General Sir Lovell Benjamin Lovell, Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath, KH was a lieutenant-general in the British Army.
Background
He was a descendant of Sir Salathiel Lovell, through the marriage of Lovell"s daughter, Jane Lovell, to Richard Badcock, the eldest son of William Badcock, a London goldsmith. He was born Lovell Benjamin Badcock, the eldest son of Thomas Stanhope Badcock of Little Missenden Abbey, Buckinghamshire and Maplethorpe Hall, Lincolnshire.
Career
Educated at Eton, Badcock commenced his distinguished military career in the Royal Buckinghamshire Militia. He fought under General Auchtermuty at Montevideo in 1807 and went through the Peninsula War with the 14th Light Dragoons until 1813, being awarded the Peninsula Medal with eleven clasps. A greater number than was given to any other officer of cavalry.
On retirement he became also Colonel of the 12th Lancers.
He died at Brighton on 11 March 1861, having never married. Interestingly, there is no known familial relationship between Lovell Benjamin Badcock and another prominent nineteenth century British Army general bearing the same surname - General Sir Alexander Robert Badcock.
A portrait of Badcock by T.W. MacKay, in hussar uniform, hangs in Calke Abbey, Derbyshire.