About Robert Garrett
Lived 1794 – 1869 (aged 74–75). Robert Garrett was a British military personnel.
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Garrett KCB KH (1794 – 13 June 1869) was Commander of British Troops in China and Hong Kong.
Military career Garrett was born in Ramsgate, Kent, the son of John Garrett of Ellington House, Isle of Thanet, and Elizabeth Gore. Educated at Harrow School, Garrett was commissioned into the 2nd (The Queen's Royal) Regiment of Foot in 1811. He served in the Peninsular War and was present at the Battle of Fuentes de Oñoro in 1811. and in 1854 was despatched to the Crimean War where he commanded a Brigade of the 4th Division at the Siege of Sevastopol.
In retirement he lived in Pall Mall in London. After her death, in 1821, he married widow Louisa Davaynes, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
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Robert Garrett was born in 1794 in Ramsgate.
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Robert Garrett died on 13 June 1869 in Pall Mall.
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