{{short description|British Army general (1791–1877)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{EngvarB|date=January 2022}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = Lieutenant-General | name = Sir Robert Wesley | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCB}} | image = | caption = | nickname = | birth_date ={{circa|1791}} | birth_place =Lismote Castle, County Limerick, Kingdom of Ireland<ref name="1871census">''1871 England Census''</ref> | death_date =5 January 1877 | death_place =Woolwich, London | allegiance = {{flag|United Kingdom}} | branch = 23px Royal Marines | service_years = | rank = Lieutenant-General | unit = | commands = Royal Marines | battles =First Carlist War<br/>Crimean War | awards = Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath | relations = | other_work = }}
Lieutenant-General '''Sir Samuel Robert Wesley''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB}} ({{circa|1791}} – 5 January 1877) was an Anglo-Irish Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
==Early life== Wesley was the son Robert Wesley and Ellen Butt of Lismoat or Lismote Castle, County Limerick, Kingdom of Ireland, where he was born around 1791.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walford |first1=Edward |title=The County Families of the United Kingdom |date=1871 |publisher=Robert Hardwicke |page=[https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof06walf/page/1015 1015] |url=https://archive.org/details/countyfamiliesof06walf |quote=Lis Mote Castle. |accessdate=8 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
==Military career== Wesley was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery.<ref name=register>{{cite web|url= http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Annual_Register_1878_1000443258/529|title=Annual Register|year=1878|access-date=20 May 2016}}{{dead link|date=February 2024|bot=medic}}</ref> He saw action in Spain during the First Carlist War<ref name=register/> before becoming Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters Royal Marine Forces.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21262|page=2970|date=11 November 1851}}</ref> He became Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines (the professional head of the Royal Marines) in December 1854<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=21643|page=4183|date=13 December 1854}}</ref> and directed the involvement of the Royal Marines during the Crimean War before retiring in January 1862.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22587|page=92|date=7 January 1862}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Sir John Owen}} {{s-ttl|title=Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines|years=1854–1862}} {{s-aft|after=Sir George Langley}} {{s-end}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wesley, Robert}} Category:1790s births Category:1877 deaths Category:19th-century Royal Marines personnel Category:Military personnel from County Limerick Category:Royal Marines lieutenant generals Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Category:Military personnel of the First Carlist War Category:British military personnel of the Crimean War