Henry Bouverie

Sir Henry Bouverie
Sir Henry Bouverie
Born	11 July 1783
Died	14 November 1852 (aged 69)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant-General
Commands	Northern District
Battles / wars	Peninsular War
Awards	Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath; Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George

Lieutenant General Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie GCB GCMG (11 July 1783 – 14 November 1852) was a British Army officer.

Military career

He was the son of Edward Bouverie MP, of Delapré Abbey, Hardingstone in Northamptonshire, and his wife, Harriet Fawkener, the only daughter and sole heiress of Sir Everard Fawkener; and nephew of the 1st Earl of Radnor. Bouverie was educated at Eton College and commissioned a Cornet in the 2nd Dragoon Guards in 1799, transferring to the Coldstream Guards as an Ensign a few months later.^[1] He spent the rest of his regimental career in the Coldstreams.

For his services during the Peninsular War, he received the Army Gold Cross, with one clasp, for the battles of Salamanca, Vitoria, San Sebastian, the Nive, and Orthez. He became General Officer Commanding Northern Command in 1828 and Governor of Malta in 1836.^[2]

A stained east window was erected to the General on 9 February 1869 at St Edmunds Church, Hardingstone by the tenants and other inhabitants of the parish.^[3]

References

^ Sweetman, John (September 2004). "Bouverie, Sir Henry Frederick (1783–1852)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3017. Retrieved 16 February 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ Burney, Sarah Harriet (1997). Clark, Lorna J. (ed.). The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. p. 291. ISBN 0-8203-1746-2.
^ "Hardingstone". Forebears.

Military offices
Preceded by Sir John Byng	GOC Northern District 1828–1836	Succeeded by Sir Richard Jackson
Government offices
Preceded by Sir Frederick Ponsonby	Governor of Malta 1836–1843	Succeeded by Sir Patrick Stuart

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[odnb-1] Sweetman, John (September 2004). "Bouverie, Sir Henry Frederick (1783–1852)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3017. Retrieved 16 February 2009. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

[2] Burney, Sarah Harriet (1997). Clark, Lorna J. (ed.). The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press. p. 291. ISBN 0-8203-1746-2.

[3] "Hardingstone". Forebears.

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Governors (1813–1964)	Maitland Rawdon-Hastings Ponsonby Bouverie Stuart More O'Ferrall Reid Le Marchant Storks Grant Straubenzee Borton Simmons Torrens Smyth Lyon Fremantle Grenfell Clarke Grant Rundle Methuen Plumer Congreve Du Cane Campbell Bonham-Carter Dobbie Gort Schreiber Douglas Creasy Laycock Grantham Dorman
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