Henry Augustus Smyth
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.
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.
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- 1825 births
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- Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
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- 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
- English male writers