Henry Godwin (Army officer)

Sir Henry Thomas Godwin
Born1784
Died26 October 1853
Simla
Allegiance United Kingdom
 British India
Service/branch British Army
Bombay Army
RankMajor General
Battles/warsPeninsular War; First Anglo-Burmese War; Second Anglo-Burmese War
AwardsKnight Commander of the Order of the Bath
RelationsRobert Godwin-Austen, son-in-law
Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen, grandson
General Sir Alfred Godwin-Austen, great-grandson

Sir Henry Thomas Godwin KCB (1784–1853) was a British officer. He fought in the British Army in the Peninsular War and in the First Anglo-Burmese War before joining the Bengal Army, in which he served as commander in chief of British and Indian forces in the Second Anglo-Burmese War of 1852 and 1853.


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