GEORGE ROBERT GLEIG BIOGRAPHY
GEORGE ROBERT GLEIG BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
GLEIG, GEORGE ROBERT (1796-1888). — S. of George G., Bishop of Brechin, entered the army, and served in the Peninsula and America. In 1820 he took orders, and after serving various cures bec. , in 1834, Chaplain of Chelsea Hospital, and in 1844 Chaplain-General of the Forces, which office he held until 1875. He was a frequent contributor to reviews and magazines, especially Blackwood's , in which his best known novel, The Subaltern , appeared, and he was also the author of Lives of Warren Hastings, Clive, and Wellington, Military Commanders , Chelsea Pensioners , and other works.