Edward Frederick (Indian Army officer)

General Edward Frederick CB (23 June 1784 – 5 December 1866) was a British Indian Army officer who was Commissary General of the Bombay Army.

Life

Frederick was the eldest son of Colonel Charles Frederick, nephew of Sir John Frederick, 4th Baronet MP. Edward's son Charles by his second wife, Mary,[1] inherited the baronetcy as 7th baronet.[2] His grandson, Sir Edward Frederick, 9th Baronet, was an Army officer and first-class cricketer.

Frederick followed his father into the British East India Company.[3] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1838 Coronation Honours.[4] He was promoted to General in 1860.[5]

He died in Winchester, Hampshire, England in 1866.

Family

Frederick married, firstly, Selina Grote, daughter of George Grote the elder and sister of George Grote. After her death, without issue, he married in 1841 Mary St John.[6]

References

1. Walford, Edward (1893). The Windsor Peerage for 1890-1894. p. 235. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
2. Dod, Charles Roger; Dod, Robert Phipps (1904). Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. p. 396. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
3. Transactions of the Literary Society of Bombay. Asiatic Society of Bombay. 1819. p. 13.
4. "No. 19638". The London Gazette. 20 July 1838. p. 1660.
5. "No. 22421". The London Gazette. 11 September 1860. p. 3334.
6. A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. I. Henry Colburn. 1869. p. 467.