Frederick Stovin 1783 - 1865

Sir Frederick Stovin was born in 1783 in Whitgift, near Howden, Yorkshire. He joined the British Army in 1800 and served through the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815) and the War of 1812. He served as ensign and lieutenant in the 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot, and as captain in the 28th foot. He was brigade major at Gibraltar for a few months, but had to return to England in September on account of ill health. In 1814 Stovin was appointed deputy adjutant-general to the expeditionary force against the coasts of the United States; he took part in the unsuccessful attack on New Orleans, and was wounded.

In 1815 Stovin married Anne Elizabeth, she died at Brighton on 3 April 1856, aged sixty-three. He commanded the 92nd in Jamaica from October 1820 to the middle of 1821. He commanded the 90th in the Ionian Islands and suppressed a rebellion. He was made Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George for his services there. He retired from active duty in 1829.

He held a number of administrative roles in Ireland, including the state secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant and the commissioner of police in Ulster, and after the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 became a palace courtier. His final military role was the (ceremonial) colonelcy of the 83rd (County of Dublin) Regiment, which he held from 1848 until his death. He died in Ambassador's Court, St James's Palace, on 16 August 1865.