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==Early life and family==
England was the son of Lieutenant General [[Richard England (British Army officer, died 1812)|Richard England]] of Lifford, [[County Clare]], a veteran of the [[War of American Independence]], colonel of the 5th Regiment, lieutenant-governor of Plymouth, and one of the first colonists of [[Western Upper Canada]], by Anne, daughter of James O'Brien of Ennistyen, a cadet of the family of the [[Marquess of Thomond]]. He was born at [[Fort Detroit]], then part of [[Upper Canada]], in 1793, and after being educated at [[Winchester College]] and the [[Royal Military College, Great Marlow]],<ref name=buckland>Charles Edward Buckland, ''Dictionary of Indian Biography'' (1906), p. 139</ref> entered the army as an ensign in the 14th Regiment on 25 February 1808.<ref name=dnb>{{DNB|wstitle=England, Richard|display=England, Richard (1793–1883)}}</ref>
==Career==
England was promoted to lieutenant on 1 June 1809, and served in that year in the expedition to the [[Walcheren]] and in the attack on Flushing. He was employed in the adjutant-general's department in [[Sicily]] in 1810 and 1811, and served in the defence of Tarifa as a volunteer on his way to take up his appointment. He was promoted captain into the 60th Regiment on 11 July 1811, and exchanged into the 12th on 1 January 1812. In that year he went on leave to Canada to join his father, after whose death he returned to England, married Anna Maria, sister of Sir J. C. Anderson, in 1814, and in 1815 joined his regiment at Paris after the [[Battle of Waterloo]].<ref name=dnb
He remained in France until the withdrawal of the army of occupation in 1818, and after serving as aide-de-camp to Major General [[Colquhoun Grant (British cavalry general)|Sir Colquhoun Grant]], commanding at Dublin from 1821 to 1823, he was promoted major into the [[75th (Stirlingshire) Regiment of Foot|75th Regiment of Foot]] on 4 September 1823, and on 29 October 1825 took command of the regiment with the rank of lieutenant colonel, in the place of the [[William Vane, 1st Duke of Cleveland|Duke of Cleveland]]. He kept this commanded for many years and led the regiment to the Cape in 1833. On the outbreak of the [[Xhosa Wars|Kaffir War]] in 1836, Lieutenant General [[Galbraith Lowry Cole|Sir Galbraith Cole]], who was then in command at the Cape, chose Colonel England to command the eastern frontier with the temporary rank of brigadier general, and he served throughout the campaigns of 1836 and 1837 in this rank. For his services he received a medal, and on 28 June 1838 was promoted full colonel.<ref name=dnb/>
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