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| name = Sir Oliver Newmarch<br />
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| birth_date = 1834<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1920|02|16|1834|10|31}}<br />
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| placeofburial = [[Brompton Cemetery]]<ref>{{Cite web|title=MG Oliver Richardson Newmarch (1835-1920) - Find A...|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/211237339/oliver-richardson-newmarch|access-date=2021-04-21|website=findagrave.com|language=en}}</ref><br />
| birth_place =[[Bengal]], [[India]]<br />
| death_place =[[London]], [[United Kingdom]]<br />
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| awards =[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India]]<br />
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*[[Merton College, Oxford|Merton College]]}}<br />
| spouse = {{Plainlist|*{{marriage|Mary Isabella Parke|1858|1867|end=d}}<br />
*{{marriage|Agnes Mary Norman|1874}}}}<br />
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[[Major-General (United Kingdom)|Major-General]] '''Sir Oliver Richardson Newmarch''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCSI}} (1834–1920) was a senior [[British Indian Army]] officer who served as [[Military Secretary to the India Office]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
Born the son of Doctor Newmarch and Violet, daughter of Colonel Sherwood, Royal Artillery, Newmarch was educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and [[Merton College, Oxford]].<ref name="WW16">Who's Who, 1916</ref> Newmarch entered the Indian Army in 1855, and was later [[Commissioned officer|commissioned]] into the [[Bengal Staff Corps]] and posted to the [[Bengal Native Infantry|44th Native Infantry]].<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22686|page=6160|date=2 December 1862}}</ref><ref name="IBD" /><br />
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Newmarch saw service during the [[Indian Mutiny]] and received a medal for his work during it.<ref name="IBD">{{cite wikisource |editor-last1=Rao |editor-first1= C. Hayavadana |editor-link1=C. Hayavadana Rao |plaintitle=The Indian Biographical Dictionary |trans-title= |wslink=The Indian Biographical Dictionary (1915) |year=1915 |orig-year= |publisher=Pillar & Co. |location=Madras |language=en |wslanguage=en |oclc=8733882 |page=305 |chapter=Newmarch, Sir Oliver Richardson |scan=Page:The Indian Biographical Dictionary.djvu/345}}</ref><br />
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Newmarch served as the Military Secretary to the [[British Raj|Government of India]] from 1884 to 1887.<ref name="IBD" /> Newmarch was appointed [[Military Secretary to the India Office]] in 1889 and served in that role until 1899.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Heathcote|first=T. A.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YSK8AAAAIAAJ&q=%22General+Sir+John+Coleridge%22&pg=PA265|title=The Military in British India: The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947|date=1995|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-0-7190-3570-8|language=en|page=206}}</ref> While in that role, he was appointed [[Order of the Star of India|KCSI]] in 1894.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=26516|page=3117|date=26 May 1894}}</ref><br />
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==Family==<br />
In 1858 he married Mary Isabella Parke and they went on to have one son and one daughter. She died in 1867 and he then married Agnes Mary Norman in 1874.<ref name="WW16" /><ref>[http://morawel.com/toc7.html#Src1-18 William Walker's relatives]</ref><br />
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