David Tinling-Widdrington

Lieutenant-General Sir David Latimer Tinling-Wriddington KCH (1757 – 30 July 1839) was a senior officer in the British Army.[1] His surname was originally Tinling, but he adopted Tinling-Widdrington on marrying his wife Sarah Teasdale in 1784,[2] who was a co-heiress to the estates of her uncles John and Nathaniel Widdrington. However, in 1809 he was granted permission to have his children styled as simply Widdrington.[3] He joined the Army in 1777, serving at Gibraltar, in the West Indies, Flanders and at Menorca; he commanded a battalion of the 17th Foot. He finished his active service in Gibraltar.[4] He was promoted Lieutenant General 27 May 1825.[5] He was awarded KCH and in 1833 and knighted.[6] He died on 30 July 1839[7][8] in his son's house in Bexley, Kent and was buried in the graveyard at St Mary's Church, Bexley.[9] His eldest son was Major George John Widdrington who died of wounds received at the Battle of Vitoria in 1813, in northern Spain, aged 26.[10][11]