About Henry Smyth (British Army officer, born 1816)
Major-General Henry Smyth CB (5 April 1816 – 1891) was a British Army officer who became General Officer Commanding Western District.Smyth was the second son of John Henry Smyth (1780–1822), of Heath Hall, Warmfield cum Heath, Yorkshire, a Whig MP for Cambridge University (1812–1822) and Lady Elizabeth Anne FitzRoy, daughter of George FitzRoy, 4th Duke of Grafton.
His elder brother, John George Smyth, was an MP for the City of York.