regiment on the 16th of December, 1750, and, having attained the
rank of Captain, he was promoted on the 17th of January, 1760, to
the Majority of the Seventy-sixth regiment. On the 3rd of October,
1766, he obtained the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Sixty-sixth
regiment, with which corps he served several years in Jamaica,
and was promoted to the rank of Major-General in 1782. In 1784
King George III. conferred the Colonelcy of the FIFTH FOOT on
Major-General Stopford, who retained this appointment until his
decease in 1794.
SIR ALURED CLARKE, G.C.B.,
_Appointed 25th October, 1794_.
Alured Clarke entered the army on the 20th of March, 1755, as
Ensign in the Fiftieth regiment of Foot; he obtained the rank of
Lieutenant in 1760; and his regiment proceeding to Germany in the
same year, he served during the remainder of the seven years' war
with the army commanded by Ferdinand Duke of Brunswick. On the 7th
of January, 1767, he obtained the command of a company in the FIFTH
FOOT. He was promoted to the Majority of the Fifty-fourth regiment
in 1771; and to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Seventh Fusiliers
on the 10th of March, 1777. He served with his regiment in America,
during the war with the United States; and was promoted to the rank
of Colonel on the 16th of May, 1781. He was further advanced to
the rank of Major-General on the 28th of April, 1790; and obtained
the Colonelcy of the FIFTH FOOT in 1794. During the war of the
French Revolution, when Holland had become subject to France, the
British Government resolved to take the Dutch settlement at the
Cape of Good Hope; and this place was captured, in the autumn of
1795, by a body of troops under Major-General Sir Alured Clarke,
and a naval force commanded by Vice-Admiral Sir George Keith
Elphinstone. The services of Major-General Clarke were afterwards
transferred to the East Indies, in which country he held the local
rank of Lieutenant-General from the 3rd of May, 1796; and he was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General in the army on the
26th of January, 1797. In 1801 he was removed to the Colonelcy
of the Seventh Fusiliers; and in the following year promoted to
the rank of General. He was subsequently advanced to the rank of
Field-Marshal; and died on the 16th of September, 1832.
RICHARD ENGLAND,
_Appointed 21st August, 1801_.
Richard England entered the service in 1766, as an Ensign in
the Forty-seventh Foot, in which regiment he attained the rank
of Major on the 3rd of August, 1781, and was promoted to the
Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Twenty-fourth Foot on the 20th
of February, 1783. In 1796 he was advanced to the rank of
Major-General; in April, 1800, he was appointed Colonel-Commandant
of the second battalion of the FIFTH FOOT, and in the following
year he succeeded Sir Alured Clarke in the Colonelcy of the
regiment. In August, 1803, he was appointed Governor of Plymouth;
he obtained the rank of Lieutenant-General in September of the same
year, and died on the 7th of November, 1812.
WILLIAM WYNYARD,
_Appointed 27th November, 1812_.
William Wynyard was appointed to a Lieutenancy in the Sixty-fourth
Foot on the 12th of June, 1777: he was afterwards Captain in
the Forty-first regiment; and in April, 1795, he was appointed
Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel in the Second Foot Guards. In 1802
he attained the rank of Colonel in the army, and was appointed
Colonel of the Royal West India Rangers on the 25th of October,
1806. His commissions of General Officer were dated--Major-General,
25th October, 1809, and Lieutenant-General, 4th of June, 1814. He
was appointed Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces, on the 9th
of January, 1799, which situation he held (much respected by his
official brethren at the Horse-Guards) until June, 1814, when,
having been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General, he was
appointed to the command of the Yorkshire District. He retained the
Colonelcy of the FIFTH FOOT, to which he was appointed in 1812,
until his decease, on the 10th of July, 1819.
SIR HENRY JOHNSON, BART., G.C.B.,
_Appointed 12th July, 1819_.
After serving in the subordinate commissions, this officer was
promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Seventeenth Foot on the
4th of October, 1778, and, serving with his regiment in America and
the West Indies, he obtained the rank of Colonel in the army on
the 25th of December, 1782. In 1793 he was promoted to the rank of
Major-General; and he obtained the Colonelcy of the Eighty-first
Foot on the 18th of June, 1798. He commanded a body of troops in
Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, and obtained great credit for
his conduct in an action at New Ross. In the succeeding year he was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General; and to that of General
on the 25th of April, 1808. After the decease of Lieutenant-General
Wynyard, the Colonelcy of the FIFTH FOOT was conferred on General
Sir Henry Johnson: he was many years Governor of Ross Castle; and
died in 1835.
THE HONOURABLE SIR CHARLES COLVILLE, G.C.B. and G.C.H.
_Appointed 25th March, 1835_.
FOOTNOTES:
[46] War-Office Records.
[47] This regiment was disbanded in 1711.
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