Havilland Le Mesurier

Commissary-General Havilland Le Mesurier (1758–1806) was a British merchant and commissary officer who also published on military matters.

He was born on 8 May 1758 in Guernsey. His parents were John Le Mesurier (1717–1793), hereditary Governor of Alderney, and his wife Martha (d. 1764). His brother was Paul Le Mesurier, an MP and Lord Mayor of London.

He attended Winchester School from 1770 to 1771, before joining the business of his father and eldest brother. They ran a merchant house that profited from privateering in the American War of Independence. In 1782 he married Elizabeth Dobrée of Guernsey (died 1804). but whom he did not respect. son was also a military officer, Colonel Havilland Le Mesurier.

Works

A System for the British Commissariat on Foreign Service (1796) The British Commissary (1798) Thoughts on a French Invasion (1798) Two Letters to the Commissioners of Army Accounts (1806)