The Caring General: The military life and letters of Major General Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles-Brise KCMG, CB, MVO 1864-1927

The Caring General is the first published biography of Sir Harold Goodeve Ruggles—Brise. Born to the distinguished family of Spains Hall, Essex, he was an outstanding soldier who saw active service in South Africa and on the Western Front in the Great War. Harold married into one of the most famous aristocratic families in Scotland by taking as his wife Lady Dorothea Stewart Murray, oldest daughter of the 7th Duke of Atholl. Drawing extensively on their previously unpublished letters and di...