HALKETT, HUGH, FREIHERR VON (I 783-1863 ), British soldier and general of infantry in the Hanoverian service, was the second son of Major-General F. G. Halkett, and served in India from 1 798 to I 8o 1, in Cathcart's expeditions to Hanover, Rugen and Copenhagen, in the Peninsula in 1808-1809, at Walcheren, and then again in Spain. He was subsequently employed in the organ ization of the new Hanoverian army. In the Waterloo campaign he commanded two brigades of Hanoverian militia which were sent to the front with the regulars. After the fall of Napoleon he elected to stay in the Hanoverian service, and rose to be general and inspector-general of infantry. In his old age he led the X. Federal Army Corps in the Danish War of 1848, and defeated the Danes at Oversee.
See Knesebeck, Leben des Freiherrn Hugh von Halkett (Stuttgart, 1865).
His brother, SIR COLIN HALKETT British soldier, began his military career in the Dutch Guards but entered the British service, served through the Peninsular War, and com manded in 1815 the 5th British Brigade of Alten's division. At Waterloo he received four wounds. Unlike his brother, he re mained in the British service, in which he rose to general. At the time of his death he was governor of Chelsea hospital.