CATHCART, SIR GEORGE English soldier, third son of the I st Earl Cathcart, was born in London on May I2, 1794. He was educated at Eton and Edinburgh university. In 1810 he entered the army, and in 1812 accompanied his father to Russia as aide-de-camp. He served with the Russian army in Germany in 1813 and in France in 1814, and in 185o he pub lished Commentaries on these campaigns. After the peace of 1814 he accompanied his father to the congress of Vienna. He was present at Quatre Bras and at Waterloo, as an aide-de-camp to the duke of Wellington, whom he accompanied to the con gresses of Aix-la-Chapelle and Verona, and in 1826 to Prussia. Promoted lieutenant-colonel in 1826, he was placed on half-pay in 1834. In 1838 he was sent as commander of the King's Dragoon Guards to Canada. In March, 1852, he succeeded Sir Harry Smith as governor and commander-in-chief at the Cape, and brought the Kafir war to a successful conclusion. He pro mulgated the first constitution of Cape Colony, and conducted operations against the Basuto. Cathcart received a K.C.B. in 1853. In Dec., 1853, he was made adjutant-general of the army and was sent out to the Crimean War in command of the 4th division. He fell at the battle of Inkerman (Nov. 5, 1854) and his remains, with those of other officers, were buried on Cathcart's Hill.
See Colburn's United Service Magazine, Jan., 1855; Correspondence of the Hon. Sir George Cathcart relative to Kaffraria (1856) ; A. W. Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea, vol. v.