Ralph Ouseley (1772– 3 May 1842) was a major in the British Army who went on to be a major-general in the Portuguese Army and a knight of the Portuguese Empire. Family The sixth surviving son of John Ouseley of Derrymore, County Kerry, he was grand-nephew of antiquarian Ralph Ouseley. His first marriage was to a Miss Roundtree, with whom he had two sons Thomas John and Gore Whitelock, and a daughter Rebecca Sophia. His second marriage was to Sophia Francesca, the daughter of Alfonso Miguel, with whom he had a further son Gideon Jasper Richard (who was a some-time Protestant and then Roman Catholic clergyman, and vegetarian activist, and who is believed by Richard Alan Young, professor of the New Testament at Temple Baptist Seminary, and others to be the real author of The Gospel of the Holy Twelve). He died in Lisbon in 1842, and there was a memorial erected to him in Mount Jerome. Military career He joined the British Army on 1794-11-25, as a Lieutenant in the Leicester Fencibles. On 1798-08-27 he was at the Battle of Castlebar, commanding a detachment of his regiment under the French adjutant-general Jean Sarrazin, and at the Battle of Ballinamuck for the French surrender to Lord Lake in September 1798. In 1803, he commanded a company of grenadiers, of the 38th Regiment, during Robert Emmet's insurrection in Dublin, having been appointed to that regiment in March 1801. Afterwards he commanded a detachment of troops defending the powder-mills near Rathcool. Although he wished to go to India, and (still as a Lieutenant) transferred to the 76th Regiment with that in mind in February 1804, in the following March he was instead sent to the African corps, transferred to the 82nd Regiment in the following August, and then transferred again to the Army depot staff in March 1807. By September 1809 he was a Major, and transferred to the 63rd Regiment in order to be a part of the army in Portugal, which he did become in November 1809. He continued with the same rank of Major in the Portuguese regiments, joining the 18th Regiment, in which he served during the Peninsular War. He was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel after the fall of Badajoz in April 1812, and was awarded a medal (for distinguished service against a superior force) after action at Pamplona on 1813-07-30. Having then transferred to the 8th Regiment in