Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1858-02-03
From tho London Times Of January sh.
The Late Gen. UavelOck.

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ish public with the suddenness of thunderclaT
and the regret expressed by all, both high an
low, is such as can scarcely be surpassed by th
lamentation of the nation on learning the deaf
of Nelson in the hour of victory, or of Sir Joh
Moore in q moment of no dishonorable retreat
Gen. Havelock, however, has died in the zeuit
of his fame and glory, and has bequeathed to hi
countrymen a name which will long be house
hold word in the homes of England and India.
Major General Sir Henry Havelock, Bart, K
@. B., was a native of Bisbopswearmouth, nea
Sunderland, where he was born on the 9th of
pril, 1895. He was the second OF the four SON
of the late Vim. Havelock, ESQ, of Ingress- park
near Greenhthe, Kent, by Jane, daughter of Mr.
John Carter, of Yarmouth, member, it is said
of the Ettrick family. His father was the de
scendant and representative /. q family which
! long had resided in tie peieaSorhood OF Great
Grimsby, Lincolnshire, and our readers vii
doubtless remember that the good people of the
town have gone so far rs to claim for the Have
locks q descent from Guthrum, or some other
Danish prince who lived before the Norman con
quest. All, however that is known for certain
is that Sir Henry Havelocks father and grand
father were largely engaged in commerce and
shipping, in Sunderland, and purchased lngress.
park with the proceeds of their successful spec
ulations.
| Nearly the whole of his life was spent in In.
dia, having entered the Thirteenth Life Infantry
! in 1923, and landed at Calcutta at the close o.
tina: year;
Having spent two years on furlough in Eng
land, he returned to India in 1851, and through
the kindness of Lord HardDge, who had watch
ed the latter portion of his career with interest
and by whose side he had fought the three bat
ties of the Sutle, he was appointed at first Quar-
termaster and afterwards Adjutant General OF
the Queens Forces in India. This post he held
until the war with Persia broke out at the close
of 1866. On the despatch of the expedition a.
gainst Persia he was nominated 10 the command
of the second division, and led the land troops
at Mohammereh. The glory of the action, how.
ever, such as it was, was reserved for the naval
force; for the Persans ran away, and the fight
| ing was all on one side. On the conclusion OF
peace with Persia he returned to India, and was
wrecked off Ceylon, in April last, in the Erin
as our readers will be remember, on his voyage
to Calcutta.
On reaching his destination almost the first
news that he heard was the outbreak ofthe mu'
tiny at Meerut and Delhi. He was immediate
| ly sent up to Allahabad as gadier-General, to
command the movable column employed a
ganst the miscreant Mana Sahib His subse-
ouent victories overthe Nana's troops, including
eight or nine pitched battles against numbers far
superior to his own, and crowned by the action
of July 16 at Cawnpore, and his subsequent re-
lief of the gallant band besieged at Lucknow are
events too fresh in our readers memories to need
recounting here.
For his first exploits in the early summer
Brigadier- General Havelock was rewarded with
a good service pension OF G100 q year-all, we
may here remark, that the Commander-in-C Chief
then had it in his power TO bestow. Since that
time we have heard in rapid succession how
Havelock has been raised to the rank of gen.
eral officer, been honored with the ribGnd of a
Knight Commander of tlle Bath, and rewarded
with the more substantial prizes OF El,00O an
nual pension and the colonelcy OF the Sd Bluffs !;
and finally, how on the 26th of November last
the London Gazette announced that Her Maj
esty had been pleased to elevate him to the
baronetcy of Sir Henry Havelock of Lucknow.
Alas on the very day before the Gazette ap,
peared Sir Henry Havelock had paid the debt OF
nature, having died, (as our telegram statedges.
terdayO of dysentery, brought on by exposure
in the field and the anxieties of his trying posi-
tion-one which it certainly required charmed
life and almost superhunan strength to main
tain.
Sir Henry Havelock married, in 1927, Hannah
Shepherd, youngest daughter of the late Rev.
DR.. Marshman, of Serampore, the learned and
accomplished biblical scholar, by whom he has
left family of three surviving daughters and
three sons, the eldest of whom, now Sir Henry
Marshman Havelock, second baronet, was born
in 1880. He at present holds captains COM
mission in the 18th Royal Irish, and has been
lately serving in India as Deputy Assistant-Ad
iutant- General under the gallant father whose
honored name he bears, and whose loss ne must
so deeply deplore.
1t is only about fortnight ago that Lady
Havelock, after short stay in London and al
Bath, left England for Germany amid the con
cratulatons of her friends; and in the course OF
this day she will doubtless learn the sad lntelll
gence of an event which has made herself wld
ow and her children fatherless. She will moi
want the hearty sympathy of the British public
in her own and the nations loss.
1t is said to have been the Queens determln
alton to raise Gen. Havelock to the peerage
and on hearing of his death, she resolved to take
his family under her special protection. Parlia
ment will make the Have.ock pension OF tlOOC
Unbeatable by the eldest son, and the Cour
Journal says that apartments in Havelock Cour
Palace will be granted Lady Havelock and he
daughters, together with the pension OF 1000