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"Bwab". Caricature by Ape in Vanity Fair, 29 May 1886

Sir John Palmer Brabazon (13 February 1843 – 20 September 1922) was an Irish soldier.

After education at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he was commissioned as a Cornet in the 16th Lancers on 4 February 1862,[1] before purchasing a promotion to Ensign and Lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards on 8 August.[2] He was promoted to Lieutenant and Captain on 10 July 1866, again by purchase.[3] On 26 February 1870 he exchanged his lieutenancy in the Guards for a captaincy in the 69th Regiment of Foot,[4] and retired from the Army later that year.[5]

Rejoined the Army

He was commissioned again as a Lieutenant in the 10th Hussars on 13 June 1874.[6] Brigade-Major Cavalry Brigade, Kuram Field Force, and mentioned in despatches by the Brigade commander Hugh Henry Gough for his services at Matun on 7 January 1879.[7], for Battle of Peiwar Kotal 1878[8] by General Massy, advance on Kabul following Charasiab[9][10]

promoted to Captain, 18 November 1879,[11] antedated to 13 November[12] MID by Gough again[13] brevet Major 2 March 1881[14]

for his service in the Sudan he was promoted brevet Lieutenant-Colonel on 21 May 1884[15] ADC to the Queen, with brevet rank of Colonel, 28 August 1889[16] Major 10th Hussars, 10 August 1889[17] half-pay Lieutenant-Colonel, 12 February 1891[18] Lieutenant-Colonel, 4th Hussars, 13 May 1891[19]

mother died intestate 18 June 1891 and Brabazon and his sister appointed administrators[20] attended funeral of Duke of Clarence (ex-10th Hussars)[21]

CB in the birthday honours, 3 June 1893[22]

organising Imperial Yeomanry, 1900[23]

retired 1901[24] Brabazon Park sold 1914[25] Inherited Glencorrib 1903, sold 1921[26][27]

Nephew John St Clair Campbell adopted surname of Brabazon 1923[28][29]

Brabazon is mentioned in his role as the Victorian dandy "Bwab" in Chapter 2 of Anthony Powell's 1957 novel At Lady Molly's. Allusion is made to his leaving the Brigade of Guards for a regiment of which he was unable to remember the name but that "they wore green facings and you got to them by Waterloo Station", and his rhotacism.[30]

References

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  • Charles Napier Robinson, Celebrities of the army, 1902 page 87
  1. ^ "No. 22595". The London Gazette. 4 February 1862.
  2. ^ "No. 22651". The London Gazette. 8 August 1862.
  3. ^ "No. 23135". The London Gazette. 10 July 1866.
  4. ^ "No. 23590". The London Gazette. 25 February 1870.
  5. ^ "No. 23661". The London Gazette. 23 September 1870.
  6. ^ "No. 24104". The London Gazette. 12 June 1874.
  7. ^ "No. 24698". The London Gazette. 21 March 1879.
  8. ^ "No. 24780". The London Gazette. 7 November 1879.
  9. ^ "No. 24801". The London Gazette. 16 January 1880.
  10. ^ "No. 24801". The London Gazette. 16 January 1800.
  11. ^ "No. 24810". The London Gazette. 10 February 1880. Cancelling "No. 24805". The London Gazette. 23 January 1880.
  12. ^ "No. 24838". The London Gazette. 27 April 1800.
  13. ^ "No. 24909". The London Gazette. 3 December 1800.
  14. ^ "No. 24944". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 March 1811.
  15. ^ "No. 25356". The London Gazette (Supplement). 21 May 1884.
  16. ^ "No. 25968". The London Gazette. 27 August 1889.
  17. ^ "No. 25970". The London Gazette. 3 September 1889.
  18. ^ "No. 26133". The London Gazette. 10 February 1891.
  19. ^ "No. 26160". The London Gazette. 12 May 1891.
  20. ^ "No. 26199". The London Gazette. 8 September 1891.
  21. ^ "No. 26254". The London Gazette (Supplement). 4 February 1892.
  22. ^ "No. 26409". The London Gazette (Supplement). 3 June 1893.
  23. ^ http://www.archive.org/stream/historywarinsou00grangoog#page/n54/mode/2up
  24. ^ Service biography for BRABAZON, Sir John Palmer (1843-1922), Major General in Survey of the Papers of Senior UK Defence Personnel, 1900-1975, Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives, accessed 24 December 2011
  25. ^ http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=156
  26. ^ http://www.landedestates.ie/LandedEstates/jsp/estate-show.jsp?id=398
  27. ^ http://www.glencorrib.com
  28. ^ http://thepeerage.com/p4733.htm#i47324
  29. ^ http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/32863/pages/6315
  30. ^ Anthony Powell, A Dance to the Music of Time: Summer (second volume of omnibus edition), Arrow Books, 2000, p. 87-88
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