GRAHAM, SIR GERALD (1831-1899), British general, was born on June 27, 1831, at Acton, Middlesex, and educated at Dresden and Woolwich academy. He entered the Royal Engi neers in 185o, and served through the Russian War of 1854, being awarded the V.C. He fought in the China War of 186o, and was promoted brevet lieutenant-colonel and given the C.B. for his part in the storming of the Taku forts and the entry into Peking. He was promoted major-general in 1881, and commanded the ad vanced force in Egypt in 1882. In 1884 he commanded the ex pedition to the eastern Sudan. In 1885 he commanded the Suakin expedition, advancing the railway from Suakin to Otao, when the expedition was withdrawn. He three times received the thanks of parliament, and was given the G.C.M.G. and the G.C.B. He died on Dec. 17, 1899. He published a translation of Goetze's Operations of the German Engineers in 187o-71 (1875) and Last Words with Gordon (1887).