Henry Vansittart [SEP] educated at
was also a director of the East India Company. The family name is taken from the town of Sittard in Limburg, the Netherlands. They settled at Shottesbrooke in Berkshire.
Educated at Reading School and at Winchester College, Henry Vansittart joined the society of the Franciscans, or the "Hellfire Club", at Medmenham. His elder brothers, Arthur and Robert, were also members of this fraternity.
In 1745, at the age of thirteen, he entered service of the East India Company as a writer and sailed
George Henry Vansittart
George Henry Vansittart (16 July 1768 – 4 February 1824) was an English army general during the Napoleonic Wars.
Life.
He was the eldest son of George Vansittart, M.P., of Bisham Abbey, Berkshire, by Sarah, daughter of the Rev. Sir James Stonhouse, 11th Baronet of Radley, Berkshire. Henry Vansittart (1777–1843) was his younger brother. Henry Vansittart (1732–1770) and Robert Vansittart were his uncles. He was educated at Winchester School, at a military academy at Strasbourg