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Colonel Sir Felton Elwell Hervey-Bathurst, 1st Baronet, (178224 September 1819), was an officer in the

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during the

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Early life

Born Felton Elwell Hervey in 1782, he was a son of Lieutenant Felton Lionel Hervey and his wife Selina Elwill. His father worked for the exchequer before committing suicide in a London gunsmiths in 1785. His paternal grandfather was

Felton Hervey Felton Hervey (12 February 1712 – 16 August 1773) was an aristocratic English politician from Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk, and a member of the British royal household. He took his son and daughter on a grand tour of Italy where he met Johann ...

(the seventh son of

John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol John Hervey, 1st Earl of Bristol (27 August 1665 – 20 January 1751) was an English politician. John Hervey was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, the son of Sir Thomas Hervey. He was educated in Bury and at Clare College, Cambridge. He ...

). His mother was the only daughter and heir of

Sir John Elwill, 4th Baronet Sir John Elwill, 4th Baronet (died 1 March 1778) was an English aristocrat and politician. He was the only son of Sir Edmund Elwill, 3rd Baronet, and his wife Anne Speke, daughter of William Speke, of Beauchamp, Somerset. The third baronet was ...

and his wife Selina Bathurst. In 1801, the younger Felton assumed, by Royal licence, the additional surname of Bathurst after his maternal grandmother.

Career

On 6May 1806, Hervey-Bathurst was appointed a major in 14th Light Dragoons. In December 1808 went with his regiment to join the British Army in Iberia engaged in the

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. He lost his right arm at the

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(28 March 1809), but was well enough to by 2 August 1810 to be promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and to command of the 14th Light Dragoons from 1811 to 1814. During this time he fought in a number of engagements being wound again at the battles

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and the El Bodon. He was brevetted Colonel On 4July 1814 and appointed ''Aide-de-camp'' (A.D.C.) to the

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. During the

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he served on the Duke of Wellington's staff, and was Wellington's representative at the negotiations for the surrender of Paris, signing the

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on 3July 1815.

Hervey-Bathurst baronetcy

His baronetcy was created on 7December 1818, with

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, failing heirs male of his own, to the heirs male of his father.

Personal life

On 24 April 1817 at Apsley House, home of the Duke of Wellington, Felton Hervey was married to Louisa Catherine Caton (1793–1874), the third daughter of

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, a merchant of

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who was born in

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. Among her siblings was sister

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(wife of

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) and Elizabeth (wife of

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). The marriage certificate was witnessed by Wellington, Bathurst, Lord Liverpool, The Duke of Westminster, John Quincy Adams, the Earl of Leicester and the Duke of Montellano, and is stored at the National Archives Kew. After his death on 24 September 1819, he was succeeded according to the special remainder by his next brother, Frederick Anne Hervey-Bathurst (1783–1824), the 2nd

Hervey-Bathurst baronet The Hervey-Bathurst Baronetcy, of Lainston in the County of Southampton, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 7 December 1818 for Felton Hervey-Bathurst, with remainder, failing heirs male of his own, to the heirs ...

. In 1828, his widow remarried to Francis D'Arcy-Osborne, later the 7th Duke of Leeds.

Honors and Medals

Medals received for battle were: *Gold Medal for Fuentes d'Onor and Salamanca *

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* Russian Order of St George * Russian Order of St Vladimir * Austrian Order of Maria Theresa * Portuguese Order of The Tower and Sword * Bavarian order of Joseph Maximilian * Bavarian order of Joseph Maximilian * Knight of St Henry of Saxony

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References

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