Henry George Boldero
Henry George Boldero (1794–1873) was a
Tory Member of Parliament for Chippenham
.
The second son of the Rev. John Boldero (died 1796),
captain
in 1827. In 1830, he joined the 10th (North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot as a captain.
Boldero was first elected as one of the two Members of Parliament for
Clerk to the Ordnance. On 15 July 1842, he fought a duel with Craven Berkeley. He retired from the army with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1851.[1][2] He lived at Hurst Grove at Hurst in Berkshire
.
Henry married Mary Elizabeth Neeld at All Saints, Southampton on 30 April 1828. Boldero was the father of Lieutenant General
Henry Kearney Boldero.[3]
References
- ^ John Alexander Wilson Gunn, ed., Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1842-1847 (1989), p. 253
- ^ John Nichols, ed., The Gentleman's magazine, vol. 170 (1841), p. 421
- ^ Burke, Sir Bernard (1871). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison. p. 120.