James Sayer (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-General Sir James Robert Steadman Sayer KCB (13 January 1826 – 12 June 1908) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Western District.

Sir James Sayer
Birth name	James Robert Steadman Sayer
Born	13 January 1826 Sibton Park, Suffolk, England
Died	12 June 1908(1908-06-12) (aged 82)[1] Marylebone, London, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands	Western District
Battles / wars	Crimean War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Sayer was born at Sibton Park, the eldest son of Robert Sayer and Frances Errington.^[2][3]

Military career

Sayer was commissioned as a cornet in the King's Dragoon Guards on 23 May 1845.^[4] He served as a junior officer in the Crimean War and subsequently served in the British Indian Army.^[4] He became General Officer Commanding Western District in England in April 1883.^[5]

He was appointed Colonel of the 8th Hussars for a brief time in 1886. He was then Colonel of the 1st King's Dragoon Guards from 1886 to 1908^[6] and, in that capacity, he was advanced to Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1906 Birthday Honours.^[7]