Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge
(1815-1867)
16 November 1860

Volume 2, page 92, sitting number 1665.

Sir Thomas St Vincent Hope Cochrane Troubridge, 3rd Baronet, was born on 25 May 1815, the eldest son of Sir Edward Thomas Troubridge (1787-1852), 2nd Baronet.

Ensign 73 foot, 24 Jan. 1834; lieut. 7 foot, 30 Dec. 1836; lieut. col. 9 March 1855; placed on half-pay 14 Sept 1855; served in the Crimean War 1854-1855, lost his right leg and his left foot at the Battle of Inkerman on 5 November 1854; brevet colonel 18 May 1855; A.D.C. to the Queen from 1855 to death; C.B. 18 May 1855. [Boase, Modern English Biography, 1901].

In November 1855 he married Louisa Jane, daughter of the Quaker banker Daniel Gurney of North Runcton in Norfolk. 

Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge died at 8 Queen's Gate, Kensington, on 2 October 1867, leaving an estate valued at £16,000.

'We deeply regret to announce the death of Colonel Sir Thomas St Vincent Hope Cochrane Troubridge, Bart., C.B., Deputy Adjutant General at Head-quarters, which occurred yesterday morning at Queen's-gate, Kensington, after a very short illness. [...] The late Sir Thomas Troubridge had been in a desponding state of health since the death of his wife on the 29th August last, from fever engendered by cold caught at the review at Wimbledon. He was devotedly attached to his wife, and there is no doubt her unexpected death had great influence over his sympathetic constitution. [...] At the presentation, on the parade in St James's Park, of the medals for service in the Crimea by her Majesty on the 18th of May, 1855, Colonel Sir Thomas Troubridge, Bart, of the 7th Fusiliers, who lost both feet at Inkerman, was one of two officers of infantry who were drawn up in wheel chairs. [...] It was noticed on her Majesty placing the medal on his breast that she was deeply affected, and expressed the kindest sympathy to him, as, indeed, she did to many officers and men whose wounds still crippled them. Notwithstanding the amputation of both his feet, he was enabled to accept the office of director general of army clothing in the same year, 1855. On the abolition of that office in February, 1857, he was appointed one of the deputy adjutant generals at headquarters (for the clothing department), which appointment he held up to the time of his death. [...] He was a most devoted and affectionate husband, indulgent father, and most charitable and humane benefactor. Few men have gone to the grave more deeply regreted than Sir Thomas Troubridge' (London Evening Standard, 3 October 1867). 

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