Charles L. Highmoor

Born in London in March 1840, Highmoor was a student in the Military Department at King’s in 1855-56. His father, Robert Langley Highmoor, was a Major in the 15th Madras Cavalry. After leaving King’s, Charles Highmoor served in the Madras Staff Corps and, by 1874, had become Lieutenant Colonel of the East India Company Army. He married Minnie Jane Enderby in June 1874. Highmoor died in 1877, aged 37, from ‘Bright’s Kidney Disease’ (now known as nephritis).