James Sayer (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Sir James Robert Steadman Sayer KCB (13 January 1826 – 12 June 1908) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Western District.

Sir James Sayer
Birth name	James Robert Steadman Sayer
Born	13 January 1826 Sibton Park, Suffolk, England
Died	12 June 1908 (aged 82)[1] Marylebone, London, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands held	Western District
Battles/wars	Crimean War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Sayer was born at Sibton Park, the eldest son of Robert Sayer and Frances Errington.[2][3]

Military career

Sayer was commissioned as a cornet in the King's Dragoon Guards on 23 May 1845.[4] He served as a junior officer in the Crimean War and subsequently served in the British Indian Army.[4] He became General Officer Commanding Western District in England in April 1883.[5]

He was appointed Colonel of the 8th Hussars for a brief time in 1886. He was then Colonel of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards from 1886 to 1908[6] and, in that capacity, he was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1906 Birthday Honours.[7]

References

1. Burke, Sir Bernard, ed. (1914). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (76th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2515.
2. Who's who. A. & C. Black. 1900. p. 891. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
3. "The Sayers of Richmond, Surrey (by J.P.Sayer)". Bedford Park. Retrieved 31 May 2019.
4. "The Sayers of Richmond". Bedford Park. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
5. "Army Commands" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
6. "KDG - Succession of Colonels and Commanding Officers". Queen's Dragoon Guards. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
7. "No. 27926". The London Gazette (Supplement). 26 June 1906. p. 4459.