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Frederick Love

General Sir James Frederick Love GCB KH (1789 – 13 January 1866) was a British Army officer who served as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Sir

Frederick Love
General Sir Frederick Love
Born1789
Died13 January 1866
Allegiance United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankGeneral
Battles/warsPeninsular War
Hundred Days
AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order

Military career edit

Love was commissioned into the 52nd Regiment of Foot in 1804 and took part in the retreat to Corunna and the Battle of Bussaco during the Peninsular War.[1] He was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and saved Bristol during the riots of 1831.[1] He was appointed British resident at Zakynthos in 1835, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1852 and General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in 1856 before becoming Inspector-General of Infantry in 1857.[1]

He was Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot from 1856 to 1865[2] and Colonel of 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot from 1865 to his death.[3]

He was promoted general on 10 August 1864.[4]

Family edit

In 1825 he married Mary Heaviside; they had no children.[5]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c James Frederick Love at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  2. ^ . regiments.org. Archived from the original on 1 December 2006. Retrieved 17 July 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  3. ^ . regiments.org. Archived from the original on 29 December 2006. Retrieved 8 July 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "No. 22887". The London Gazette. 23 August 1864. p. 4126.
  5. ^ . Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
Government offices
Preceded by Lieutenant Governor of Jersey
1852–1856
Succeeded by
Military offices
Preceded by GOC South-Eastern District
1856–1857
Succeeded by
Preceded by Colonel of the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot
1865–1866
Succeeded by
Preceded by Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot
1856–1865
Succeeded by

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