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Phineas Riall
General Sir Phineas Riall, KCH (15 December 1775 – 10 November 1850) was the British general who succeeded John Vincent as commanding officer of the Niagara Peninsula in Upper Canada during the War of 1812. In 1816, he was appointed Governor of Grenada.
Military career.
Riall was born at Clonmel, Ireland, into a wealthy Protestant landowning family. He was the third son of Phineas Riall (1737–1797) of Heywood, Co. Tipperary, whose father had founded the Riall Bank of Clonmel. His
Riall
Riall is a given name and a surname. People with that name include:
- Lucy Riall (active from 2004), British historian
- Phineas Riall (1775-1850), British general
- Tom Riall (active from 2004), British businessman
- Matthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey (1853-1926), Irish-born engineer and captain in the Royal Engineers
- Riall Johnson (born 1978), gridiron football player
See also.
- Ryall (disambiguation)