Burke Cuppage Explained

Honorific Prefix:Lieutenant-General
Sir Burke Cuppage
Birth Date:1794
Death Date:19 April 1877[1]
Birth Place:Charlton, Kent, England[2]
Death Place:Kensington, London, England
Allegiance: United Kingdom
Branch: British Army
Serviceyears:1812–1868
Rank:Lieutenant-General
Battles:
Awards:Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Lieutenant-General Sir Burke Douglas Cuppage (1794 – 19 April 1877) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Military career

Cuppage was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1812.[3] He fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo under the Duke of Wellington.[4] He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1863[5] and laid the foundation stone for a new Public Asylum there two years later.[6]

Family

In 1828 he married Emily Anne Fouril;[4] [7] they had a son[8] and two daughters.[9]

Notes and References

  1. "Deaths". The Belfast Newsletter. p. 1. 23 April 1877
  2. 1871 England Census
  3. https://archive.org/stream/waterloorollcall00daltuoft/waterloorollcall00daltuoft_djvu.txt The Waterloo Roll by Charles Dalton
  4. http://www.hrp.org.uk/Resources/Grace%20and%20Favour%20%20-%20A%20handbook%20of%20who%20lived%20where%20in%20Hampton%20Court%20Palace%201750%20to%201950.pdf Grace & Favour, p.45
  5. http://worldleadersindex.org/Europe/ChannelIslands.html World Leaders Index
  6. http://members.societe-jersiaise.org/whitsco/wragg17.htm Societe Jersiaise
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=mbECAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA663 Blackwood's Magazine
  8. http://www.britishmedals.us/collections/TB/heic/cuppage.html Captain Burke Cuppage
  9. http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/public.sh/WService=wslive_pub/pubweb/publicSite.r?sContinent=EUR&screen=lotdetailsNoFlash&iSaleItemNo=1571085&iSaleNo=11276&iSaleSectionNo=1 Bonhams