Major-General Sir Henry Peter Ewart, 1st Baronet, (20 August 1838 – April 1928) was a

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officer and

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Life

He was the son of the Rev. Peter Ewart of Kirklington and his wife Mary Salisbury. He was educated at

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, and matriculated at

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in 1856. Ewart purchased his commission in the

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in 1858 at the age of 20. By 1882 he was commanding officer of his regiment, and was chosen to command the Household Cavalry Composite Regiment on its deployment to Egypt during the

Anglo-Egyptian War The British conquest of Egypt, also known as the Anglo-Egyptian War (), occurred in 1882 between Egyptian and Sudanese forces under Ahmed ‘Urabi and the United Kingdom. It ended a nationalist uprising against the Khedive Tewfik Pasha. It ...

. It was during this conflict that he led the 'Moonlight Charge' of the Household Cavalry at Kassassin on 28 August 1882. He was appointed a

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(CB) in November 1882. Ewart subsequently commanded the Cavalry Brigade of the British Suakin Expeditionary Force during the

Mahdist War The Mahdist War (; 1881–1899) was fought between the Mahdist Sudanese, led by Muhammad Ahmad bin Abdullah, who had proclaimed himself the "Mahdi" of Islam (the "Guided One"), and the forces of the Khedivate of Egypt, initially, and later th ...

between 1884 and 1885.''Whitaker's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage'' (London, J. Whitaker & Sons, 1916), p.372 In 1885 he was promoted to

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(KCB). Between 1884 and 1894 Ewart served as

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, and was subsequently Crown Equerry to

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from 1901 to 1910. In 1897 he was appointed a

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(KCVO). On 10 February 1900 he was made Colonel of the

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and was joint Colonel of the

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from 1922 to his death in 1928. After successfully taking part in the arrangement for the

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on 9 August 1902, he was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the

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(GCVO) on 11 August 1902. Following the King′s death in May 1910, he was created a

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, of White House in the parish of Hythe in the

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, on 14 June 1910.

Family

Ewart married Hon. Evelyn Clementina Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, daughter of

Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster Gilbert Henry Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 1st Earl of Ancaster, (born Heathcote 1 October 1830 – 24 December 1910), known as Lord Aveland from 1867 to 1888 and as Lord Willoughby de Eresby from 1888 to 1892, was a British Liberal politic ...

, at

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on 3 November 1888.''Whitaker's peerage, baronetage, knightage, and companionage'' (London, J. Whitaker & sons, 1916), p.372 Together they had one son, Victor Alexander Ewart, who served as an officer in the

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and was killed on HMS '' Queen Mary'' during the

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in 1916.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ewart, Henry 1838 births 1928 deaths Military personnel from North Yorkshire Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom British Army major generals British Life Guards officers English courtiers Equerries Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order British Army personnel of the Anglo-Egyptian War British Army personnel of the Mahdist War 20th-century British Army personnel Alumni of Merton College, Oxford