Oliver Newmarch


Sir Oliver Richardson Newmarch was a senior British Indian Army officer who served as 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.
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.