BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. 131 campaign of 1882. During the present campaign, he has acted as head of the Intelligence Department with the expeditionary force, and was acting in this capacity with the Staff of Brigadier-General Sir Herbert Stewart in the advance from Korti to Metemueh. He was in temporary command of the troops at Gubat, until the arrival of Major-General Sir Redvers Buller. Sir Charles William Wilson was born in 1836, being a son of the late Mr. Edward Wilson ; he was educated at Cheltenham, and entered tlie Royal Engineers, in which he became Lieutenant in 1855, Captain in 1864, Major in 1873, and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel in 1879. He was created a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George in 1881, having been made a "Companion of the Bath in 1877 for civil services. He rendered valuable services to the Palestine Exploration Committee from 1864 to 1868, in the earlier topographical surveys of the Holy Land and adjacent countries, and in editing their reports for publication.

LIEUTENANT-COLONEL FREDERICK C. DENISON.

Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick C. Denison was born at Rusholme, Toronto, on the 22nd November, 1846. He is the second son of the late Colonel George T. Denison, of Rusholme, and grandson of the late Colonel George T. Denison, of Bellevue, Toronto, his great-grandfather, Captain John Denison of the 2nd W est York Regiment, in England, came to Canada in 1792, and settled in Toronto in 1796. Lieut.-Colonel F. C. Denison, who commands the Canadian contingent of boatmen in the Nile Expedition, is Captain of the “A” trocp of the Gov¬ ernor-General’s Body Guard. He was educated at the Upper Canada College. He studied law in the office of his brother, Lieut.-Colonel George T. Denison, Police Magistrate.

His first commission in the Canadian Militia was as Lieutenant in the Administrative Battalion, which was placed on active service on the Niagara Frontier in 1865 to preserve the neutrality during the closing scenes of the American civil war. He served there for four months. On the 25th August, 1865, he was gazetted Cornet in" the Governor-General’s Body Guard, and in the September following he attended the camp of instruction at La Prairie, where he served for the first time under Lord Wolseley. In the Fenian Raid of 1866 Cornet Denison was with the Body Guard in Colonel Peacock’s column on the march from New Germany to Fort Erie, and on the morning of the 3rd June was with his corps, when being sent on to reconnoitre, they entered and took possession of the place. In the month of August, 1866, a second raid was threatened and the Body Guard was again ordered to the frontier to form a chain of posts along the Niagara River to cover a camp of observation which was formed at Thorold under the command of Colonel Wolseley. During this period Cornet Denison was continually used by Colonel Wolseley as an aide-de-camp in the reviews and field days which often took place. In Au<mst, 1868, Cornet Denison was gazetted Lieutenant, and when the Red River Expedit on was organized by Colonel Wolseley, he appointed Lieutenant Denison as his aide-de-camp. In this expedition he was several times em¬ ployed by Colonel Wolseley to do special services of a difficult and arduous character. On arriving near Fort Garry Lieutenant Denison was sent on alone by Colonel Wolseley to reconnoitre, and rode into the gate of the Fort as Riel’s followers were running out, being the first man in Fort Garry, as he and his two brother officers of the Body Guard were the first in Fort Erie.