Irish military officer; after service in the Peninsular War he was assigned to guard Napoleon on St. Helena and was given a snuff-box by the emperor.

REFERENCES TO William Henry Poppleton:

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 August 1822 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)