George Morrison (British Army officer)

General George Morrison (1703 – 26 November 1799) was Quartermaster-General to the Forces.

Military career

Morrison joined the British Army as a gunner in 1722.[1] He was involved in suppressing the Jacobite rising of 1745 and as a result was sent to Royal Military Academy, Woolwich as an Officer Cadet.[1]

Morrison led the construction of a series of roads in Scotland on the orders of Field Marshal George Wade.[1] In 1757 he was commissioned as a Captain-Lieutenant and in 1758 he served in the Seven Years' War in which he led the destruction of a number of forts in France.[1]

In 1763 he was appointed Quartermaster-General to the Forces,[1] although this was not gazetted until 1773,[2] From 1779 to 1782 he was Colonel of the short-lived 75th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Regiment).[3] In 1782 he was made Colonel of the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot and in 1792 was made Colonel of the King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster), a command he held until his death.[4]

In 1796 he was promoted to full General.[5]

He married Mary and together they had six children.[1]

George Morrison at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
"No. 11319". The London Gazette. 16 January 1773. p. 1.
"75th Regiment of Foot". regiments.org. Archived from the original on 23 October 2007. Retrieved 9 May 2017.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
"General George Morrison". King's Own Royal Regiment Museum. Retrieved 2 July 2016.
"No. 13892". The London Gazette. 14 May 1796. p. 459.

Military offices
Preceded by Humphrey Bland	Quartermaster-General to the Forces 1763–1796	Succeeded by David Dundas
Preceded by Lt-Gen. Sir John Burgoyne	Colonel of the 4th (The King's Own) Regiment of Foot 1792–1799	Succeeded by Gen. John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham
Preceded by Brig-Gen. Hon Robert Monckton	Colonel of the 17th (Leicestershire) Regiment of Foot 1782–1792	Succeeded by Major-Gen. George Garth
Preceded by Gen. William Picton	Colonel of the 75th Regiment of Foot (Prince of Wales's Regiment) 1779–1782	Succeeded by Major-Gen. Thomas Pelham-Clinton, 3rd Duke of Newcastle

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