Henry Bouverie
{{Short description|British Army general}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|11 July 1783}}
| death_date = {{death-date and age|14 November 1852|11 July 1783}}
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| rank = Lieutenant-General
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| commands = Northern District
| battles = Peninsular War
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Lieutenant General Sir Henry Frederick Bouverie (11 July 1783 – 14 November 1852) was a British Army officer.
Military career
He was the son of Edward Bouverie, of Delapré Abbey, Hardingstone, in Northamptonshire, and his wife, Harriet Fawkener, the only daughter and sole heiress of Sir Everard Fawkener; and nephew of the 1st Earl of Radnor. Bouverie was educated at Eton College and commissioned a cornet in the 2nd Dragoon Guards in 1799, transferring to the Coldstream Guards as an ensign a few months later.{{cite ODNB |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101003017/ |title=Bouverie, Sir Henry Frederick (1783–1852) |access-date=16 February 2009 |author=Sweetman, John |date=September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/3017}} He spent the rest of his regimental career in the Coldstreams.
For his services during the Peninsular War, he received the Army Gold Cross, with one clasp, for the battles of Salamanca, Vitoria, San Sebastian, the Nive, and Orthez. He became General Officer Commanding Northern Command in 1828 and Governor of Malta in 1836.{{cite book |title=The Letters of Sarah Harriet Burney |last=Burney |first=Sarah Harriet |editor1-first=Lorna J. |editor1-last=Clark |year=1997 |publisher=University of Georgia Press |location=Athens, Georgia |isbn=0-8203-1746-2 |page=291 }}
A stained east window was erected to the General on 9 February 1869 at St Edmunds Church, Hardingstone, by the tenants and other inhabitants of the parish.{{cite web |url=http://forebears.co.uk/england/northamptonshire/hardingstone |title=Hardingstone |publisher=Forebears}}
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Category:People educated at Eton College
Category:Governors and governors-general of Malta
Category:British Army lieutenant generals
Category:Recipients of the Army Gold Cross
Category:People from Hardingstone
Category:Coldstream Guards officers
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:British Army personnel of the Peninsular War
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