Robert Rollo Gillespie


Robert Rollo Gillespie

Major-General Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie
Birth nameHugh Robert Rollo Gillespie
Other name(s)Rollo Gillespie
Born(1766-01-21)21 January 1766
Comber, County Down, Ireland
Died31 October 1814(1814-10-31) (aged 48)
Kalunga, Dehradun, Nepal
(present-day Uttarakhand, India)
Buried
Meerut Cantonment Cemetery, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
Allegiance United Kingdom
Years of service1783–1814
RankMajor-general
Battles / wars
Memorials
Spouse(s)
Annabella Taylor
(m. 1786)
RelationsRobert Gillespie (father)

Major-General Sir Hugh Robert Rollo Gillespie KCB (21 January 1766 – 31 October 1814[1]) was an officer in the British Army. The Army's historian Sir John Fortescue called him "The bravest man ever to wear a red coat".

  1. ^ Dictionary of Indian Biography; Charles E Buckland p166 (1906)