HAMLEY, SIR EDWARD BRUCE (18a4-1893 ), British general and military writer, youngest son of Vice-Admiral William Hamley, was born on April 27, 1824, at Bodmin, Cornwall, and entered the Royal Artillery in 1843. He served in the Crimean War, and in 1859 became professor of military history at the new Staff College at Sandhurst, from which in 1866 he went to the council of military education, returning in 1870 to the Staff Col lege as commandant. From 1879 to 1881 he was British com missioner successively for the delimitation of the frontiers of Turkey and Bulgaria, Turkey in Asia and Russia, and Turkey and Greece, and was rewarded with the K.C.M.G. He became a lieutenant-general in 1882, when he commanded the 2nd division of the expedition to Egypt under Lord Wolseley, and led his troops in the battle of Tel-el-Kebir. From 1885 until his death on Aug. 12, 1893, he represented Birkenhead in parliament in the Conservative interest.
Hamley's principal work, The Operations of War (1867), became a text-book of military instruction (last edition 1923) . See his Life by Innes Shand (1895).