Henry George Grey
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Lieutenant-General Sir Henry George Grey GCB GCH (25 October 1766 – 11 January 1845) was a British Army officer who served as acting Governor of Cape Colony
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Military career
Born the son of
30th Regiment of Foot and then transferring to the 17th Dragoons on 7 March the following year. He left his position with his father at the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783. As a lieutenant the majority of Grey's service was in Ireland, where for a while he was aide de camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Rutland. Grey was then promoted to captain on 31 May 1787, joining the 18th Dragoons for the purpose.[1]
When the
staff career as an assistant quartermaster general in Britain. Grey was at some point soon after this given command of the 18th, and in September took the regiment to the West Indies as part of the expedition under Major-General Sir Ralph Abercromby.[1]
Grey spent his service in the West Indies in
Governor of Cape Colony in 1807 and 1811.[4] Having been promoted to substantive lieutenant-general on 4 June of the latter year, Grey returned to Britain in November, assuming command of a military district. He continued in that post until the end of the Napoleonic Wars, leaving it on 24 June 1814. On 30 December 1811 Grey was appointed colonel of the 13th Dragoons.[3]
Citations
- ^ a b Philippart (1820), p. 205.
- ^ Philippart (1820), pp. 205–206.
- ^ a b Philippart (1820), p. 206.
- ^ Marshall (2006), p. 422.
References
- Marshall, H. E. (2006). Our Empire Story. Yesterday's Classics. ISBN 978-1599150871.
- Philippart, John (1820). The Royal Military Calendar, or Army Service and Commission Book. Vol. 2. London: A. J. Valpy.
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