Thomas Leigh Goldie
Record type: War Memorials
Parish: Malew
Town / Village residence: Church Bends
Biography: The following was published in the Manx Sun, 25 Nov 1854, p. 20:
"The fall of this gallant and distinguished officer on the sanguinary battle-field of Inkerman, has thrown a feeling of gloom over our entire Island. The father and grandfather of the deceased brave officer had both risen in succession, and after a long career of service, to the highest rank, save one, in the military service of Great Britain; all his brothers, and several uncles, also, held, or now hold, advanced rank in the army or navy of England. Brigadier-General Goldie was the second son of the late General Alexander John Goldie, who after a long service under the Duke of Wellington, retired to this Island wherein he had married the daughter of the late Major Taubman of the Nunnery near Douglas. Major Taubman, General Goldie and Col. Goldie Taubman were successively elected, and held during their respective lives, the office of Speaker in the House of Keys. Brigadier-General Goldie served in Canada during the stormy period of the insurrectionary movement in that colony, as Lieutenant Colonel of H.M.'s 66th Regiment, and subsequently, in Ireland, in command of the same distinguished corps. On landing in the Crimea, Colonel Goldie was, by General, now Field Marshal, Lord Raglan, Commander in chief of the British army, raised to the rank of Brigadier General, and attached to the Fourth Division under the command of Lieutenant-General Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B. On the fatal 5th of November, at the bloody battle of Inkermann, the brave Brigadier-General Goldie, and his world-renowned commander of the unconquerable Fourth Division, Lieutenant General Cathcart, fell in the arms of victory. Brigadier-General Goldie had been upwards of thirty years in constant service, having entered the army when only seventeen, and died at the comparatively early age of forty seven, as a gallant soldier ought to do, in the arms of victory, and with his face to the foe."
Gender: Male
External sources: The Nunnery, Braddan
Memorial: Memorial to Brigadier General Thomas Leigh Goldie, St Lupus Church, Malew (1854)