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On Burgoyne's return from the Crimea to the war office in 1855 as inspector-general of fortifications, Wrottesley was appointed his A.D.C., and he stayed with the field marshal, acting as his secretary on commissions and confidential adviser till Burgoyne's retirement in 1868. Wrottesley accompanied
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Wrottesley was secretary of the defense committee of the war office, 1856–60; of the committee on the influence of rifled artillery on works of defense, 1859; and of the committee on the storage of powder in magazines, 1865. In 1863, then a major, he presided over the committee on army signaling
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Wrottesley married (1) on 7 January 1854 Margaret Anne, daughter of Sir John Fox Burgoyne; she died on 3 May 1883; and (2) on 21 February 1889 Nina Margaret, daughter of John William Philips of
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the William Salt Society, of which he was secretary from 1879 till his death. His genealogical work is embodied in the 34 volumes of the
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in 1845. He was ordered almost immediately to Ireland for famine relief works, and in 1847 to
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Military Service of Knights in the 13th and 14th centuries, Crecy and Calais
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Wrottesley died on 4 March 1909, and was buried in the Wrottesley vault in
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Born at 5 Powys Place, London, on 15 June 1827, he was third son of
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Life and Correspondence of Field Marshal Sir J. F. Burgoyne
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of the society. His major contributions were those on the
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