Henry Ewart

Major-General Sir Henry Peter Ewart, 1st Baronet, GCVO, KCB (20 August 1838 – April 1928) was a British Army officer and courtier.

[5] Ewart subsequently commanded the Cavalry Brigade of the British Suakin Expeditionary Force during the Mahdist War between 1884 and 1885.

After successfully taking part in the arrangement for the coronation of King Edward VII on 9 August 1902, he was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) on 11 August 1902.

[11][12] Following the King′s death in May 1910, he was created a baronet, of White House in the parish of Hythe in the County of Southampton, on 14 June 1910.

[14] Together they had one son, Victor Alexander Ewart, who served as an officer in the Royal Navy and was killed on HMS Queen Mary during the Battle of Jutland in 1916.