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[[Major-General]] '''Sir Ephraim Gerrish Stannus''' CB (1784 - 21 October 1850) was a [[British people|British]] military officer in the service of the [[East India Company]].

==Biography==
Stannus was born into a wealthy [[Irish people|Irish]] family in 1784. He went out to [[India]] as a cadet in 1799 and was commissioned as an ensign in the [[Bombay Army]] on 6 March 1800. He thereafter became lieutenant on 26 May, and was appointed to the [[Royal Dublin Fusiliers|European regiment]] in 1803.

He served in the [[Kathiawar]] campaign in 1807, and became captain on 6 July 1811.<ref>Stannus, Ephraim Gerrish (DNB00), https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Stannus,_Ephraim_Gerrish_(DNB00)&oldid=4248812 (last visited Jan. 28, 2018).</ref> He distinguished himself in the [[Third Anglo-Maratha War]] of 1817–18, was promoted major on 8 Oct. 1818, and was private secretary to [[Mountstuart Elphinstone]] while governor of [[Madras]] between 1819–27. He was made lieutenant-colonel of the 9th native infantry on 31 Oct. 1822, [[Companion of the Order of the Bath|C.B.]] on 23 July 1823, and colonel of the 10th native infantry on 5 June 1829.

From 1823 to 1826 he was first [[British Resident]] in the Persian Gulf at [[Bushehr]].<ref name= "BM">{{cite web|url=http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=21186|title=Ephraim Gerrish Stannus|website=British Museum}}</ref> From this he was transferred to the [[Durham Light Infantry|2nd European regiment]]. On 13 March 1834 he was appointed lieutenant-governor of the [[Addiscombe Military Seminary|East India Company Military Seminary]] in [[Addiscombe]], and knighted in 1837.<ref name= "BM"/> He was promoted major-general on 28 June 1838.

Though just and kindly, he was no administrator, and was systematically irritated by the cadets into extraordinary explosions of wrath and violent language.<ref>cf. ‘Addiscombe’ in Blackwood's Mag. May 1893</ref> Nonetheless notwithstanding his quickness of temper and his use of strong language, Stannus was a favourite with the cadets. He remained in charge at Addiscombe until his death of a heart attack in 1850.<ref name= "BM"/>

He married Mary Louisa, widow of James Gordon but had no children.

==References==
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{{DNB|wstitle=Dictionary of National Biography volume 54.djvu/93}}

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[[Category:British East India Company Army officers]]
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