- Frederick Heriot
Frederick George Heriot (
11 January 1786 –30 December 1843 ) was a British army officer, who fought in theWar of 1812 and subsequently became a landowner and administrator inCanada .Of mixed Scottish and Irish ancestry, he was born in the
Channel Islands , the son of an army surgeon. He entered the army in 1801 as Ensign in the 49th Regiment of Foot (whose commanding officer was the thenLieutenant Colonel Isaac Brock ). Heriot went with the 49th to Canada the following year, and served there for the remainder of his military career.When war broke out with the
United States , he was appointed second in command of theCanadian Voltigeurs with the acting rank of Major. He commanded a detachment of Voltigeurs atKingston, Ontario during 1813 and was present at theBattle of Sackett's Harbor and theBattle of Crysler's Farm , where he played a prominent part.The following year, he became acting commanding officer of the Voltigeurs, and remained in this post until the end of the war.
After the war, he resigned from the army and instead became the Administrator for the settlement of discharged soldiers in the valley of the
Saint-François River inLower Canada , which would becomeDrummondville, Quebec . Heriot was named a Companion in theOrder of the Bath in 1822. He was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for the community in 1829 and 1830 and served as a member of the Special Council that governed Lower Canada after theLower Canada Rebellion . He was also aMajor General in the militia.External links
* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=3437 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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