Frederick Henry Baddeley

Major General Frederick Henry Baddeley (4 December 1794 – 4 May 1879) was a British military engineer of the Corps of Royal Engineers with his early service being in the Napoleonic wars including the capture of Paris in 1815. He then did a tour in the West Indies from 1817 to 1819, and in 1821 was assigned to Quebec City in Lower Canada.

Most of his important work in Canada had to do with the geology of much of southeastern Canada. British military officers, and Baddeley being considered one of the best, did extensive geological studies of this huge area. His tour in Canada ended in 1839 and during his stay in Canada, he pioneered a valuable body of geological and other engineering work.

Baddeley served as Commanding Royal Engineer in New Zealand from September 1853 to February 1856, and was promoted to colonel on 28 November 1854.[1] In 1855 he superintended the construction of the Marsland Hill barracks, New Plymouth.[2]

Publications
  • Baddeley, Frederick Henry (1829). "ART. VI.—Geology of a Portion of the Labrador Coast". Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. Quebec. 1: 71–79.
  • Baddeley, Frederick Henry (1830). Mineralogical Examination of the Sulphate of Strontian from Kingston, and on the Red Colour of Flame as produced by Strontian and as characteristic of Minerals of that Genus.
  • Baddeley, Frederick Henry (1837). "On the Magdalen Islands, Being the Substance of Four Reports". Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. Quebec. 3: 128–190.
  • Baddeley, Frederick Henry (1837). "A Geological Sketch of the Most South-eastern Portion of Lower Canada". Transactions of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. Quebec. 3: 27–28.

References
  1. Hart, H. G. (1866). The New Army List and Militia List for 1866 (PDF). 27. London: John Murray.
  2. "The Nelson Examiner". Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle. 16 (11). 5 May 1855. p. 2.


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