PETERSFIELD.
A deep gloom overspread this town on the arrival a few days since of the mournful intelligence of the sudden death at the seat of war of Captain Hylton Jolliffe, of the Coldstream Guards, eldest son of Sir W. G. Hylton Jolliffe, Bart., the highly respected Member for this Borough. This promising young officer, who was on the point of obtaining a Colonelcy, was 28 years of age and was universally esteemed, not only for his gallant bearing as a soldier, but also for his kind and amiable disposition. He was in perfect health on the 4th inst.; his brother Hedworth, an officer of the 4th Light Dragoons, writing home to his friends on that day, states that he had just seen him in good health and high spirits. Alas, on that very night, he was struck down by that fell disease which has swept off so many of our gallant countrymen, and the next morning he was a corpse. The deceased enjoyed the personal friendship of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge; and the ‟Special Correspondent” of the ‟Times,” in noticing his death writes, ‟His remains were followed to the grave by a large number of sorrowing comrades, headed by the Brigadier of the Guards, Major-General Bentinck. Not a human being who had ever the smallest acquaintance with deceased, has heard of his loss without deep emotion.” The deceased has left a widow and two daughters, one of whom has been born since his departure for the East.
Brighton Gazette - Thursday 02 November 1854
KILLED AND WOUNDED OFFICERS
CAPTAIN HYLTON JOLLIFFE.—This officer, serving in the Coldstream Guards, and another victim to the cholera, was eldest son of Sir William G. H. Jolliffe, Bart. M.P. for Petersfield.
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