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