HAMLEY, Joseph Osbertus C.B. 1820–1911

Son of Joseph Hamley, Surgeon and Coroner of Bodmin, Cornwall: educated at Grammar School, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. Appointed to page 117 Ordnance Dept., 1838: served in Sydney 1838–47, then at Wellington and Auckland, taking part in fighting in 1847–48 and 1860–68. He was then presented with a handsome piece of plate by the inhabitants of Wellington for his services in extinguishing a fire which threatened the destruction of the business part of the city, also for saving the life of a girl from drowning in the harbour. He returned to England 1870 and was appointed in charge of Gun Wharf at Chatham, then to the War Office, Dover and Aldershot. He was Commissary General with the honorary rank of Major General. He retired after more than forty-two years of service. A sketch book with fifty-one watercolours is in the Turnbull.