| Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey: Information from Answers.com (485 words) |
 | Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey GCB (1803–1881) was a British general, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir George Airey (1761–1833). |
| In 1854 he was given a brigade command in the army sent out to the East; from which, however, he was immediately transferred to the onerous and difficult post of quartermaster-general to Lord Raglan, in which capacity he served through the campaign in the Crimean War. |
| Airey was a quartermaster-general in the older sense of the word, i.e., a chief of the general staff, but a different view of the duties of the office was then becoming recognized. |
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