British General. In 1848 he was commissioned an Ensign in the 90th Light Infantry (Perthshire Volunteers). Promoted to Lieutenant in 1852 and Captain in 1854. He served during the Crimean War from 1854 to 1856 and was present at the siege and fall of Sevastopol. In the Crimean War, he was Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General from 1855 to 1856 and he also served in this capacity from 1857 to 1858 in China during the Second Opium War. From 1858 to 1859, he participated in quelling the Indian Mutiny. He was subsequently Deputy Assistant Adjutant General to the Chief of Staff in Bengal, India from September 7, 1858 to October 10, 1859. He was again sent to China, where he served as military secretary to the Earl of Elgin (the British Ambassador) from 1860 to 1861. He was promoted to Major in 1861, Lieutenant Colonel 1863, and Colonel in 1864. In 1870 he was promoted to Major General. Between 1874 to 1877, he served as Deputy Quartermaster General in Ireland. He played a major role in Anglo-Zulu War of 1879 when he was given command of the First Division in the invasion of Zululand. For his services to Great Britain and the Empire, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) and a Companion of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George (CMG). A talented artist (like his younger brother Major General John North Crealock), his sketches were published in the volumes "The Happy Hunting Grounds of Loch Luichart" and "Among The Red Deer: The Stalking Portfolios Of Henry Hope Crealock." He retired from the Army in 1884 with the rank of Lieutenant General. Upon his death, the "Local Government Gazette" (London, Middlesex, Thursday, June 4, 1891) reported that he "was widely known and greatly regarded in society; gentlemanlike, frank, and amiable in character, with a bearing alike towards ladies, towards his male friends, and towards his inferiors in age and station which was marked by the chivalrous and rather formal courtesy of a day gone by."