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Biography
Major-General Sir Oliver Richardson Newmarch KCSI (1834–1920) was a senior British Indian Army officer who went on to be Military Secretary to the India Office.
Military career
Born the son of Doctor Newmarch and Violet, daughter of Colonel Sherwood, Royal Artillery, Newmarch was educated at Charterhouse School and Merton College, Oxford. Newmarch was commissioned into the Bengal Staff Corps and posted to the 44th Native Infantry.
He saw service during the Indian Mutiny, in actions at Agra, Gunga and Pattialee.
He was appointed Military Secretary to the India Office in 1889 and in that role was appointed KCSI in 1894.
Family
In 1858 he married Mary Isabella Parke and they went on to have one son and one daughters. She died in 1867 and he then married Agnes Mary Norman in 1874.