Charles Windham
Sir Charles Ash Windham
|
|
---|---|
File:Sir Charles Ash WindhamCrimean War.png
General Sir Charles Ash Windham
|
|
Born | 10 October 1810 Felbrigg, Norfolk |
Died | Jacksonville, Florida |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ |
British Army |
Rank | General |
Battles/wars | Crimean War |
General Sir Charles Ash Windham (10 October 1810 – 2 February 1870) was a British Army officer and Conservative Party politician.
Military career
Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Windham was commissioned as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 30 December 1826.[1] He led the attack during the Battle of the Great Redan during the Crimean War: the correspondent of the Times claimed that in so doing he had "saved the honour of the army."[1] He also fought in the Second Battle of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion.[1]
Windham became Member of Parliament for East Norfolk and held the seat from 1857 to 1859.[2] Promoted to lieutenant-general on 5 February 1866, he became Commander of the British Troops in Canada in October 1867.[1] Windham died in Florida, was interred temporarily in Montreal and finally buried in Hanwell cemetery, Middlesex, England.[1][3]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)[self-published source][better source needed]
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Further reading
- Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- Charles Ashe Windham: A Norfolk Soldier (1810-1870) by H.O. Mansfield. 1973
- The Crimean diary and letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, K.C.B.: with observations upon his services during the Indian mutiny, and an introduction by Sir William Howard Russell ; the whole edited by Hugh Pease (1897)
External links
- Lua error in Module:Internet_Archive at line 573: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by General Charles Windham
Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
---|---|---|
Preceded by | Member of Parliament for East Norfolk 1857–1859 With: Sir Edward Buxton, Bt 1857–58 Hon. Wenman Coke |
Succeeded by Wenman Coke Edward Howes |
Military offices | ||
Preceded by | Commander of the British Troops in Canada 1867–1870 |
Succeeded by Sir Charles Doyle |
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Accuracy disputes from June 2014
- Articles lacking reliable references from June 2014
- Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template with two unnamed parameters
- Use dmy dates from April 2012
- Pages with broken file links
- Articles incorporating Cite DNB template
- Articles with Internet Archive links
- 1810 births
- 1870 deaths
- British military personnel of the Crimean War
- People from Norfolk
- Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
- UK MPs 1857–59
- Conservative Party (UK) MPs
- Conservative MP (UK), 1810s birth stubs
- British Army personnel stubs
- UK MP for England stubs