English: Birthplace of "Wellington's Welsh general" Possibly Haverfordwest's most illustrious son, the future General Sir Thomas Picton, MP for Pembroke, was born here in 1748. Following family tradition he joined the army at 13 and eventually became governor of Trinidad where he blotted his copybook by acceding to the judicial torture of a 14year old mulatto [sic] girl. He was forced to resign and face trial in London leaving behind his own woman-of-colour and their 4 children who he never saw again. He was eventually exonerated and redeemed himself in the Napoleonic wars, taking part in several campaigns in France and the Iberian peninsula from 1809 until 1815 when he fell in the battle of Waterloo. His remains are buried at St Paul's Cathedral. I wonder what he would make of the fact that the house is now Bongo's Rhythm Shack: maybe he would be reminded of his wild oats in Trinidad.