Hi All,
Anyone can help me find more information on Major-General Thomas Staunton St. Clair (1785-1847)?
There is a good article on him by Robert M Feibel in the Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 48, No. 193, SPRING 1970 (https://www.jstor.org/stable/i40176965). However, the article is lacking almost all information from his 10 years of service in the Portuguese Army and contains some minor mistakes, due to lack of access to Archives.
St. Clair's Challis Card gives some hints, but is also very incomplete, missing the fact that he was awarded the Orders of São Bento de Avis and the Tower and Sword, the Peninsular War Portuguese Campaign Cross (4) and the Portuguese Medal of Distinction (in Command).
He wrote a most interesting book (in 2 volumes) that was published with two distinct titles in the same year:
St. Clair, Thomas S. (1834). A residence in the West Indies and America: With a narrative of the expedition to the Island of Walcheren. London: R. Bentley.
St. Clair, Thomas S. (1834). A soldier's recollections of the West Indies and America. London: R. Bentley.
He is the author of the fabulous set of watercolours that were engraved by Charles Turner and published under the title of Twelve Views of the principal occurences of the Campaigns of 1810 and 1811 in Spain and Portugal: by Major T. S.t Clair, engraved by C. Turner, 1812-15.
A good help would be to find where is his portrait, revealed on page 35 of the referenced journal. A private collection? A military unit? A museum? A government building?
Any thoughts?
