Sir George Colley
Soldier and Town Planner
Sir George Pomeroy Colley was born in Dublin (Ireland) in 1835 and
joined the 2nd Queen's Regiment in 1852. He came to the
Cape Colony two years later where, as Lieutenant,
he was
responsible for laying out the German villages of Panmure and
Cambridge near East London. He was eventually promoted to the
rank of General and was killed at the Battle of Majuba in February
1881. Colley Avenue in the suburb of Cambridge was named after him.
Dr Keith Tankard
