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Francis Seymour Larpent

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Larpent married, first, on 15 March 1815, Catherine Elizabeth, second daughter of Frederick Reeves of East Sheen, Surrey—she died without issue on 17 Jan. 1822; secondly, on 10 Dec. 1829, Charlotte Rosamund, daughter of George Arnold Arnold of Halstead Place, Kent—she died at Bath on 28 April 1879.
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was alleged to have committed abroad, but he insisted that his appointment should proceed from the government directly, and that he should not be employed to gather partisan evidence. Although he nominally set out to take up his work at Gibraltar, he went to
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as deputy judge-advocate general to the forces there. He remained till 1814 at headquarters with the Duke of Wellington, who thought highly of him. In August 1813 he was taken prisoner, but was exchanged almost immediately.
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When in the Peninsula Larpent wrote descriptive letters to his step-mother; these were edited, with a preface by Sir George Larpent, under the title of
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After the Napoleonic Wars, Larpent worked in Gibraltar and Vienna, before returning to the United Kingdom where he died in 1845.
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In 1814 Larpent was made a commissioner of customs. About the same time he was appointed civil and admiralty judge for
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of the public accounts. In 1826 he became its chairman, and in 1843 he retired. He died at Holmwood, near
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The private journal of F. Seymour Larpent, during the Peninsular War, from 1812 to its close (1853)
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Francis Seymour Larpent with Charlotte Rosamund Larpent, portrait about 1830
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in 1799, was elected fellow, and proceeded M.A. in 1802.
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Civil servants in the Audit Office (United Kingdom)
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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
John Larpent
Sir George Gerard de Hochepied Larpent
Cheam
St John's College, Cambridge
wrangler
John Bayley
special pleader
called to the bar
Charles Manners-Sutton
judge-advocate general
Iberian Peninsula
Gibraltar
Sir John Murray
Prince Regent
Princess Caroline
Vienna
Lord Liverpool
commissioners of the board of audit
Dorking
Surrey
Peninsular War






Lee, Sidney

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