Frederick Augustus Wetherall
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Sir Frederick Augustus Wetherall, GCH
Royal Guelphic Order
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 (1754–1842), British General, of Castle Bear House, Ealing
Ealing
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. He took part in the conquest of Java
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 during the Napoleonic Wars
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, during which campaign he was assisted by his son George Wetherall.

In 1817 he married, at St. Margaret's, Westminster
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, Mrs Broad, widow of Major Broad and second daughter of William Mair Esq. of Kensington, Middlesex.
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