to Major on 12 November 1820, he then became Lieutenant-Colonel of the newly formed 39th Bengal native infantry in 1824, Colonel of the 35th native infantry and of the 1st Bengal European Fusiliers in 1832, Major-General in June 1838 and finally Lieutenant-General in November 1851. During the [[First Anglo-Sikh War]] he commanded a division of [[Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough|Sir Hugh Gough]]'s army at the battles of [[Battle of Mudki|Mudki]] and [[Battle of Ferozeshahr|Ferozeshahr]] (December 1845), and at [[Battle of Sobraon|Sobraon]] (10 February 1846) - Gough mentioned him favourably in his dispatches.

[[File:Memorial to Walter Raleigh Gilbert, Bodmin. 01.jpg|thumb|The memorial to Gilbert at Bodmin]]
He was made a [[Order of the Bath|KCB]] in April 1846 and again commanded a division under Gough in the [[Second Anglo-Sikh War]], at the 1849 battles of [[Battle of Chilianwala|Chilianwala]] and [[Battle of Gujrat|Gujrat]] before leading his division (which included [[Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala|Robert Napier]]) across the [[Jhelum River]] to pursue the remnants of the Sikh army and receiving their surrender in [[Rawalpindi]] on 3 and 6 March. He next pursued the Sikhs' Afghan allies from [[Attock]] right up to the [[Khyber Pass]], and in reward was appointed [[Order of the Bath|GCB]] in June 1849 and a Baronet in 1850. Becoming known as a sportsman as well as a soldier in [[India]], on his death a memorial obelisk was erected on the Bodmin Beacon, though his baronetcy became extinct on his son Francis's death.

Sir Walter is buried on the west side of the southern section of the central north-south path in [[Kensal Green Cemetery]] in [[London]].

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Portal|Cornwall}}
*{{ODNBweb|id=10704|title=Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh}}
*[http://www.cornwall-calling.co.uk/famous-cornish-people/gilbert.htm www.cornwall-calling.co.uk]

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{{s-ttl|title=[[Gilbert baronets|Baronet]]| years=1851–1853}}
{{s-aft|after=Francis Gilbert}}
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{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Gilbert, Walter}}
[[Category:1785 births]]
[[Category:1853 deaths]]
[[Category:British East India Company Army generals]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the First Anglo-Sikh War]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Sikh War]]
[[Category:People from Bodmin]]
[[Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]
[[Category:Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:British military personnel of the Second Anglo-Maratha War]]
[[Category:Burials at Kensal Green Cemetery]]