Ardagh, John Charles, 1840-1907

1859 joined the Royal Engineers; 1875 attached to the intelligence branch of the War Office; 1876 reported on the defence of Constantinople; 1878 attended the congress of Berlin as technical military delegate; 1879 member of the Bulgarian boundary commission; 1881 commissioner for the delimitation of the Turco-Greek frontier; 1882 special service, Egypt; 1884 head of intelligence department, Sudan Expedition; 1885 commandant of base, Nile Expedition; 1886 chief staff officer, Nile Expedition; 1887 assistant adjutant-general for defence and mobilization, War Office; 1888-1894 private secretary to Lord Lansdowne, and for a short time to Lord Elgin, viceroy of India; 1888-1895 aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambridge; 1894 KCIE; 1895-1896 commandant of the School of Military Engineering, Chatham; 1896-1901 director of military intelligence, War Office; 1899 British delegate to Peace Conference at the Hague; 1902 member of judicial commission on revision of martial law sentences; 1903 member of permanent international court of arbitration at the Hague, and government director of Suez Canal Company.

Epithet: army officer

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