by Andrew Morton
oil on canvas, exhibited 1839
NPG 1895
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Dr. John A. Hall
14 September 2020, 04:40
Obituary, Colburn's United Service Magazine, Oct. 1847, p. 318:
'Sept. 12th, at Cheltenham, Lieut.-Gen. Sir Henry Sheehy Keating, K.C.B., aged 70. The following are the dates of his commissions: - Ensign, 31st Aug., 1793; Lieut., 31st Jan., 1794; Capt., 8th Sept., 1796; Major, 3rd Sept., 1800; Lieut.-Colonel, 1st Aug., 1804; Colonel, 4th June, 1813; Maj.-Gen., 12th Aug., 1819; Lieut.-Gen., 10th Jan., 1837; Col. 33rd Foot, 4th April, 1845. Sir Henry Keating proceeded to the West Indies with the force under Sir C. Grey. Early in 1794 landed at Martinique; present at the affair of La Trinité, attack of Mont Rouge and Mount Calabasse (sword-arm broken by a musket shot), and defence of Berville camp, - skull fractured by a splinter of a shell, taken prisoner and kept on board a prison ship for eighteen months, and three months subsequently a close prisoner at Rochelle. Proceeded to the East Indies in 1807; and in 1809, in conjunction with Commodore Rowley, planned the attack and succeeded in the capture of the town and shipping of St. Paul's in the Isle de Bourbon. In 1810, entrusted with the command of a force amounting to 5,000 men destined for the attack of Bourbon; planned and succeeded in the conquest of that island, captured the stores, ammunition, and materiel; took seven standards, the garrison laying down their arms and surrendering themselves prisoners of war. Commanded the advance of the Army in the attack on the Isle de France, and was wounded in the leg by a thrust of a sword.'