General Sir Henry Wyndham (12 May 1790 – 3 August 1860) was a British Army General and Conservative Party politician. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Cockermouth from 1852 to 1857 and for West Cumberland from 1857 to until his death in 1860. Wyndham was the second son of George Wyndham, 3rd Earl of Egremont (1751–1837) and Elizabeth Ilive (died 1822), of Petworth House, West Sussex, and a descendant of John Wyndham who played an important role in the establishment of defence organisation in the West Country against the threat of Spanish invasion. As a young officer, then then-Captain (Guards officers held 'double' rank, so a Captain was also a Lieutenant-Colonel) Henry Wyndham fought at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, where he was severely injured.[1] (He took part in the famous closing of the gates at Hougoumont and was said to have been so disturbed by the incident that he would never again close a door, preferring to sit in a room in a howling draught. Pictures of the battles of Battle of Vittoria and Waterloo were commsioned by Wyndham's father from George Jones, RA. They hang in the Beauty Room of Petworth House.[2]
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- ^ http://www.napoleonic-literature.com/WE/Casualties-18_June.html
- ^ http://www.yeoldesussexpages.com/petworth/petmain.htm
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| Parliament of the United Kingdom | ||
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| Preceded by Edward Horsman and Henry Aglionby | Member of Parliament for Cockermouth with Henry Aglionby (to 1854); John Steel (from 1854) 1852–1857 | Succeeded by Lord Naas and John Steel |
| Preceded by Samuel Irton and Henry Lowther | Member of Parliament for West Cumberland with Henry Lowther 1857–1860 | Succeeded by Henry Lowther and Percy Scawen Wyndham |
