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Nov 24, 1725 Died on 11 Mar 1803 (aged 77)
British Army general
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About George Warde
- General George Warde (24 November 1725 – 11 March 1803) was a British Army officer.
- The second son of Colonel John Warde of Squerryes Court in Westerham, he was a close childhood friend of James Wolfe, the Conqueror of Quebec.
- He became a colonel in the Royal Horse Guards.
- (2 April 1778 Colonel of the 1st Regiment of Horse).
- In 1773 he became colonel of the 14th Dragoons, then in 1791 was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Ireland, a post which earned him the rank of general in 1796.
- He was instrumental in repulsing two French invasions of Ireland in 1796 and 1798. He married Charlotte Madan, daughter of Spencer Madan (1729–1813) and Charlotte née Cornwallis (died 1794); their son Charles Warde was a captain in the Royal Navy .Having retired to Clyne Castle overlooking Swansea Bay in 1799, he died in 1803 and is buried at St Mary Abchurch in London.
