George Younghusband

Who was George Younghusband?

George John Younghusband KCMG KCIE CB was a cavalry officer and major-general in the British Indian Army.

George John Younghusband was the son of Major-General John William Younghusband and was born 9 July 1859, in India. He was educated at Clifton College and Sandhurst, before being commissioned into the 17th Foot in 1878. He later transferred to the British Indian Army's Guides Cavalry and served in several conflicts. Including the Second Afghan War, the Mahdist War, the Third Burmese War, the Second Boer War and finally in the First World War. Where due to wounds received he was forced to retire from the army in 1917.

In his later life he became a noted author, of several books and the Keeper of the Jewel House at the Tower of London, until his death on 30 September 1944, at Crickhowell in Wales.