Samuel Robert Wesley
Sir Samuel Robert Wesley was an Anglo-Irish Royal Marines officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines.
Wesley was the son Robert Wesley and Ellen Butt of Lismoat or Lismote Castle, County Limerick, Kingdom of Ireland, where he was born around 1791.Military career
Wesley was commissioned into the Royal Marine Artillery. He saw action in Spain during the First Carlist War before becoming Assistant Adjutant-General at Headquarters Royal Marine Forces. He became Deputy Adjutant-General Royal Marines in December 1854 and directed the involvement of the Royal Marines during the Crimean War before retiring in January 1862.
