Charles Ash Windham

Sir Charles Ash Windham
Charles Ash Windham, 1855
Born10 October 1810
Felbrigg, Norfolk
Died1870
Jacksonville, Florida
Buried
Hanwell cemetery
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service / branch British Army
RankGeneral
Battles / warsCrimean War

General Sir Charles Ash Windham (10 October 1810 – 2 February 1870) was a British Army officer and Liberal Party politician.

Biography

Portrait of Windham as a captain in 1833

Educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Windham was commissioned as an ensign in the Coldstream Guards on 30 December 1826.[1] Windham married Marianne Catherine Emily Beresford, daughter of Admiral Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet, on 1 March 1849.

He led the charge on the Great Redan to the south of the Malakoff redoubt at Sevastopol on 8 September 1855 during the Battle of the Great Redan in the Crimean War. William Howard Russell, the correspondent of The Times, claimed that in doing so Windham had "saved the honour of the army."[1] He also fought in the Second Battle of Cawnpore during the Indian Rebellion.[1][2]

The Windham family were lords of the manor of Metton, Norfolk. Windham became a Member of Parliament (MP) for East Norfolk and held the seat from 1857 to 1859.[3]

Promoted to lieutenant-general on 5 February 1866, he became Commander of the British Troops in Canada in October 1867.[1]

Windham died in Florida, was interred temporarily in Montreal and finally buried in Hanwell cemetery, Middlesex, England.[1][4]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Charles Ash Windham". Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  2. ^ Windham, Sir Charles Ash (1897). The Crimean Diary and Letters of Lieut.-General Sir Charles Ash Windham, K.C.B.: With Operations Upon His Services During the Indian Mutiny and an Introduction by Sir William Howard Russell. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner.
  3. ^ Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "N" (part 2)
  4. ^ Obituary: Sir Charles Ash Windham. The Illustrated London News, Volume 56. 1870.

Further reading

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Member of Parliament for East Norfolk
1857–1859
With: Sir Edward Buxton, Bt 1857–58
Hon. Wenman Coke 		Succeeded by
Military offices
Preceded by Commander of the British Troops in Canada
1867–1870 		Succeeded by


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