General Sir Lovell Benjamin Badcock Lovell, KCB, KH (born Badcock; 1786 – 11 March 1861) was a

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in the British Army. He was a descendant of Sir

Salathiel Lovell Sir Salathiel Lovell (1631/2–1713) was an English judge, Recorder of London, an ancient and bencher of Gray's Inn, and a Baron of the Exchequer. Origins and education Lovell was the son of Benjamin Lovell, rector of Lapworth, Warwickshire, and ...

through the marriage of Lovell's daughter, Jane Lovell, to Richard Badcock, the eldest son of William Badcock, a London goldsmith.

Biography

He was born Lovell Benjamin Badcock, the eldest son of

Thomas Stanhope Badcock Thomas Stanhope Badcock (1749–1821) was High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in the year 1809 and was a descendant of Sir Salathiel Lovell. In 1797, he inherited the estates of Little Missenden Abbey in Buckinghamshire and Maplethorpe Hall in Lincol ...

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Abbey,

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and Maplethorpe Hall,

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.Burke, John: ''A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain'' Educated at

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, Badcock commenced his distinguished military career in the Royal Bucks Militia. He fought under General Auchmuty at

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in 1807 and went through the

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with the 14th Light Dragoons until 1813, being awarded the Peninsular Medal with eleven clasps, a greater number than was given to any other officer of cavalry. On retirement, he became

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of the

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. He died at

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on 11 March 1861, having never married. He and his younger brother, Admiral William Stanhope Badcock, changed their name of Badcock to Lovell by

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in 1840. There is no known familial relationship between Lovell Benjamin Badcock and another prominent nineteenth century British Army general bearing the same surname - General Sir

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. A portrait of Badcock by T.W. MacKay, in

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uniform, hangs in

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Badcock, Lovell Benjamin 1786 births 1861 deaths People educated at Eton College British Army generals 14th King's Hussars officers 15th The King's Hussars officers British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars British Militia officers Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath British Army personnel of the Peninsular War