Samuel Hulse

Born the second son of Sir Edward Hulse, 2nd Baronet and Hannah Hulse (née Vanderplank),{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14124|title=Sir Samuel Hulse|year=2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/14124 |access-date=7 June 2014}} Samuel Hulse was educated at Eton College{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LvgbAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA236 |title=The United Service Magazine|year=1837|access-date=7 June 2014}} and commissioned as an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards on 17 December 1761.Heathcote, p. 182 He was promoted to captain in his regiment on 12 March 1776.{{London Gazette|issue=11647|page=1|date=9 March 1776}} He saw his first active duty when he was called out to deal with the Gordon Riots in June 1780. Promoted to colonel in the army on 26 November 1782,{{London Gazette|issue=12391|page=1|date=23 September 1782}} he became Treasurer and Receiver-General to the Prince of Wales in January 1787.{{London Gazette|issue=12820|page=17|date=9 January 1787}}

Promoted to second major in his regiment on 14 March 1789,{{London Gazette|issue=13076|page=123|date=10 March 1789}} and to first major in his regiment on 11 August 1792,{{London Gazette|issue=13448|page=622|date=7 August 1792}} Hulse commanded the 1st Battalion at the Battle of Famars in May 1793 and the Siege of Dunkirk in August 1793 during the Flanders Campaign. Promoted to major-general on 18 October 1793,{{London Gazette|issue=13582|page=913|date=15 October 1793}} he commanded the 1st Guards Brigade at the Battle of Willems in May 1794 and then joined the retreat into Germany later that year.Heathcote, p. 183 He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in his regiment on 3 May 1794.{{London Gazette|issue=13651|page=402|date=3 May 1794}}

After returning to England in 1795 Hulse was given command of troops in the Brighton area. Promoted to lieutenant general on 9 January 1798,{{London Gazette|issue=14080|page=22|date=6 January 1798}} he was sent to Ireland with a brigade of guards at the time of the 1798 rebellion although he was never actually engaged in putting down the rebellion. He took part in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland in August 1799 and then returned to England to become General Officer Commanding the South East District with promotion to full general on 25 September 1803.{{London Gazette|issue=15624|page=1317|date=27 September 1803}} He commissioned the building of West Heath House at Woolwich Road in Erith around this time.{{cite web|url=http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10409|title=West Heath House, No.115 Woolwich Road, Erith|publisher=London Borough of Bexley|access-date=7 June 2014|archive-date=12 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140312022403/http://www.bexley.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=10409|url-status=dead}}

Hulse went on to be lieutenant-governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in 1806 and Master of the Household to the Prince of Wales in August 1812.{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43847|title=The household below stairs: Master of the Household 1660-1837, Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 11 (revised): Court Officers, 1660-1837 |year=2006 |pages= 402–403|access-date=7 June 2014}}{{London Gazette|issue=16632|page=1579|date=11 August 1812}} He was appointed a Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order when the Prince ascended to the throne as King George IV in 1820 and knighted in 1821.{{cite book|title=The knights of England : a complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors (Volume 2) online|first=William|last= Shaw|page= 24}} He also became Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea in February 1820{{cite web|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=98501#s2 |title=Survey of London, volume 11, edited by Walter H. Godfrey (editor)|year= 1927|access-date=7 June 2014}} and Vice-Chamberlain of the Household of King George IV{{London Gazette|issue=18361|page=1057|date=15 May 1827}} as well as a member of the Privy Council in May 1827.{{London Gazette|issue=18360|page=1033|date=11 May 1827}}

Hulse also served as honorary colonel of the 56th Regiment of Foot,{{London Gazette|issue=13758|page=224|date=7 March 1795}} of the 19th Regiment of Foot{{London Gazette|issue=13974|page=75|date=24 January 1797}} and then of the 62nd Regiment of Foot.{{London Gazette|issue=16381|page=922|date=23 June 1810}} He was promoted to field marshal on the occasion of the coronation of King William IV on 22 July 1830.{{London Gazette|issue=18709|page=1534|date=23 July 1830}} He died at the Royal Hospital Chelsea on 1 January 1837 and was buried in the family vault at St Michael and All Angels Churchyard at Wilmington in Kent.{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40556218|title=Sir Samuel Hulse|publisher=Find-a-grave|access-date=7 June 2014}}

Hulse married Charlotte (died 5 February 1842); they had no children.

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