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The late Lieutenant-Colonel John G. Champion, of the 95th 



Regiment. 



When, in the long list of valuable lives which have been 

 sacrificed in the Crimea, we occasionally meet with a name 

 which has been familiar to us in bygone days, as distinguished 

 for learning or science, the grief which we feel for the loss of 

 a brave soldier is sadly deepened by the thought that it is not 

 merely a noble and gallant spirit that is gone, but that stores 

 of learning, trains of reasoning and induction, still going on, 

 habits of skilled observation and industry, are all cut off with 

 the able faculties and cultivated mind to which they belonged. 

 This is the character of the loss we have sustained by the death 

 of Lieutenant-Colonel Champion ; and in recording it in 

 this Journal, these are the qualities which naturally most 

 force themselves upon our attention. Still, when every heart 

 in Britain is beating with pride at the achievements of our 

 gallant soldiers, and when, alas, there is scarcely a hearth 

 whose pride is not chastened by the loss of some dear friend 

 or relative, we cannot confine our notice of him to his scien- 

 tific labours, but must also give a brief record of his military 

 career, which affords another instance of the truth of the re- 

 mark often made, that the possession of elegant accomplish- 

 ments and scientific acquirements, instead of making a worse 

 soldier, is only the more sure indication of military ability. 



Lieutenant-Colonel Champion, eldest son of the late Ma- 

 jor J. C. Champion, 21st Royal N. B. Fusiliers, was born 

 at Edinburgh, in May 1815. He was descended from a 

 branch of the ancient family of Champion. In 1841 he mar- 

 ried Frances Mary Carnegie, eldest daughter of the late 

 Captain David Carnegie, of the 44th regiment. She survives 

 him, with an infant boy and a daughter. He gained his com- 

 mission at Sandhurst in 1831, and was appointed to the 95th 

 regiment, with which he served uninterruptedly in various 

 climes till his death on the 30th November last. His regi- 

 ment was at home when the war with Russia broke out, and 

 went with the advance to Gallipoli, thence to Varna and the 

 Crimea. Colonel Champion embarked as Senior Major, and 



