Robert Garrett (British Army officer)
Lieutenant General Sir Robert Garrett KCB KH (1794 – 13 June 1869) was Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong.
Sir Robert Garrett | |
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 Major General Sir Robert Garrett on his horse | |
| Born | 1794 Ramsgate, Kent, England[1] |
| Died | 13 June 1869 Pall Mall, London |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  British Army |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held | 46th Regiment of Foot Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong South East District |
| Battles/wars | Peninsular War Crimean War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order |
Military career
Garrett was born in Ramsgate, Kent, the son of John Garrett of Ellington House, Isle of Thanet, and Elizabeth Gore.[2] Educated at Harrow School, Garrett was commissioned into the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot in 1811.[3][4] He served in the Peninsular War and was present at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in 1811.[4]
In 1846 he was appointed Commanding Officer of the 46th Regiment of Foot[5] and in 1854 was despatched to the Crimean War where he commanded a Brigade of the 4th Division at the Siege of Sevastopol.[4]
In 1858, he was appointed Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong before going on to India where he was General Officer Commanding a Division in Bengal and then in Madras.[4] He returned to England in July 1865 to take command of South-Eastern District.[6]
In retirement he lived in Pall Mall in London.[4]
He was also Colonel of the 43rd Regiment of Foot.[2]
Family
In 1814, he married Charlotte Georgina Sophia Cavendish-Bentinck (1789–1819), daughter of Lord Edward Bentinck and granddaughter of the 2nd Duke of Portland.[7] After her death, in 1821, he married widow Louisa Davaynes, with whom he had a son and a daughter.[4][2]
References
- 1851 England Census
- "Sir Robert Garrett, K.C.B., K.H.". Kentish Gazette. 29 June 1869. p. 6. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- Dauglish, Milverton Godfrey; Stephenson, Pleydell Keppel (1911). The Harrow School register, 1800-1911. 1st ed., 1894, comp. and ed. by R. Courtenay Welch ... 2d ed., 1901. London, Longmans, Green, and co. p. 34. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
- Robert Garrett at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry
- "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 2 July 2016.
- Lodge, Edmund (1846). The Peerage of the British Empire. p. 425. Retrieved 13 May 2019.
Sir Robert Garrett.