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MEMOIR, ETC. 
Colonel Whinyates became a Major-General in 1854, Colonel Commandant of a 
battalion in 1855, Lieut.-General in 1856, Colonel Commandant of Brigade R.H.A., 
July 22, 1864, and General on the 10th December of the same year. He was 
nominated Knight of the Guelphic Order for “ distinguished military services ” in 
1823; Companion of the Bath September 27th 1831; and Knight Commander 
18th May 1860. He married in 1827 Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr Samuel 
Crompton, of Wood End, North Biding of Yorkshire. 
General Whinyates took a lively interest in the welfare of the Regimental 
Institution, and was a liberal benefactor to its funds. At the time of the occupa¬ 
tion of the new building in 1852, he presented the Committee with £100 for the 
use of the Institution, and it is owing to this liberality that the Institution is now 
in possession of that magnificent work Gould’s “ Birds of Europe,” and also of a 
firstrate Photographic Camera. 
He died at Cheltenham on the 25th December 1865, in his 84th year, and the 
writer cannot more fitly terminate this short memoir, than by quoting the opinion 
of an officer who had the best possible opportunity of knowing Sir Edward’s true 
character and guiding motives through a long life, which he thus summarizes:— 
“ He was an excellent, gallant, and chivalrous soldier. His endeavour 
throughout a long life was to promote the honour and credit of the Royal 
Artillery; and his devotion to the welfare of the Horse Artillery was 
unbounded—no officer ever possessed it to a greater degree.” 
