WOLSELEY, Garnet Joseph, Viscount, British soldier, born in Golden Bridge house, near Dublin, Ireland, 4 June, 1833. He is the son of an army officer, and is descended from a Staffordshire family. He was educated privately, entered the army as ensign in March, 1852, became a captain in 1855, major in 1858, and colonel in June, 1865. He served in the Burmese war of 1852-'3, in the war in the Crimea, was severely wounded at the siege of Sebastopol, and received the decoration of the Legion of honor and the Turkish order of the Medjidich. During the Sepoy mutiny in 1857 he was at the siege and capture of Lucknow, and at the defence of Alumbugh. He was sent to Canada when difficulties arose with the United States in consequence of the affair of the "Trent," November, 1861, and afterward visited the Confederate camps. In 1867 he was appointed deputy quartermaster-general of Canada, and in 1869 commanded the expeditionary force that was sent to suppress the insurrectionary government of Louis Riel at Fort, Garry, and was knighted for his services. He commanded the troops during the Ashantee war of 1873-'4, and for his success was promoted a major-general, and received the thanks of parliament and £25,000. In April, 1874, he was appointed to command the auxiliary forces, in 1875 was sent to Natal as administrator of its government, and in 1876 was nominated a member of the council of India. In 1878 he was sent to organize the government of Cyprus; in June, 1879, he returned to Natal, and, as governor of Natal and the Transvaal, took charge of the work of organizing a government in Zululand, and conducted the subsequent campaign against Secoeni. Returning in May, 1880, he was appointed quarter-master-general, became adjutant-general of the army in April, 1882, and the same year was commander-in-chief of the force that was sent to Egypt. For his services on this occasion he was gazetted Baron Wolseley of Cairo, and of Wolseley in the county of Stafford on 20 November, 1882, and he was also promoted a general in 1882. In 1884-'5 he was commander-in-chief in Egypt, and conducted the futile operations for the relief of Khartoum, and on his return he was made a viscount. He is now adjutant-general of the British army. He has received degrees from various colleges, and has published a " Narrative of the War with China in 1860" (London, 1862) ; "The Soldier's Pocket-Book for Field Service" (1869) ; "The System of Field Manoeuvres best adapted for enabling our Troops to meet a Continental Army" (1872); and "France as a Military Power in 1870 and 1878" (1878).