General Sir Edward Charles Whinyates
Gravestone in St Mary’s Churchyard, Prestbury
Lived at Dorset Villa (now 83 Pittville Lawn) – Died 25 December 1865, aged 83
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GENERAL
SIR EDWARD CHARLES WHINYATES
K.C.B. & K.H.
COLONEL COMMANDANT OF B. BRIGADE
ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY.
WHO WAS BORN NEAR CALCUTTA 6TH. MAY 1782.
AND DIED AT CHELTENHAM 25TH. DECEMBER 1865
IN HIS 84TH. YEAR.
HE WAS THE THIRD SON OF MAJOR THOMAS WHINYATES
BY CATHERINE SIXTH DAUGHTER OF ADMIRAL SIR THOMAS
FRANKLAND BART. AND ENTERED THE ARMY AS SECOND
LIEUTENANT IN THE ROYAL ARTILLERY AT THE AGE OF
SIXTEEN & SAW MUCH ACTIVE SERVICE. HE SERVED IN THE
EXPEDITION TO THE HELDER, & CAMPAIGN IN NORTH
HOLLAND IN 1799. THE EXPEDITION TO MADEIRA IN 1801.
& AT THE SIEGE & CAPTURE OF COPENHAGEN IN 1807.
THE PENINSULAR CAMPAIGNS FROM FEBY. 10TH. 1810 TO JULY
1813 INCLUDING THE BATTLES OF BUSACO & ALBUERA
AFFAIRS AT USAGRE, ALDEA DE PONTE, & SAN MUNOZ=
ATTACK & DEFEAT OF GENERAL LALLEMAND'S CAVALRY
AT RIBERA, & MANY OTHER AFFAIRS, BEING ALWAYS
ON THE ADVANCE & REAR GUARDS. HE SERVED ALSO THE
CAMPAIGN OF 1815 IN THE NETHERLANDS & FRANCE, & WAS
SEVERELY WOUNDED IN THE LEFT ARM AT WATERLOO
WHERE HE COMMANDED THE ROCKET TROOP ROYAL HORSE
ARTILLERY. HE WAS NOMINATED A KNIGHT OF THE ROYAL
GUELPHIC ORDER FOR DISTINGUISHED MILITARY SERVICES,
IN 1823. A KNIGHT COMPANION OF THE BATH, 26TH. SEPR. 1831
& COMMANDER OF THE BATH ON 18TH. MAY 1860.
HE ALSO RECEIVED THE SILVER WAR MEDAL WITH TWO
CLASPS FOR BUSACO & ALBUERA & MEDAL FOR THE BATTLE
OF WATERLOO. THUS, AFTER A SERVICE OF NEARLY SIXTY
EIGHT YEARS IN THE ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.
HE CLOSED AT CHELTENHAM, A LONG USEFUL, AND
HONOURABLE CAREER, FULL OF YEARS & FULL OF HONOURS,
MUCH LOVED & RESPECTED BY ALL WHO KNEW HIM.
"I KNOW THAT MY REDEEMER LIVETH." JOB. 19. 25 VERSE.
ALSO OF OCTAVIA, WIDOW OF THE LATE WILLIAM CHRISTMAS,
OF WHITFIELD C. WATERFORD ESQRE. AND SISTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED ON THE 10TH. FEBRY. 1882 AT CHELTENHAM.
AGED 84 YEARS.
Photos: Terry Langhorn
Location: Plot F-0067