Talk:Charles Henry Churchill

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The Charles Henry Churchill starring in this article is NOT a Spencer-Churchill!

Col. Charles Henry Churchill, also known as "Churchill Bey" was the son of Charles Henry Churchill of the East India Company and Sophia Purchas. He was the grandson of Charles Churchill and Lady Maria Walpole. He was born in 1807 and died at Bihwarah, Lebanon on 2 february 1869. He is believed to have married twice, the second time to a Syrian princess. He is believed to have had six children, two of his daughters marrying into the Lebanese Shehab family.

To support my statement: it is utterly unbelievable that a 13 or 14 year old was consul in Damascus and wrote to Sir Moses Montefiore as a 13 year old on the cause of a Jewish home state. That is however what the article is stating!

Note that both Col. Charles Henry Churchill and Col. Charles Henry Spencer Churchill served in the Iberian Peninsula. Both achieved the rank of lt. col. in the army and are thus easily mixed up.

References: I refer to the biography "Charles Henry Churchill" by Franz Kobler in the Herzl Yearbook 1962 and the various sources referenced therein, such as "Churchill of Lebanon" by N.N. Lewis in Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, vol. 40, 1953, pp. 217 - 223. Col. Charles Henry Churchill is also the centre of the case concerning the explanation of the will and testament of Col. Charles Churchill, his great grandfather: The Earl of Orford vs. Churchill, in Reports of Cases in the High Court of Chancery in the time of Lord Chancellor Eldon, Vol. III 1814.

Apart from this biographical mix up, I believe the remainder of the article is more or less correct.

There's a portrait of Churchill Bey in the government art collection which is easily found on the internet searching for "Churchill Bey". Roland Wigman (talk) 15:34, 24 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Why is there not the chapter "Biography"? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.27.30.118 (talk) 19:50, 6 December 2014 (UTC)