sword of honour. On his arrival in England he was made a knight commander of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. Whittingham reached Calcutta on 2 November 1822. He was busy in 1824 with the preparations for the expedition to Ava, and in November of that year with the Barrackpur Mutiny. On 27 May 1825 he was promoted to be major-general, retaining his appointment as quartermaster-general until a command became vacant. He took part in the siege of Bhartpur, was slightly wounded on 13 January 1826, but was present at the capture on the 18th. He was made a knight commander of the order of the Bath, military division, on 26 December, for his services at Bhartpur, and received the thanks of the House of Commons. In February 1827 he was appointed to command the Cawnpore Division. On 1 November 1830 he was transferred to the Mirat Command, on exchange with Sir Jasper Nicholl. His tenure of command came to an end in August 1833, and he then acted temporarily as military secretary to his old commander, Lord William Bentinck, the governor-general, with whom he returned to England in 1835. On arrival in England in July he was near fighting a duel with Sir William Napier, on account of the slur which he considered that Napier had cast on the Spanish troops in his History of the War in the Peninsula, but the matter was arranged by Sir Rufane Donkin. In October 1836 Whittingham was appointed to the command of the forces in the Windward and Leeward Islands of the West Indies. He sailed for Barbados on 22 December, with the local, exchanged in a few months for the substantive, rank of lieutenant-general. In September 1839 he was given the command of the Madras Army; he arrived at Madras on 1 August 1840, and died there suddenly on 19 January 1841. He was buried with military honours at Fort George on the following day, salutes being fired at the principal military stations of the presidency. A tablet to his memory was placed in the garrison church, Madras. Works Whittingham published: (1811) Primera Parte de la Táctica de la Caballeria Inglesa traducida, 8vo (1815) A System of Manœuvres in Two Lines A System of Cavalry Manœuvres in Line, London and Madrid, 8vo. He was the author of several unpublished papers on military and political subjects, which in 1900 were in possession of the