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 1. Lieut-Colonel William Matthew Gosset of the Royal Engineers, who served in Canada in 1813 and 1814, and died in 1856.

2. Admiral Henry Gosset, who died in March 1877.

3. Commander Charles Gosset, R.N., who died on 24th November 1868.

4. George Bagot Gosset of the 4th Dragoon Guards, who died on 30th June 1840.

(These were brothers of Arthur Gosset, Esq. of Eltham House, Kent.)  . — George Chenevix (latterly styled George Chenevix, Esq. of Bally-common, King’s county), was born in 1795. He entered the army as an Assistant-Surgeon, and served in Holland, the Netherlands, and France, from 1813 to 1818. He took part in the bombardment of Antwerp and the storming of Bergen-op-Zoom. He was at the battle of Quatre-bras, and finally at the battle of Waterloo, where his station was the Chateau of Hougoumont. He rose to be Surgeon-Major of the Coldstream Guards. He died on 31st March 1852.  . — Dupuis is a refugee family from Bourdeaux. At the beginning of last century it consisted of three sons, Philip, Stephen, and John, and two daughters, Hester (Mrs. Pullain), and Mary (Mrs. Boucher). Philip Dupuis, styled “of Pall-Mall,” who was buried at St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields on 27th March 1707, had three sons, Abraham (who received a medal for the Battle of Dumblain in 1715, and died in 1737), John (born 1695), and Philip (born 1697). Abraham was the father of Abraham Dupuis, American merchant of Gracechurch Street, who died in October 1777, having had two sons, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Dupuis, of the 2nd Dragoon Guards (born 1763, died 1837), and Rev. George Dupuis, Rector of Wendlebury (born 1757, died 1839). The venerable clergyman was the father of General Sir John Edward Dupuis, K.C.B., whose memoir is now to be summarized.

John Edward Dupuis was educated at the Military Academy, Woolwich, and admitted to the Royal Artillery as a Second Lieutenant on 13th February 1825, and became a First Lieutenant on 8th November 1827. Lieutenant Dupuis was with the Spanish Army from 1836 to 1838, and shared in the action of Hernani. He was promoted to the rank of Captain on 22nd July 1840, and continued to serve in that rank with the brevet rank of Major from 8th January 1847 to 22nd April 1853, when he became a Lieutenant-Colonel of Artillery. He was recalled to active-service by the war with Russia, known as the Crimean war, in 1854, and was present at the battles of Alma, 20th September; Balaklava, 25th October; and Inkerman, 5th November. The Siege of Sebastopol lasted from 17th October 1854 to 10th September 1855; and Lieutenant-Colonel Dupuis was twice in command of our artillery during that memorable siege. He was made a Companion of the Bath (C.B.). The Mutiny in India broke our peace in 1857; he commanded the artillery there from 1857 to 1859, and had a share in many of the events of the campaign, including the operations before Cawnpore. In 1865 he received the command of the 11th Brigade of Royal Artillery, and was made a Knight Commander of the Bath (K.C.B.). He rose from the rank of Colonel successively to be Major-General and Lieutenant-Gcneral, and he became a full General in 1868. General Sir John Edward Dupuis, K.C.B., wore the orders of San Fernando of Spain, Legion of Honour and the Medjidie — also the Crimean medal with four clasps, and the Indian and Sardinian medals. He died on 25th November 1876.  . — Henry Chamier, Esq., Governor of Madras, was survived by two younger sons, who have become distinguished military officers:— (1.) Francis Edward Archibald Chamier was born on 13th May 1833, and became an Ensign in the Bengal Native Infantry on 20th February 1850; he became a Lieutenant on 8th April 1857. He served with credit in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny, and attracted the notice of the General, Sir James Outram, who wrote to him from Lucknow, 2nd April 1858:—

“May God prosper you, my dear friend, in the career on which you are about to enter; and if you seek this blessing, be assured it will not be withheld Vou have abilities above common. You have a brave heart and a kind one. You are steady and high principled. You cannot fail to succeed; and of your success none will be more delighted to hear than myself, by whose side you have so often stood in the front of battle.”

For his services at the defence, siege, and capture of Lucknow, he was mentioned in the despatches of 17th February and 25th May 1S58, and 31st January 1859. He received a medal with two clasps, and in 1862 was promoted to a Captaincy in the Bengal Staff Corps, and to the brevet-rank of Major, and 1870 to the brevet-rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. On 20th February 1876, he became a substantive Lieutenant-Colonel, and is now Colonel Chamier, with brevet-rank dated 20th February 1881. 