Reginald Thynne

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Sir Reginald Thomas Thynne KCB ( December 23, 1843 - December 30, 1926 ) was a British general.

Reginald Thynne came from a sideline of the British aristocratic family Thynne . He was a son of Lord John Thynne and his wife Anne Beresford, making him a grandson of the 2nd Marquess of Bath . He attended Radley College in Oxfordshire before joining the British Army in 1862 as an officer candidate . As an officer he served in the Grenadier Guards , took part in the Zulu War in 1879 and in the occupation of Egypt in 1882 , for which he was awarded the fourth class of the Egyptian Ottoman army . In 1885 he fought during the Mahdi uprising in Sudan, where he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded as Companion of the Order of the Bath . Promoted to major general in 1893, he was commanding general of the north-eastern military district of Great Britain from 1894. In 1902 he was raised to the personal nobility as Knight Commander of the Order the Bath and retired.

On May 6, 1890, he had married Louise, the widow of Major William Ewing and daughter of Douglas Du Bois . With her he had two daughters:

  • Katharine Angela Thynne
  • Beatrix Elaine Thynne (1895-1969)

literature

  • THYNNE, Maj. Gen. Sir Reginald Thomas . In Who Was Who. London: A&C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920-2016. Who Was Who online edition. Oxford: OUP, 2014. Online ed., Apr 2014. on 6 Sept. 2017 .

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SURNAME Thynne, Reginald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thynne, Sir Reginald; Thynne, Sir Reginald Thomas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British general
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1843
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1926