Francis Howard (British Army officer, born 1848)

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Sir Francis Howard
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Born26 March 1848
Died21 March 1930 (1930-03-22) (aged 81)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branchFlag of the British Army.svg British Army
RankMajor-General
Commands heldWestern Command
Battles/warsSecond Afghan War
Sudanese campaign
Second Boer War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

Major-General Sir Francis Howard KCB KCMG DL (26 March 1848 – 21 March 1930) was a British Army officer in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Family[]

Howard was a younger son of the diplomat Sir Henry Francis Howard (1809–1898) by his second wife Baroness Marie Ernestine von der Schulenburg. Through his father he was a descendant of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk. His brother was another diplomat, Sir Henry Howard (1843–1921).[1]

In 1895 he married Gertrude Jane Boyd, daughter of Hugh Boyd, and they had one son and one daughter.[1]

Military career[]

Howard was commissioned into the Rifle Brigade in 1866.[2] He took part in the Jowaki Expedition in India in 1877 and then, during the Afghan War, in the Bazaar Valley and Lughman Expeditions of 1878 and 1879,[2] and in operations in Upper Burma between 1887 and 1889.[2]

In 1894 he was appointed commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion the Rifle Brigade, which he commanded in the 1898 Sudanese campaign, including the Battle of Omdurman,[2] and then in Crete.[3]

During the Second Boer War, he was Commander of 8th Brigade and took part in the Defence of Ladysmith in 1900.[2] He later served on the Staff and was placed on half-pay 26 December 1900.[4]

He was made Inspector General of Auxiliary Forces and Recruiting at the War Office in 1903 and then Commander of North Western District in 1904.[2] He was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Western Command in 1905 and retired in 1907.[2] He was recalled as Inspector of Infantry during World War I.[2] On 9 December 1919, Howard was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Gloucestershire.[5]

Howard held a number of honorary military appointments, including aide-de-camp to the Queen (1895); Colonel of the Gloucestershire Regiment (1912–13) and Colonel-Commandant of the 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade (until June 1921).[3]

In 1924 Howard published his memoirs, entitled Reminiscences, 1848–1890.[6]

Decorations[]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c Sir Francis Howard The Peerage.com
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Sir Francis Howard Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives
  3. ^ a b c d Who Was Who 1929-1940. Adam & Charles Black. 1947. ISBN 9780713601701.
  4. ^ "No. 27333". The London Gazette. 12 July 1901. p. 4644.
  5. ^ "No. 31678". The London Gazette. 9 December 1919. p. 15195.
  6. ^ Reminiscences, 1848-1890, Major-General Sir Francis Howard. HathiTrust
  7. ^ "No. 26867". The London Gazette. 25 June 1897. p. 3568.
  8. ^ "No. 11104". The Edinburgh Gazette. 23 June 1899. p. 621.
  9. ^ "No. 27306". The London Gazette. 19 April 1901. p. 2695.
Military offices
Preceded by GOC North Western District
(GOC-in-C Welsh and Midland Command 1905;
GOC-in-C Western Command 1906)
1904–1907 		Succeeded by
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