Major General William Clinton-Baddeley
(1783-1842)
BIRTH
October 31, 1783
PLACE
NAME
Maj.-Gen. William Clinton-Baddeley
DEATH
December 19, 1842
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FAMILY
MOTHER
Mary O'Callaghan
(1756-1820)
BROTHER
Frederick Henry Baddeley
(1794-1879)
CHILDREN
Henry Clinton
(1730-1795)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
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AWARDS
William Clinton-Baddeley (1783–1842) was a Bengal Army officer and major-general. He commanded the 31st Bengal Native Infantry and, in 1821–1824, the cavalry unit known as Baddeley’s Frontier Horse, later the second Skinner’s Horse. He subsequently served as a brigadier in the Nizam’s army and was colonel of the 74th Bengal Native Infantry. An early Oriental Club member, he died at Karnal in December 1842. He is distinct from the later writer.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Maj.-Gen. William Clinton-Baddeley’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Maj.-Gen. William Clinton-Baddeley is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
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DEATH
William Clinton-Baddeley was a Bengal Army officer and major-general. He commanded the 31st Bengal Native Infantry and, in 1821–1824, the cavalry unit known as Baddeley’s Frontier Horse, later the second Skinner’s Horse. He subsequently served as a brigadier in the Nizam’s army and was colonel of the 74th Bengal Native Infantry. An early Oriental Club member, he died at Karnal in December 1842. He is distinct from the later writer. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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