Sir Henry Bouverie Paulet St John-Mildmay, 5th Baronet (1810 – 16 July 1902), of

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, was an English landowner and

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officer.

Biography

St John-Mildmay was born in 1810, the son of

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and Charlotte Bouverie. He succeeded his father as baronet in 1848. He was commissioned an officer in the

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, where he advanced to

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before he resigned. He was later Commanding Officer and later Honorary Colonel of the North Hampshire Yeomanry. Serving as

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in 1862, he was also a Deputy Lieutenant of the county. St John-Mildmay married, in 1851, Honourable Helena Shaw Lefevre, daughter of

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by his wife Emma Laura Whitbread. Lady St John-Mildmay died in 1897. They had seven children, of whom two daughters died young: *Jane Emma (1851–1928), who married James Martin Carr-Lloyd. *Sir Henry Paulet (1853–1916) *Helena Charlotte (1854–1867) *Laura Cathrine (1856–1866) *Constance Mary (1859–1930), who married Sir John Arthur Beach Wellington, KCB *Sir Gerald Anthony Shaw-Lefevre-St John-Mildmay, 7th Baronet (1860–1929) *Carew Hervey Mary (1863–1937); married Elizabeth Roper, daughter of Sir Henry Roper (a great-grandson of

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and Lady Anne Lennard, daughter of

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) and Charlotte Lydia Pleydell-Bouverie, granddaughter of

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. They had six children. Sir Henry died at Dogmersfield Park on 16 July 1902, and was succeeded by his eldest son Henry Paulet St John-Mildmay.

References

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