was appointed Captain in the Eleventh Dragoons in 1748, and
Major of the same corps in June, 1756. In 1758 he obtained the
Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Fourth Dragoons, at the head of which
corps he served many years, and brought it into so high a state of
discipline, that, whenever King George III. reviewed the corps,
he expressed his approbation of its excellent condition in the
strongest terms. He was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the army
in 1772, and in the succeeding year he obtained the Colonelcy of the
Fourteenth Dragoons. The rank of Major-General was conferred on this
officer in 1777; he was promoted to the Colonelcy of the FIRST IRISH
HORSE (now FOURTH DRAGOON GUARDS) in the following year; and was
advanced to the rank of Lieutenant-General in 1782. In 1792 he was
appointed Commander-in-Chief in Ireland, and while in that country
he devoted much of his time to the bringing of his regiment,--the
FOURTH ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS,--into a most perfect condition
for active service. He possessed the soundest ideas of what cavalry
ought to be; he had an aversion to slow movements, and although
nearly seventy years of age, he exercised his regiment five times a
week,--often leading it across the country over hedge and ditch, to
the astonishment of every one. He was promoted to the rank of General
in 1796, and died on the 11th of March, 1803. He was celebrated
for philanthropy, and was represented by historians as a man 'of
inviolable, disinterested integrity, public and private; and the
bestower of benefactions scarcely less secret than extensive.'
MILES STAVELEY.
_Appointed 12th March, 1803._
MILES STAVELEY obtained a Cornetcy in the Royal Horse Guards in
January, 1759, and served with that regiment a period of forty
years. His first essay in arms was during the Seven-years' war in
Germany, where he served under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick. He
also served in Flanders under his Royal Highness the Duke of York;
and was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal
Horse Guards on the 31st of December, 1794. During the following
year he was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the army, and in 1798
to that of Major-General. In 1799 he obtained the Colonelcy of the
Twenty-eighth, or Duke of York's own Regiment of Light Dragoons,
which was disbanded at the peace of Amiens in 1802. In the following
year he obtained the command of the ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS; was
subsequently promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General; and died in
September, 1814.
SIR HENRY FANE, G.C.B.
_Appointed 3rd October, 1814._
GENERAL SIR HENRY FANE commenced his military career as Cornet
in the Sixth Dragoon Guards in 1792; in 1794 he was appointed
Captain-Lieutenant in the ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS, with which
corps he served ten years, and took an active part in Ireland
during the rebellion in 1798. He was promoted to the rank of
Lieutenant-Colonel in the regiment in 1797, and was removed to the
First Dragoon Guards in 1804. In 1808 he proceeded with the army to
Portugal, commanded a brigade at the battle of Roleia on the 17th of
August, and at Vimiera on the 21st of that month. He also commanded a
brigade under Sir John Moore in Spain, and was engaged at the battle
of Corunna. Returning to Portugal, he commanded a brigade at the
battle of Talavera on the 27th and 28th of July, 1809; was promoted
to the rank of Major-General on the 25th of July, 1810; commanded
a brigade at the battle of Vittoria on the 21st of June, 1813, and
at the battle of Orthes on the 27th of February, 1814; and these
distinguished services have been rewarded with the Grand Cross of the
Military Order of the Bath, and an honorary Cross with one clasp. He
obtained the Colonelcy of the ROYAL IRISH DRAGOON GUARDS in October,
1814; was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General on the 12th of
August, 1819; and was removed to the King's Dragoon Guards in 1827.
On the 30th of January, 1835, he was appointed Commander-in-Chief in
the East Indies, with the local rank of General; in which rank he was
included in the brevet promotion on the 10th of January, 1837.
SIR GEORGE ANSON, G.C.B.
_Appointed 24th February, 1827._
FOOTNOTES:
[24] The Earl of Arran had not been long at court before an affair of
gallantry involved him in a quarrel with Lord Mordaunt (afterwards
the celebrated Earl of Peterborough), which produced a meeting in
Greenwich Park, when, after firing their pistols without effect, they
engaged with swords; Lord Mordaunt was wounded in the groin, and the
Earl of Arran in the thigh, when the former accidentally broke his
sword, which terminated the contest.
[25] CHARLES GODFREY, Esq., was brother-in-law to John Lord Churchill
(afterwards Duke of Marlborough), having married Miss Arabella
Churchill, mistress of King James II., and mother of James Duke of
Berwick, one of the most successful and distinguished generals of
his age, who rose to the rank of Marshal of France, and obtained a
dukedom in Spain, and another in France.
[26] A detailed account of this action is given in the Record of the
6th Dragoon Guards; and also in the Record of the Fifth Foot.
[27] His Highness was afterwards reigning Duke of Brunswick. He
married the Princess Augusta, sister to King George III.; and died of
wounds received at the battle of Jena in 1808.
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