Philip Honywood (British Army officer, died 1785)

General Philip Honywood (c.1710 – 21 February 1785) was a British army officer who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1784.

Honywood was the son of Robert Honywood and his wife Mary Sandford, daughter of Sir Richard Sandford, Bart. At the Battle of Dettingen in 1748, he received at least twenty-three broadsword wounds and two musket shots which were never removed, distinguishing himself by his personal valour. He was afterwards promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy in the regiment of his uncle, also Philip Honywood. He became a general in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and was seriously wounded at the skirmish at Clifton in 1745. He was then Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull. ^[1]

Honywood was elected Member of Parliament for Appleby in 1754 and held the seat until 1784.^[2] In 1782, he was appointed to the colonelcy of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, which he held unto his death.

Honywood died aged 75 possessed of an estate of near £6000 per annum at Marks Hall Essex, which he left to his cousin Filmer Honywood M.P. for Kent. Honywood married Elizabeth Wastell, but their only child died aged 19.

References

1. William Betham, The Baronetage of England Vol 2
2. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "A" (part 2)

External links

• Portrait of Lieutenant General Philip Honeywood by Thomas Gainsborough
• HONYWOOD, Philip (c.1710-85), of Marks Hall, Essex and Howgill Castle, Westmld. at The History of Parliament Online