Edward Cheney

Colonel Edward Hawkins Cheney CB (4 November 1778 – 3 March 1848) was a 19th-century British soldier and hero of the Battle of Waterloo.

He joined the 2nd Dragoons at the rank of cornet in 1794, serving in Holland under the Duke of York and was severely wounded during the Flanders Campaign.

[3] At the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815, the Scots Greys formed part of an echelon and were placed to primarily oppose Marcognet's 3rd Division troops.

The charge and its success, though costly in terms of lives, is seen as one of the critical turning points within the battle, and Cheney is at least partly accountable for this success, and co-ordinated the joint attack of the Scots Greys in support of the Gordon Highlanders, a predominantly Scottish attack.

Low relief panels on the sarcophagus base show Ensign Ewart capturing the French regimental standard, the other significant event in the same action.

[9] Nicholas Pevsner described the monument as "more suited to St Paul's Cathedral than to a small village church".

[10] The teeth of the horse have been stained brown through a long-running habit of placing an apple in its mouth at each Harvest Thanksgiving in the church.

Cheney's Waterloo Medal was acquired by the Regimental Museum of the Royal Scots Greys and is now held at Edinburgh Castle.