Philip Honywood (British Army officer, died 1785)

General Philip Honywood (c.1710 – 21 February 1785) was a British army officer who sat in the House of Commons from 1754 to 1784.

Honywood was the son of Robert Honywood and his wife Mary Sandford, daughter of Sir Richard Sandford, Bart. At the Battle of Dettingen in 1748, he received at least twenty-three broadsword wounds and two musket shots which were never removed, distinguishing himself by his personal valour. He was afterwards promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy in the regiment of his uncle, also Philip Honywood. He became a general in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and was seriously wounded at the skirmish at Clifton in 1745. He was then Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull.

Honywood was elected Member of Parliament for Appleby in 1754 and held the seat until 1784. In 1782, he was appointed to the colonelcy of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, which he held unto his death.

Honywood died aged 75 possessed of an estate of near £6000 per annum at Marks Hall Essex, which he left to his cousin Filmer Honywood M.P. for Kent. Honywood married Elizabeth Wastell, but their only child died aged 19.

External links

• Portrait of Lieutenant General Philip Honeywood by Thomas Gainsborough
• HONYWOOD, Philip (c.1710-85), of Marks Hall, Essex and Howgill Castle, Westmld. at The History of Parliament Online

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by Randle Wilbraham Sir John Ramsden, Bt	Member of Parliament for Appleby 1754–1784 With: William Lee 1754–1756 Fletcher Norton 1756–1761 John Stanwix 1761–1767 Charles Jenkinson 1767–1773 Fletcher Norton 1773–1774 George Johnstone 1774–1780 William Lowther 1780–1781 William Pitt 1781–1784	Succeeded by Richard Penn John Leveson-Gower
Military offices
Preceded by The Earl of Albemarle	Colonel of the 20th Regiment of Foot 1755–1756	Succeeded by William Kingsley
Preceded by John Jordan	Colonel of the 9th Regiment of Dragoons 1755–1756	Succeeded by Henry Whitley
Preceded by Hon. Henry Seymour Conway	Colonel of the 4th Regiment of Horse 1759–1782	Succeeded by Studholme Hodgson
Preceded by Harry Pulteney	Governor of Kingston-upon-Hull 1766–1785	Succeeded by James Murray
Preceded by Lord Robert Manners	Colonel of 3rd (The Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards 1782–1785	Succeeded by Richard Burton Phillipson