Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Mentioned in Despatches Croix de Guerre (France)
General Sir Torquhil George Matheson, 5th Baronet, KCB, CMG (4 February 1871 − 13 November 1963) was a Scottish officer who commanded three different divisions of the British Army in some of the heaviest fighting of the First World War. He had previously served in the militia and with the Coldstream Guards in the Second Boer War. For his service, he was knighted in 1921 and in 1944 he inherited the Matheson baronetcy from his brother Roderick.[3]
^1871 England Census
^"Obituary: Gen. Sir Torquhil Matheson – The Army in India". The Times. 14 November 1963. p. 16.
^Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2645. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
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