Auction Catalogue

5 April 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 268

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5 April 2006

Hammer Price:
£2,900

Military General Service 1793-1814, 2 clasps, Sahagun & Benevente, Corunna (Hon. H. F. C. Cavendish, Lieut. 10th Hussars & A.D.C.) nearly very fine £2000-2500

Henry Frederick Compton Cavendish was born in London on 5 November 1789, son of George Augustus Henry, 1st Earl of Burlington. He first entered the Army in May 1808 as a Lieutenant, by purchase, in the 7th Fusiliers, and transferred the following month to the 10th Hussars by paying the difference. With the 10th Hussars he served the campaigns of 1808 and 1809 in Portugal and Spain, including the actions of Sahagun and Benevente and the battle of Corunna. At the last battle he was Aide de Camp to Major-General Lord William Bentinck and was wounded by a musket shot through the wrist, in respect of which he received neither a grant of pay nor a pension.

He exchanged into the 24th Light Dragoons in July 1810; purchased a Captaincy in the 103rd Foot in June 1811; exchanged to the 25th Foot on half-pay in January 1812; returned to full pay as Captain in the 96th Foot by paying the difference in January 1818; purchased a Majority in the 75th Foot in April 1818; transferred to the 9th Lancers by paying the difference in September 1818, and to the 1st Life Guards, again by paying the difference, in July 1821. He was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards in June 1853 and was promoted to General in November 1862. General Cavendish, who sat as M.P. for Derby from June 1818 to December 1834, died at Burlington Gardens, London, on 5 April 1873.