Burke Cuppage

Lieutenant-General Sir Burke Douglas Cuppage (1794 – 19 April 1877) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

Military career
Cuppage was commissioned into the Royal Artillery in 1812. He fought in the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo under the Duke of Wellington. He was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1863 and laid the foundation stone for a new Public Asylum there two years later.

Family
In 1828 he married Emily Anne Fouril; they had a son and two daughters.