Stephen Galway Adye


Stephen Galway Adye CB was a British Army officer who fought at the Battle of Waterloo.

Career

The second son of Stephen Payne Adye, he was appointed First Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 1January 1794. Promotion to Captain Lieutenant followed in 1798 and to Captain in 1803. He served under General Abercromby in the 1801 Egyptian Campaign against the French, and was part of the 1809 expedition to Walcheren, during which he was seriously wounded.
At Waterloo he was a field officer in command of two batteries of foot artillery attached to an army division, and was subsequently made a Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
He later became Chief Firemaster at the Royal Laboratory in Woolwich, London.
He was promoted to Major-General on 10January 1837.

Death and legacy

Adye was commemorated by a memorial, now destroyed, in St Mary's Churchyard, Woolwich with the following inscription:
"Beneath this stone are deposited the mortal remains of Mary, wife of Brigade Major Adye, who died 20 September 1809 aged 37. Also of Major General Stephen Galway Adye CB husband to the above Mary Adye who died on 13 September 1838 aged 66."