Henry St Paul
Henry Heneage St Paul (16 March 1777 – 1 November 1820) was an English officer in the British Army and a politician. St Paul was the second son of Horace St Paul of Ewart Park, in Northumberland. His father held the title of Count St Paul of the Austrian Empire. His mother Anne was the daughter of Henry Weston of Surrey. His older brother was Sir Horace St Paul, 1st Baronet, Sir Horace St Paul, Bt. Educated at Eton College, Eton, he was commissioned officer, commissioned as an ensign (rank), ensign in the 60th Foot in 1802, but preferred managing his father's estates and was on half-pay from the army by 1803. He was elected at the 1812 United Kingdom general election, 1812 general election as a Member of Parliament (MP) for the borough of Berwick-upon-Tweed (UK Parliament constituency), Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland, and re-elected in 1818 United Kingdom general election, 1818. At the 1820 United Kingdom general election, 1820 general election he was defeated by David M ...
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British Army
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas, and 28,330 volunteer reserve personnel. The modern British Army traces back to 1707, with antecedents in the English Army and Scots Army that were created during the Restoration in 1660. The term ''British Army'' was adopted in 1707 after the Acts of Union between England and Scotland. Members of the British Army swear allegiance to the monarch as their commander-in-chief, but the Bill of Rights of 1689 and Claim of Right Act 1689 require parliamentary consent for the Crown to maintain a peacetime standing army. Therefore, Parliament approves the army by passing an Armed Forces Act at least once every five years. The army is administered by the Ministry of Defence and commanded by the Chief of the General Staff. The Brit ...
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