George Walter Prosser (b. 1796): Major in the infantry from 1826, and author of Past and Present State of Fortifications in Europe (1839). He became Superintendent of Studies at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, in 1842 and was Lieutenant-Governor of that organisation 1854–1857, before joining the 3rd Regiment of Foot. Southey met him when he stayed at Keswick in 1827 and wrote to him that year, thanking him for material for his proposed memoir of James Wolfe (1727–1759; DNB) and exchanging family news.