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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC, (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington's ministry.
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge was a British soldier and statesman who was governor-general of India in 1844–48. Hardinge entered the army in 1799 and, during the Napoleonic Wars, served with distinction as a staff officer in the Peninsular War (1808–14).
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Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge. Viscount Hardinge, of Lahore and of Kings Newton in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1846 for the soldier and Tory politician Sir Henry Hardinge.
Sir Henry Hardinge, field-marshal, born at Wrotham, Kent, on 30 March 1785, was third son of Henry Hardinge, rector of Stanhope, Durham (a living then worth £5,000 a year), by his wife Frances, daughter of James Best of Park House, Boxley, Kent.
Life dates. 1785-1856. Biography. 3rd Son of Rev. Henry Hardinge, Rector of Stanhope. Was born at Wrotham in Kent. Entered the British Army as an ensign and rose, through a long and brilliant career, to the very summit of his profession. He was actively engaged through the whole of the Peninsular War.
Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, GCB, PC, (30 March 1785 – 24 September 1856) was a British Army officer and politician. After serving in the Peninsular War and the Waterloo Campaign he became Secretary at War in Wellington 's ministry.
Soldier and administrator; served in the Napoleonic wars; became a Tory MP, 1820, and Secretary at War, 1828-30, and 1841-4: Governor-General of India 1844-7, his tenure witnessing the first Sikh war; made a Field Marshal, 1855.
