Joseph Muter

Sir Joseph Muter CB KCH FRSE (1780 – 23 October 1840) was a British Army officer who fought in the Peninsular War and led the Inniskilling Dragoons at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.

[1] Born the youngest son of William Muter of Annfield, Fifeshire in and his wife, Janet Straton of Kirkside near Montrose in Kincardineshire,[2] he was educated at the University of Edinburgh where his classmates included James Abercromby, later Speaker of the House of Commons.

At the Battle of Waterloo Muter commanded the 6th Inniskilling (Irish) Regiment of Dragoons as part of the Union Brigade.

During the battle, in response to the French Infantry assault on Wellington's left centre, the Union Brigade moved forward.

[7] Following the loss in battle of Major-General Sir William Ponsonby command of the 2nd Union Cavalry Brigade devolved upon Muter.

[2] Some time around 1816 he changed his surname to Straton after inheriting a property belonging to his aunt in Kirkside, 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Montrose in Scotland.

[4] Muter died at Park Street off Grosvenor Square[10] in London on 23 October 1840 at the age of 63 and is buried in the family plot in Nether Kirkyard, St Cyrus, near Montrose, where there is monument with a dedication to him.