Collett Leventhorpe
| Collett Leventhorpe | |
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| Born |
May 1, 1815 Exmouth, Devon, England |
| Died | December 1, 1889 (aged 74) Wilkes County, North Carolina |
| Place of burial | Lenoir, North Carolina |
| Allegiance |
 United Kingdom Confederate States of America
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| Service/branch |
14th Regiment of Foot Confederate States Army
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| Years of service | 1832– 1842 (UK) 1861–1865 (CSA) |
| Rank |
Captain (UK) Brigadier General (CSA) |
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Collett Leventhorpe (May 15, 1815 – December 1, 1889) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
Collett Leventhorpe was born May 15, 1815 to Thomas Leventhorpe and Mary Collett in Exmouth, Devon, England. Thomas died, probably of tuberculosis, about nine weeks after Collett's birth. Leventhorpe's ancestry could be traced back to the 14th century and was connected to royalty through marriage and service. His older brother Thomas Leventhorpe was a first-class cricketer for Cambridge University.
Leventhorpe studied at Winchester College until the age of fourteen. For the next three years he was educated by a private tutor.
In 1832 Leventhorpe purchased the rank of ensign in the 14th Regiment of Foot (the Buckinghamshire's), in the army of King William IV. Leventhorpe was stationed in Ireland for the next three years. He purchased a lieutenancy on November 2, 1835, and was stationed in the British West Indies. After several years of duty there he spent a year in Canada. Leventhorpe reached the level of Captain of Grenadiers, on November 16, 1842. He then transferred to the 18th Regiment of Foot and on October 24, 1842 he sold his Captaincy in order to travel to South Carolina on business for an English company.
In 1843, while on an extended holiday in the United States, Leventhorpe traveled to Asheville, North Carolina, where he met his future wife, Louisa Bryan, daughter of General Edmund Bryan, of Rutherfordton, NC.
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