The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Wynyard, General Edward Buckley

1462191The Dictionary of Australasian Biography — Wynyard, General Edward BuckleyPhilip Mennell

Wynyard, General Edward Buckley, C.B., son of Lieut.-General William Wynyard, was born at Kensington Palace on Dec. 28rd, 1788. He entered the 1st Foot Guards in 1803, and was actively employed and severely wounded. On Nov. 23rd, 1841, he was made Major-General and in 1847 appointed to the command of the troops in New South Wales, Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand. He became Colonel 58th Regiment, and died in London on Nov. 24th, 1864.