{{Short description|British Army general}} {{distinguish|Fredrick Love}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox military person | honorific_prefix = General | name = Sir Frederick Love | honorific_suffix = {{post-nom|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|KH}} | image = Jameslove.png | caption = | birth_date = 1789 | death_date = 13 January 1866 | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = | death_place = | burial_coordinates = <!-- {{coord|LAT|LONG|display=inline,title}} --> | nickname = | allegiance = United Kingdom | branch = British Army | service_years = 1804–1857 | rank = General | unit = | commands = | battles = {{Tree list}} *Napoleonic Wars **Finnish War **Peninsular War ***Battle of Corunna ***Battle of the Coa ***Battle of Busaco ***Battle of Pombal ***Battle of Redinha ***Battle of Casal Novo ***Battle of Foz de Arouce ***Battle of Sabugal ***Battle of Fuentes d'Onoro ***Siege of Ciudad Rodrigo **Siege of Antwerp *War of 1812 **Battle of New Orleans{{WIA}} *Hundred Days **Battle of Waterloo{{WIA}} *Rebellions of 1837–1838 {{tree list/end}} | awards = Military General Service Medal | relations = | other_work = }} General '''Sir James Frederick Love''' {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCB|KH}} (1789 – 13 January 1866) was a British Army officer who served as Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
==Military career== Love was commissioned into the 52nd Regiment of Foot in 1804 and took part in the retreat to Corunna and the Battle of Bussaco during the Peninsular War.<ref name=odnb>[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17040 James Frederick Love at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]</ref> He was wounded at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and saved Bristol during the riots of 1831.<ref name=odnb/> He was appointed British resident at Zakynthos in 1835, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1852 and General Officer Commanding South-Eastern District in 1856 before becoming Inspector-General of Infantry in 1857.<ref name=odnb/>
He was Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot from 1856 to 1865<ref name=regiments>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057-757.htm |title=57th (the West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |accessdate=17 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061201151140/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/057-757.htm |archivedate=1 December 2006 }}</ref> and Colonel of 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot from 1865 to his death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043-751.htm |title=43rd (the Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) |publisher=regiments.org |accessdate=8 July 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20061229235105/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/043-751.htm |archivedate=29 December 2006 }}</ref>
He was promoted general on 10 August 1864.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=22887|page=4126|date=23 August 1864}}</ref>
==Family== In 1825, he married Mary Heaviside; they had no children.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.famouscanadianwomen.com/famous%20firsts/artists.htm |title=Famous Canadian Women |access-date=23 May 2011 |archive-date=10 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110710224115/http://www.famouscanadianwomen.com/famous%20firsts/artists.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
{{s-start}} {{s-gov}} {{s-bef|before=Sir James Reynett}} {{s-ttl|title=Lieutenant Governor of Jersey|years=1852–1856}} {{s-aft|after=Godfrey Mundy}} |- {{s-mil}} {{s-bef|before=Sir Colin Campbell}} {{s-ttl|title=GOC South-Eastern District|years=1856–1857}} {{s-aft|after=Robert Mansel}} |- {{s-bef|before=Sir James Fergusson}} {{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the 43rd (Monmouthshire) Regiment of Foot|years=1865–1866}} {{s-aft|after=Sir Robert Garrett}} |- {{s-bef|before=Lord Hardinge}} {{s-ttl|title=Colonel of the 57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot|years=1856–1865}} {{s-aft|after=Charles Richard Fox}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Love, James Frederick}} Category:1789 births Category:1866 deaths Category:British Army generals Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath Category:Governors of Jersey Category:52nd Regiment of Foot officers Category:British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars Category:People of the Battle of Waterloo