{{Short description|British army officer}} {{About|the British military officer|the British historian|George W. Bernard|the civil war photographer|George N. Barnard|the vaudeville performer|George and Bert Bernard}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = General | name = George Bernard | image = File:George Romney (1734-1802) - The Beaumont Family - N03400 - National Gallery.jpg | caption = The Beaumont Family, painting by George Romney, 1777-1779; General George Bernard is standing in a leaning posture over the back of the chair of his wife, Elizabeth Beaumont | birth_date = | death_date = 1820 | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = | death_place = | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = {{flagcountry|Kingdom of Great Britain}} | branch = 23px British Army | service_years = | rank = General | unit = | commands = | battles = | awards = | relations = | other_work = }} General '''George Bernard''' (died May 1820) was a British Army officer.
==Military career== Bernard was appointed a captain in the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons on 7 July 1774<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=11472|page=2|date=5 July 1774}}</ref> and then promoted to major in the 20th Light Dragoons on 3 December 1782<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12393|page=1|date=30 November 1782}}</ref> and to lieutenant colonel in the 86th Regiment of Foot on 8 April 1783.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12429|page=2|date=5 April 1783}}</ref>
He became Lieutenant-Governor of Kinsale and Charles Fort on 30 December 1786.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=12824|page=40|date=23 January 1787}}</ref> He raised the 84th Regiment of Foot on 2 November 1793<ref>{{cite web |url=http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/84foot.htm |title=84th Regiment History |publisher=members.ozemail.com.au |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070807123106/http://members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/84foot.htm |archivedate=7 August 2007}}</ref> and was appointed its lieutenant colonel commandant on 1 March 1794<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13627|page=180|date=25 February 1794}}</ref> before being promoted to full colonel on 15 March 1794.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13631|page=227|date=11 March 1794}}</ref> He was promoted to major-general on 14 May 1796,<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=13892|page=460|date=14 May 1796}}</ref> lieutenant-general on 1 October 1803<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=15624|page=1317|date=27 September 1803}}</ref> and to full general on 4 June 1813.<ref name=haydn321>{{cite book|title=Haydn's Book of Dignities |year=1851|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aURnAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA321|page= 321|last1=Haydn|first1=Joseph}}</ref>
He lived at Heaton Lodge in Kirkheaton.<ref>{{cite book|last=Montgomery-Massingberd|first= Hugh|title= Burke's Irish Family Records|publisher= London, U.K.: Burke's Peerage|year=1976|page=86}}</ref>
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