George Augustus Quentin
Lieutenant-General Sir George Augustus Quentin (1760–1851) K.C.H. C.B. was a Hanoverian British Army officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars.[1][2]
Biography
George Quentin was born in 1760, and was the eldest son of George Quentin of Göttingen.[1]
Quentin served 5 years in the garde du corps in Hanover, previous to entering the British Army. He was appointed cornet in the 10th Light Dragoons in 1793; and served in the Peninsula War, Sir John Moore's campaign in 1808-1809, at the battles of Benavente and Corunna; also in Spain, under the Duke of Wellington, in 1813 and 1814, where he received a medal and one clasp for his conduct in command of the 10th Hussars at the battles of Orthes and the Toulouse. In 1814 he was promoted to colonel and in 1815 he served under Wellington in Flanders, and at Waterloo, where he was severely wounded. He promoted to lieutenant-general in 1838. [1][3]
Quinten was created a Companion of the Order of the Bath (C.B.) in 1815 and Knight Bachelor in 1821. He was aide-de-camp to the Prince Regent from 1811 to 1825, when he was appointed Equerry to the Crown Stables.[1] He died on 7 December 1851 aged 91.[3]
Family
In 1811 Quentin married —— the daughter of James Lawrell of Eastwich Park, and of Frimley Park, Surrey.[1]
Notes
References
- NPG staff (18 August 2014), George Augustus Quentin, National Portrait Gallery, retrieved August 2014
- Urban, Sylvanus, ed. (1852), "Obituary", The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., New 37, Edward Cave, p. 190
Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Dodd, Charles R. (1846), The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All The Titled Classes, p. 330
Further reading
- Quentin, George Augustus (1814), Gurney, William Brodie, ed., The trial of colonel Quentin ... by a general court-martial, taken in short-hand by W.B. Gurney (2 ed.), London: Gale Curtis and Fenner