Henry Smyth
1816–91
Military officer. Commissioned in the Sixty-eighth Foot Regiment, 1833; lieutenant, 1836; captain, 1842; major, 1848; lieutenant-colonel, 1853; colonel, 1854; major-general, 1868; lieutenant-general, 1876; general, 1878. Brother of Maria Isabella FitzRoy, Robert FitzRoy’s second wife.
Source
Army list 1865–92, J. Foster 1874, Modern English biography.
Bibliography
Army list: The army list. London: printed for the compiler of the annual official army list; Her Majesty’s Stationery Office. 1815–1900.
Foster, Joseph, comp. 1874. Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire. 3 vols. London: W. Wilfred Head.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
