Henry Shrapnel

Henry Shrapnel
Portrait of Shrapnel, 1817
Born(1761-06-03)3 June 1761
Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire
Died13 March 1842(1842-03-13) (aged 80)
Southampton
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
Years of service1779–1825
RankLieutenant-general
UnitRoyal Artillery
Battles / wars

Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel (3 June 1761 – 13 March 1842) was a British Army officer whose name has entered the English language as the inventor of the shrapnel shell.

Biography

Henry Shrapnel was born at Midway Manor in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England, the ninth child of Zachariah Shrapnel and his wife Lydia.[1]

In 1784, while a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, he perfected, with his own resources, an invention of what he called "spherical case" ammunition: a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air. He successfully demonstrated this at Great Siege of Gibraltar (1779-1783)).[2] He intended the device as an anti-personnel weapon.

In 1803, the British Army adopted a similar but elongated explosive shell which immediately acquired the inventor's name.[3] It has lent the term "shrapnel" to fragmentation from artillery shells and fragmentation in general ever since, long after it was replaced by high-explosive rounds. Until the end of World War I, the shells were still manufactured according to his original principles.

Shrapnel served in Flanders, where he was wounded in 1793. He was promoted to major on 1 November 1803 after eight years as a captain. After his invention's success in battle at Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam, Surinam, on 30 April 1804,[4] Shrapnel was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 20 July 1804, less than nine months later.

In 1814, the British Government recognized Shrapnel's contribution by awarding him £1,200 (equivalent to £106,023 in 2021) a year for life.[5] Bureaucracy, however, prevented him from receiving the full benefit of this award.[1] He was appointed to the office of colonel-commandant, Royal Artillery, on 6 March 1827. He rose to the rank of lieutenant general on 10 January 1837.[6]

Shrapnel lived at Peartree House, near Peartree Green, Southampton, from about 1835 until his death.[7][8]

His sister Rachel Shrapnel married the reverend Thomas Tregenna Biddulph. Gen. Sir Michael Anthony Shrapnel Biddulph was his great-nephew.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b John Sweetman (2004). "Shrapnel, Henry (1761–1842)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 August 2015.
  2. ^ Knight, R. J. B. (2013). Britain against Napoleon:The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815. London, England New York: Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-84614-177-5.
  3. ^ Rich, Norman M. (1967). "Shrapnel Wounds". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 202 (3): 245. doi:10.1001/jama.1967.03130160119038. ISSN 0098-7484.
  4. ^ Hogg, Oliver (1970). Artillery: its origin, heyday and decline. London: C. Hurst. p. 180. ISBN 978-0-900966-43-9.
  5. ^ Long, Tony (March 2008). "March 13, 1842: Henry Shrapnel Dies, But His Name Lives On". Wired. Archived from the original on 3 June 2008.
  6. ^ Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1897). "Shrapnel, Henry" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 52. pp. 163–165.
  7. ^ Vale, Jessica (1980). "Peartree House". Lost Houses of Southampton. bitterne.net. Archived from the original on 16 March 2014. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  8. ^ "Peartree House". Port Cities: Southampton. plimsoll.org. 1930. Archived from the original on 29 January 2013. Retrieved 22 June 2012.
  9. ^ Burke, Bernard (1898). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland. Harrison & sons. p. 113. Retrieved 8 September 2024.

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