Frederick Love
{{Short description|British Army general}}
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| name =Sir Frederick Love
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| caption =General Sir Frederick Love
| birth_date =1789
| death_date =13 January 1866
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| allegiance =United Kingdom
| branch =British Army
| serviceyears =1804–1857
| rank =General
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- Napoleonic Wars
- Finnish War
- Peninsular War
- Battle of Corunna
- Battle of the Coa
- Battle of Busaco
- Battle of Pombal
- Battle of Redinha
- Battle of Casal Novo
- Battle of Foz de Arouce
- Battle of Sabugal
- Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro
- Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo
- Siege of Antwerp
- War of 1812
- Battle of New Orleans{{WIA}}
- Hundred Days
- Battle of Waterloo{{WIA}}
- Rebellions of 1837–1838
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| awards =Military General Service Medal
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General Sir James Frederick Love {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|KH}} (1789 – 13 January 1866) was a British Army officer who served as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
Military career
Love was commissioned into the 52nd Regiment of Foot in 1804 and took part in the retreat to Corunna and the Battle of Bussaco during the Peninsular War.[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17040 James Frederick Love at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] He was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and saved Bristol during the riots of 1831. He was appointed British resident at Zakynthos in 1835, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1852 and General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in 1856 before becoming Inspector-General of Infantry in 1857.
He was Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot from 1856 to 1865{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057-757.htm |title=57th (the West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |accessdate=17 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201151140/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057-757.htm |archivedate=1 December 2006 }} and Colonel of 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot from 1865 to his death.{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043-751.htm |title=43rd (the Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) |publisher=regiments.org |accessdate=8 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229235105/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043-751.htm |archivedate=29 December 2006 }}
He was promoted general on 10 August 1864.{{London Gazette|issue=22887|page=4126|date=23 August 1864}}
Family
In 1825, he married Mary Heaviside; they had no children.{{Cite web |url=http://www.famouscanadianwomen.com/famous%20firsts/artists.htm |title=Famous Canadian Women |access-date=23 May 2011 |archive-date=10 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710224115/http://www.famouscanadianwomen.com/famous%20firsts/artists.htm |url-status=dead }}
References
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{{s-bef|before=Sir James Reynett}}
{{s-ttl|title=Lieutenant Governor of Jersey|years=1852–1856}}
{{s-aft|after=Godfrey Mundy}}
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{{s-bef|before=Sir Colin Campbell}}
{{s-ttl|title=GOC South-Eastern District|years=1856–1857}}
{{s-aft|after=Robert Mansel}}
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{{s-bef|before=Sir James Fergusson}}
{{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot|years=1865–1866}}
{{s-aft|after=Sir Robert Garrett}}
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{{s-bef|before=Lord Hardinge}}
{{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot|years=1856–1865}}
{{s-aft|after=Charles Richard Fox}}
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Category:British Army generals
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Category:52nd Regiment of Foot officers