The latter streets are named after English places ( Croydon, Guildford & Surrey ) and Sir Garnet Road, named in honour of a famous British Army General ( Garnet Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley, who served a distinguished career and became a hero in the British army in the late 1800s & early 1900 ).

It was created in 1885 for the distinguished military commander Garnet Wolseley, 1st Baron Wolseley, with remainder, in default of male issue, to his daughter and only child Frances, and the heirs male of her body.

Roblin himself was elected for the new single-member constituency of Wolseley, located in the centre of Winnipeg.

Wolseley himself, according to his biographer, took no offence at the caricature and sometimes sang " I am the very model of a modern Major-General " for the private amusement of his family and friends.

A reorganization during 1926 led to the retention of the rolling stock group: Metropolitan Carriage wagon and Finance Company and The Metropolitan-Vickers Company and the disposal of: Vickers-Petters Limited, British Lighting and Ignition Company, the Plywood department at Crayford Creek, Canadian Vickers, William Beardmore and Co, and Wolseley Motors

Garnet Wolseley immediately established a Post Office at his camp at Kykko Metochi monastery outside Nicosia.

Garnet Wolseley lived at ‘ Monastery Camp ' until a prefabricated residence had been built for him near Strovolos on the site of today's Presidential Palace.

The Prince, who had begged to be allowed to go to war ( taking the sword carried by the first Napoleon at Austerlitz with him ) and who had worried his commanders by his dash and daring, was described by Wolseley as " a plucky young man, and he died a soldier's death.

Certainly, Sir Garnet Wolseley, taking over as Commander-in-Chief from Lord Chelmsford later that year, was unimpressed with the awards made to the defenders of Rorke ’ s Drift, saying " it is monstrous making heroes of those who shut up in buildings at Rorke ’ s Drift, could not bolt, and fought like rats for their lives which they could not otherwise save ".

:" Mr. Smith, a surveyor in the Colonial Engineer Department, was on duty inspecting the road down to the Tugela, near Fort Buckingham, which had been made a few years ago by order of Sir Garnet Wolseley, and accompanied by Mr. Deighton, a trader, resident at Fort Buckingham, went down to the ford across the Tugela.

He helped organize the local militia battalion, later becoming commander, and served at La Prairie, Canada East in 1865 with Colonel Garnet Joseph Wolseley and at Sarnia during the Fenian raids.

By 1913 Henry Ford had built a new factory in Manchester and was the leading UK producer, building 7310 cars that year, followed by Wolseley at 3000, Humber ( making cars since 1898 in Coventry ) at 2500, Rover ( Coventry car maker since 1904 ) at 1800 and Sunbeam ( producing cars since 1901 ) at 1700, with the plethora of smaller producers bringing the 1913 total up to about 16, 000 vehicles.

Another army, led by Sir Garnet Wolseley, landed in the Canal Zone and on September 13, 1882 they defeated Orabi's army at the Battle of Tel el-Kebir.

Wolseley were at this stage in fairly advanced development of an overhead camshaft 8 hp car, which Morris launched as the first Morris Minor in 1928 ( this was also the basis of the original MG Midget, launched in 1929 ).

The Perley Residence, located at 206 Front Street, is a two-storey brick house which was the home of several prominent Wolseley residents, including the very first miller in town, as well as A.

Britain therefore, acting alone, landed troops at Ismailia under Sir Garnet Wolseley, and suppressed the revolt by the battle of Tel-el-Kebir on September 13, 1882.

* Highway 528A, which provides access to the south side of the water body at Wolseley Bay,

Garnet Wolseley, who would replace Chelmsford, felt otherwise at the time and stated, " I don't like the idea of officers escaping on horseback when their men on foot are being killed.

* The Wolseley, a restaurant at 160 Piccadilly, London, in the former London showroom of Wolseley Motors Limited

Promoted to lieutenant on 16 May 1853 and invalided home, Wolseley transferred to the 84th Regiment of Foot on 27 January 1854 and then to the 90th Light Infantry, at that time stationed in Dublin, on 24 February 1854.

Wolseley served throughout the siege, where he was wounded at " the Quarries " on 7 June 1855, and again in the trenches on 30 August 1855, losing an eye.

On 1 September 1884, Wolseley was again called away from his duties as adjutant-general, to command the Nile Expedition for the relief of General Gordon and the besieged garrison at Khartoum.

He then joined the expedition for the relief of Khartoum, and in that December, when news from Gordon decided Lord Wolseley to send a column across the desert of Metemma, Stewart was entrusted with the command.

All Airspeed aeroplanes under manufacture or development in 1936 were to use a Wolseley radial aero engine of about which was under development by Nuffield, the Wolseley Scorpio.

As a means of exercising Canadian authority in the settlement and dissuading the Minnesota expansionists, a Canadian military expedition under Colonel Garnet Wolseley was dispatched to the Red River.

BMC was the largest British car company of its day, with ( in 1952 ) 39 percent of British output, producing a wide range of cars under brand names including Austin, Morris, MG, Austin-Healey and Wolseley as well as commercial vehicles and agricultural tractors.

The weapon was adopted by the British Army under the guidance of Sir Garnet Wolseley, who had been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British Army in 1888.

Under increasing pressure from the public to support him, the British Government under Prime Minister Gladstone eventually ordered Lord Garnet Joseph Wolseley to relieve Gordon.

Wolseley Hornet was the name of two different British vehicles produced under the Wolseley Motors Limited nameplate.

In 1882, the division formed part of the Expeditionary Force under Lieutenant General Sir Garnet Wolseley which was sent to Egypt after a rebellion ( the Urabi Revolt ) threatened British control of the Suez Canal.

In response an expeditionary force under Sir Garnet Wolseley was despatched to quell it.

On 1 April 1882, Wolseley was appointed Adjutant-General to the Forces, and, in August of that year, given command of the British forces in Egypt under Muhammad Ali and his successors to suppress the Urabi Revolt.

A 25, 000 strong British force, under the command of Sir Garnet Wolseley, landed in Egypt in August, and on the 13 September, the decisive engagement of the campaign occurred, the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, which ended in victory for the British, and culminated with the taking of Cairo and the capture of Urabi Pasha.

When the war was over, Vickers, the owners of Electric & Ordnance Accessories Company Ltd, put the factory under the ownership of another subsidiary Wolseley Motors on September 30, 1919.

In 1905, still under an unexpired 5-year contract, Austin resigned from the Wolseley Tool & Motor Company, taking some of the senior staff with him.

In 1873-1874 he was the intelligence officer under Lord Wolseley during the Ashanti campaign, during which he was slightly wounded at the Battle of Ordabai.

In 1882 a detachment of two officers and 102 men volunteered for service in Egypt, where they performed postal and telegraph duties under the command of General Garnet Wolseley.

The Dawson road was traversed in 1870 by the Wolseley Expedition under the command of Colonel Garnet Wolseley sent to preserve order during the first Riel uprising, the Red River Rebellion.

A man of modest means for much of his life, Wood took his profession very seriously – like many who had served under Wolseley in the Ashanti War he was a member of the reforming “ Wolseley ring ”, although the two men were never on particularly good terms.

Although the city was not entitled to any seats in the Commons, those gathered decided to elect Sir Charles Wolseley Birmingham's " legislatorial representative.

Later attempts to negotiate a settlement with the British were rejected by the commander of their forces, Major General Sir Garnet Wolseley.

On his return to Cape Town, Frere found that his achievement had been eclipsed — first by 1 June 1879 death of Napoleon Eugene, Prince Imperial in Zululand, and then by the news that the government of the Transvaal and Natal, together with the high commissionership in the eastern part of South Africa, had been transferred from him to Sir Garnet Wolseley.

He was attached to the staff of British General Sir Garnet Wolseley during the 1882 Egyptian campaign.

Sir Garnet Wolseley then turned to the Pedi in the Transvaal, and they were finally defeated by British troops in 1879.

* Sir Garnet Wolseley, who captured Cairo after the Battle of Tel el-Kebir, was created Baron Wolseley, of Cairo and of Wolseley in the County of Stafford, in 1882.

The character of Major-General Stanley was widely taken to be a caricature of the popular general Sir Garnet Wolseley.

Sir Garnet Wolseley was sent to take command and relieve Chelmsford, as well as Bartle Frere.

Wolseley continued to serve on Sir Hope Grant's staff in Oudh, and when Grant was nominated to the command of the British troops in the Anglo-French expedition to China of 1860, accompanied him as the deputy-assistant quartermaster-general.

Wolseley was deeply opposed to Sir Edward Watkin's attempt to build a Channel Tunnel.

* Kochanski, Halik, Sir Garnet Wolseley: Victorian Hero, London, Hambledon Press, 1999.

Because an invasion of Natal seemed likely as a result, Chelmsford was relieved of his command, to be replaced by Sir Garnet Wolseley.