The following, copied from the original Roll still existing in
Edinburgh, was very kindly given to me by the Right Honourable the Earl
of Dunmore:--
COMPOSITION OF THE ROYAL SCOTTISH REGIMENT
OF DRAGOONS (SCOTS GREYS)
+at their First (Recorded) Muster on Bruntisfield Links
in July, 1683+.
_Colonel-in-Chief_ General Sir Thos. Dalzell, Commander-in-chief
of his Majesty's Troops in Scotland.
_Lieutenant-Colonel_ The Right Honᵇˡᵉ. Lord Charles Murray.
_Major (1)._
Sir James Turner, Bart.
_Captains (3)._
John Inglish
John Strachan
William Clelland
The Col.-in-chief, } all Captains (3)
The Colonel and } of troops.
The Major }
_Quarter-Master._
Andrew Ross
_Regimental Chirurgeon._
James Irving
_Aide Major._
David Beatson
Marischall
_Lieutenants (6)._
James Murray
Thomas Wynram
Henry Dundas
Alexander Bruce
John Livingstone
John Crichton
_Ensigns or Cornets (6)._
James Innes
John Baillie
John Whytford
James Dundas
Henry Drummond
Lewis Lauder
Sergeants 12
Corporals 12
Drummers 12
Rank and File 311
+Mustare Roll of Hys Excellency General Dalyell hys
Companie off Dragoones, 1683.+
General Dalyell Colonel
Thomas Wynram Captain and Lieutenant
John Baillie Ensigne
Andrew Rosse Quarter-Master
David Beatston Aide-Major
James Irving Regimental Chirurgeon
David Currier } Sergeants
James Weymss }
David Dickers } Corporalls
Daniel McCallum }
James Matthews } Drumers
John Steuart }
Alexander Calhoune
Alexander Ffrench
Alexander Steuart
Adam Rutherford
Andrew Thomson
Andrew Easone
Andrew Page
David Crichton
David Williamson
David Stevenson
David Wright
David Park
George Purvis
George Spence
George Keith
Gideon Coatts
Henry Livingstone
Henry McLellan
Heugh Stirling
John McMath
John Maitland
John Miller
John Cowan
John Gibb
John Burnett
John Baird
John McLellan
John Hermistoun
John Murray
John Bisket
John Harrison
James Sheill
James Johnstone
James Lawson
James Hamilton
James Cowan
James Pringle
James McCulloch
Mungo Thompson
Patrick Gibb
Patrick McKellar
Robert Mill
Thomas Home
William Rawlinson
William Maillie
William Downie
William Reid
Walter Browne
Heugh Calthaine
Alex. Wood, W. Edmonstone, James Alexander Officers' servants
This companie consists of Ffyftie Dragoones
The Officers being allowed
(Signed) +Thos. Wynram+
+John Baillie+
+And. Middleton+.
P. M.
+Mouster Rolle of Milord Charles Murray's Troope Of
Dragonniers, 28 July 1683.+
Lord Charles Murray Lieutenant Colonel
Alexander Bruce Lieutenant
James Inneis Ensigne
James Colvill } Sergeants
Patrick Logan }
Robert Ramsay } Corporals
Laurence Mercer }
James Malcolm } Drumers
John McKin'll }
Alexander Grig
Alexander Stewart
Alexander Callendar
Andrew Johnson
Archbal Wadell
Archbal Buchanan
Alexander MacDonald
Colbert Andreson
David Mick
Francis Agniew
Francis Espellin
George Johnston
George Lin
Grigor MacGrigor
John Balner
John Christy
John Wacker
John Murray, Lt. Col's servant
Jaems MacMillan
Jaems Andrewson
Jaems Ramsaye
Jaems Fintry
Jaems Dick
Jaems Gooch
Patrick Inneis
Patrick Sampson
Robert Foord
Robert Grym
Patrick Gray
Robert Ward
Robert Smith
Robert Elison
Robert Young
William Ernwing
William Wacker
William Lassellee
Patrick Bell
Peter de mol
Patrick Gardinier
Patrick Miller
Ritchard Hoop
Ritchard Teyllieur
Thomas Ewing
Walter Murray
William Grym
William Fforbes
William Bernabe
William Dalzell
William Stewart
William Ward
Thys is ye Mouster Rolle off Ld. Charles Murrays companie off Dragoones
Moustered first att Bruntsfield Links 28 July and after att Bathgait
the 4 December 1683 by me thys companie consists off Ffyftie Draggooners
(Signed) +Alex. Bruce+.
+Muster Roall of Sir James Turners
Companie of Dragouns+
+Mustered at Bruntsfield Links
July 1683.+
Sir James Turner Major and Captan
James Murray Lieutenant
James Dundas Ensigne
David Grive } Sergeants
Alex. Grive }
Wm. Borthwick } Corprales
Thomas Dunbar }
James Knox } Drumers
William Hall }
Sir James } { Richard Turnbull
his servants } { John McKinnie
Lieutenants } { John Trevin
servants } { James Inglish
Ensigneys } James Collear
servant }
Andrew Knox
Andrew Young
Adame Turnbull
Donald Henderson
Duncan Grant
Gavin Wood
George Lauder
George Willson
George Edmiston
George Stead
George Stoddard
James Ker
James Inglish
James Lauder
James Paine
John Watson
John Heron
John Morrison
John Turner
John Lillithorne
John Yeats elder
John Yeats yr.
John Scott
John Grant
John Smart
John Murray elder
John Murray yr.
John Muir
Murdoch McKinnie
Mathew Tam
Mungo Murray
Patrick Pennicuik
Patrick Turner
Robert Wilson
Robert Yeats
Robert McInrie
Robert Stevenson
Robert Dumbar
Robert McCulloch
Robert Alexander
Thomas Johnston
Thomas Pagan
Walter Scott
William Milne
William Garbraith
William Craig
William Edmistone
William Watson
William Smyth
William Sutherland
(Signed) +J. Turner+
+James Murray+
+And. Middleton+.
+Muster Rolle off Captain John Inglishes Companie off
Dragooniers, 14th June, 1683.+
John English Captain
Henry Dundas Lievtenant
Lewis Lauder Ensigne
John Murray } Sergeants
John Pace }
Thomas Ker } Corporalls
John Drummond }
William Hendrie } Drums
Douggal Carmichal }
Andrew Ker
Alexander Younger
Alexander Eastoun
Andrew Clogg
David Durrham
David Thompson
David Colwar
David Mitchell
Daniel Carmichal
Edward Lorrayn
George Gordon
George Monro
George Carruthers
George Kerr
George Fforbes
George Loudoun
James Ker
James Inglish
John Lyon
James Rutherford
James Donaldson
James Murray
John Ruthven
John McRooney
(Officers Servt.)
John Thompson
John Cushnay
John Innes
John Watt
(Officers Servt.)
John Farloph
John Cuithall
John Murray
John Bathew
John Lalbrow
John Speed
John Robertson
John Farquharson
John McLean
John Wright
John Harbid
Lashbrown Turnbull
Mathew Gray
Pat Gillespie
(Officers Servt.)
Robert Rayfield
Robert Kerr
Richard Bryer
Thomas Simm
Thomas Brown
William Rathoon
elder
William Rathoon yr.
William Cleghorn
William Teylleour
William Bell
William Duncan
William Craig
(Signed) +J. Inglish+
+H. Dundas+
+And. Middleton+
+Muster Roll June, 1683, of Captain Strachan's
Companie of Dragoones.+
John Strachan Captain
John Livingstone Lieutenant
Harry Drumond Cornet
John Smith } Sergeants
John McFarlan }
James Mitchell } Corporalls
Alexander Graham }
William McNaughton } Drums.
John Hord }
Andrew Proudfoot
Andrew Clelland
Andrew Caloell
Alexander McLaren
Adam Archbald
Andrew Latimer
Duncan MacGregor
Duncan MacGruther
Edward Sinclair
Gilbert Ferguson
George Keith
George Stovie
John Bell
John Blekirn
John Brokonaig
John Strachan
John Duncan
James Boll
James Moore
James Patterson
John Stimson
John Goodall
John Ffallrond
John Ladoll
James Kapell
James Petrie
John Scott
James Thatcher
John Wilsone
John Johnstone
John Carruthers
John Wylderman
Matthew McColl
Peter Maitland
Peter Miever
Robert Livingstone
Robert Litquhor
Robert Smith
Robert Morrison
Robert Storeyson
Robert McAlexander
Thomas Storeyson
Thomas Harve
Thomas Smith
Thomas Tarth
William Semorvil
William Largs
William Houston
William Storroth
(Signed) +Jo. Strachan+
+Jo. Livingstone+
+And. Middleton+.
+Moustart Roll of Captaine Clelland his Company.
Moustart at Bruntisfield Links, July 1683.+
William Clelland Capitaine
John Crichton Lieut.
John Whytfold Ensigne
James Irving } Sergeants
Will. McIntosh }
Duncan Ffrissall } Corporalls
William Pownie }
Walter Hutchison } Drumbors
Andrew Granford }
Alexander Lindsay
Alexander Wood
Alexander Irving
Alexander Irving
Alexander Crichtoun
Andrew Atchison
Andrew Donaldsone
Andrew Martin
Allan McLean
Ffrancis Storo
David Hop
Edward Irving
George Wood
George Crawford
George Falcon
George Grahame
Hugh Murray
James Douglas
James Gibb
James Thomsone
James Buchanan
James Broune
John Guthrie
John Paibles
John Wood
David Goodfellow
John Grahame
James Lindsaye
James Hendersone
John Dunster
John Grant
John Pirie
James Brydone
Jon Dun
John Clealland
John Thomsone
John Pattersone
Ludovic Stewart
Thomas Low
Thomas Paibles
Patrick Marshall
Patrick Stewart
Robert Yooll
Robert Grant
Robert Craw
Robert Watt
William Harris
William Pringle
William Grahame
William Smith
(Signed) +W. Clelland+
+John Crichton+
+And. Middleton+.
* * * * *
The Pay of one Regiment of Scottish Dragoones consisting of one Colonel
in Chief, one Lieutenant Colonel, one Major and six companies, each
companie consisting of Fifty Souldiers is as followeth, viz:
Colonell as Colonell 00:13:08
Lyvetennant Colonell as such 00:07:00
Major as Major 00:05:00
Quartermaster 00:05:00
Marischall 00:02:00
Chyrurgeon & Mate 00:05:00
Aide-Major 00:07:04
--------
£2:05:00
========
Capitaine: 8_s_: &: 2 Dragoons each: 1_s_: 2_d_: Inde 00:10:04
Lyvetennant: 5_s_: &: 2 Dragoons each: 1_s_: 2_d_: Inde 00:07:04
Ensigne: 4_s_: &: 1 Dragoon att 1_s_: 2_d_: Inde 00:05:02
Two Sergeants each 2_s_: 6_d_: Inde 00:05:00
Two Corporalls each 1_s_: 8_d_: Inde 00:03:04
Two Drummers each 1_s_: 8_d_: Inde 00:03:04
Fyffty souldiers each 1_s._: 2_d_: Inde 02:18:04
--------
£4:12:10
========
(1688) (James II.)
+Scots Greys Document.+
Account of the money given out by Andrew Ross of Muick, Quarter Master
to the Scotts Regiment of Dragoones for the use of the said Regiment
by the Earl of Dunmore's order after they came to England, being in
October, 1688.
Imprs. to James Irwin in ye Coll.'s Troop to buy a horse £05:10:00
To George Robinson in ye Leivt. Coll.'s troop 06:00:00
At York for twelve ells of blew cloth 8/p. ell. 04:16:00
The exchange of 20 logg dollars gave half to the bot that
went to 00:03:05
A snatch of red cloth for the Regt. 00:03:00
To William Irwin in the Lievt. Coll.'s troop to buy a horse 07:00:00
For 3 poste horses with ye Major from Richmond to
Yorke 34 miles 01:05:06
To the poste Boy those three stages 00:03:00
For 5 doz. of hat cloths @ 10/6 p. doz. 02:12:06
Given to Capt. Bruce for boots to his troop 06:08:00
To the Lievt. Coll. for boots to his troop 06:08:00
To Capt. Pat. Blair for boots to his troop 03:04:00
To Capt. Livingstone for boots to his troop 03:12:00
To General Adam Blair for boots to his troop. 01:04:00
For the Guard Fire at Southwark 00:12:00
For 2 teams from Southwark to Chester 00:15:00
For 2 teams from then to Ffarnham 00:10:00
From thence to Winchester 01:01:00
From thence to Donkton 00:17:00
From thence to Stockbridge 00:12:00
From thence to Odium 01:01:00
From thence to Reading 00:12:00
From thence to Wickham 00:14:00
From thence to London 01:09:00
To quarter Master Murray for going twice poste from
Dunton to Salisbury upon the Regiment's accompt 02:10:00
To lievt. Murray to get 2 horses back which were taken
from 2 dragoons by some of the Dutch Officers 02:00:00
To the Quarter Master for riding poste from Royston to
London upon the Regts. accompt being 33 miles 00:10:02
To Edward Murray Quarter Master for coming poste
from his quarters near Chester to London upon the
Regiment's accompt 09:10:00
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£71:03:07
=========
The above written accompt of seventy one pounds three shillings and
sevenpence Sterling being justly given out by Andrew Ross Quarter
Master, for the use of the said Regiment conforms to my order since
they came to England. Therefore these give the said Quartermaster full
power and warrant to detayne and keep in his owne hand the like sum of
seventy one pounds three shillings and sevenpence for his own payment
out of the money belonging to the Regiment since they came to this
country.
At London the 8th day of January, 1689.
The Detention money from the Scotts Regiment of Dragoons from the month
of October 1686 and all preceedings being fully discharged by Colls.
Lievt. and Captain all detayned from them since being from the 1st.
November 1686 to the 1st. November 1688, being two yeares is disposed
of as follows--
+Charge.+
Imprs. detayned from them from the 1st. Novr. 1686 to
the 1st. Novr. 1687, being one logg dollar from each
Serjeant, Corporal, Drummer and Sentinel per mensem
makes in all 283 logg dollars for the whole Regiment
which is £792:08:00
The like detayned from them from the first November
1687 to the first November 1688 792:08:00
------------
£1,584:16:00
============
+Discharge.+
Accompt of the Expence of their Coats Anno 1687 one Coat.
Scotts.
£ _s._ _d._
Imprs. 5½ ells red cloth 2_s._ Scots pr. ell 11:00:00
6 ells blew serge for lyneing at 1 p. ell 6:00:00
Half ell green canvass for bindings 00:04:00
10 dozen tin buttons at 5_s._ p. doz. 02:10:00
10 drab weight red silk at 18_d._ p. drab 00:15:00
3 ounces red thread at 3_s._ p. ounce 00:09:00
For ... to drabb on the buttons 00:02:00
For making the coat 02:00:00
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23:00:00
========
Conforme to whch. accot. the expenses of 283 coats
amounts to 6509 £s Scots which in English
money is £542:08:04
The expense of 283 belts to Serjeants, Corporals,
Drummers, Sentinels with the exchange 100:00:00
The expense of 283 swords with bayonets and cartridges
boxes 200:00:00
The expenses of 12 drums with the contingent charges
of making boxes and chests for the swords, belts,
baionets and cartridge boxes and put all aboard in
England 017:00:00
To the Quartermaster for his expenses and trouble in
bringing all from severall seaports to Edinburgh
and for hiring room for keeping them more than
one year 020:00:00
For boots to the Regt. @ 8s. a pair 108:00:00
Since they came to England given for their coats, caps
and other necessaries 590:02:00
When they were in Scotland given back of the cloathing
money by Geo. Drummonds order and Liev.
Colonel Rattray to severall Dragoons that were
reduced 120 logg dollars 028:00:00
-----------
Sums of the Discharge 1,605:10:04
-----------
DISCHARGE £1,605:10:04
CHARGE 1,584:16:00
------------
To balance 0,020:14:04
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[Illustration: +Anitchkoff Palace, St. Petersburg, 2nd February, 1895.+
The +Emperor of Russia+ accepting the Picture, presented by the
Officers, of H.I.M. as Colonel-in-Chief marching past at the head of
the Regiment.]
LIST OF OFFICERS PAST AND PRESENT.
ALEXANDER ABERCROMBY.
Cornet, 16 August, 1799. Promoted Lieutenant, in 52nd Foot, 19
March, 1800.
SIR RALPH ABERCROMBY.
Colonel, 2 November, 1796. Died on or before 16 May, 1801.
The General who shares with Sir John Moore, the credit of renewing
the ancient discipline and military reputation of the British
soldier, was born at Menstry near Tullibody, in October, 1734.
Educated at Rugby, and afterwards studied law at Edinburgh and
Leipzig. In 1756 made a Cornet in 3rd Dragoon Guards. In 1758 he
went with his regiment to Germany, where it formed part of the
English force under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick, the victor
of Minden. Lieutenant, 1760. Captain, 1762. In 1767 he married
Miss Menzies, with whom he lived very happily. Major, 1770.
Lieutenant-Colonel, 1773. Became M.P. for county of Clackmannan,
but soon gave up Parliamentary life. War broke out with France, he
was made a Major-General, and ordered to Flanders with a Brigade.
First made his mark at Furnes, commanded the storming column at the
siege of Valenciennes, and was publicly thanked by the Duke of York
for his conduct at Roubaix. Returned to England in 1795, and made a
Knight of the Bath. In November, 1795, sailed for the West Indies
with 15,000 men, to reduce the French Sugar Islands. In 1799 he was
despatched with 10,000 men, to attack Holland. On 20 October in an
attack on Bergen, he had two horses shot under him.... 24 October,
1800, he was ordered to proceed with all his troops, to Egypt to
expel or capture the French Army left there by Napoleon.... 27
December, he cast anchor in the bay of Marmorice. Here he waited 6
weeks, receiving some slight reinforcements, and discovering that
the Turks were quite useless as allies. But while waiting he looked
after his soldiers' health, and practised disembarkments until the
whole force thoroughly understood how to promptly disembark, and
every man knew his place in his boat.... On 2 March he anchored
in Aboukir Bay.... In the end Menou was beaten back with immense
loss, including 3 generals killed, while the English loss was only
1464 killed and wounded. Among the latter was Sir Ralph Abercromby,
who riding in front in his usual reckless manner, was wounded in
the thigh by a musket ball. He was carried to the Foudroyant, the
flagship. "What is it you have placed under my head?" asked the
wounded general. "Only a soldier's blanket," answered the aide de
camp. "Only a soldier's blanket; make haste and return it to him at
once."
He died on board the flagship on 28 March.
No biography would be complete which did not notice his extreme
shortsightedness, almost blindness, nor yet without noticing the
singular sweetness and purity of his domestic life, which made all
who came across him, from the Duke of York, whom he eclipsed, to
Lord Camden, with whom he quarrelled, acknowledge the charm of his
society.
MICHAEL GOOLD ADAMS.
Cornet by purchase, 21 July, 1825. Lieutenant by purchase, 30
July, 1829. Captain by purchase, 28 December, 1838. Exchanged to
half-pay, unattached, 31 December, 1844.
ROBERT HENRY ADAMS.
Born, 4 December, 1858. 2nd Lieutenant, 19 February, 1881.
Lieutenant, 1 July, 1881. Captain, 9 October, 1889.
Expedition to Dongola, 1896. Despatches "London Gazette," 3
November, 1896. Fourth Class Medjidie.
Major, 29th April, 1900. Served in South African War, 1901-2, and
took part in operations in the Transvaal, February, 1901, to May,
1902; the Zululand frontier of Natal, September and October, 1901;
and in Cape Colony, May, 1902 (medal with five clasps).
ALEXANDER AGNEW.
Cornet, 31 May, 1715.
ANDREW AGNEW.
Captain-Lieutenant, 1 April, 1692, to 21 March, 1692-3. Captain, 22
March, 1692-3, to 9 March, 1697-8. Major, 1702.
ANDREW AGNEW.
Cornet, 20 September, 1703. Lieutenant, 11 May, 1705.
Captain-Lieutenant, 8 February, 1712-13. Captain, 16 September,
1715.
Sir Andrew Agnew, fifth Baronet of Lochnau, twelfth and last of
the hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway, was born in 1687. He joined
Marlborough's army as a volunteer immediately after the battle
of Blenheim.... He fought bravely at Ramillies, Oudenarde, and
Malplaquet. At the Peace of Utrecht he was reduced as Captain on
half-pay of the Scots Greys. Soon after he eloped with a kinswoman,
the daughter of Captain Thomas Agnew, of the same regiment. This
lady, to whom he was married in London, bore him 18 children.
She survived her husband, and died at the age of 87. At the time
of the rebellion of 1715-16, the young laird of Lochnau was on
full pay in Colonel Pocock's, which was disbanded in Ireland in
1718, when he was removed to the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers, with
which corps he served upwards of a quarter of a century, becoming
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1740, and commanding it with distinction
at the battle of Dettingen. He held Brigade commands under the
Duke of Cumberland in Flanders, at Bruges, Ghent, and Ostend,
and at the head of his Scots Fusiliers accompanied the army sent
to Scotland in 1746, when he was detached to Blair Castle, and
made a gallant stand there. In 1756 he became Major-General, and
Lieutenant-General in 1759. Sir Walter Scott describes him as a
soldier of the old school, stiff and formal in manner, brave to the
last degree, and something of a humourist.
JAMES AGNEW.
Cornet, 31 May, 1715.
THOMAS AGNEW.
Cornet, 1702. Lieutenant, 11 May, 1705. Captain-Lieutenant, 31 May,
1715.
PATRICK AINGER.
Chirurgeon, 11 April, 1687.
GEORGE AINSLIE.
Made Cornet, 13 January, 1753. Made Sub-Lieutenant in the second
troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, 8th August.
GILBERT AIRD.
Promoted from Sergeant in the Major's troop, to Quartermaster in
Captain Clarke's troop, May, 1800. Cornet in Royal Wagon Train, 9
January, 1804.
THOMAS AIRD.
Cornet, 26 August, 1794. Lieutenant, 16 August, 1799. Captain in
Royal Wagon Train, May, 1800.
THE HONOURABLE WALTER PHILIP ALEXANDER.
Son of the third Earl of Caledon. Born, 9 February, 1849.
Cornet by purchase, 3 February, 1869. Lieutenant by purchase, 10
May, 1871. Adjutant, 18 December, 1875. Captain, 24 November, 1877.
Major, 5th July, 1886. Lieutenant-Colonel, 5 July, 1896.
Commanded the Greys in South Africa, 1899-1900; present in command
of first cavalry brigade at crossing of Reit and Modder Rivers
(mentioned in despatches).
CHARLES JEFFERYS WATSON ALLEN.
From half-pay in the 12th Lancers, Captain, 31 December, 1861.
Retired 13 March, 1866.
EDWARD AMPHLETT.
Cornet by purchase, 28 June, 1844. Lieutenant by purchase, 25 June,
1847. Retired 21 June, 1850.
GEORGE ANDERSON.
Chaplain, 10 January, 1705-6.
CHARLES ANNESLEY, M.D.
Appointed Surgeon 27 February, 1817. Retired 28 June, 1836.
PHILIP ANTROBUS.
From Lieutenant 91st Foot, appointed Paymaster 1 January, 1849.
Half-pay as Captain 21st Light Dragoons, 1 September, 1854.
GEORGE ARBUTHNOT.
From 53rd Foot, Lieutenant 6 October, 1875. (Apparently his first
commission in the Army was 28 October, 1871.)
GEORGE ARMSTRONG.
Lieutenant in Sir Robert Hay's troop, 16 January, 1706-7.
JAMES J. ARMSTRONG.
Cornet, without purchase, 8 June, 1855. Exchanged to 89th Foot, 17
July, 1857.
F. J. ASHBURNER.
Paymaster, January, 1885. From 2nd Dragoon Guards.
THOMAS CARY ASKEW.
Lieutenant, 27 July, 1820, exchanged from half-pay, 18th Light
Dragoons. Died 1826.
THOMAS ASKEW.
Cornet, 12 April, 1793. Appointed Lieutenant, 26 June, 1793.
Appointed Captain in Lord Fielding's Light Cavalry, 25 February,
1794.
ALEXANDER AUCHENLECK.
Lieutenant, 31 May, 1715.
JAMES AUCHENLECK.
11 May, 1705, Cornet in Patrick Robertson's troop.
Brevet of Lieutenant, 21 February, 1707-8, in Colonel the Earl of
Stair's troop.
ANTHONY BACON.
Lieutenant, 2 February, 1815. Half-pay in 16th Dragoons, 11 March,
1813.
JOHN BAILY (or BAILLIE) +of Porkemat+.
In 1681 made Ensign of Colonel Dalzell's own Company. Appointed
Cornet of Lieutenant-General Dalzell's own troop, 30 March, 1685.
ROBERT BAINBRIDGE.
Cornet by purchase, 29 February, 1856. Seems to have joined the
17th Light Dragoons, 7 March, 1856.
WILLIAM BAIRD.
Cornet, 2 May, 1794. Lieutenant, 30 January, 1800. Captain
September, 1805. Appointed in March, 1808, Captain in 66th Foot.
DAVID BAITSON.
On 30 March, 1685, appointed Aid Major to the Regiment.
GEORGE BALFOUR.
Appointed Cornet 1762. Lieutenant, 5 June, 1769. Captain, 3
November, 1774. Major, 28 July, 1790. Retired, 3 June, 1793.
In the Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1767, entered as George Balfour
Ramsay, and after that, entered George Ramsay.
HENRY BALFOUR.
Major, 1 April, 1692, to 7 September, 1692.
ROBERT BALFOUR.
Captain, 9 July, 1793. 3 April, 1801, Major without a Troop.
17 February, 1803 appointed Major with a Troop. Promoted
Lieutenant-Colonel, 22 August, 1805. Commission as "Colonel in the
army," 25 September, 1803. Left the Regiment, on being appointed 4
June, 1814, Major-General.
JOHN BALLANTYNE.
Chaplain, June, 1739. Succeeded by Walter Paterson, 8 July, 1752.
HENRY BARING.
Cornet by purchase, 10 June, 1853. Exchanged on 5 July, 1853, to
13th Light Dragoons.
CHARLES LEVYNS BARNARD.
Captain, 2 February, 1815. In the Record Office, 1814 Army List,
there seems to be an abbreviated MS. reference to him in connection
with 20 December, 1806. Killed, 1815.
HENRY GEORGE BARNARD.
Cornet, 21 May, 1806. Lieutenant, 10 December, 1807. Captain by
purchase, 15 July, 1813. In 1814 on half pay.
EDWARD BARNET.
Cornet by purchase, 23 February, 1838. Lieutenant by purchase, 28
December, 1841. Retired 16 May, 1845.
J. W. BARTON.
Cornet in Captain Johnston's troop, exchanged 19 August, 1803, to
the half pay of Fenwick's Regiment.
OSBORNE BARWELL.
Lieutenant 13 April, 1815.
GEORGE FREDERICK ALEXANDER MUNGO BASHFORD.
From Royal Military College.
Cornet by purchase, 30 March, 1866. Lieutenant by purchase, 30
June, 1869. Exchanged into Ceylon Rifles, 5 April, 1871.
DAVID BEATSON.
1 August, 1683, appointed Aide-Major. 23 August, 1688, appointed
Cornet of James Murray's troop.
JAMES BECK.
Cornet in Captain Hamilton's troop, 5 April, 1798. Entered as
second Lieutenant in Muster ending 24 March, 1799. 30 January,
1800, resigned.
DAVID BELL.
Appointed Quartermaster 1 May, 1762.
JOHN BENNET.
Cornet, 11 May, 1705.
L. H. BENNETT.
Paymaster and honorary Captain, July, 1889.
South African War, 1879. Zulu campaign. Battle of Ulundi. Medal
with clasp.
WILLIAM BENNET.
Captain 1 April, 1692, to 11 September, 1695.
JOHN P. BENTEIN.
Captain by purchase, 26 May, 1814.
LORD WILLIAM BENTINCK.
Captain-Lieutenant, 1 August, 1792. Appointed Captain in 11th
Dragoons 20 February, 1793.
GEORGE BETHELL.
Cornet, 15 November, 1740.
DAVID BETSON.
Lieutenant, 12 November, 1794. Retired (about 3 May), 1796.
Promoted Captain in 9th Regiment of Foot, 27 December, 1797 (!).
ROWLAND VEITCH BETTY.
Cornet, under the augmentation, without purchase, 12 February,
1858. 23 March, 1858, went to the 2nd Dragoon Guards.
JAMES BIGGERT.
Quartermaster, 25 April, 1798, in Major Andrew Gillon's troop.
WILLIAM CONNEL BLACK.
Cornet by purchase, 18 March, 1859. Lieutenant by purchase, 14
June, 1864. Captain by purchase, 19 January, 1870. Retired, 28 May,
1870.
EDWARD BLACKETT.
Cornet, 29 May, 1754. 26 December, 1755, made Lieutenant. 1 May,
1762, made Captain of the Light troop, in succession to Francis
Lindsay, resigned.
ALEXANDER BLACKIE.
Quartermaster, 1 March, 1797. Promoted Cornet in Royal Wagon Train,
13 February, 1806.
SIR ADAM BLAIR, YOUNGER OF CARBERRY.
7 November, 1685, appointed Captain of that troop which was
commanded by the deceased Captain William Cleland.
HAMILTON BLAIR.
Made a Cornet, 25 April, 1741, made Lieutenant, 6 August, 1742,
Captain-Lieutenant, 2 April, 1746, Captain, 3 February, 1746-7,
Major, 9 March, 1757.
Sir Bryce Blair, of Blair, afterwards knighted by Charles I.,
married in 1618 Marian, daughter of Walter Dundas, of Dundas. His
son, John, died without issue, and was succeeded by his uncle,
John Blair, who married Lady Jean Cunningham, daughter of William,
eighth Earl of Glencairn, and dying in 1662, was succeeded by his
son, William Blair, of Blair. This gentleman was named by the
restoration government of Scotland a member of the Commission in
Ayrshire for holding courts on the Covenanters, but he early joined
the revolution party.... Having raised a troop of horse in support
of King William, he marched with it into Perthshire. News of this
reaching Viscount Dundee, then in arms in Atholl for King James, he
determined to surprise them, and marching by night towards Perth,
he entered the city unawares early the next morning, seized the
laird of Blair and the laird of Pollock who was with him, and two
other officers, in their beds. He carried them off prisoners to the
highlands, where the laird of Blair died shortly afterwards. He had
married Lady Margaret Hamilton, daughter of William, 2nd Duke of
Hamilton. Their son, William Blair of Blair, was a commissioner of
supply for the county of Ayr in the convention parliament which met
in 1689. He married Magdalene, daughter of James Campbell. Their
son John predeceased him unmarried, and was succeeded by his sister
Magdalene, who married William Scott, and had a son William, her
heir. The heiress of Blair is supposed to have died before 1715,
and Mr. Scott, her widower, who had assumed the name and arms of
Blair, married secondly Catherine Tait, of Edinburgh. Their eldest
son, Hamilton, became Major in the Greys.
PATRICK BLAIR.
30 July, 1686, made Captain of the troop lately commanded by John
Wedderburne.
THOMAS BLAIR.
Cornet in the Army, 25 June, 1747, and in the Greys, 21 June,
1749, succeeded by Second Cornet James Johnston, from half-pay in
Crawford's, 27 November, 1752.
WILLIAM J. BLAKE.
Cornet from the 89th Foot, 17 July, 1857.
WILLIAM BLANE.
Cornet, 14 October, 1819. Lieutenant by purchase, 24 October, 1821.
BLEAN.
Chaplain, 1702.
J. HAYDOCK BOARDMAN.
Lieutenant in Captain Patrick Smith's troop, in Muster ending 24
December, 1779; Captain-Lieutenant, 7 February, 1787; Captain,
18 July, 1787; Major, 3 June, 1793. In the Roll ending 24
December, 1794, David Horne is noted under the formula:--"Absent
by the King's leave"; and Boardman is evidently in command as
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Regiment, now abroad. Coming to the "Pay
List from 25 December, 1797, to 24 February, 1798," he is entered
as "Lieutenant-Colonel without a troop." Resigned, 17 February,
1803.
GEORGE BOGLE.
Cornet by purchase, 8 October, 1830. Retired, 21 November, 1834.
EDWIN BOLTON.
Sub-Lieutenant (from 1st Dragoon Guards), 15 August, 1877.
Lieutenant, 11 November, 1877.
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAME BONTINE.
From Ensign in the 15th Foot. Cornet by purchase, 6 November, 1846.
Retired, 22 November, 1850.
ARCHIBALD BOTHWELL.
Cornet, 2 November, 1785; Lieutenant, 28 July, 1790; Captain, 22
February, 1793; Major, 17 July, 1795. Both J. H. Boardman and A.
Gillon still also appearing as Majors on the roll. In the "Pay List
from 25 December, 1797, to 24 February, 1798," Bothwell is entered
as "Major without a troop." 3 April, 1801, succeeded to a troop.
Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, 17 February, 1803.
ROBERT BOWER.
Appointed Cornet, 18 July, 1787. Retired, 14 December, 1790.
NINIAN BOYD.
Lieutenant, 1 October, 1694, to 27 April, 1697; Captain-Lieutenant,
28 April, 1697, to yᵉ 9th March, 1697-8; Captain, 1702; Major and
Captain, 24 August, 1706.
WILLIAM BOYD.
Captain, 24 December, 1852, exchanging from the 87th Foot. Major in
the Army, 31 August, 1854. Died before 13 September, 1855.
ALWYN W. J. BRAMLY.
Second Lieutenant, 6 March, 1895.
MATTHEW BRICKDALE.
Cornet, 22 May, 1782, in Captain Patrick Smith's troop. Promoted
Lieutenant in 70th Foot, 22 July, 1785.
JOHN BROWN.
Cornet, 1 January, 1693-4, to last day of February, 1694.
CHARLES BROWNE.
Cornet, 24 July, 1749. Resigned, 13 January, 1753.
ANDREW SMYTHE MONTAGUE BROWNE.
Cornet, from 56th Foot, 25 November, 1853. Lieutenant by purchase,
16 March, 1855. Wounded slightly, see _Gazette_, 12 November, 1854.
Captain by purchase, 24 December, 1858. Major by purchase, 30 June,
1869, Lieutenant-Colonel of 3rd Dragoon Guards, 1 October, 1877.
Crimean campaign, 1855-6. Battle of Tchernaya and siege and fall of
Sevastopol. Medal, with clasp; Turkish medal.
HUGH EDMOND BROWNING.
Cornet without purchase, 26 February, 1856. Lieutenant without
purchase, by augmentation, 27 November, 1857. Captain by purchase,
19 July, 1864. Retired 22 June, 1870.
CAPTAIN ALEXANDER BRUCE.
On 11 May, 1683, appointed Lieutenant of Lieutenant-Colonel
Lord Charles Murray's company. On 30 March, 1685, King James
issues a similar commission. On 6 November, 1685, appointed
Captain-Lieutenant of Lord Charles Murray, his own troop.
MICHAEL BRUCE.
Cornet, 10 May, 1751. On the 20th May, 1752, "exchanged with Second
Lieutenant Alexander Coningham from half-pay in Batereau's."
JOHN RAMSAY BRUSH, M.D.
Surgeon, from 93rd Foot, 21 July, 1854. Exchanged to Second Class,
Staff, 18 January, 1856.
DAVID CARRICK ROBERT CARRICK BUCHANAN.
Cornet by purchase, 16 May, 1845. Retired, 16 March, 1849.
GEORGE BUCHANAN.
Cornet by purchase, 16 March, 1849. Lieutenant by purchase, 27
August, 1852. Captain without purchase, 8 December, 1854. Retired,
28 April, 1863.
CHARLES B. BULKELEY-JOHNSON.
Born 19 November, 1867. Second Lieutenant, 5 February, 1887.
Lieutenant, 16 March, 1889. Captain, 13 June, 1894.
Served in the Soudan Campaign, 1899, and commanded the Egyptian
cavalry during the operations which resulted in the final defeat
and death of the Khalifa (4th class Medjidie British medal and
Khedive's medal with two clasps).
RICHARD BULLEN.
Cornet, 14 March, 1800. Lieutenant, 4 April, 1801. Captain, 19 May,
1808. Died before 1814.
RICHARD BURFORD.
Appointed Paymaster, 31 January, 1809. Resigned, 13 October, 1814.
SIR MONTAGU ROGER BURGOYNE, +8th Baronet+.
Cornet, 1 May, 1789. Captain-Lieutenant, 1 May, 1793. Promoted
to Major 27th Light Dragoons, 24 June, 1794. According to the D.
N. B. he, in 1795, became Lieutenant-Colonel of the short-lived
32nd Light Dragoons. He was afterwards for some years one of the
Inspecting Field Officers of Yeomanry and Volunteer Corps. He died
at his mother's residence in Oxford Street, London, on 11 August,
1817.
JAMES TRAVERS BURKE.
Cornet, 22 August, 1816. Exchanged to half-pay 11th Light Dragoons,
23 March, 1820.
WILLIAM BURY.
Cornet, 4 October, 1745. Lieutenant, 29 November, 1750.
Captain-Lieutenant, 9 March, 1757. Resigned, 24 April, 1762.
CHARLES BUSSELL.
Paymaster, from half-pay, 1 September, 1854.
SIR CHARLES CAIRNY.
31 December, 1686, to be Lieutenant-Colonel "of the Regiment of
Dragoones of which Charles Earl of Dunmore is Colonel."
ALEXANDER CAMPBELL.
Cornet, 13 February, 1805. Lieutenant, September, 1806. Captain,
December, 1808. Resigned, June, 1811.
COLIN JOHN CAMPBELL.
Cornet by purchase, 22 August, 1868. Lieutenant by purchase, 3
August, 1870. Retired, 24 January, 1874.
DOUGLAS CAMPBELL.
Cornet, 21 March, 1722.
HUGH MONTGOMERY CAMPBELL.
Cornet by purchase, 1 February, 1839. Lieutenant by purchase, 22
July, 1842. Exchanged to 89th Foot, 31 December, 1844.
SIR JAMES CAMPBELL OF LAWERS.
Third son of the second Earl of Loudoun, his mother being Lady
Margaret Montgomery, daughter of the Earl of Eglintoun.
In the 1745 Army List, Sir James Campbell is given as:--
Colonel, 1 November, 1711. Lieutenant-Colonel, 24 August, 1706.
Major, 25 April, 1705. Captain, 25 February, 1701-2.
The D. N. B. records as follows:--
"He entered the army as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Dragoons or
Scots Greys, in 1708, ... and he greatly distinguished himself
at the hard-fought battle of Malplaquet, on 11 September, 1709.
In this battle the Scots Greys were stationed in front of the
right of the allied line, under the command of Prince Eugène, and
when the obstinate resistance of the French made the issue of the
battle doubtful, Campbell, though he had been ordered not to move,
suddenly charged with his dragoons right through the enemie's line
and back again. The success of this charge determined the battle
in that quarter, and on the following day Prince Eugène publicly
thanked Campbell before the whole army, for exceeding his orders."
In 1717 he succeeded David, Earl of Portmore, as Colonel of the
Scots Greys.
JAMES MURE CAMPBELL.
Cornet, 15 November, 1740. Lieutenant, 27 May, 1742. Captain, 29
May, 1745. Made Major to the 11th Dragoons, 24 July, 1754.
JOHN CAMPBELL, +The Honourable+.
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, 19 April, 1712. Colonel in the
Army, 27 June, 1737. Colonel of the 2nd or Royal North British
Dragoons, 29 April, 1752. Also in Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1760.
Died, 9 November, 1770.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
Ensign of the 25th Foot, made Cornet, 12 January, 1757. Promoted to
Captain 24 April, 1762.
JOHN CAMPBELL.
Cornet, 26 December, 1755. "Made Captain in the '2nd Highland
Battalion,' and succeeded by Ensign John Campbell, of the 25th
Foot, 12 January, 1757." (See above.)
JOHN CAMPBELL.
Cornet by purchase, 6 November, 1835. Lieutenant by purchase, 28
December, 1838. Captain by purchase, 22 July, 1842. Deceased, 1846.
ROBERT LAWRENCE CAMPBELL.
Cornet in Captain David Home's troop, in Muster ending 24 June,
1772. "Promoted Captain in the 71st Regiment of Foot," Muster
ending 24 December, 1775.
JOHN CARNEGIE.
Cornet by purchase, 17 April, 1823. Lieutenant by purchase, 10
June, 1826. Promoted Captain, unattached, 8 June, 1830.
JAMES CARRUTHERS.
Cornet by purchase, 22 August, 1811. Lieutenant by purchase, 9
February, 1815. Died of his wounds.
WILLIAM FRANCIS CARRUTHERS.
Cornet by purchase, 22 July, 1842. Lieutenant by purchase, 3
December, 1844. Retired, 25 June, 1847.
HENRY CARTER.
Cornet, 19 February, 1795. Lieutenant, 8 July, 1795. Captain, 16
March, 1797.
CHARLES CATHCART.
29 January, 1703-4, Brevet Captain in the Infantry, and in July,
1705, Captain. In May, 1707, made Major of Brigade, and in May,
1708-9, Major of Dragoons. Major, 24 March, 1708-9. 1 November,
1711, made Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel. 16 September, 1715,
Lieutenant-Colonel.
FREDERICK MACADAM CATHCART, +The Hon., of Craigengillan+.
Cornet, 24 September, 1804. Aide-de-Camp to General Lord Cathcart.
17 September, 1807, Captain in the Army, and 11 February, 1808,
Captain in this Regiment. No other Cathcart in the Greys in
the 1812 printed Army List. Major in the Army, 28 July, 1814.
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, 24 February, 1820, exchanged to
half-pay 92nd Foot, 18 May, 1820. Born at Twickenham Common, 28
October, 1789. Served as one of the Aides-de-Camp to his father,
in 1805, 1806, and 1807. In the latter year he was sent home
with the news of the surrender of the citadel of Copenhagen and
the Danish navy. On 8 September, his father wrote: "I send this
despatch by Lieutenant Cathcart, who has been for some time my
first Aide-de-Camp, who has seen everything that has occurred here
and at Stralsund, and will be able to give any further details that
may be required." He was Minister plenipotentiary at St. Petersburg
from 1820 to 1822, and at Frankfort from 1824 to 1826. He was made
a Knight of the Russian Order of St. Anne. He married in 1827
Jane, daughter and heiress of Quentin Macadam, of Craigengillan,
Ayrshire, and consequently assumed the name of Macadam before that
of Cathcart.
JAMES CAVALLIE.
Cornet, 1 April, 1692, to last day of February, 1693. Lieutenant
in one of the two additional troops, 7 January, 1693, to 12 March,
1697-8.
JAMES CHADWICK.
Cornet, 20 September, 1810. Lieutenant by purchase, 15 July, 1813.
In 1817, on half-pay.
THOMAS CHEATHAM (+or+ CHETHAM).
Lieutenant, 26 September, 1795. Retired, 7 July, 1797.
EDWARD CHENEY.
Captain-Lieutenant, 3 May, 1800. Captain, 25 May, 1803. In the
Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1810, he appears as Aide-de-Camp to
General Earl Harrington. Major, 20 July, 1815. Lieutenant-Colonel
in the Army, 18 June, 1815. In 1816 List, C.B. In 1818, exchanged
to half-pay in Wattville's Regiment.
ROBERT CHENEY.
Cornet, 3 September, 1794. Lieutenant, 22 October, 1794.
[Illustration: +Colonel Clarke.+]
ARCHIBALD CHRISTIE.
Cornet, 8 May, 1806. Resigned in 1809.
JAMES CHRISTIE.
Appointed Cornet, 5 June, 1769. 16 March, 1770, promoted
Adjutant in place of John Forbes, resigned. Resigned Adjutancy,
9 August, 1774. Promoted Lieutenant, 22 February, 1775. Promoted
Captain-Lieutenant in the First Dragoons, 15 May, 1779.
GEORGE CALVERT CLARKE, +Lieut.-Gen.+ (+Hon. Gen.+)
Born 23rd July, 1814. From 89th Foot.
Captain, 28 March, 1845 (exchanging with H. M. Campbell). Major in
the Army, 11 November, 1851. Wounded severely, see _Gazette_, 12
November, 1854. Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, 12 December, 1854.
Major without purchase, 26 February, 1858. Colonel in the Army, 23
April, 1860. Lieutenant-Colonel without purchase, 31 March, 1866.
Retired on half-pay, 3 February, 1869. Appointed Colonel of the
Greys, 23 September, 1891.
ISAAC BLAKE CLARK.
Cornet, 8 July, 1795. Lieutenant, 3 May, 1796. Captain, 7
September, 1797. Major, 16 June, 1807. 4 June given the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army. Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the
Greys, 20 July, 1815, in succession to L. J. Hamilton, killed at
Waterloo. In 1816 list, C.B. Retired, 11 October, 1821.
JOHN FRED. SALES CLARKE.
Cornet, 3 December, 1818, exchanged from half-pay 4th Dragoon
Guards. Cornet by purchase, 11 October, 1821. Lieutenant by
purchase, 4 October, 1822. Promoted to an unattached company,
21 July, 1825. Exchanged, 26 July, 1827, to a Captaincy in the
Greys. Major by purchase, 30 December, 1837. Lieutenant-Colonel
by purchase, 2 April, 1841. Exchanged to half-pay, unattached, 6
November, 1846.
GEORGE CLEGHORNE.
Lieutenant from 17th Dragoons, by exchange, 17 November, 1857.
Captain by purchase, 14 June, 1864. Retired, 30 March, 1866.
SAMUEL FREDERICK STEWART CLELAND.
Cornet by purchase, 19 July, 1864. Retired, 8 September, 1865.
WILLIAM CLELAND.
Captain-Lieutenant, 1681. 30 March, 1685, appointed Captain.
DEVEREUX P. COCKBURN.
Cornet by purchase, 25 June, 1847. Retired, 18 September, 1849.
JAMES COCKBURN.
Captain, 30 December, 1795. Aide-de-camp to Sir W. Howe. Promoted
Major in 81st Foot, 6 September, 1797.
THOMAS COCKRAN.
Cornet, 31 May, 1715.
MARTIN THOMAS COCKSEDGE.
Appointed Captain of the Troop lately commanded by J. P. Hamilton,
8 April, 1802. In Muster ending 24 June, 1802, Captain in Military
Train.
JAMES COLHOUN.
Surgeon, 1 June, 1750. Made a Cornet, 26 October, 1756. Lieutenant,
24 April, 1762. Transferred in Muster ending 24 June, 1767,
from Major Douglas's Troop to Captain Home's Troop. 16 March,
1770, transferred to Captain Law's troop. Captain-Lieutenant, 14
November, 1770. Resigned, 5 May, 1775.
WILLIAM FELLOWES COLLINS.
Born 17 September, 1865. Second Lieutenant, 6 February, 1889.
Lieutenant, 15 October, 1890. Captain, 5 July, 1896.
CHARLES R. COLT.
Captain in the Army, 3 February, 1854. Paymaster, 1 September, 1854
to 10 August, 1855.
JAMES COMMON.
Quartermaster in Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas's Troop, in Muster
ending 24 June, 1772. Died, 30 April, 1774.
H.R.H. PRINCE ARTHUR OF CONNAUGHT, K.G., etc.
Personal A.D.C. to His Majesty. Went on Special Mission to Tokio in
1906 to invest the Mikado of Japan with the Order of the Garter.
Captain, 1907.
THOMAS CONOLLY.
Born, 1 September, 1870. Second Lieutenant, 28 June, 1893.
Lieutenant, 5 December, 1894.
Rejoined from Egyptian army, February, 1900; killed in action at
Commando Nek, South Africa, 11th July, 1900 (see p. 98).
ALEXANDER CONYNGHAM.
Lieutenant, 26 February, 1755. Also, 24 June, 1760. Resigned, 11
January, 1770.
JOSEPH COPE.
Appointed Surgeon, 9 April, 1794. Retired, 11 November, 1794.
JOHN CORRIE.
In Muster ending 24 June, 1798. Cornet, 30 May, 1800. Retired, 2
April, 1801.
JOHN COWAN.
Quartermaster, 11 January, 1804.
ROBERT COWAN.
Quartermaster, 30 April, 1794. Promoted Paymaster, 25 December,
1797. Resigned, 31 January, 1809.
JOHN CRABBIE.
Born, 9 September, 1861. Lieutenant, 10 May, 1882. Adjutant, 18
January, 1888. Captain, 9 October, 1889. Adjutant to Volunteers, 16
December, 1895. Major, 1900. South Africa, 1899-1902. Took part in
the operations in Transvaal and Natal, 1901, including successful
attack near Roodebloem on 15 December, 1901 (_see_ p. 128).
LAWRENCE CRAIGIE.
Cornet, 17 December, 1800. Lieutenant, 21 June, 1802.
CHARLES CRAVEN.
Cornet by purchase, 22 January, 1836. Lieutenant by purchase, 6
November, 1840. Captain by purchase, 29 December, 1843. Retired, 18
April, 1845.
JOHN, EARL OF CRAWFORD.
Captain, 25 December, 1726.
"The gallant Earl of Crawford"--"the most generous, the most
gallant, the bravest, and the finest nobleman of his time." Born
4 October, 1702, educated at University of Glasgow and Military
Academy at Vandeuil, in Paris. Captain in the Scots Guards, 1734.
Representative Peer, 1732, till his death in 1749. In 1733 he was
appointed Gentleman of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales.
In 1735 he joined the Imperial Army, and was at the Battle of
Claussen, 17 October, 1735. In April, 1738, he served with the
Russian Army against the Turks, declining however a regiment of
Horse and the rank of Lieutenant-General in that service. He
greatly distinguished himself in various engagements, as also at
the Battle of Krotzha, near Belgrade, 22 July, 1739, when his horse
was killed under him, and he himself fearfully and desperately
wounded. He returned home, and that year was made Adjutant-General
and Colonel of the 42nd Foot. (The Black Watch was then first made
a Regiment, and called "Lord Crawford-Lindsay's Highlanders.")
Colonel of the 2nd Troop of Grenadier Guards, 1740. Colonel in 1743
of the Scottish Horse Guards, disbanded 1746. Colonel of the Scots
Greys and Lieutenant-General, 1747. He was in command at Dettingen,
16 June, 1743; at Fontenoy, where he conducted the retreat in
excellent order, 30 April, 1745; in Scotland, to repress the
rising in 1745; and at the Battle of Roucoux, in the Netherlands,
in October, 1746. He married 3 March, 1747, Jean, eldest daughter
of James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl. He died in London, in great
suffering (his wound of 1739 breaking out for the 29th time), 25
December, 1749.
[Illustration: "+John Earl of Craufurd.+"]
ROBERT GREGAN CRAWFORD.
Cornet by purchase, 22 January, 1824. Lieutenant, 29 June, 1826.
Promoted to captain of an unattached troop, 5 April, 1831.
WILLIAM CRAWFORD.
Cornet, 10 October, 1694, to 9 March, 1697-8. Captain-Lieutenant,
16 January, 1706, in Colonel the Earl of Stair's troop. 24
February, 1707-8, Captain of an additional troop.
WILLIAM CRAWFORD.
Deputy-Adjutant, 9 July, 1793, and Cornet, 17 August, 1815.
Lieutenant, 25 June, 1819. Resigns Adjutancy, 25 November, 1828.
Appointed Paymaster, 24 March, 1829. Retired on half-pay, 1
January, 1849.
DAVID CRICHTON.
Lieutenant, 1 April, 1692, to last day of February, 1693.
Captain-Lieutenant, 1 January, 1693, to yᵉ 7 September, 1694.
Captain of the two additional troops, from 1 October, 1694, to 15
March, 1697-8.
JOHN CRICHTON.
21 May, 1678, appointed Ensigne in Captain Francis Stuart's
Independent Company. In 1681, Lieutenant in Stuart's Company. 30
March, 1685, appointed Lieutenant of Captain Cleland's troop.
STEPHEN CROFT.
Cornet, 19 February, 1760. In 1762 promoted to the 106th Regiment
of Foot.
CHARLES CROSSBIE.
Captain-Lieutenant, 7 March, 1722-3. Captain, 25 December, 1726.
DAVID CUNNINGHAM.
Cornet, 10 September, 1778. Lieutenant, 3 March, 1779, in the
Colonel's troop.
JOHN CUNNINGHAM.
Cornet, 9 September, 1805. Lieutenant, 4 June, 1807. Resigned 1811.
SIR WALTER MONTGOMERY-CUNNINGHAM.
Cornet in Captain Telfer's troop, 22 March, 1776. Resigned, 5th
October, 1778.
4th Baronet, of Corshill, in the parish of Stewarton, County
Ayr, was the son of Captain Alexander Montgomery-Cunningham. He
succeeded to the Baronetcy 4 July, 1770. He was an unsuccessful
claimant to the Earldom of Glencairn. He died unmarried, in March,
1814.
JAMES DALRYMPLE.
Cornet, 6 March, 1707-8. Captain-Lieutenant, 22 July, 1715.
Lieutenant, 5 July, 1723. Retired and succeeded by Cornet John
Forbess, 23 April, 1742.
JAMES DALRYMPLE.
Cornet, 21 June, 1749. Lieutenant, 11 January, 1755.
EDWARD DAVEY.
Lieutenant, 5 April, 1796. Retired, 2 August, 1796.
GEORGE DAWLER.
Cornet, 24 April, 1762. Transferred from the Lieutenant-Colonel's
troop to Captain Law's troop, 24 April, 1763. Promoted Lieutenant,
14 November, 1770. Transferred to Captain Smith's troop, 25
April, 1779. In Muster Roll ending 24 December, 1779:--Promoted
Captain-Lieutenant in 11th Regiment of Dragoons.
ROBERT DAWN, M.D.
Surgeon, 4 August, 1814. Exchanged, 16 January, 1816, to 89th Foot.
WILLIAM DAWSON.
Paymaster, 13 October, 1814. Died, 25 September, 1828.
JOSEPH BARRINGTON DEACON.
Cornet by purchase, 26 May, 1865. Retired, 30 May, 1866.
MATTHEW FITZMAURICE DEANE, +The Honourable+.
Cornet from the 10th Light Dragoons, 6 May, 1853. Transferred to
4th Dragoon Guards, 10 June, 1853.
WILLIAM DELAVALLY.
Lieutenant, 31 May, 1715.
SIR JAMES STEWART DENHAM, +Bart.+
Born in Scotland in August, 1744, and very soon his father had
to leave Scotland on account of being implicated in the 1745
rebellion. The son, therefore, received his education in Germany.
He became Cornet in the 1st or Royal Dragoons, 17 March, 1761, and
served the campaigns of 1761 and 1762 with it in Germany. Passing
over the rank of Lieutenant, he was made Captain in the 105th Royal
Highlanders, 13 January, 1763. In the next year this regiment was
disbanded. He then travelled for two years in France and Germany,
paying special attention to the cavalry of those two nations. In
1766 he was appointed to command a troop of the 5th Royal Irish
Dragoons, now the 5th Royal Irish Lancers. 6 November, 1772, he was
promoted Major into the 13th Dragoons. 26 September, 1775, he was
transferred to the 1st Irish Horse, now the 4th Dragoon Guards. 15
July, 1776, he was made Lieutenant-Colonel of his old regiment,
the 13th Dragoons, on its being made a Light Dragoon regiment. In
1781 he was elected M.P. for Lanark. 20 November, 1782, he was
made a Colonel. In 1788 he was made President of a Commission for
improving the discipline and general condition of the Cavalry in
Ireland. 9 November, 1791, he was made Colonel of the 12th Light
Dragoons. In October, 1793, made Major-General. In 1797 made a
local Lieutenant-General. In the Rebellion of 1798 he shewed
himself as a wise statesman as well as an able soldier. In 1813 he
was made Colonel of the Scots Greys. Died at Cheltenham, 12 August,
1839.
DAVID RONALD DICKSON.
Cornet, 20 August, 1803. Lieutenant, 19 December, 1805.
JOHN DICKSON.
Quartermaster Muster Roll, 24 June, 1760. Cornet, 22 May, 1761.
Resigned, 4 June, 1769.
---- DISNEY.
(Christian name not given). Made Cornet, 9 December, 1755.
CHARLES WILSHERE ONSLOW DOHERTY.
Lieutenant, from 97th Foot, 10 January, 1872. Lieutenant in the
Army, 28 June, 1871. Captain, 1 October, 1878. Died, 27 June, 1879.
EDWARD GEORGE MOORE DONNITHORNE.
Cornet, by purchase, 8 September, 1865. Lieutenant in the Royal
Artillery, 18 December, 1861. New Zealand War, 1864. Action of the
Gate Pah. Medal. Lieutenant in the Greys, by purchase, 3 February,
1869. Captain, 24th February, 1872. Major, 1 July, 1881.
JAMES DOUGLAS.
Quarter-master in Captain Charles Preston's troop, 1706.
JOHN DOUGLAS.
Cornet, 13 October, 1741. Lieutenant, 3 February, 1746-7. Adjutant,
1 June, 1750. Captain-Lieutenant, 13 September, 1754. Captain,
11 January, 1755. Major in Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1760.
Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain, 14 November, 1770. Promoted Colonel
of the 21st Dragoons, 25 April, 1779.
SIR WILLIAM DOUGLAS.
Adjutant and Captain, 1 April, 1692, to 31 March, 1694.
WILLIAM DOUGLAS.
Cornet, 21 April, 1692, to 27 April, 1697. Lieutenant, 28 April,
1697, to 15 March, 1698.
WILLIAM DOUGLAS.
Cornet, in Muster Roll of 24 June, 1760, in Major John Douglas's
troop. Promoted Lieutenant 3 March, 1764.
ROBERT DOUNES.
Lieutenant, from 19th Light Dragoons, by purchase, 23 October, 1817.
FRANCIS DREWE.
Cornet, by purchase, 10 November, 1837. Died, 23 July, 1838.
HENRY DRUMMOND.
In 1681 appointed Ensigne of Strachan's Company. 30 March, 1685,
appointed Cornet of Captain John Strachan's Company. 23 August,
1688, appointed Lieutenant of P. Blair's troop.
PERCY CHARLES DU CANE.
Cornet, from the 4th Dragoon Guards, 16 July, 1858. Lieutenant, by
purchase, 30 January, 1863. Captain, by purchase, 30 March, 1866.
Retired 16 October, 1866.
ARTHUR CAMPBELL DUCKWORTH.
Born, 27 September, 1870. 2nd Lieutenant, 31 January, 1894.
Lieutenant, 5 December, 1894.
GEORGE DUNBAR.
Cornet, 11 May, 1705. Captain-Lieutenant, 24 February, 1707-8; in
Colonel the Earl of Stair's troop. In 1715 Captain.
JAMES BRANDER DUNBAR.
Cornet without purchase, 12 January, 1855. Lieutenant by purchase,
25 May, 1855. Captain without purchase, 31 March, 1866. Retired, 19
January, 1870.
JOHN DUNBAR.
24 February, 1707-8, Cornet in Patrick Robertson's troop.
SIR DAVID DUNDAS.
3rd son of Robert Dundas, a merchant of Edinburgh, was born
in 1735, and educated at the Royal Academy at Woolwich. From
1752 to 1755 he assisted General David Watson, his maternal
uncle, in the great survey of Scotland. Colonel, 16 May, 1801.
General, 29 April, 1802. Resigned, 27 January, 1813, on being
appointed Colonel of the 1st Dragoon Guards. In 1754 he was
appointed a Lieutenant-Fireworker in the Royal Artillery, and in
1755 a Practitioner-Engineer. In 1756 he was made a Lieutenant
in the 56th Regiment, and in the same year was made Assistant
Quartermaster-General to General Watson. He threw up his staff
appointment in 1758 to join his regiment, ordered on active
service, and took part in the attack on St. Malo, the capture of
Cherbourg, and the fight at St. Cas. At the close of the same
year he joined the Army under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick,
in the threefold capacity of Assistant Quartermaster-General,
Engineer, and Lieutenant of Infantry. After the campaign he left
Germany, to become a Captain in the 15th Light Dragoons. He was
in the battles of Corlach, Warburg, and Clostercampen, the siege
of Wesel, the battle of Fellinghausen, and then, in 1762, in the
expedition to Cuba. The Seven Years' War over, he became a deep
student of his profession, and attended every year manœuvres of
the French, Prussian, or Austrian armies. In 1770 he was promoted
Major. In 1775 he purchased the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the 12th
Light Dragoons. In 1778 Quartermaster-General in Ireland. In 1781
promoted Colonel. In 1782 made Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Irish
Horse. In 1788 he published his valuable work "The Principles of
Military Movements." In 1790 he was promoted Major-General, and
in 1791 made Colonel of the 22nd Regiment. In June, 1792, were
issued--Rules and Regulations for the Formation, Field Exercises,
and Movements of His Majesty's Forces. These were drawn up by
Dundas, and issued officially. "Rules and Regulations for the
Cavalry," were also, at once, issued under similar conditions; but,
in this case, he had been largely aided by the experience of Sir
James Stewart Denham (also of the Greys). He commanded a brigade of
Cavalry at Tournay, on 22 May, 1794. Next, he fought the battles of
Geldermalsen and Tuyl. In 1795 he was made Colonel of the 7th Light
Dragoons, Quartermaster-General in 1796.... In 1801 he was made
Colonel of the Greys and Governor of Fort George, in the place of
Sir Ralph Abercromby. In 1802 promoted General. Commander-in-Chief,
1809 to 1811. In 1813, Colonel of the 1st Dragoon Guards. Died, 18
February, 1820.
Sir Henry Bunbury recorded:--"Dundas was a tall, spare man,
crabbed and austere, dry in his looks and demeanour. He had made
his way from a poor condition (he told me himself that he walked
from Edinburgh to London to enter himself as a fireworker in the
artillery).... There was much care and valour in that Scotchman."
HENRY DUNDAS.
In 1681 Lieutenant in Inglis's Company.
JAMES DUNDAS.
In 1681 Ensign of Turner's Company. On 11 May, 1683, appointed
Lieutenant of Captain J. Strachan's Company. 7 November, 1685,
commission to be Lieutenant of William Levingstoun's troop.
JAMES DUNDAS.
30 March, 1685, appointed Cornet of Wedderburne's troop.
HUGH DE C. EASTWOOD.
Lieutenant, 10 August, 1885.
CHARLES GASPAR EDLMANN.
Cornet, 14 December, 1815. In 1822 appointed Riding Master. Retired
on half-pay, 19th Light Dragoons.
HERBERT EDWARDS.
Lieutenant, 12 November, 1852, from the 14th Light Dragoons, by
exchange. Captain without purchase, 15 December, 1854. Retired, 13
June, 1856.
THE EARL OF EGLINTON.
Colonel of the Scots Greys, 2 December, 1785. Died, 1 November,
1796.
Archibald Montgomerie, Earl of Eglinton, born 18 May, 1726. He
raised the 77th Regiment of Foot, which he commanded in America, in
1757, becoming finally, 1793, General in the Army. He was M.P. for
county Ayr, 1761 to 1768. Equerry to the Queen Consort 1761-1769.
Governor of the Castle of Dumbarton, 1764, and Deputy Ranger of
Hyde Park and St. James's Park, 1766; Governor of Edinburgh Castle,
1782. Representative Peer for Scotland, 1776-1796. He married,
30 March, 1772, Lady Jean, eldest daughter of George Lindsay,
18th Earl of Crawford and Lindsay. She died, 22 January, 1778, at
Eglinton Castle. He married secondly, 9 August, 1783, Frances,
daughter of Sir William Twisden, 6th Baronet of Roydon. He died 30
October, 1796.
JAMES DRUMMOND ELPHINSTONE.
Major, exchanged from half pay in Watteville's corps, 7 September,
1818.
CHRISTOPHER ERIE.
Second Lieutenant, 12 December, 1894.
JAMES ERSKINE.
As Ensign, 24 July, 1722. Cornet, 2 November, 1722. Made
Lieutenant, 23 April, 1742. Made Captain-Lieutenant, 27 May, 1742.
WILLIAM ERSKINE.
Captain, 12 June, 1717. Major, 21 March, 1722-3. He is made
Lieutenant-Colonel of "late Kerr's" Regiment, and is succeeded by
Captain Sir Thomas Hay, on 6 February, 1740-1.
G. H. FALCONAR.
Cornet, 2 November, 1809. Lieutenant by purchase, 21 November,
1811, in place of Cunningham. Captain by purchase, 5 October, 1815.
In 1816 on half pay.
Led a squadron of the Greys at Waterloo. He was great-uncle to Col.
Coventry Williams, lately commanding the regiment (see p. 258).
FRANCIS GLENNIE FARQUHAR.
Cornet by purchase, 14 June, 1864. Lieutenant by purchase, 25
September, 1867. Captain by purchase, 2 August, 1871. Major, 1
July, 1881. Lieutenant-Colonel, 5 July, 1886.
PETER FARQUHARSON.
Cornet in roll ending 24 June, 1761.
RICHARD TWISTLETON FAWCETT.
Lieutenant, 27 April, 1815. Captain, 25 October, 1825. Retired, 23
February, 1838.
CECIL WILLIAM MONTAGUE FEILDEN.
Born, 13 January, 1863. Lieutenant, 2 August, 1882. Captain,
14 February, 1891. A.D.C. (extra) to Lt.-Gen., and Gen. Gov.
Ireland, 2 February, 1891, to 17 August, 1892. Ditto, 3 October,
1892, to 8 July, 1895. Ditto, 30 July, 1895, to 31 October, 1895.
Private Secretary to Commander-in-chief, 1 November, 1895, to 15
January, 1897.
Major, 1901. Served in South Africa, 1899; wounded 18th February,
and died of wounds 20th February, 1902 (see p. 132).
WILLIAM LEYLAND FEILDEN.
Cornet by purchase, 5 July, 1853.
THOMAS CHARLES FENTON.
Captain, 6 April, 1815. (2 January, 1812, on half-pay in 4th
Dragoons.) Retired, 24 June, 1819.
ROBERT ORDE FENWICK.
Appointed Cornet, 5 August, 1803. Lieutenant, 27 February, 1806.
Resigned, 24 June, 1807.
JOHN FERGUSSON.
From Quartermaster-Sergeant, to Quartermaster, 12 April, 1864.
Died, 27 September, 1871.
PATRICK FERGUSON.
Cornet in the Lieutenant-Colonel's troop, in the Muster signed at
Kelso, 13 August, 1763. In Muster Roll ending 26 December, 1768,
promoted to be a Lieutenant in the 70th Regiment. Born in 1744,
his father being James Ferguson of Pitfours, Aberdeenshire. He
was taught fortification, gunnery, &c., in a military academy in
London, and in 1759, before he was 15, was appointed a Cornet
in the Greys. On 2nd December, 1776, he obtained a patent for
improvements in Fire-arms. The patent covers several forms of
breech action, the use of sliding back sights, and also a peculiar
mode of rifling. After some successful public experiments at
Woolwich, and before the King at Windsor, the inventor returned
to his regiment, then quartered at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and was
allowed to form a corps of riflemen with volunteers from regiments
in America. The men were armed with breech-loading rifled carbines.
This corps of riflemen, extended in front and supported by a corps
of rangers, did good service in covering General Knyphausen's
advance at the Battle of Brandywine, 11 September, 1777, when
Ferguson received a severe wound. 26 October, 1779, he was made
Major in the old 71st Highlanders, then in America. In Carolina
under Lord Cornwallis, he was again wounded severely. At the fight
of King's Mountain, on 9 October, 1780, he was surprised and
killed. The D. N. B. concludes: "Ferguson is allowed by all to have
been a generous, chivalrous soldier, but the partisan warfare in
which he was engaged gave rise to rancorous feelings on both sides.
It is alleged that indignities were offered to his mangled corpse
and great barbarities practised on the wretched militiamen under
him who were taken prisoners. Unable to show other marks of respect
to his memory, Ferguson's brother officers published a notice of
him in the form of a monumental epitaph in the _New York Gazette_,
14 February, 1781."
PETER FERGUISON.
Cornet in November, 1760.
TOWNLEY PATTEN HUME MACARTNEY FILGATE.
Captain, 28 April, 1863, by exchange from 8th Hussars. Retired, 14
February, 1865.
CONRAD WILLIAM CURLING FINZELL.
Cornet by purchase, 14 February, 1864. Retired, 22 August, 1868.
WILLIAM FRANCIS FIRMSTONE.
Cornet, 28 October, 1871. Sub-Lieutenant, 1 November, 1871.
Lieutenant, 17 March, 1874. Resigned, 18 March, 1874.
RALPH BROMFIELD WILLINGTON FISHER.
From unattached list. Sub-Lieutenant, 27 June, 1874. To 10th
Hussars, 27 August.
Fisher, R. B. W. (Lieut.-Col., 10th Hussars.) Afghan War,
1878-9-80. Attack and capture of the Peiwar, Kotal, actions of
Matun and Futtehabad. Operations in the Shutargardan. Affairs
around Kabul and Sherpur; and march from Kabul to relief of
Kandahar, and battle of 1 September. Despatches, _London Gazette_,
4 May, and 3 December, 1880. Medal with 3 clasps: bronze star.
Mahsood Wuzeeree Expedition, 1881. Transport Officer. Mentioned in
Despatches.
PETER FRASER FLEMING.
Born, 9 June, 1855. Quartermaster (honorary Lieutenant), 21
February, 1894. "In the ranks 19 years, 135 days."
FITZROY CHARLES FLETCHER.
Second Lieutenant, 27 August, 1879, from Highland R. Mil.
Lieutenant, 8 November, 1880.
RANDAL FOOT.
Cornet, 21 June, 1836, from half pay 6th Dragoon Guards.
ALEXANDER FORBES.
1706 Quartermaster to Patrick Robertson's troop. Cornet, 26 May,
1710. Lieutenant, 24 March, 1715-16. Captain, 9 August, 1721. Made
Major, 27 May, 1742.
JOHN FORBES.
Cornet, 5 July, 1735. Made Lieutenant, 23 April, 1742. Captain, 24
September, 1744. Major, 3 February, 1746-7. Lieutenant-Colonel in
the Army, 24 December, 1745, and Lieutenant-Colonel of the Greys,
29 November, 1750. Made Colonel of the 17th Foot, 25 February,
1757. In the same year he was sent to America as Adjutant-General,
and on 28 December appointed a Brigadier there. He was entrusted
with the capture of Fort Du Quesne. George Washington commanded the
Virginians of his force. Forbes died at Philadelphia, 11 March,
1759.
JOHN FORBES.
Made Cornet, 25th December, 1755. Lieutenant in Muster ending
24 June, 1763. Transferred in Muster ending 24 June, 1767, from
Captain Home's troop to Major Douglas's troop. Resigned, 16 March,
1770.
FRANCIS CHARLES FORDE.
Cornet by purchase, 10 June, 1826. Lieutenant by purchase, 8 June,
1830. Captain by purchase, 10 July, 1835. Retired, 28 December,
1841.
GEORGE, LORD FORRESTER, +of Corstorphine+.
Born 23 February, 1688. Cornet, 1 January, 1706-7. He served in
Marlborough's campaigns, but did not stay long in the Greys. He
became Lieutenant-Colonel of the 26th Regiment, the Cameronians,
and in command of them was wounded at the battle of Preston, 13
November, 1715. In 1716 he was promoted Colonel of the 30th Foot,
and died on the 17th February, 1726.
"In the attack on the rebels at Preston, 13 November, 1715,
as Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 26th, or Cameronians, he
showed extraordinary intrepidity. Ordering his men to halt, he
deliberately rode into the street with his drawn sword in his hand,
and amidst a shower of bullets coolly examined one of the four
barriers which had been raised by the insurgents. He then sallied
into the street at the head of his men, and whilst with one party
he attacked the barrier, another under his directions seized two
houses which overlooked the whole town."
ROBERT STEIN FERLONG.
Cornet from 13th Light Dragoons, 30 July, 1829. "To have the rank
of Lieutenant, 22 May, 1835." Made Adjutant, 6 November, 1835.
Resigned Adjutancy, 10 August, 1838. Captain by purchase, 26
February, 1841. Retired, 29 December, 1843.
JOSEPH FORTESCUE.
Cornet, 28 November, 1780. Lieutenant in Muster ending 24 December,
1789.
CHARLES PERCIVAL FOSTER.
Born 10 November, 1872. Second-Lieutenant, 29 May, 1895.
Lieutenant, 16 September, 1896.
THOMAS FOWKE.
Cornet, 9 March, 1757.
ANDREW FRAME.
Quartermaster, 1706, in Major Boyd's troop.
JOHN FREEMAN.
16 May, 1782, appointed Cornet in the Colonel's troop. Lieutenant,
7 February, 1787.
JOHN ARTHUR FREEMAN.
Cornet by purchase, 7 August, 1846. Lieutenant by purchase, 21
June, 1850. Captain by purchase, 11 November, 1853. Died, 27
September, 1854.
JOHN FREESTONE.
Quartermaster, 1706.
JAMES CARNEGIE FULERTOUN.
Captain, 2 May, 1793. In Muster ending 24 March, 1799, en second.
JOHN FURNIER.
Cornet, 12 September, 1695, to 9 March, 1697-8.
(WILLIAM) GALLOWAY.
Cornet, 15 June, 1716.
The 3rd son of James, 5th Earl of Galloway and Catherine, daughter
of the 9th Earl of Eglinton, is given by Burke, as "William, served
as a Cavalry Officer. M.P., Wigtown Burghs."
JAMES GAPE.
Cornet, 29 April, 1813. Lieutenant, 3 May, 1815. Captain by
purchase, 19 January, 1817. Exchanged to half pay, unattached, 6
December, 1833.
JAMES GARDINER.
24 February, 1707-8, Lieutenant in Captain William Crawford's
Additional Troop.
The above entry in the original manuscript "Army List" at the
Record Office was evidently unknown to the editors of the
"Dictionary of National Biography," who have been careful to
explain that the famous Colonel Gardiner killed at Prestonpans had
not served in the Greys.
In the same manuscript the Earl of Stair is recorded as Colonel,
and this same William Crawford as Captain-Lieutenant commanding the
Colonel's own troop. In the next MS. list, of about 1714, James
Gardiner appears again.
The chief points in Gardiner's life must be taken from the Rev.
Dr. Doddridge's "Some remarkable passages in the Life of the Hon.
Colonel James Gardiner, who was slain at the battle of Prestonpans,
September 21, 1745." He was the son of Captain Patrick Gardiner,
of Torwood Head, Linlithgowshire, and was born 10 January, 1687.
At the early age of 14 he bore an ensign's commission in a Scotch
Regiment in the Dutch service until 1702, when he received an
Ensign's commission from Queen Anne. At the age of 19, in the
battle of Ramillies, he received a wound in his mouth by a musket
ball. "He was of a party in the forlorn hope, and was commanded on
what seemed almost a desperate service, to dispossess the French of
the churchyard at Ramillies, where a considerable number of them
were posted to remarkable advantage. He planted his colours on an
advanced ground, and while he was calling to his men, he received a
shot into his mouth."
Mr. Dalton has rightly recorded Gardiner as a Lieutenant in the
Greys, and adds a note--"Master of the Horse to the Earl of
Stair when that nobleman was sent Ambassador to France in 1715.
Appointed Major of the Earl of Stair's Regiment of Dragoons (now
the Inniskilling Dragoons), 14 January, 1717. Lieutenant-Colonel of
the same Regiment, 4 January, 1730. Colonel of the Regiment now the
13th Hussars, 18 April, 1743."
On the 22nd July, 1715, at the battle of Preston, he headed a
storming party of 12, and advancing to the barricades of the
insurgents, set them on fire, in spite of a furious storm of
musketry, by which 8 of his men were killed.
I abridge from the "Dictionary of National Biography," and other
sources, the following note of Colonel Gardiner's last fight:--On
19 April, 1743, Gardiner became Colonel of the 13th Hussars, then
quartered in East Lothian, in which district Gardiner had lately
purchased a residence. On the outbreak, in 1745, Gardiner's and
Hamilton's Dragoons were retained in the low country, while Cope
set out to oppose the Pretender in the highlands. 14 August, 1745,
four troops of Gardiner's Dragoons marched to Perth, but had to
retreat, chiefly owing to the supineness of Cope and the fame of
the Pretender's highlanders. On 20 September, 1745, the two armies
sighted each other at Prestonpans, and the battle was fought the
following morning. "Gardiner's Dragoons were posted on Cope's
right wing, and after the discomforture of Whitney's Dragoons were
ordered to charge the enemy, but after a faint fire only 11 obeyed
the word of command, the others wheeling round and galloping from
the field. The battle was irretrievably lost; but Gardiner, who had
already been wounded by shots in the left breast and right thigh,
seeing a party of infantry who were bravely fighting near him
without an officer to head them, rode up to them crying out, 'Fire
on, my lads, and fear nothing!' but at that moment he was cut down
by three more wounds--one in his shoulder by a ball, another in his
fore-arm by a broadsword, and the third was a blow on the head from
a Lochaber axe. He was carried to the manse of Tranent, and lived
until the forenoon of the next day."
JOHN GARDNER.
Cornet, 12 May, 1797. Retired, 3 October, 1798.
DAVID GARIOCH.
On 30 March, 1685, appointed Cornet of Major Wedderburne's troop.
GEORGE GARIOCH.
Lieutenant in one of the Additional Troops, 1 January, 1693-4 to 1
March, 1697-8.
JOHN FRANCIS UPTON GASKELL.
From 6th Dragoon Guards. Captain, 29 December, 1877.
JOHN GORDON GEDDES.
Lieutenant-Colonel from half-pay, 27 August, 1852, retiring the
same day.
---- GEDDES.
Cornet, 24 March, 1715-16.
DAVID GIBSON.
From Sergeant to Cornet, without purchase (on augmentation), 5
November, 1854. In 1856 promoted to a Lieutenancy in the Military
Train.
JOHN GIBSON.
Quartermaster, 25 May, 1760.
THOMAS GILBERT.
Cornet, 29 November, 1750. Resigns, 29 May, 1754.
JAMES GILBRAITH.
Appointed Quartermaster, 28 July, 1761. Sold out, 25 March,
1762. In the Muster Roll, at Hammersmith, 22 January, 1763,
is recorded:--Quartermaster James Gilbraith promoted in 104th
Regiment, March 26.
---- GILL.
Surgeon, 10 December, 1794. Retired, 30 June, 1795.
JOHN GILLIES.
Cornet from Sergeant-Major (and Riding Master), 25 October, 1825.
Lieutenant by purchase, 8 October, 1830. Retired on half-pay,
unattached, 10 May, 1839.
ANDREW GILLON.
Cornet in Lieutenant-Colonel Douglas's troop, 17 September,
1778. Transferred to the Colonel's troop, 7 July, 1779. Promoted
Lieutenant, 20 March, 1780. Captain-Lieutenant, 18 July, 1787.
Captain, 28 July, 1790. In the muster ending 24 December, 1794,
Gillon, as well as Ker, are entered as Majors. 3 April, 1801, Major
Andrew Gillon retired.
JAMES GIRVAN.
Quartermaster, 1795. Retired, 28 February, 1797.
ADAM GLENDINING.
Quartermaster, 1 October, 1799. Promoted Cornet in Royal Wagon
Train, 9 January, 1806.
SAMUEL GODDARD.
Appointed Quartermaster in the Colonel's troop, 27 February, 1775.
Transferred to the 20th Light Dragoons, 1 May, 1779.
JOHN GODLY.
Appointed Quartermaster, 24 July, 1786. In Roll, December, 1797, to
February, 1798, described as en second.
THOMAS GONNE.
Cornet by purchase, 25 November, 1855. Lieutenant by purchase, 11
September, 1857. Exchanged to 17th Dragoons, 17 November, 1857.
CHARLES GORDON.
Chaplain, 23 March, 1797.
GEORGE GORDON.
Cornet by purchase, 8 June, 1830. Lieutenant by purchase, 10 July,
1835.
HENRY GORDON.
Cornet in Sir Robert Hay's troop, 24 October, 1706.
LORD ROBERT GORDON.
Made a Cornet, 18 September, 1741.
THOMAS GORDON.
Born at Cairness, 8 December, 1788, son of Charles Gordon, of
Buthlau. Was at Eton, 1800 to 1804. Matriculated at Brasenose
College, Oxford, 20 January, 1806. Cornet in the Greys 10 December,
1807. Lieutenant in March, 1809, and before the close of the year
exchanged into the 43rd Regiment. In 1810 he quitted the British
service and started on foreign travel. In 1813 he served as Captain
on the Staff of the Russian army. In 1816 he was at Constantinople
and married Barbara Kana, afterwards Baroness de Pedaiges, a lady
of Armenian Greek extraction. In 1821 the war of Greek independence
began, and he served as _chef d'état_ major under Ipsilanti. He
took an active part at the siege of Tripoliza, and after the town
was taken he remonstrated against the treacherous massacre by
the Greeks of several thousand Turks. His representations being
disregarded, he quitted the service. At last, after many urgent
requests that he would join the Greek service again, he, in May,
1826, returned to promote unity and military discipline. In
January, 1827, he accepted the command of the expedition to the
Piræus with the local rank of Brigadier. His aim was to relieve
Athens, then blockaded by Kutahi. Gordon successfully landed his
troops at Port Phalerus "under the nose of Reshid Pasha." On 11
February the Turks made a determined attack, but were driven
back with great slaughter. Finding that Athens was still able to
hold out, he wished to resign, but was induced to continue upon
condition of receiving supplies and being "entirely master of his
own operations." He continued until the arrival of General Church
to take over supreme command as generalissimo. On April 16 Gordon
was appointed Director-General of the Ordnance Department. On May
6 the disastrous battle before Athens put an end to all organised
military operations by the Greeks in the Morea. The battle of
Navarino soon ended the struggle. In 1832 was published in London
his "History of the Greek Revolution," a work of great value. On
the formation of the Greek Kingdom he was appointed Colonel _à la
suite_ and Colonel on the Staff of the Greek army. On 7 July, 1835,
he was appointed Major-General. He died at Cairness, 20 April, 1841.
JOHN BLOOMFIELD GOUGH, C.B. (+Lieutenant-General+).
Colonel, 31 January, 1864. Lieutenant-General in the Army, 9
November, 1862. K.C.B., 1866.
"Gough, Sir J. B. (General, retired list)." China War, 1840-2.
Capture of Canton, Amoy, Ningpo, Chapoo and Nankin. Despatches,
_London Gazette_, 8 October, 1841, 11 February, 3 September,
18 October, and 11 November, 1842. Medal. Brevets of Major and
Lieutenant-Colonel. C. B.
Gwalior campaign, 1843-4. Battle of Maharajpore. Despatches,
_London Gazette_, 8 March, 1844. Bronze star.
Sutlej campaign, 1845-6. Battles of Moodkee, Ferozeshah, Sobraon
(severely wounded). Despatches, _London Gazette_, 23 February and 1
April, 1846. Medal, with two clasps.
Punjaub campaign, 1848-9. Battle of Chillianwallah and Goojerat.
Despatches, _London Gazette_, 3 March and 19 April, 1849. Medal,
with two clasps. A.D.C. to the Queen.
FREDERICK GOULBURN.
Captain by purchase, 6 April, 1815. 12 July, 1810, on half-pay in
13th Dragoons, apparently.
FREDERICK ULRIC GRAHAM.
Cornet by purchase, 29 March, 1844. Soon transferred to 1st Life
Guards.
JAMES REGINALD TOVIN GRAHAM.
Cornet by purchase, 20 January, 1814. Lieutenant by purchase, 8
June, 1815. Captain by purchase, 16 March, 1820. On half-pay, 1821.
Retired, 5 April, 1844.
---- GRANT.
Cornet, 1702.
ALEXANDER GRANT.
Captain, 1 April, 1692, to 31 March, 1694.
WALTER COLQUHOUN GRANT.
Cornet by purchase, 26 February, 1841. Lieutenant by purchase, 7
April, 1843. Captain by purchase, 18 April, 1845. Exchanged to 47th
Foot, 9 June, 1838.
SIR WILLIAM KEIR GRANT, K.C.B., G.C.H., +Lieut.-Gen.+
Colonel from the 8th Dragoons, 24 August, 1839. Lieutenant-General
in the Army, 27 May, 1825. Died, 7 May, 1852.
THOMAS PRICE GRATRIX.
Cornet, exchanged from 1st Life Guards, 20 April, 1848. Lieutenant
by purchase, 9 May, 1851. Exchanged to 14th Light Dragoons, 12
November, 1852.
JOHN UPPLEBY GRAYBURN.
Cornet without purchase, from Northampton Militia, 7 March, 1856.
PATRICK GREY.
Cornet, 1 April, 1692, to 31 December, 1693. Lieutenant, 1 January,
1693-4, to 12 May, 1697-8.
WILLIAM GRAY, +The Honourable+.
Cornet, 16 March, 1770. In 1775 transferred from Captain Telfer's
troop to the Colonel's troop. Promoted Lieutenant, 22 May, 1776, in
Captain Ramsay's troop. Appointed Captain-Lieutenant in 15th Light
Dragoons, 17 May, 1779.
(William John, 14th Lord Gray. Died unmarried, 12 December, 1807,
in his 54th year.)
JOHN GREY.
From the 10th Light Dragoons. Major, 1 October, 1821, by purchase.
Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase, 25 October, 1825. Exchanged to
half-pay, unattached, 23 March, 1832.
JOHN GRIEVE, V.C.
Cornet from Sergeant-Major, without purchase, 4 December, 1857.
Augmentation. Adjutant, 18 February, 1859. Lieutenant, 30 January,
1863. Retired, 26 May, 1865.
HENRY DARBY GRIFFITH.
Captain, exchanging from the 33rd Foot, 14 June, 1839. Major by
purchase, 6 November, 1846. Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase, 27
August, 1852. Wounded slightly, _Gazette_, 12 November, 1854.
Colonel in the Army, 28 November, 1854, and also Aide-de-Camp to
the Queen. Appointed Colonel of the Greys, 31 March, 1866. Also
appointed Major-General in the Army.
JOHN GRIFFITHS.
Quartermaster in Captain Law's troop, in Muster ending 24 June,
1760. Transferred to Captain Napier's troop in Muster ending 24
June, 1768.
EMANUEL GRISTOCK.
Surgeon, 2 April, 1788. Retired, 8 July, 1788.
JOHN HALL.
Cornet, 9 January, 1806. Lieutenant, 25 June, 1807. Captain, 1812,
by purchase, in place of Lawrence Johnson, retired. In 1814 retired.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON.
Made a Cornet, 23 April, 1742.
ARCHIBALD HAMILTON.
Lieutenant, 16 March, 1815. On half-pay in 4th Dragoons, 11 June,
1812.
DIGBY HAMILTON.
Adjutant in Muster ending 24 December, 1785. Cornet's commission,
21 June, 1786. Lieutenant, 3 June, 1791. Captain-Lieutenant, 24
June, 1795. Retired, 18 February, 1796.
JAMES CAMPBELL HAMILTON.
From 5th Dragoon Guards. Second Lieutenant, 13 November, 1878.
Lieutenant, 19 May, 1880.
JAMES INGLIS HAMILTON.
Cornet, 15 May, 1793. Lieutenant, 4 October, 1793. June, 1800,
Captain. Appointed, 17 February, 1803, Major, without a troop.
From August, 1805, apparently Major with a troop. 16 June, 1807,
appointed Lieutenant-Colonel. 4 June, 1814, received the rank of
Colonel in the Army. Killed, 15 June, 1815.
JOHN HAMILTON.
Quartermaster, 1762. In Muster Roll ending 24 December,
1775:--"Promoted Cornet in 17th Regiment of Dragoons." In Muster
Roll ending 24 December, 1782:--"Captain-Lieutenant John Hamilton."
JOHN POTTER HAMILTON.
Quartermaster. "From half-pay. Appointed 23 May, 1786, and retired,
20 June." Then, in the Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1794, John
Hamilton appears as appointed a Cornet, 26 March, 1794. Lieutenant,
13 August, 1794. Captain-Lieutenant, 16 August, 1799. Appointed
Captain, 3 May, 1800. Appointed Major in Hompesch's Dragoons, 27
February, 1802.
WILLIAM HAMILTON.
Promoted, 12 February, 1806, from Sergeant-Major to Quartermaster.
[Illustration: +Lt.-Colonel Sir Thomas Hankin, present with the Greys
at Waterloo.+
Reproduced and enlarged from a cabinet photograph given to Dr.
Campbell, Edinburgh, by Colonel Hankin, West India Regiment, grandson
of Sir Thomas. The original portrait in oils is in the hands of a lady
in the female line of the Hankin Family, address unknown.]
SIR GEORGE FRANCIS HAMPSON, +Bart.+
Cornet by purchase, 5 August, 1842. Lieutenant by purchase, 18
April, 1845. Captain by purchase, 24 September, 1847. Retired, 12
July, 1857.
9th Baronet, being the son of Sir George Francis, 8th Baronet and
his wife, Mary Forman, daughter of Admiral William Brown.
HENRY EDWARDES HANDLEY.
Cornet by purchase, 30 September, 1853. Lieutenant (on
augmentation), without purchase, 29 December, 1854. Retired, 30
July, 1858.
SIR THOMAS PATE HANKIN.
Cornet, 22 July, 1795. Lieutenant, 3 August, 1796. En second in
Muster ending 24 October, 1798. Major, 4 April, 1808. Rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, 4 June, 1814. Lieutenant-Colonel by
purchase, in succession to I. G. Clarke retired, 11 October, 1821.
Knighted, 31 August, 1822. Retired, 25 October, 1825.
THOMAS C. HARDY.
Cornet, 6 July, 1792. "Appointed Captain to an Independent Company."
CLAUDIUS S. HARRIS.
Second-Lieutenant, 8 December, 1880. Lieutenant, 1 July, 1881.
Captain, 18 July, 1888.
JOHN COLLINSON HARRISON.
Born 9 August, 1869.
Second-Lieutenant, 5 June, 1889. Lieutenant, 23 May, 1891.
South Africa, 1899-1901; died 3rd September, at Pretoria, of wound
received in the action near Belfast on 26th August, 1901 (see pp.
100-1).
CHALONER HAWKE, +The Honourable+.
Cornet, 14 August, 1775, in Captain George Ramsay's Troop. Died, 17
September, 1777.
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL DOUGLAS HAWKESLEY.
Lieutenant, 26 July, 1853, by exchange from 2nd Life Guards.
Retired, 13 September, 1853.
FRANCIS HAWKSWORTH.
Lieutenant, 5 February, 1794.
FRANCIS HENRY TOOVEY HAWLEY.
Born 10 August, 1860. Second-Lieutenant, 11 August, 1880.
Lieutenant, 29 June, 1881. Captain, 1 October, 1887. Adjutant, 18
January, 1892. Major, 3 April, 1897.
South Africa, 1899-1900; died at Bloemfontein, 27th April, 1900.
SIR ALEXANDER HAY.
Cornet, 25 December, 1778. Promoted, "Lieutenant to Colonel
Stewart's Regiment of Foot, 27 November, 1780."
ANDREW HAY.
Cornet, 15 February, 1695-6, to 12 March, 1697-8.
GEORGE HAY.
Cornet, 24 December, 1726.
LOUIS HAY.
19 June, 1688, commission to be Cornet in the Earl of Dunmore's
Troop.
LORD JOHN HAY.
Son of the second Marquis of Tweeddale.
Captain, 1 April, 1692, to 7 September, 1692. Major, 8 September,
1692, to 31 March, 1694. Lieutenant-Colonel and Captain, 1 April,
1694 to 12 March, 1697-8. "1702--The Lord Viscount Tiviot's
Regiment of Dragoons--Colonel Lord John Hay."
"+Camp at Helchin, 26 August, 1706.+
"To Mr. Secretary Harley.
"I have not received the favour of any letter from you since my
last. Yesterday we had the satisfaction to see the garrison of
Menin march out to the number of about 4,300 men, besides the
sick and wounded, which could not yet be transported for want of
conveniency. We have put 5 battalions into the place under the
command of Major-General Welderen; and while the neighbourhood of
the French army obliges us to continue here to level our works and
repair the breaches at Menin, we have ordered some cannon, with a
detachment, to attack Dendermonde. The troops will be all before
the place to-morrow or Saturday. My brother Churchill is appointed
to command the siege, and if the dry weather hold, I hope we shall
in a few days be masters of the town, which will secure the Pays de
Waes and a good part of Brabant.
"Yesterday Lord John Hay, Colonel of the royal regiment of Scots
Dragoons, died of a lingering fever, after about twenty days'
illness, being generally regretted through the whole army. I fear
we shall have ill news from our fleet after this violent storm of
wind.
"I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
"+Marlborough+."
PETER HAY.
Muster ending 24 June, 1798, Cornet en second. Appointed Lieutenant
(in Captain Balfour's troop), 4 May, 1800. Appointed Captain in
26th Dragoons, 21 August, 1801.
SIR ROBERT HAY.
1 January, 1693-4, made Captain of Foot and joined this Regiment of
Dragoons as Captain, 24 June, 1706. Made Brevet-Major, 1 November,
1711. Major, 16 September, 1715. Lieutenant-Colonel, 12 June, 1717.
Retires, and is succeeded by Major Sir Thomas Hay, 27 May, 1742.
SIR THOMAS HAY, +Baronet+.
Cornet, 1 June, 1717. Captain, 11 June, 1720. Made Major, 6
February, 1740-1, and on 27 May, 1742, Lieutenant-Colonel.
Sir John Hay, the first Baronet, married Catherine, daughter of Sir
George Suttie, Baronet. He died in 1706.
Second Baronet of Nova Scotia. Died without issue, 26 November,
1769.
F. H. HAYNES.
Honorary Captain. Paymaster, 1881.
JOSEPH HELY.
From 7th Dragoon Guards. Cornet, 27 June, 1826.
JOHN LEWIS VAUGHAN HENRY.
Sub-Lieutenant, 23 April, 1873. Lieutenant, 23 April, 1874.
Captain, 29 June, 1881.
ALEXANDER HEPBURN.
Cornet, 18 September, 1741.
WILLIAM HEPBURN.
"Major William Hepburn, from half-pay in Ancaster's, made Captain
(in succession to I. M. Campbell), 24 July, 1754."
RICHARD AUSTIN HERBERT.
Cornet without purchase, 21 May, 1858 (augmentation). Retired, 3
June, 1859.
ERNEST FREDERICK HERITAGE.
Second Lieutenant, 1 February, 1888.
ANTHONY HERON.
Cornet, 29 May, 1745. Lieutenant, 30 September, 1746. Captain,
29 November, 1750. Died, and was succeeded by John Douglas, 11
January, 1755.
BASIL HERON.
Cornet, 11 January, 1755. Lieutenant, in Roll ending 24 June, 1760.
Captain-Lieutenant, 24 April, 1762. Lieutenant, 24 April, 1762. In
Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1763, Captain (Lieutenant) of Colonel
the Duke of Argyll's Troop. Promoted Captain, 14 November, 1770. In
Muster Roll, ending 24 June, 1779, he is promoted Major. Retired,
27 July, 1790.
[Illustration: +Lieutenant-Colonel Hippisley.+
Commanding the Greys from September, 1900, to June, 1902.
Served with the Nile Expedition, 1884-5, in command of a detachment of
the Scots Greys attached to the Heavy Camel Regiment, and took part in
the operations of the desert column, including the action at Abu Klea,
and the reconnaissance to Matemmeh--Medal with two clasps and Khedive's
Star. South Africa, 1899-1902, including operations near Modder River.
Appointed to command of the regiment March 23rd, 1901, and took part in
all the subsequent operations.]
AUGUSTUS WILLIAM HEYMAN.
Cornet by purchase, 5 October, 1815. Lieutenant by purchase, 14
October, 1819. Captain by purchase, 25 November, 1824. Retired, 8
October, 1830.
FREDERICK DRUMMOND HIBBERT.
Cornet by purchase, 29 December, 1843. Lieutenant by purchase, 7
August, 1846. Retired, 11 April, 1851.
LORD ARTHUR W. M. HILL.
Captain 10 September, 1816. Major in the Army, 27 July, 1815.
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, 21 January, 1819. Major by
purchase, 25 October, 1825. Appointed Lieutenant-Colonel, 23 March,
1832. Appointed Colonel in the Army, 10 January, 1837. Also he
became Lord Sandys, and 29 December, 1837, exchanged to half-pay,
unattached.
CHARLES HILL.
Cornet by purchase, 11 September, 1857. Lieutenant by purchase, 2
September, 1862. Retired, 17 November, 1863.
LORD WILLIAM FREDERICK ARTHUR MONTAGUE HILL.
Lieutenant from the 43rd Foot, 10 May, 1839. Captain, 7 April,
1843. Died, 18 March, 1844.
WILLIAM HENRY HIPPISLEY.
Born, 1 December, 1855. From 7th Hussars. Sub-Lieutenant, 29
January, 1876. (Commission in the Army, 22 May, 1875.) Lieutenant
(and Adjutant), 29 January, 1876. Captain, 1 June, 1884. Major, 28
June, 1893. On 5 July, 1896, appointed "second in command."
South African War, 1879. Zulu campaign. Medal, with clasp.
GEORGE HOBART.
Cornet from half-pay, 11th Light Dragoons, 23rd March, 1820.
Lieutenant by purchase, 21 July, 1825. Promoted to Captain,
half-pay, unattached, 17 December, 1829. Major, by purchase, 2
April, 1841. Retired, 7 April, 1843.
---- HODGSON.
Cornet, 11 July, 1811. Lieutenant, 10 December, 1814.
DENNIS HOLLINGWORTH.
Cornet by purchase, 16 January, 1822.
DAVID HOME.
Cornet, 17 December, 1754. Made Lieutenant 19 March, 1757.
Captain in Muster ending 24 June, 1760. In the Musters from 24
December, 1772, he is Captain and Major:--Major Napier (now Lord
Napier) still continuing Major. David Home's Commission as Major
is stated to be dated 3 November, 1774. On Muster ending 24
June, 1779, David Home appears as Lieutenant-Colonel, and Basil
Heron as Major. In Roll ending 24 December, 1794, Home appears
as "Absent by the King's leave," and I. H. Boardman is evidently
as Lieutenant-Colonel, commanding the Regiment, now abroad. In
December, 1802, Lieutenant-Colonel David Home appointed Colonel of
the "2nd Garrison Battalion."
JOHN PURVES HOME.
Cornet, 25 May, 1809. Lieutenant, 8 August, 1811, without purchase,
in place of Legge. In 1814 retired.
JOHN ORD HONYMAN.
Cornet, 12 December, 1811. In 1813 appointed to 1st Foot Guards.
---- HOSIER.
Cornet by purchase, 25 May, 1815. Retired, 1816.
JAMES H. HOULDSWORTH.
Second Lieutenant, 9 January, 1889. Lieutenant, 15 October, 1890.
JOHN WALLACE HOZIER.
Born in 1834, a younger brother of W. W. Hozier. Cornet by
purchase, 17 December, 1858. Lieutenant by purchase, 17 November,
1863. Adjutant and Lieutenant, 29 May, 1866. Captain by purchase,
30 June, 1869. Major, 31 January 1878, Lieutenant-Colonel, 21 June,
1880.
WILLIAM WALLACE HOZIER.
Cornet by purchase, 5 April, 1844. Lieutenant by purchase, 6
November, 1846. Retired, 9 May, 1851.
The eldest son of James Hozier, Deputy-Lieutenant for the County
of Lanark and Catherine Margaret, daughter of Sir William Feilden,
Baronet: he was born in 1825 and married Frances Ann, daughter of
James O'Hara, Esq., of Raheen, County Galway.
WILLIAM HARTOP HULL.
Cornet by purchase, 4 April, 1822. Lieutenant, 25 October, 1825.
Captain by purchase, 8 October, 1830. Retired, 10 July, 1835.
JOHN WILLIAM HUMPHREY.
Cornet by purchase, 30 May, 1866. Retired, 11 January, 1867.
THOMAS HUNT.
Cornet without purchase, 26 October, 1858. (Augmentation.)
Lieutenant by purchase, 28 April, 1863. Captain by purchase, 3
February, 1869. Retired, 2 August, 1871.
ROBERT HUNTER.
Captain, 1 April, 1694, to 12 March, 1697.
ROBERT SCOTT HUNTER.
Cornet by purchase, 17 June, 1851. Lieutenant without purchase,
17 February, 1854. Captain without purchase, 13 September, 1855.
Exchanged to 6th Dragoon Guards, 17 June, 1859.
JOHN INGLIS.
21 May, 1678, Commission to be Captain of one of the three
Independent Companies of Dragoons raised. 25 November, 1681,
Commission as Captain on the companies being regimented.
---- INGLIS.
Appointed Ensign of Captain John Inglis's Company, 3 December, 1684.
JAMES INNES.
In 1681 made Ensign of Murray's Company. On 30 March, 1685,
appointed Cornet of Lord Charles Murray's troop.
ROBERT INNES.
Cornet by purchase, 6 April, 1815. Lieutenant by purchase, 10
October, 1816. Captain by purchase, 24 October, 1821.
WILLIAM, LORD INVERURY.
Cornet, 7 February, 1787. Retired, 2 June, 1791.
William (Keith-Falconer), Earl of Kintore, &c. Born, 11 December,
1766, at Inglisma'die, County Kincardine, styled Lord Inverurie
till he succeeded to the peerage, 30 August, 1804. He married,
18 June, 1793, at Aberdeen, Maria, daughter of Sir Alexander
Bannerman. He died, 6 October, 1812, at Keith Hall, aged 45. His
widow died 30 June, 1826.
JAMES IRVING.
In 1681 Surgeon, and reappointed Surgeon, 30 March, 1685.
BASIL JACKSON.
Quartermaster, 1795. Promoted Cornet, Royal Waggon Train, 10
January, 1804.
PETER NEVILL JACKSON.
Surgeon, from 31st Foot, 22 December, 1869. Died, 14 May, 1872.
GEORGE THOMSON JACOB.
Cornet, 11 May, 1839, from half-pay, 3rd Dragoon Guards.
CHARLES JAMES.
Cornet, "by purchase, 21 May, 1812, for the benefit of Captain
Hutton, late of the 4th Dragoon Guards." Lieutenant by purchase,
5 April, 1815. Captain by purchase, 3 December, 1818. Retired, 4
April, 1822.
GEORGE JAMES.
Cornet, 10 June, 1795. Lieutenant, 3 May, 1800. Captain, 16 June,
1807. Major by purchase, 3 December, 1818. Retired, 16 March, 1820.
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER JAMES.
Sub-Lieutenant, 28 February, 1874. Lieutenant, 28 February, 1874.
Captain, 22 December, 1880.
South African War, 1879. Zulu Campaign. Battle of Ulundi (slightly
wounded). Despatches, _London Gazette_, 21 August, 1879. Medal with
clasp. Egyptian Expedition, 1882. Aide-de-Camp to General Officer
commanding the First Division. Actions of El Magfar, Tel-el-Mahuta,
Kassassin of 9 September, battle of Tel-el-Kebir. Despatches,
_London Gazette_, 2 November, 1882. Medal with clasp; bronze star.
Brevet of Major. 4th class Medjidie.
Soudan Expedition, 1885. Suakim. In command of Camel Corps.
Despatches, _London Gazette_, 25 August, 1885. Clasp.
JOHN JEBB.
From the 29th Foot. Appointed Lieutenant, 7 March, 1805. Resigned,
8 January, 1806.
THOMAS JESSOP.
Cornet by purchase, 16 October, 1860. Lieutenant by purchase, 19
July, 1864. Captain by purchase, 28 May, 1870. Retired, 23 October,
1875.
WALTER JOHNSON.
Cornet by purchase, 16 October, 1866. Lieutenant by purchase, 19
January, 1870. Retired, 10 January, 1872.
GEORGE JOHNSTON.
Quartermaster in Roll ending 24 June, 1760. Sold out, 2 April, 1784.
JAMES JOHNSTON.
"2nd Cornet James Johnston, from half-pay in Crawford's, 27
November, 1752." James Johnston is made Lieutenant 18 November,
1755. In Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1763, noted as received from
the Light Troop into Captain William Napier's Troop. Resigned, 6
March, 1766.
JAMES JOHNSTON.
Surgeon, 3 November, 1769. Resigned, 2 May, 1780.
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JAMES JOHNSTON.
Colonel, 1785. Died, 26 November, 1795.
LAURENCE JOHNSTON.
(The "t" omitted in printed Army List, 1812).
Cornet, 27 January, 1797. Lieutenant, June, 1802. Captain, 17
February, 1803. Retired in 1812.
MONTAGUE GEORGE JOHNSTON.
Cornet by purchase, 22 June, 1870. Lieutenant by purchase, 2
August, 1871. Captain, 31 January, 1878. Major, 5 July, 1888.
Served with the Bechuanaland Expedition, 1884-5, on the
Headquarters Staff, and raised upwards of 100 men for the 2nd
Mounted Rifles (Carrington's Horse).
RICHARD JOHNSTON.
Cornet, 14 November, 1770.
WILLIAM JOHNSTON.
Appointed Quartermaster, 29 September, 1786. Appointed Lieutenant
in the Royal Corps of Waggoners, 26 February, 1794.
H. G. JOHNSTONE.
Captain, 12 August. Retired, 24 November, 1795.
OWEN GOODMAN JONES.
Surgeon in Muster ending 24 June, 1763. Resigned, 19 February, 1765.
RICHARD J. JONES.
Surgeon, 1 July, 1795. Resigned, 4 August, 1814.
ROBERT JONES.
Cornet, 6 April, 1791. Lieutenant, 21 February, 1793. Retired, 11
November, 1794.
GIDEON KEITH.
Lieutenant, 1702. Captain by Brevet, 1 January, 1706-7.
A. K. CLARK KENNEDY, C.B.
Lieutenant-General. From 6th Dragoon Guards. Colonel, 17 July,
1860. Died, 30 January, 1864.
JAMES KENNEDY.
Cornet, 31 May, 1715.
LOCKHART MURE HARTLEY KENNEDY.
From Ceylon Rifles Regiment, Lieutenant, 5 April, 1871. Lieutenant
in the Army, 27 April, 1870. Captain, 24 February, 1877. Half-pay,
15 September, 1877.
GABRIEL KENYON.
Cornet, 31 August, 1815. Exchanged (19 March), 1818, to 58th Foot.
JAMES KER.
Cornet, 22 July, 1795. Lieutenant, 9 February, 1797. Captain, 23
June, 1803. Retires, 15 July, 1813.
JOHN KERR.
Quartermaster, 25 March, 1776. Retired, 12 June, 1786.
JOHN KERR.
Cornet, 1 April, 1692, to 11 September, 1695. Captain (?) 12
September, 1695, to yᵉ 27th April, 1697.
---- KERR.
Cornet, 15 June, 1716. Succeeded by Thomas Hay.
JOHN S. KERR.
Lieutenant, 24 March, 1790. Captain, 21 February, 1793. In Muster
Roll ending 24 December, 1794, Gillon, as well as Kerr, is entered
as a Major. Died, 25 June, 1795.
FRANCIS CHARLTON KINCHANT.
Cornet by purchase, 18 January, 1815. Killed at Waterloo.
ANDREW KING.
4 April, 1704, Cornet. Lieutenant in Patrick Robertson's troop, 10
July, 1706. Captain-Lieutenant, 24 March, 1715.
JOHN HENRY KING.
Paymaster, 27 March, 1857, exchanging from the 2nd Dragoon Guards.
Paymaster in the Army, 10 April, 1855, and Lieutenant in the Army,
31 December, 1853. Honorary Captain, 10 April, 1860. Honorary
Major, 10 April, 1865. Retired, 17 April, 1866, to half-pay.
"---- KINNAIRD.
Lawful son to George, Lord Kinnard of Inchture, appointed to be
Ensign of Sir James Turner's Company."
Sir George Kinnaird of Inchture, a steady loyalist during the
Civil Wars, was knighted by Charles II., 1661. He represented the
county of Perth in the Scots' Parliament, and was sworn a Privy
Councillor on 28 December, 1682; he was raised to the peerage, as
Lord Kinnaird of Inchture. He died, 29 September, 1689. He was
descended from Radulphus, on whom King William the Lion bestowed,
in 1170, the barony of Kinnaird. Richard de Kinnaird, the great
grandson of Radulphus, was one of the Scots barons who swore fealty
to Edward I., in 1296, as did also his son, Radulphus. (See Rymer's
_Foedera_, 1304.) Reginald, 2nd son of the latter's grandson,
married Margery, heiress of Sir John Kirkaldy, of Inchture. George,
Lord Kinnaird, was ninth in direct descent from this union.
JOHN KIRKWOOD.
Quartermaster, 3 January, 1796. Promoted Cornet Royal Waggon Train,
11 January, 1804.
GEORGE KNOX.
Quartermaster in George Sheen's troop. Cornet, 31 May, 1715.
LAUDER.
In 1681 made Lieutenant in Major Sir James Turner's Company.
GEORGE LAUDER.
1706, Quartermaster in Lieutenant-Colonel James Campbell's troop.
Cornet, 31 May, 1715.
LEWIS LAUDER.
In 1681 Ensigne of Inglis's Company. Appointed Lieutenant of
Captain John Inglis's Company, 5 December, 1684. On 30 March,
1685, appointed Lieutenant of Major John Wedderburne's troop. 11
December, 1688, commission to be Lieutenant of Captain Blair's
troop.
MUNGO LAW.
Cornet, 22 February, 1744-5. Lieutenant, 23 July, 1748, in the
Army. Lieutenant, 13 September, 1754, in this Regiment. Captain in
Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1760.
GEORGE LAWLER.
Cornet in Captain Mungo Law's troop in Muster, at Chichester,
ending 24 June, 1766.
WILLIAM LAWRENCE.
Quartermaster, 1706, in Colonel the Earl of Stair's troop. 24
February, 1707-8, made Cornet in Captain William Crawford's
Additional Troop. Lieutenant, 11 June, 1720. Captain-Lieutenant, 24
September, 1733. Died, 1740.
ALGERNON LAWSON.
Born, 16 December, 1869. Lieutenant, 11 January, 1893. Lieutenant
in the Army, 28 December, 1892. (The foregoing entry in the April,
1893, printed Army List seems a mistake, as in the July List
he is entered with these dates, but as only a 2nd Lieutenant.)
Lieutenant, 13 June, 1894. Served in the South African War in
1899-1900 on the Staff, and was present at the relief of Kimberley;
and took part in the operations in the Orange Free State from
February to May, 1900, including engagement at Paardeberg, and
actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Karree Siding, and Zand
River; the operations in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900,
including actions near Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill;
and in the operations in the Transvaal, east of Pretoria, including
action at Belfast (mentioned in despatches); in the Transvaal
west of Pretoria, July to 29 November, 1900; in the Transvaal 30
November, 1900, to May, 1901; and in Cape Colony May, 1901, to 31
May, 1902 (twice mentioned in despatches). Medal with six clasps;
King's medal with two clasps.
WILLIAM NICHOLAS LEADER.
From the 13th Foot. Sub-Lieutenant, 26 July, 1876. Lieutenant, 26
July, 1876. Resigned, 19 May, 1880.
LEVER LEGGE.
Cornet, 12 September, 1816.
LEVER LEGGE.
Cornet, 6 June, 1805. Lieutenant, September, 1806. Captain, 13
June, 1811. Retired, 1815.
JOHN LEIGH.
Cornet, 7 February, 1787. Lieutenant, 6 July, 1792. Retired, 19
February, 1793.
THOMAS LEIGH.
Brevet, as Captain, 11 May, 1708. Captain, 25 December, 1726.
ALEXANDER LEISHMAN.
Quartermaster, 1 May, 1779. Retired, 23 September, 1786.
JAMES LEITH, V.C.
By exchange from 6th Dragoons, Captain, 18 January, 1859. Major in
the Army, 28 July, 1858. Retired on half-pay, 31 December, 1861.
JOHN LENNOX.
Promoted from Sergeant-Major to Quartermaster, 3 June, 1813. Died,
26 November, 1826.
THOMAS LESLIE.
Lieutenant, 26 December, 1726.
LEIVINGSTOUN.
In 1681, Lieutenant in Strahan's Company.
JAMES LEVINGSTON.
Cornet, 1702. Lieutenant 11 May, 1705, in George Sheen's troop. In
1715, Captain.
WILLIAM LEVINGSTOUN OF KILSYTH.
7 November, 1685, appointed "Captain of that troop which was lately
commanded by Lord Charles Murray when he was Lieutenant-Colonel,
and now he is Colonel." 23 August, 1688, commission to Livingstoun
to be Aid-Major.
HARRY P. LEVITA.
Lieutenant, 23 August, 1884. Levita, H. P. (Captain, Reserve of
Officers). Soudan Expedition, 1885, and Suakim. Medal with clasp;
bronze star.
JENKYN LEYSON.
Lieutenant, 23 July, 1737. Retires and is succeeded by Cornet
Hamilton Blair, 6 August, 1742.
JENKIN LEYTON (+OR+ LEYSON).
Lieutenant, 22 May, 1723.
WILLIAM ROBERTSON LIDDERDALE.
Appointed Cornet 22 February, 1775, and transferred from the
Colonel's troop to the Lieutenant-Colonel's troop. Resigned 16
September, 1778.
JOHN LIDDLE.
Quartermaster, from Quartermaster-Sergeant, 27 September, 1871.
THE HONOURABLE ROBERT HAMILTON LINDSAY.
Third son of the Earl of Crawford, was born 30 March, 1874, and
married, 23 April, 1903, May Janet, eldest daughter of the late
Sir William J. Clark, first Baronet. 2nd Lieutenant, 10 October,
1894. Lieutenant, 25 September, 1895. Captain, 20 March, 1901.
Served in South African War in 1899 to 1900, and was present at
relief of Kimberley; took part in operations in Orange Free State
from February to May, 1900, including Paardeberg, actions at
Poplar Grove, Driefontein, Karree Siding, and Zand River; and
in the Transvaal in May and June, 1900, including actions near
Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Diamond Hill. Medal with five clasps.
GEORGE HAYWOOD LINDSEY.
(Later written Hayward.)
Cornet, by purchase, 3 December, 1818. In 1823 promoted in 57th
Foot.
JAMES LINDSEY, "EARL OF BALCARAS."
On 5 June, 1711, was a Lieutenant in the Navy. 26 December, 1726,
appointed a Lieutenant in this Regiment. 25 April, 1741, made
Captain.
Born 14 November, 1691. Joined his father at the rising of 1715,
and was captain of a troop which acted with great gallantry at the
battle of Sheriffmuir. He was, however, pardoned and made Lt. 2 R.
N. B. Ds., under his uncle, Sir Jas. Campbell. Was in command at
Dettingen in 1743; but retired after Fontenoy, 1745, in which his
uncle was slain. Devoted rest of life to literature and improving
his estate. At 60, 24 Oct., 1749, married Anne, dr. of Sir Robt.
Dalrymple, of Castleton. He died at Balcarres 20 Feb., 1768.
HERBERT C. T. LITTLEDALE.
Captain, 20 November, 1889. Brevet-Major, 21 May, 1884.
"Littledale, H. C. T. (Major, 4th Dragoon Guards). Egyptian
Expedition, 1884. Soudan; Battle of Teb (severely wounded).
Despatches "London Gazette," 6 May, 1884. Medal with clasp; bronze
star; brevet of Major."
JOHN LIVINGSTON.
Promoted from Sergeant in the Colonel's troop to Quartermaster, 3
May, 1800.
JOHN LIVINGSTOUN.
30 March, 1685, appointed Lieutenant of Captain John Strachan's
troop.
SIR THOMAS LIVINGSTON.
Born in Holland, 1652, was elder of the two sons of Sir Thomas
Livingstone, who was created a baronet by Charles I., and was
colonel of a regiment of foot in the Dutch service. His mother
was the daughter of Colonel Edmond, of Stirling. He succeeded
his father as second baronet of Newbiggin, and acquired military
reputation as an officer in the Scots Brigade in the pay of
Holland. He came to England with William of Orange in 1688 as
colonel of a regiment of foot, and on 31 Dec., 1688, was appointed
colonel of the royal regiment of Scots Dragoons, now the Royal
Scots Greys. Livingston served in Scotland under General Hugh
Mackay, and when in command at Inverness, by forced marches with
a body of horse and dragoons, surprised and completely routed
the Jacobite forces under General Thomas Buchan at Cromdale, on
1 May, 1690. The engagement put an end to the resistance of the
clans. Livingston succeeded General Mackay as commander-in-chief in
Scotland, and was sworn of the Privy Council. On 1 Jan., 1696, he
became Major-General on the English establishment, and on 4 Dec.,
1696, was created Viscount of Teviot in the peerage of Scotland, by
patent to him and his heirs male.
Livingstone married Macktellina Walrave de Nimmeguen, from whom
he appears to have separated. She "pursued" him in the Scottish
courts in November, 1703, for the sum of 500_l._, to pay her debts
contracted since he left her, and alimony at the rate of 400_l._ a
year. The lords of session "recommended, under the circumstances
of the case, to cause pay her bygon debts, and to settle somewhat
upon the lady yearly with the time coming, and to treat with the
Viscount to that effect" (see Launder, Sir John, Lord Fountainhall,
Decisions, ii., 200). As a result probably of this litigation,
Teviot sold the colonelcy of the Scots Greys on 7 April, 1704,
to Lord John Hay. In the Great Seal Registers are charters of
resignation by him of the lands of Lethington, on 23 June, 1702,
and of the lands of Waughton on 26 July, 1704. Teviot became a
lieutenant-general on 1 Jan., 1704. He died in London, aged 60,
on 14 Jan., 1711, when having no heirs male, the viscountcy
became extinct, and the family baronetcy devolved on his brother,
Sir Alexander Livingstone, third baronet. Teviot was buried in
Westminster Abbey, where his brother is said to have erected to
his memory a sumptuous monument which no longer exists. By his
will, dated 27 Sept., 1710, he left his house and estate, known as
Livingston House, Wimbledon, Surrey, with furniture, plate, etc.,
to Lady Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of Charles Gordon, second earl
of Aboyne. The lady, at this time a child, died unmarried in 1770.
The remainder of his property went to his brother, Sir Alexander,
except a legacy of 1,000_l._ to his cousin-german, John Cornelius
Edmond, then residing in Holland.
JENKIN HOMFRAY LLEWELLYN.
Surgeon, 18 January, 1856, exchanging from 2nd class staff.
Exchanged to 8th Hussars, 31 August, 1858.
MARK LLOYD.
Cornet by purchase, 20 July, 1815. Lieutenant by purchase, 24 June,
1819. Captain unattached, 1839.
AUGUSTUS PUREFOY LOCKWOOD.
Exchanged from 8th Light Dragoons. Surgeon, 31 August, 1858.
Surgeon-Major, 17 September, 1861. On half-pay, 4 April, 1865.
GENERAL THE MARQUIS OF LOTHIAN.
From Col. the 11th Light Dragoons, Colonel, 27 January, 1813.
William John (Kerr), Marquess of Lothian, Earl of Ancram, &c.,
born 13 March, 1737; entered the army, 1754, becoming finally,
1796, full General. Made a Knight of the Thistle, 11 October, 1776.
Representative Peer for Scotland, 1778, 1780, and 1784-1790. He
married in Ireland, 9 June, 1763, Elizabeth, daughter of Chichester
Fortescue, of Dromisken, County Louth, and of Elizabeth, daughter
of Richard Wellesley, first Baron Mornington. He died, 4 January,
1815.
JAMES LOUTHIAN.
Cornet, 11 May, 1705. Lieutenant, 31 May, 1715. (Another entry
gives as Lieutenant, 13 February, 1712.)
LEWIS LOWTHER.
Lieutenant, 1 April, 1692, to last day of February, 1694.
Captain-Lieutenant, 1 April, 1694, to 31 March, 1696.
ABRAHAM LUDLOW.
Cornet, 11 May, 1797. Lieutenant en second in Muster ending 24
October, 1798.
FREDERICK WILLIAM LUKIN.
From Lieutenant, 17th Foot. Paymaster, 10 August, 1855. Exchanged
to 2nd Dragoon Guards in 1856.
FRANCIS LYNDSAY.
Cornet, 23 May, 1746. Lieutenant, 23 July, 1748.
Captain-Lieutenant, 11 January, 1755. Captain, 25 December, 1755.
The Muster Roll, signed at Dunse, November 25, 1760, refers to
Captain Francis Lindsay's "Light Troop." This numbered then 79
privates and 102 horses. Captain Francis Lindsay resigned 30 April,
1762.
HENRY DALTON WITTIT LYON.
Cornet by purchase, 18 April, 1845. Lieutenant by purchase, 24
September, 1847. Exchanged to 2nd Life Guards, 26 July, 1853.
JAMES LYON.
Cornet, 24 December, 1726.
JAMES CHARLES MABERLY.
Cornet by purchase, 25 September, 1867. Lieutenant by purchase,
22 June, 1870. Captain, 24 June, 1876. Major, 5 July, 1882.
Lieutenant-Colonel, 5 July, 1888.
[Illustration: +Lieut.-Colonel J. C. Maberly.+]
THOMAS HAMILTON McBEAN.
Promoted from Troop Sergeant-Major to Quartermaster, 16 August,
1850. Died, 13 March, 1864.
PATRICK McCALLAM.
Adjutant, 10 August, 1774.
JOHN MACHELE.
Cornet, 5 March, 1796. Retired, 9 July, 1796.
JAMES MACLEOD.
Cornet by purchase, 20 September, 1833. Lieutenant by purchase, 29
July, 1836.
DONALD JOHN M. MACLEOD.
Cornet by purchase, 10 July, 1835. Lieutenant, 29 July, 1836.
Lieutenant by purchase, 23 February, 1838. Captain by purchase,
28 December, 1841. Major by purchase, 27 August, 1852. Died, 16
October, 1854.
JOHN WILLIAM McCLINTOCK-BUNBURY.
Sub-Lieutenant, 30 December, 1871. Lieutenant, 28 February, 1874.
THOMAS KANE McCLINTOCK-BUNBURY.
Cornet, from 6th Dragoon Guards, 9 October, 1869. Lieutenant by
purchase, 31 May, 1871. Retired, 4 February, 1874.
Now Lord Rathdonnell, having succeeded his uncle as second Baron in
1879; Honorary Colonel, 6th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles.
HON. WILLIAM MCCLINTOCK-BUNBURY.
Son of the above. Second Lieutenant, 4th January, 1899; died
of wounds received in action at Dronfield, South Africa, 17th
February, 1900 (see p. 89).
JOHN McDORVAL.
Cornet in Muster, 24 June, 1760.
GEORGE MACDOUGALL.
Cornet, 25 December, 1726. Made Lieutenant, 18 September, 1741.
JAMES McDOUGELL.
Lieutenant, 1 April, 1692, to 11 September, 1695.
HENRY McMILLAN.
Promoted on 1 October, 1802, from Sergeant-Major to Adjutant.
Lieutenant (and still Adjutant), 10 April, 1805. Captain, 18 July,
1815, in place of Reignolds, 1816, Ex.
WILLIAM McNAUGHTON.
Promoted from Sergeant to Quartermaster, May, 1805.
DUNCAN McNEILL.
Cornet by purchase, 20 September, 1853. Lieutenant without
purchase, 15 December, 1854. Captain by purchase, 17 July, 1857.
FRANCIS BEAUFORT MACONOCHIE.
Cornet (on augmentation), without purchase, 28 November, 1854.
LACHLAN MACQUARIE.
Cornet from 42nd Regiment, by purchase, 26 April, 1831. Lieutenant
by purchase, 6 November, 1835. Captain by purchase, 23 February,
1838. Retired, 26 February, 1841.
JOHN McVICAR.
Promoted, 3 May, 1800, from Sergeant in the Lieutenant-Colonel's
troop, to Quartermaster.
THOMAS McWALTER.
Quartermaster, 28 December, 1797.
DAVID A. A. MACKAY.
Cornet, 23 May, 1792. Lieutenant, 23 February, 1793. Promoted 24
June, 1794, to 26th Light Dragoons. (Captain 26th Light Dragoons,
25 September, 1795.)
JOHN MACKENZIE.
Quartermaster in Captain Napier's troop in 1763. Died, 28
September, 1767.
LEWIS MACKENZIE.
Captain, 18 May, 1820, from half-pay 92nd Infantry. Retired, 21
October, 1821.
ROBERT McKENZIE.
Quartermaster in Muster Roll ending 24 June, 1760.
WILLIAM McKERRALL.
Surgeon, 26 October, 1756.
VISCOUNT F. C. MAITLAND.
2nd Lieutenant, 16 November, 1887.
Frederick Colin Maitland, styled Viscount Maitland. Born 12 April,
1868. Lieutenant in the Scots Guards, 1889. He married, 16 April,
1890, Gwendoline Lucy, youngest daughter of the Right Honourable
Sir Edward Vaughan-Williams, one of the Justices of the Common
Pleas.
THOMAS MALLARD.
Lieutenant, 22 March, 1692-3 to 15 March, 1697-8.
Captain-Lieutenant, 1702. Lieutenant, 25 August, 1704. Brevet, to
act as Captain in the Army, 25 August, 1704; and to take rank as
Captain in the Regiment, 10 January, 1706-7.
ROBERT MARKHAM.
Cornet by purchase, 24 June, 1819. In 1823 promoted in 9th Dragoons.
EUSTACE ADDISON MAUDE.
Born, 5 January, 1863. 2nd Lieutenant, 24 August, 1887. Lieutenant,
16 March, 1889. Captain, 16 December, 1895.
Served in South Africa, 1899-1902; Brevet Major, 1901.
CHARLES JAMES MAXWELL.
Born, 26 October, 1863. Lieutenant, 16 April, 1884. Captain, 19
August, 1891.
WILLIAM EUGÈNE MELLES
Second Lieutenant, 4th December, 1901. Served in South African War,
and in the Mediterranean. Medal. Resigned 2nd February, 1907.
WILLIAM MERRIE.
Quartermaster in Captain Clarke's troop, 9 January, 1804; on 25
August, 1810, "placed on the retired allowance."
WILLIAM CRAWFURD MIDDLETON.
Born 4 March, 1858. "From Gentleman Cadet Royal Military College."
Second Lieutenant, 13 May, 1878. Lieutenant, 6 May, 1880. Adjutant,
18 June, 1881. Captain, 21 June, 1885. Major, 9 January, 1895.
"Soudan Expedition, 1884-5. Nile medal with clasp: bronze star."
Served in the South African War, 1899-1901; mentioned in
despatches, and promoted Brevet Lieut.-Colonel (see p. 126); was
present at the relief of Kimberley, and took part in the operations
in the Orange Free State, February to May, 1900, including the
engagements at Paardeburg and actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein,
Karree Siding, and Zand River; the operations in the Transvaal
in May and June, 1900, including engagements near Johannesburg,
Pretoria, and Diamond Hill; the operations in the Transvaal east of
Pretoria, including action at Belfast.
MARK WILLIAM VANE MILBANK.
Cornet by purchase, 30 December, 1837. Lieutenant by purchase, 2
April, 1841. Retired, 5 August, 1842.
HUGO W. R. MILLAIS.
Second Lieutenant, 29 April, 1891.
ALFRED DOUGLAS MILLER.
Born, 1 March, 1864. Lieutenant, 7 February, 1885. Captain, 28
June, 1893. Adjutant, 18 January, 1896. Major, 20 February, 1902;
served in the South African War in 1899-1902 on the Staff, and as
Adjutant of 2nd Dragoons to 9 May, 1900. He was present at the
relief of Kimberley, and took part in the operations in the Orange
Free State from February to May, 1900, including engagements at
Paardeberg, and actions at Poplar Grove, Driefontein, and Karree
Siding; in the Transvaal 30 November, 1900, to May, 1901; and in
Cape Colony May, 1901, to 31 May, 1902 (mentioned in despatches);
D.S.O. Medal with four clasps; King's medal with two clasps;
qualified for Staff employment.
D.A.A.G., N.E. District, 6th February, 1903; Lieut.-Colonel
commanding the Scots Greys, 1907; Brevet Colonel, 21st January,
1908.
ROBERT MILLER.
Cornet from 13th Light Dragoons, 12 March, 1829. Lieutenant by
purchase, 21 February, 1834. Captain by purchase, 30 December,
1837. Retired, 28 December, 1838.
WILLIAM MILLER.
Cornet and Adjutant, 7 July, 1846, from Regimental Sergeant-Major.
Lieutenant, 20 June, 1850. Captain without purchase, 30 September,
1854. In 1856 on half-pay.
ANDREW M. MILLS.
Captain, 1 September, 1795. Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Bruce.
Retired, 9 May, 1796.
JOHN MILLS.
Lieutenant, 5 May, 1808. Captain 19 July, 1815. Major in the Army,
15 August, 1822. Major by purchase, 25 November, 1824. Promoted to
an unattached Lieutenant-Colonelcy, 10 June, 1826.
NICHOLAS MILLS.
From Sergeant-Major promoted to Cornet, without purchase, 10 March,
1854. Lieutenant without purchase, 13 September, 1855. Riding
Master, 11 September, 1857. Retired on half-pay, 6 November, 1867.
SIR JOHN MITCHELL.
Made Cornet, 18 November, 1755. Lieutenant in Muster Roll ending 24
June, 1761. Resigned, 27 October, 1769.
PATRICK MOIR-BYRES.
Born, 10 October, 1869. Second Lieutenant, 23 October, 1889.
Lieutenant, 19 August, 1891. Staff service: employed with Lagos
Constabulary, 25 April, 1894.
MAJOR-GENERAL ARCHIBALD MONEY, C.B. +AND+ K.C.
Appointed Colonel, 24 May, 1852. Lieutenant-General, 2 June, 1854.
(Waterloo Medal.) Died 25 August, 1858.
DANIEL MOODIE.
From Regimental Sergeant-Major to Cornet, without purchase, 30
September, 1854, being an augmentation. Lieutenant and Adjutant, 7
February, 1856. Resigned Adjutancy, 1858. Exchanged to 60th Foot,
31 March, 1863. Instructor of Music, 10 April, 1862, and the first
to hold this appointment in the Regiment.
HENRY MOORE.
Cornet 27 November, 1752, from the Seventh Dragoons. Lieutenant, 25
December, 1755. Also 24 June, 1760.
WILLIAM MORRICE.
Promoted from Sergeant-Major to Quartermaster, in muster ending 24
February, 1804.
GEORGE HENRY, EARL OF MOUNTCHARLES.
Cornet by purchase, 31 December, 1844. Exchanged to 1st Life
Guards, 28 April, 1848.
George Henry (Conyngham), Marquess Conyngham, &c., born 3 February,
1825. Entered the 1st Life Guards, 1848. Lieutenant-Colonel of the
1st Life Guards, 1861 to 1868. Lieutenant-General in the Army,
1881. Equerry to the Queen, 1870 to 1873, when he was made an extra
Equerry. Vice-Admiral of the coast of Ulster. He married 17 June,
1854, Jane St. Maur Blanche, only daughter and heiress of Charles
(Stanhope), 4th Earl of Harrington. He died 2 June, 1882.
HENRY MOWITT.
Captain, 10 May, 1796. Retired 15 March, 1797.
JOHN MULLINS.
From Staff. Surgeon, 4 April, 1865. Retired on half-pay, 22
December, 1869.
JOHN GROSET MURCHEID.
Cornet, 15 December, 1774. Transferred from Captain Ramsay's to
Captain Telfer's troop, June, 1775. Resigned 21 March, 1776.
[Illustration:
Lord Charles Murray
1ˢᵗ Earl of Dunmore
Born at Knowesley 1661
2ⁿᵈ Son of John 1ˢᵗ Marquis of Atholl and
Lady Amelia Stanley, Dau. of VII Earl of Derby
And Charlotte de la Tremouille
Colonel Scots Greys 1679. Master of the Horse to Queen Mary 1685.
Imprisoned 1692 for attempting Restoration of Stuarts.]
GEORGE MURE.
Cornet, 18 September, 1721. Lieutenant, 10 May, 1732. Made
Captain-Lieutenant, 15 November, 1740. Made Captain, 27 May, 1742.
CHARLES MURRAY.
26 November, 1681, commission to be Lieutenant-Colonel.
30 March, 1685, James II.'s commission to be Lieutenant-Colonel. 6
November, 1685, appointed Colonel and Captain of a troop.
MURRAY, LORD CHARLES, FIRST EARL OF DUNMORE.