Edward Bowater

General Sir Edward Bowater KCH (13 July 1787 – 14 December 1861)[1] was a British soldier and courtier.

[4] In the following year Bowater took part in the Battle of Vitoria in June and then was commanded to the Siege of San Sebastián until September 1813.

[4] Bowater was advanced to a captain and lieutenant-colonel in 1814, receiving command of a company,[6] and when Napoleon returned from his exile in 1815, he led his men in the Battle of Quatre Bras.

[1] In 1826, Bowater was promoted to colonel[7] and in 1837 to major-general,[8] after which he was awarded a Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order.

[11] In 1840 he was admitted to Prince Albert, who had shortly before arrived at the court, until 1846, when he was appointed Groom in Waiting in Ordinary to the latter's wife Queen Victoria.