Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...

Sir Henry Vassall Webster KTS (February 1793 – 19 April 1847) was a British Army officer, aide-de-camp to the Prince of Orange at the

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. He was the second son of

Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet (25 December 1747 – 3 June 1800) was an English politician. He used the additional surname Vassall in the period 1795 to 1797.

and

Elizabeth Fox, Baroness Holland Elizabeth Vassall Fox, Baroness Holland (1771 – London, November 1845) was an English political hostess and the wife of Whig politician Henry Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland. With her husband, and after his death, she hosted political and litera ...

. He joined the Army in 1810 and rose to lieutenant-colonel in 1831. In 1843, he was knighted. Webster married Grace (d. 27 March 1866), the only daughter and heir of

Samuel Boddington Samuel Boddington (19 June 1766 – 19 April 1843) was an Anglo-Irish politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Tralee from January 1807 to May of the same year. The Boddington family held large estates in the West Indies and Samuel ha ...

, on 23 October 1824. He died on 19 April 1847 from self-inflicted knife wounds. He is buried at

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. His portrait was painted by

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