LILLEY

John (3 son of a carrier between Spills by and Boston). b. Lincoln shire 1823; enlisted in 6 regt. Inn is killing dragoons 25 Jany. 1844, corporal 1848, sergeant 1852, troop sergeant major 1853, regimental sergeant major 1855; served at Scutari 1855; went to India 1857; summoned as a witne at the court martial on Capt. Thomas W. Smales, ordered by lieut.-col. Thomas Robert Crawley at Mhow, Bombay 1862; accused of speaking disparagingly of col. Crawley, a charge which he entirely denied, put under close confinement at Mhow 26 April 1862, where he d. 25 May 1862; Crawley was court martialed and “honorably acquitted,” but the full facts of the case were never brought out. Samuel Lilley’s Military despotism or the In is killing dragoon (1863); Military despotism. Addenda to the case (1863).