Service/branch British Army Died 7 December 1906 Unit Royal Engineers Allegiance United Kingdom | Years of service 1854 - 1882 Award Order of the Bath Rank Major-general | |
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath Other work Chief Engineer, Local Government Board | ||
Major-General Constantine Phipps Carey, CB, RE (1835 - 7 December 1906), was a British Army officer and later Chief Engineer to the Local Government Board.
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Biography
Carey was born in 1835, the son of James Carey, of Guernsey. He was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in August 1854, promoted to lieutenant on 14 November 1854, to captain on 17 May 1860, and to major on 5 July 1872. Senior command followed when he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 5 December 1877, to colonel on 5 December 1881, and finally to major-general on 5 December 1882, on his retirement from the Royal Engineers.
In 1885 he was appointed Engineering Inspector of the Local Government Board, a post he held for 12 years, until he became Chief Engineer to the board in 1897, serving as such until June 1901. He also served as a member of the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal until his death.
Following his retirement from the Local Government Board, he was appointed a Companion (civil) of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the November 1901 Birthday Honours list, and invested by King Edward VII on 17 December 1901.
Family
Carey married, in 1874, Isabela Margarita Shirley, daughter of Henry Shirley, Grenadier Guards, of Peppingford, Sussex. Among their children were: