William Howley Goodenough

Lieutenant-General Sir William Howley Goodenough KCB (4 April 1833 – 24 October 1898) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding North-West District.

Sir William Howley Goodenough
Sir William Howley Goodenough
Born4 April 1833
Wells, Mendip District, Somerset, England
Died24 October 1898
Erinville, Rondebosch, Western Cape
AllegianceUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Service/branch British Army
RankLieutenant-General
Battles/warsIndian Rebellion
Anglo-Egyptian War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath

Military career

Born the son of Edmund Goodenough, Head Master of Westminster School,[1] Goodenough was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 20 June 1849.[2] He was promoted to lieutenant on 1 April 1851, to captain on 1 January 1856 and to major on 20 July 1858.[3] He fought and was wounded at the Siege of Lucknow during the Indian Rebellion.[1] Promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 25 March 1869, he became military attaché in Vienna in 1871.[1]

He commanded the artillery during the Anglo-Egyptian War in 1882.[4] He went on to be Inspector-General of Royal Artillery in August 1886, General Officer Commanding North-West District in July 1889 and General Officer Commanding, Chatham District in April 1890.[5] His last appointment was as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Cape of Good Hope in December 1894, in which capacity he briefly acted as Governor of Cape Colony in 1897, before retiring in October 1898.[5]

References
  1. Edmund Burke: Annual register. Longmans Green and Co., 1899
  2. The new army list, and militia list. 1855, p. 240
  3. Hart’s annual Army list, Militia list, and Imperial Yeomanry list. 1870, p. 167
  4. "Lieutenant-General Sir William Howley Goodenough (1833-98)". Royal Collection. Retrieved 23 December 2015.
  5. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 23 December 2015.
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