Английская Википедия:Henry Roxby Benson
Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Infobox military person Henry Roxby Benson Шаблон:Post-nominals (2 November 1818 – 23 January 1892) was a 19th-century British General.
Life
Benson was born Camberwell into a distinguished Welsh family, the second son of merchant Thomas Starling Benson and his second wife, Elizabeth Meux, daughter of Richard Meux. Richard Meux Benson was his younger brother.[1][2] He attended St. John's College, Cambridge.[3]
He was gazetted into the 17th Lancers[4] as a cornet on 31 January 1840[5] and rose steadily: lieutenant, 15 April 1842;[6] captain, 27 June 1845[7] and major on 23 October 1854.[8] He commanded the 17th Lancers in the Crimea from 14 January 1855, including at the Battle of the Tchernaya and the siege and fall of Sebastopol, and commanded the squadron of the Light Brigade in the night attack on the Russian outposts on 19 February 1855. For his service in the Crimea he received the medal with clasp, the fifth class of the Order of the Medjidie, and the Turkish medal.[9] On 30 September 1856 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 17th.[10] Subsequent service in India (where he commanded the 2nd Cavalry at Malwa[11]) lead to further promotions, notably Colonel of the 7th Hussars.[12] Appointed CB in 1861[13] he continued to rise until his final promotion to the rank of General twenty years later.
Family
Benson married in 1845 Mary Henrietta Wightman, second daughter of William Wightman the judge.[14] Their son Henry Wightman Benson was also a distinguished officer.[15] He was the third son, and like the second son William Denman, who was called to the bar, and the fifth son Florance John, studied at the University of Oxford.[16][17][18]
Mary Henrietta's sister, Frances Lucy Wightman, married Matthew Arnold. The Arnold's daughter Eleanore Mary Caroline was married in 1889 to Armine Wodehouse, after her father's death, from a house taken by Benson in London.[19][20]
Notes
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- ↑ London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1917
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Acad
- ↑ "The 17th/21st Lancers" Ffrench Blake, R. L. V.: London, Hamish Hamilton, 1968 Шаблон:ISBN
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ Hart's Army List (1891) p. 159, n. 2.
- ↑ Шаблон:London Gazette
- ↑ The Times, Saturday, 30 January 1892; pg. 7; Issue 33548; col B Obituary
- ↑ Hussars Colonels
- ↑ Bulletins and Other State Intelligence 1861
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Details of son's careerШаблон:Dead link
- ↑ Шаблон:Alox2
- ↑ Шаблон:Alox2
- ↑ Шаблон:Alox2
- ↑ Patrick McCarthy, Mrs. Matthew Arnold, Texas Studies in Literature and Language Vol. 12, No. 4 (Winter 1971), pp. 647–662, at pp. 652–653. Published by: University of Texas Press Шаблон:JSTOR
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
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