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Sir Henry Augustus Smyth | |
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Born | St James's Street, London | 25 November 1825
Died | 19 September 1906 Stone, Buckinghamshire | (aged 80)
Buried | |
Allegiance | British Army |
Service/ | United Kingdom |
Years of service | 1841–1893 |
Rank | General |
Unit | Royal Artillery |
Battles/wars | Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) |
Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George |
Other work | Justice of the Peace for Buckinghamshire, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society |
General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth (1825–1906), KCMG, FSA, FRGS, was a senior British Army officer. He was the son of Admiral William Henry Smyth and the brother of astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth and geologist Warington Wilkinson Smyth.
Military career
Educated at Bedford School, Smyth was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1843.[1] He served in the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol.[1] He became commandant of Woolwich garrison and military district in 1882 and General Officer Commanding the troops in South Africa in 1886.[1] In 1888 Smyth mustered an army of 2,000 troops and left for Zululand to put down a rebellion there.[2]
Smyth became acting Governor of Cape Colony as well as acting High Commissioner for Southern Africa in 1889.[1] He became Governor of Malta in 1890 before retiring in 1893.[1]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Vetch & Lunt 2008.
- ^ Freedman, Russell (1967). "Dinizulu". New York: Holiday House. Retrieved 18 March 2013.
References
- Vetch, R. H.; Lunt, James (reviewer) (January 2008) [2004]. "Smyth, Sir Henry Augustus (1825–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36174. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Vetch, R. H. (1912). "Smyth, Henry Augustus". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 352–353.
- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- 1825 births
- 1906 deaths
- Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
- Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
- Royal Artillery officers
- Governors and Governors-General of Malta
- People educated at Bedford School
- Graduates of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich
- British Army personnel of the Crimean War
- British Army generals