Michael Saward (British Army officer)

{{Short description|British Army general}}

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|branch=23px British Army

|serviceyears=c.1860 - 1903

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Major-General Michael Henry Saward (22 December 1840 – 1928) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.{{cite book |last1=Buckland |first1=Charles Edward |title=Dictionary of Indian Biography |year=1906 |publisher=S. Sonnenschein |page=376 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wvMRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA376 |language=en}}

Military career

Saward became a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in Bengal in 1862.{{London Gazette|issue=22621|page=2230|date=29 April 1862}} He remained in Bengal throughout his career and was ultimately appointed Assistant Adjutant General of the Royal Artillery in Bengal, a post he only relinquished in 1894.{{London Gazette|issue=26595|page=687|date=5 February 1895}} He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1899.[http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Guernsey.html World Statesmen]

He is buried at St John the Evangelist Church at Dormansland in Surrey.[http://www.gravestonephotos.com/public/gravedetails.php?available=yes&fullname=Michael%20Henry%20Saward&grave=124997&personid=266895 Gravestone Photos] He was also a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Artillery.{{London Gazette|issue=27783|page=2719|date=22 February 1905}}

Family

In 1877 he married Kath Maisey.[http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2003-10/1065062823 Roots.web]

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