Henry Augustus Smyth

For the general with a similar name, see Henry Smyth (British Army officer, born 1816).

Sir Henry Augustus Smyth
Sir Henry Smyth, by Francis Smyth Baden-Powell
Born	(1825-11-25)25 November 1825 St James's Street, London
Died	19 September 1906(1906-09-19) (aged 80) Stone, Buckinghamshire
Buried at	Stone, Buckinghamshire
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1841–1893
Rank	General
Unit	Royal Artillery
Battles/wars	Crimean War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George

General Sir Henry Augustus Smyth KCMG FSA FRGS (1825–1906) was a senior British Army officer. He was the son of Admiral William Henry Smyth and the brother of astronomer Charles Piazzi Smyth and geologist Sir Warington Wilkinson Smyth. Of his sisters, Henrietta married the theologian Baden Powell and Georgiana the anatomist Sir William Henry Flower.

Military career

Born on 25 November 1825 in Westminster and educated at Bedford School, Smyth was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1843.^[1] He served in the Crimean War and was present at the Siege of Sevastopol.^[1] He became commandant of Woolwich garrison and military district in 1882 and General Officer Commanding the troops in South Africa in 1886.^[1] In 1888 Smyth mustered an army of 2,000 troops and left for Zululand to put down a rebellion there.^[2]

Smyth became acting Governor of Cape Colony as well as acting High Commissioner for Southern Africa in 1889.^[1] He became Governor of Malta in 1890 before retiring in 1893.^[1]

Family

On 14 April 1874 at Lillington, Warwickshire he married Helen Constance Greaves (1845-1932), daughter of John Whitehead Greaves and sister of John Ernest Greaves. They had no children. Smyth died on 18 September 1906 at Stone, Buckinghamshire, and was buried there.^[1]

Notes

1 2 3 4 5 6 Vetch & Lunt 2008.
↑ Freedman, Russell (1967). "Dinizulu". New York: Holiday House. Retrieved 18 March 2013.

References

Vetch, R. H.; Lunt, James (reviewer) (January 2008) [2004]. "Smyth, Sir Henry Augustus (1825–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/36174. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

Attribution

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Vetch, R. H. (1912). "Smyth, Henry Augustus". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement. 3. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 352–353.

Government offices
Preceded by The Hon. Hercules Robinson	Acting Governor of Cape Colony Acting High Commissioner for Southern Africa 1889	Succeeded by Henry Loch
Preceded by Sir Henry Torrens	Governor of Malta 1890–1893	Succeeded by Sir Arthur Lyon Fremantle

Civil Commissioners, Governors and Governors-General of Malta

Civil Commissioners (1799–1813)	Ball Pigot Cameron Ball Oakes

Governors (1813–1964)	Maitland Rawdon-Hastings Ponsonby Bouverie Stuart More O'Ferrall Reid Le Marchant Storks Grant Straubenzee Borton Simmons Torrens Smyth Lyon Fremantle Grenfell Clarke Grant Rundle Methuen Plumer Congreve Du Cane Campbell Bonham-Carter Dobbie Gort Schreiber Douglas Creasy Laycock Grantham Dorman

Governors-General (1964–1974)	Dorman Mamo

Governors of the Cape Colony

	British occupation 1806–1814	David Baird Henry George Grey Du Pre Alexander Henry George Grey John Francis Cradock Robert Meade

	British colony 1814–1910	Charles Somerset Rufane Shaw Donkin Richard Bourke Galbraith Lowry Cole Thomas Francis Wade Benjamin D'Urban George Thomas Napier Peregrine Maitland Henry Pottinger Harry Smith George Cathcart Charles Henry Darling George Grey Robert Henry Wynyard Philip Edmond Wodehouse Charles Craufurd Hay Henry Barkly Henry Bartle Frere Henry Hugh Clifford George Cumine Strahan Hercules Robinson Leicester Smyth Henry D'Oyley Torrens Henry Augustus Smyth Henry Brougham Loch William Gordon Cameron Hercules Robinson William Howley Goodenough Alfred Milner William Francis Butler Walter Hely-Hutchinson Henry Jenner Scobell Those in italics were Acting Governors

State President of the South African Republic State President of the Orange Free State Prime Minister of the Cape Colony Prime Minister of Natal

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