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Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge (2 March 1828 – 15 July 1892) was

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Military career

Born the second son of

Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge Field Marshal Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge, (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 ...

and educated at

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, Hardinge was commissioned into the 41st Regiment of Foot in 1844.Arthur Edward Hardinge at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
/ref> He was quickly appointed Aide-de-Camp to his father, then serving as

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. In 1849 he transferred to the

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War Office, 22 June 1849 He went to the

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as Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General in 1854 and was present at the

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, Battle of Inkerman and Siege of Sevastopol. He became Assistant Quartermaster-General at Shorncliffe in 1856 and became

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in 1858 and, following Albert's death, he became Equerry to

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. In 1881 he was appointed

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of the

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and colonel of the

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until 1886, when he was transferred to be

and colonel of the 1st Battalion of the

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. He was promoted full general on 1 April 1883. On his return to England in 1890, he transferred to be colonel of the 1st Battalion,

until his death. He was made

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in 1886. He died on 15 July 1892 from injuries received in a carriage accident at Weymouth and was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter, Fordcombe, Kent.

Family

On 30 December 1858, he married Mary Georgina Frances Ellis, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Augustus Frederick Ellis, and had one son ( Arthur Henry Hardinge) and three daughters.

References

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