NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bloomfield, Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st baron, 1768-1846 NRA: Bloomfield, Benjamin (1768-1846) 1st Baron Bloomfield, Lieutenant General DNB: Bloomfield, Benjamin, first Baron Bloomfield (1768-1846), army officer and courtier LBT ID: LdBloom1 | B/BAP: 1768-04-13 DIED: 1846-08-15 |
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com | |
After serving in the 10th Hussars he was chief equerry, clerk marshal, and private
secretary to the Prince Regent; he was MP for Plymouth (1812-17) and raised to the Irish
peerage in 1825. | |