3-065-944 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

General Shute, M.P. for Brighton, 1874. Engraving from a photograph by Messrs. Lock and Whitfield. 'The second member for Brighton is Major-General Charles Cameron Shute, C.B. He is eldest son of the late Mr. Thomas Deane Shute, of Bramshaw-hill, Hampshire, by Charlotte, daughter of the late General Neville Cameron, of the East India Company's service, and was born about the year 1817. He was educated at Winchester College. He entered the Army in 1834 as Cornet in the 13th Hussars, with which regiment he served with distinction in India; he also served with the 6th (Inniskilling) Dragoons in the Crimean campaign, where he was Assistant Adjutant-General of the Cavalry Division. He became a Colonel in 1853, and was in command of the Inniskillings, and subsequently of the 4th Light Dragoons, previous to attaining field rank in 1871. He is also a Knight of the Legion of Honour, and bears the Turkish medal and the Order of the Medjidie. General Shute, who is a magistrate for Sussex and honorary Colonel of the Sussex Rifle Volunteers, now enters Parliament for the first time. He married in 1858, Rhoda, daughter of the Rev. H. T. Dowler'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.