SMYTH, George Monro Carmichael (Carmichael-Smyth). Middlesex 18.9.1803 — Kensington, London 29.4.1890. British (Scottish) Colonial Officer in India. Son of physician James Carmichael Smyth (1742–1821) and Mary Holyland (1753?–1806). Arrived in India in 1819/20. Rised to Major of 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry, in 1857 Colonel and Commandant of 3rd Light Cavalry in Meerut, was involved in the outbreak of the uprising, then soon in Lahore. Finally Major General. Married Jane Ross (1821–1865), three sons, and then 1879 Celia Black Hamilton (1842–1891), at least two children with the first.
Publications: A History of the Reigning Family of Lahore with some account of the Jummoo Rajahs, the Seik soldiers and their Sirdars. Ed. by Carmichael Smyth. 263+40 p. Calcutta 1847 (reprinted as Secret History of the Khalsa Durbar. 2000).
Sources: Surprisingly difficult, stray notes on career, family in ancestry.com and ingenious.com, death in www.batharchives.co.uk; stray notes in Internet; much remains uncertain, see the note under W. Carmichael Smyth.
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