Philip Honywood (British Army officer, died 1785)

General Philip Honywood (c.1710 – 21 February 1785) was a British army officer who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1784.

Philip Honywood
Member of Parliament
for Appleby
In office
1754–1784
Personal details
Bornc.1710
Died21 February 1785
Military service
AllegianceGreat Britain
Branch/serviceBritish Army
Years of service1735–1785
RankGeneral
Battles/wars

Honywood was the fifth son of Robert Honywood and his wife Mary Sandford, daughter of Sir Richard Sandford, Bart. and sister and heiress of Sir Richard Sandford, 3rd Baronet of Howgill Castle. He succeeded his brother to the Marks Hall estate in Essex in 1755.

Military career
A portrait, possibly portraying Honywood, by Michael Dahl

He joined the Army as a cornet and rose through the ranks to become a major in 1741. At the Battle of Dettingen in 1743, he received at least twenty-three broadsword wounds and two musket shots which were never removed, distinguishing himself by his personal valour. He was afterwards promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy in the regiment of his uncle, also Philip Honywood. He took part in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and was seriously wounded at the skirmish at Clifton in 1745. He was promoted colonel in 1752 and awarded the colonelcy of the 20th Foot in 1755–56 and the 9th Dragoons from 1756 to 1759. He was made major-general in 1758, given the colonelcy of the 4th Horse from 1759 to 1782 and made lieutenant-general in 1760.[1]

He was Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull from 1766 to his death. [2] He was finally promoted to full General in 1777 and transferred to be Colonel of the 3rd Dragoon Guards from 1782 to his death.

Parliamentary career

Honywood was elected Member of Parliament for Appleby in 1754 and held the seat until 1784.[1]

Honywood died in 1785 aged 75. He had married Elizabeth Wastell, but their only child, Philip, who was born 27 June 1760,[3] died aged 19. He left his Marks Hall estate worth nearly £6000 per annum to his cousin Filmer Honywood, M.P. for Kent.

References
  1. "HONYWOOD, Philip (c.1710–85), of Marks Hall, Essex and Howgill Castle, Westmld". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  2. William Betham, The Baronetage of England Vol 2
  3. The Register of Births & Baptisms in the Parish of St James within the Liberty of Westminster Vol. IV. 1741-1760. 18 July 1760.
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