Thomas Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret

Lieutenant-General Thomas William Fermor, 4th Earl of Pomfret FRS (12 October 1770 – 29 June 1833), styled The Honourable Thomas Fermor until 1830, was an officer in the British Army who fought in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

[1] He served in Ireland during the rebellion, and in the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, where he took part in the several actions.

[1] He served with the guards in the Peninsula War until his promotion to the rank of major-general on 4 June 1813.

For the Battle of Salamanca he received a medal; he was also a knight of the Portuguese Order of the Tower and Sword, which he obtained permission to accept 11 May 1813.

[1] After his death, his widow Amabel married, secondly, in May 1834, William Thorpe, D.D., of Belgrave Chapel, Pimlico.