Lieutenant General Sir Henry Askew bart served at Waterloo

Battle of Waterloo

The Battle of Waterloo was fought on Sunday 18 June 1815 near Waterloo in present-day Belgium, then part of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands...

 and became a baronet.

Biography

Askew was born in 1775 the third son of John Askew of Pallinsburn in Northumberland

Northumberland

Northumberland is the northernmost ceremonial county and a unitary district in North East England. For Eurostat purposes Northumberland is a NUTS 3 region and is one of three boroughs or unitary districts that comprise the "Northumberland and Tyne and Wear" NUTS 2 region...

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His first mission was to Holland and Flanders with the "1st foot". In 1793, Askew was part of the expedition to Walcheren in Spain, Portugal and the south of France.

He was wounded at Quatre Bras and received the Waterloo medal. He became a Lieutenant General in 1837.

His family seat was Pallinsburn House

Pallinsburn House

Pallinsburn House is an 18th-century country house situated at Ford, Northumberland. It is a Grade II* listed building.The house was built about 1763, in a Jacobean style originally with a three-storey frontage, for John Askew, , a younger son of Dr Adam Askew of Storrs Hall...

in Northumberland

Askew died in 1847.