Richard Airey, 1st Baron Airey
General Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Legion of Honour (France) | |
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Relations | Lieutenant General Sir George Airey (father) |
Background
Born at
Military career
Airey was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and entered the army as an ensign of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot in 1821.[1] He became captain in 1825, and served as aide-de-camp on the staff of Sir Frederick Adam in the Ionian Islands (1827–1830) and on that of Lord Aylmer in North America (1830–1832).[1] In 1838 Airey, then a lieutenant colonel, went to Horse Guards as assistant adjutant-general.[2] In 1847, he was appointed assistant quartermaster-general, an appointment he retained until 1851.[2][3] From 1852 to 1854 he was Military Secretary to the commander-in-chief, Lord Hardinge.[1][3]
In 1854 he was given a
In 1855 he returned to London to become
Family
In 1838, he married his cousin, Harriet Mary Everard Talbot (d. 28 July 1881), daughter of James Talbot, 3rd Baron Talbot of Malahide.
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Richard Airey at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ a b c d e f Cokayne 1910, p. 69.
- ^ a b Cokayne 1998, p. 13.
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Airey, Richard Airey". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 445. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "No. 24386". The London Gazette. 24 November 1876. p. 6301.
References
- Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. London: St. Catherine Press. p. 69.
- Cokayne, George E. (1998). Hammond, Peter W. (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. XIV, Addenda and Corrigenda. London: St. Catherine Press. p. 13.