CHUTE, SIR TREVOR (1817-86) was born in County Kerry, Ireland, entered the army in 1832, and served for a few years in the Ceylon Rifles. He then joined the 70th Regiment, with which he served till attaining the rank of major-general. He saw service in Ireland and, being at Peshawar when the Mutiny broke out, he succeeded in rescuing the British officers and disbanding the mutinous sepoys. As brigadier at Lucknow he formed several flying columns to pacify the country.

In 1864 Chute came to New Zealand with the regiment. Returning to Australia on being promoted brigadier, he came back to New Zealand in 1865 to succeed General Cameron as major-general commanding. He carried out a swift and successful campaign on the West Coast, reducing seven fortified pas and many open villages and making a march from Ketemarae to New Plymouth east of Mount Egmont and back by the westward route (Jan 1866). He thus effectively demonstrated that the troops could follow the natives into their forest fastnesses. (K.C.B.) Chute was afterwards colonel of the Cheshire regiment (22nd foot). He married (1868) Ellen, daughter of Samuel Browning (q.v.), of Auckland, and died on 12 Mar 1886.

Gorton; Morton; Gudgeon; Grace; Cowan; Illus. London News, 1 May 1886 (p); Wellington Independent, 13 Mar 1866; The Times (London), 20 Mar 1886.

Reference: Volume 1, page 95

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