Edward Frederick (Indian Army officer)
General Edward Frederick CB (23 June 1784 – 5 December 1866) was a British Indian Army officer who was Commissary General of the Bombay Army.
Life
[edit]Frederick was the eldest son of Colonel Charles Frederick, nephew of Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet MP. Edward's son Charles by his second wife, Mary,[1] inherited the baronetcy as 7th baronet.[2] His grandson, Sir Edward Frederick, 9th Baronet, was an Army officer and first-class cricketer.
Frederick followed his father into the British East India Company.[3] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1838 Coronation Honours.[4] He was promoted to General in 1860.[5]
He died in Winchester, Hampshire, England in 1866.
Family
[edit]Frederick married, firstly, Selina Grote, daughter of George Grote the elder and sister of George Grote. After her death, without issue, he married in 1841 Mary St John.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ Walford, Edward (1893). The Windsor Peerage for 1890-1894. p. 235. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ Dod, Charles Roger; Dod, Robert Phipps (1904). Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. p. 396. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay. Asiatic Society of Bombay. 1819. p. 13.
- ^ "No. 19638". The London Gazette. 20 July 1838. p. 1660.
- ^ "No. 22421". The London Gazette. 11 September 1860. p. 3334.
- ^ A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I. Henry Colburn. 1869. p. 467.
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