Herbert Chermside


Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Charles Chermside GCMG, CB was a British soldier who served as Governor of Queensland from 1902 to 1904.

Chermside was born in the town of Wilton in Wiltshire in 1850. His parents were Rev. Richard Seymour Conway Chermside, rector of Wilton and son of Sir Robert Alexander Chermside, and Emily Dawson. He was a scholar at Eton College and then attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich where he graduated at the top of his year and was commissioned in the Royal Engineers in 1870.

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