Robert Henry MacFarlane
{{Short description|British Army officer (1771-1843)}}
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General Sir Robert Henry MacFarlane, KCB, GCH (19 April 1771 – 6 June 1843){{cite book |last1=Haydn |first1=Joseph Timothy |last2=Beatson |first2=Robert |title=Beatson's Political index modernised |date=1851 |page=[https://archive.org/details/beatsonspolitic00beatgoog/page/n244 323] |url=https://archive.org/details/beatsonspolitic00beatgoog |quote=Sir Robert Henry MacFarlane 1843. |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Nicolas |first1=Sir Nicholas Harris |title=History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire |date=1842 |publisher=J. Hunter |page=[https://archive.org/details/historyoforderso03nico/page/n32 10] |url=https://archive.org/details/historyoforderso03nico |quote=Sir Robert Henry MacFarlane 6 June 1843. |accessdate=19 May 2019 |language=en}} was a British Army officer during the Napoleonic Wars.[https://www.clanmacfarlanegenealogy.info/genealogy/TNGWebsite/getperson.php?personID=I10324&tree=CC Clan MacFarlane Genealogy: Gen. Sir Robert Henry MacFarlane]
Biography
He was born in Calcutta, the son of Captain Robert MacFarlane, 9th of Gartartan.
He joined the British Army as an Ensign on 26 May 1780 and was promoted Lieutenant on 22 May 1793, Captain on 25 September 1793, Major on 12 November 1794, Lieutenant-Colonel on 19 September 1794, Colonel on 1 January 1800, Major-General on 25 April 1808, Lieutenant-General on 4 June 1813 and General 22 July 1830.{{sfn|Hart|1841|p=83}}
MacFarlane was "a gallant and highly distinguished officer",{{sfn|Court magazine and monthly critic|1837|p=2}} who accompanied the expedition to Copenhagen in 1807. He served subsequently in Sicily as second-in-command under Lord William Bentinck. In 1823 he was made Colonel of the 89th Regiment of Foot, transferring in 1837 to be Colonel of the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot, a position he held until his death.{{sfn|Hart|1841|p=83}}
Family
File:Lady MacFarlane engraving of a portrait by Derby.jpg
On 10 February 1815, at Palermo, MacFarlane married Maria Gertrude, eldest daughter of G. Henry Vankemper, (a captain in the Dutch Navy and Consul of the Netherlands at Tripoli).{{sfn|Court magazine and monthly critic|1837|p=2}}
Notes
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References
- {{citation |last=Hart |first=H.G. |date=1841 |title=The New Army List, for January 1841 |location=London |publisher=John Murray |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=jecNAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA3-PA83 83]}}
- {{citation |author=Court magazine and monthly critic |year=1837 |chapter=Genealogical Memoir of the MacFarleanes |title=The Court magazine and monthly critic |volume=10 |edition=New Series vol. III |location=London |publisher=Edward Churton |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=0j4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA2 2]}}
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{{succession box | title=Colonel of the 32nd (Cornwall) Regiment of Foot | before=Sir Samuel Venables Hinde | after=Sir John Buchan | years=1837–1843}}
{{succession box | title=Colonel of the 89th Regiment of Foot | before=Sir George Beckwith | after=Sir Charles Bulkeley Egerton| years=1823–1837}}
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Category:British Army generals