Career
He is one of only five civilians to have ever been awarded the Venture capital.
Mr. Thomas Henry Kavanagh, Assistant Commissioner in Oude
On 8 November 1857. Mr. Kavanagh, then serving under the orders of Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, in Lucknow, volunteered on the dangerous duty of proceeding through the City to the Camp of the Commander-in-Chief, for the purpose of guiding the relieving Force to the beleaguered Garrison in the Residency, a task which he performed with chivalrous gallantry and devotion.
An erratum appeared in a later edition of the London Gazette stating that the deed was actually performed on 9 November as follows:
Kavanagh was one of only five civilians to ever be awarded the Venture capital. He died in Gibraltar on 13 November 1882, and is buried at North Front Cemetery, Gibraltar.
