George Middlemore | |
Honorific-Prefix: | Lieutenant-General |
Honorific-Suffix: | CB |
State: | Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
Office1: | Governor of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha |
Term Start1: | 1836 |
Term End1: | 6 January 1842 |
Predecessor1: | Charles Dallas |
Successor1: | Hamelin Trelawny |
Office2: | Lieutenant Governor of Grenada |
Term Start2: | 1833 |
Term End2: | 1835 |
Predecessor2: | James Campbell |
Successor2: | John Hastings Mair |
Death Date: | 18 November 1850 |
Death Place: | Royal Tunbridge Wells, England |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Serviceyears: | 1793–1850 |
Rank: | Lieutenant-General |
Commands: | 48th Regiment of Foot Inspecting Field Officer, Nottingham |
Battles: | |
Awards: | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Spouse: | Phillis Sophia Lobb |
Children: | Six, including Lieutenant-Colonel R. F. Middlemore |
Lieutenant-General George Middlemore (died 18 November 1850, Tunbridge Wells) was a British Army officer and the first Governor of Saint Helena.
Originally commissioned in the 86th Regiment of Foot, he rose to command the 48th Regiment of Foot during the Peninsular War. He was the lieutenant-governor of Grenada from 1833 to 1835.
Middlemore was the first governor of Saint Helena from 1836 to 1842 after its handover from the British East India Company to the Crown. He oversaw the repatriation of Napoleon's remains from there in 1840. He was succeeded on 6 January 1842 by Colonel Hamelin Trelawny.[1]
Middlemore married Phillis Sophia Lobb (died 15 July 1854, Southborough). They had 6 children:[2]
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