Henry Warre
Sir Henry Warre | |
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 General Warre about 1860 | |
| Birth name | Henry James Warre |
| Born | 12 January 1819[1] Cape Town,Cape Colony |
| Died | 3 April 1898(aged 79) London, England |
| Allegiance |  United Kingdom |
| Service/ |  British Army |
| Years of service | 1837–1881 |
| Rank | Lieutenant-General |
| Commands held | Bombay Army |
| Battles/wars | Crimean War Second Taranaki War Second Anglo-Afghan War |
| Awards | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Henry James WarreKCB(12 January 1819 – 3 April 1898) was aBritish Armyofficer.
Early life
[edit]Warre was born inCape Town,Cape Colony, the son of Lieutenant-General SirWilliam Warre(1784–1853) and Selina Anna Maling, the youngest daughter of Christopher Thompson Maling.[1]His father saw service in thePeninsular Waras aide-de-camp toWilliam Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford.[2]His mother's elder sister Sophia marriedHenry Phipps, 1st Earl of Mulgrave,and was the mother ofConstantine Phipps, 1st Marquess of Normanby.[3]
He was baptised on his first birthday atSt Nicholas Church,Brighton,Sussex.[4]
Military career
[edit]Educated at theRoyal Military College, Sandhurst,Warre was commissioned into the54th Regiment of Footin 1837.[5]He becameaide-de-camptoSir Richard Downes Jackson,Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in British North America in 1839.[5]
In 1845 he was sent on a military reconnaissance mission withMervin Vavasourto theOregon Countryto prepare for a potential Anglo-American war over the territory.[5]During the trip he made paintings and sketches of the region, and reported on possible military preparations.[6]
Warre commanded the57th Regiment of Footin theCrimean Warin 1855.[5]Later he led his regiment in theSecond Taranaki WarinNew Zealandin Spring 1865, seizingMāoriland on the northTaranakicoast and establishing posts from Pukearuhe, 50 km north ofNew Plymouth,toŌpunake,80 km south of the town.[7]He became Commander-in-Chief of theBombay Armyin 1878 and served in that role during theSecond Anglo-Afghan War[8]until he retired in 1881.[9]
Warre was also a talented artist and published two books of sketches from his journeys:Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory(1848)[10]andSketches in the Crimea(1856).[11]
References
[edit]- ^abBurke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage.Burke's Peerage Limited. 1898. p. 1702.
- ^Vetch, Robert Hamilton(1899)..InLee, Sidney(ed.).Dictionary of National Biography.Vol. 59. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- ^Mosley, Charles,ed. (2003).Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood(107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 2920.ISBN0-9711966-2-1.
- ^England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538–1975
- ^abcdWarre, Henry James
- ^Joseph Schafer, "Documents Relative to Warre and Vavasour’s Military Reconnoissance in Oregon, 1845-6", Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 10, No. 1 (March, 1909), pp. 1-99.
- ^James Cowan, The New Zealand Wars: A History of the Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period: Vol II, Chapter 5, 1922
- ^National Archives
- ^Great Britain. India Office (1819).The India List and India Office List.Harrison. p. 123.
- ^Warre, Sir Henry (1848).Sketches in North America and the Oregon Territory.Dickinson & Company.ISBN9780665172458.
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- ^Warre, Sir Henry (1856).Sketches in the Crimea.Oxford University.
External links
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Media related toHenry James Warreat Wikimedia Commons
- Works by Henry WarreatFaded Page(Canada)
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- Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath
- Members of the Bombay Legislative Council
- Military leaders of the New Zealand Wars
- Commanders-in-chief of Bombay