Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield
- Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield
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order =Private Secretary to the Sovereign
term_start = 1817
term_end = 1822
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predecessor = Col. The Rt. Hon. Sir John McMahon
successor = Sir William Knighton, Bt.
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Lieutenant-General Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield GCB GCH (1768–1846), was Private Secretary to the Sovereign 1817–1822.
Bloomfield was born in 1768, and educated at the Royal Military Academy Woolwich. He joined the Royal Artillery and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in 1781. He served in Newfoundland, Gibraltar, and at Brighton in 1806, where as a Brevet Major he was in charge of a troop of the Royal Horse Artillery (he was also appointed a Gentleman in Waiting in that year). In 1814 he was promoted to Major-General. By 1826 he was Commanding Officer of the garrison at Woolwich. He became Colonel Commandant of the Royal Horse Artillery.
He was an Aide-de-Camp 1811–1814, was Chief Equerry and Chief Marshal to the Prince of Wales, and was Private Secretary to the King, Keeper of the Privy Purse, and Receiver of the Duchy of Cornwall 1817–1822.
He was knighted in 1815, and received the GCB in 1822, and enobled as Lord Bloomfield in 1825. He died in 1846.
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