{{Short description|British Army officer (1840–1916)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=January 2013}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = General | name = Sir George Luck | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}} | birth_date = 24 October 1840<ref name="burkegreatwar">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Burke, Sir Bernard |editor-link=Bernard Burke |edition=76th |year= 1914 |page=2400 |ref=Burke }}</ref> | birth_place = Blackheath, Kent, England | death_date = {{death-date and age|10 December 1916|24 October 1840}} | death_place = Salisbury, Wiltshire, England | image = George Luck, Vanity Fair, 1907-12-04.jpg | caption = | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = {{army|United Kingdom}} | service_years = | rank = General | commands = Bengal Command | battles = Second Anglo-Afghan War | awards = Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath | other_work = }} General '''Sir George Luck''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB}} (24 October 1840 – 10 December 1916) was a British Army officer.

==Military career== Luck was commissioned into the 15th Regiment of Foot in 1858.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22128|page=1908|date=16 April 1858}}</ref> He commanded the 15th Hussars during the Second Anglo-Afghan War between 1878 and 1880.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&d=NZH19170217.2.84.43&l=mi&e=-------10--1----0--|title=Items of social news|publisher=New Zealand Herald|date=17 December 1917|access-date=7 July 2013}}</ref> He became Inspector-General of Cavalry in India in 1887,<ref name=badsey>Badsey, p. 67</ref> and Inspector-General of Cavalry in the UK in 1893. Returning to India in 1898, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Bengal Command. In early November 1902 he left India on eight months′ sick leave,<ref>{{Cite newspaper The Times |title=Naval & Military intelligence |date=30 October 1902 |page=10 |issue=36912}}</ref> at the end of which he retired from the army in 1903.<ref>Whitaker's Almanack 1903</ref>

He was given the colonelcy of the 15th (The King's) Hussars in 1904, a position he held until his death in 1916.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27751|page=151|date=6 January 1905}}</ref> He was promoted full general on 23 May 1906.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=27918|page=3848|date=1 June 1906}}</ref>

In retirement he lived at Landford Lodge near Salisbury, Wiltshire<ref name=times>Obituary, The Times, 12 December 1916</ref> and was appointed Lieutenant of the Tower (1905–07).<ref>Vanity Fair, 4 December 1907</ref>

He married Ellen Georgina Adams; they had no children.<ref name=times/>

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