Memoirs of the Fultons of Lisburn

JOHN WILLIAMSON SECTION 81
4. George Wade Robertson, Lieut-Colonel R.A., b. 15th November 1853; Lieut.
1 ith September 1873 ; Capt. 28th March 1883 ; Major, 31st December 1890; Lieut. -Colonel,
9th October 1899; now commanding R.A. at Gibraltar. His foreign service comprises
India, Natal, Malta, and Gibraltar, in. 5th October 1880, at the Church of St. John-in-the-
Wilderness, Naini Tal, India, Alice Elizabeth (b. at Sunderland 1857), dan. of Major-
General William Roberts, late Lieut-Col. commanding 1st Battalion 5th Fusiliers.
The family of General Roberts came from Cork and Waterford. His father was a Captain in the
74th Highland Light Infantry, served in the Peninsula, and was engaged at Waterloo. Afterwards he was
for several years a Resident Magistrate in Ireland. He married a McMahon of the co. Clare, sister of
Sir William McMahon, Bart., Master of the Rolls in Ireland, and of General Sir Thomas McMahon, G.C.B.,
who was Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Army.
Lieut. -Colonel and Mrs. Fulton have issue: (1) Maud Elizabeth Amy, /;. at Bareilly,
1 2th October 1881 ; (2) Eileen Hope, b. at Athlone, 13th October 1886.
1. Josephine Mary McGildowney, /;. 19th March 1845 ! " L '6th August 1866, at
Ballylesson Church in Drtimbo Parish, co. Down, her first cousin Theodore, afterwards
Sir Theodore Cracraft Hope, K.C.S.I., CLE., of Boothstown, Lancashire, and 21 Elvaston
Place, London, only son of James Hope, M.D., F.R.S., and Anne his wife, third dan.
of John Williamson Fulton, of Calcutta (see above). Sir Theodore was b. 9th December
183 1 ; bap. St. Marylebone Church, London. His second name came from his godmother,
Mrs. Cracraft (afterwards Mrs. Ivey) who had been an old friend of the Fultons in Calcutta,
and was then a widow, living in Montagu Square, near Mr. Eneas Mackintosh (late of the
Calcutta firm). He was educated privately and at Rugby. Having had much experience
of the sea, through being obliged by his mother's and his own ill-health to pass several
seasons at Madeira, and having navigated his own yacht on an eight months' cruise in the
Mediterranean, etc., he obtained on 2nd May 1851, a Master's Certificate (No. 40,779) under
the Mercantile Marine Act 1850, with the intimation that he was the youngest Master in
the Merchant Navy. After missing three terms through ill-health, he in December 1852
passed out of the old East India Company's College at Haileybury, as head of his term
for Bombay, with thirteen prizes and gold medals, and entered the Bombay Civil Service
13th January 1853. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn, Trinity, 1866, and held
various appointments in the Revenue, General and Political Departments. Of these may
be mentioned — Educational Inspector for Gujarat, Khandeish and Thana, 1855-60 ;
Private Secretary to the Governor of Bombay, 1860-62; Municipal Commissioner of
Bombay City, 1871-72 ; Commissioner of Customs and Opium, 1874-75 I Member of the
Legislative Council of the Governor-General of India, 1875-80; Financial Secretary to the
Government of India, 1881-82; Officiating Financial Member of Governor-General's Council,
1882; Public Works Member of Governor-General's Council, 22nd July 1882 till 23rd
December 1887, when he resigned, and retired from the Indian Service on 13th January 188S.
He wrote and edited many educational works in the vernacular languages in 1855-60;
also published three architectural works (John Murray, 1866), and Church and State in
India (S.P.C.K. 1893). He is a Vice-President of the S.P.C.K., S.P.G. and E.C.U.; also
member of the London Diocesan Conference and the House of Laymen of Canterbury.
Lady Hope has a full-length portrait of him taken at Simla in 1887, by James Archer,
S.R.A., and also one at the age of four years, by Bridgford.
It may be here mentioned, as an interesting family incident, that on 20th October 1897
there met at dinner, at Sir Theodore's house, representatives of the four branches of the Fulton
family, namely :
Sir Forrest and Lady Fulton, and their eldest son Forrest. James Branch.
Dr. Henry Fulton and Miss Josephine Fulton. Joseph Branch.
Lieut.-Colonel Robert and Mrs. Fulton. James {junior) Branch.
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