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V. Audley Fanning. Of Matsmount, co.
Londonderry. Will dated April 24, 1784,
with Codicil dated May 30, 1784. Mentions
as his exors : Thos. Fanning, Audley
Fanning ; James Mauleverer ; Thomas
Shipton and John Spotswood. In the
Dublin Journal for Jan. 29, 1757. it says :
" A Commission has lately passed the Govern- ment-Seal of this Kingdom for appointing Audley Fanning Esq. a Justice of the Peace for the Co. of Derry."
He married, but I an unable to trace his wife's name, and had issue : 1. Thomas Fanning.
2. Audley Fanning. A Clerke in Holy7
Orders, he married Dec. 1784. Rebecc*
Spotswood, in the announcement of their
marriage, they are described as both o
Londonderry.
(iii.) Henry Gary Fanning.
(iiii.) Elinor Fanning.
(v.) Ann Fanning.
( vi. ) Letitia Fanning, who married Edward" Steward.
(vii.) Martha Fanning, who marriedi' Andrew Brown.
HENRY FITZGERALD REYNOLDS.
AK ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See 12 S. ii. passim : iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438 ; vi. 184, 233, 242, 290, 329 ; vii. 83, 125, 146, 146, 165, 187, 204, 265.)
The next regiment (p. 67) was raised in July, 1715, as a regiment (known later as th 12th) of Dragoons, by Brigadier- General Phineas Bowles. He "was succeeded in the eo mand in March, 1719, by his son (same name see below).
In 1768 its title was changed to "The 12th, or the Prince of Wales 's Regiment Light Dragoons " and in 1817 it became a "Lancer " regiment, its present (1920) tit being " 12th (Prince of Wales 's Royal) Lancers."
Major-General Bowles's Regiment of
Dates of their
Dates of their first
Dragoons.
present commissions. commissions.
Colonel
Fhineas Bowles (1)
20 Mar. 1718
Captain,
1 Mar. 1709.
Lieutenant Colonel .
. Edward Pole (2)
18 Aug. 1739
2d Lieut.
23 Jan. 1709
Major
Christopher Clarges (3)
5 Sept. 1739
Lieutenant, 3 July 1723
f Johnston (4)
18 June 1723
Ensign,
10 April 171G
Captains
William Steuart
26 Mar. 1737
Ensign,
1 Jan. 1729
I Brett. Norton (5)
20 June 1739
Ensign,
13 Feb. 1706
Captain Lieutenant .
. William Piers (6)
20 June 17-39
Ensign,
1 Get. 1709
f John Alder (7)
25 Aug. 1733
Cornet,
7 June 1720
Lieutenants . .
Thomas Scroggs
. < Charles Bernard
2 April 1734
20 Feb. 1736
Ensign,
Cornet,
1 Aug. 1716
27 Nov. 1723
George Fielding
16 Jan. 1737
Cornet,
13 Mar. 1723
[Walter Hore
20 June 1739
Cornet,
23 Mar. 1728
/Edward Osburn
25 Aug. 1723
Nicholas Price (8)
1 Jan. 1730
Cornets
. 1 Bowles . .
26 Mar. 1737
IJohii King
14 Jan. 1737
Robert Mulhallen (9) . .
16 Jan. 1737
/Thomas Ord . .
20 June 1739
The following
additional names are entered
in ink on the interleaf :
Colonel
Alexander Rose (10)
21 Dec. 1740
/John Hill
24 April 1740
Cornets . .
- \ Samuel Sluer
1 July 1740
(1) Transferred to the Colonelcy of the Cara-
biniers in 1740. Died in 1749. See ' D.N.B.'
(2) 3rd son of Samuel Pole, Bradbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Appointed to the Colonelcy of the 10th Foot on Aug. 10, 1749. Died in 1762.
(3) Captain, Sept. 8, 1725. Died at Chingford, Essex, in 1780.
(4) John Johnston.
(5) Died in 1765.
(6) Captain, April 24, 1740.
(7) Captain-Lieutenant, April 24, 1740.
(8) Lieutenant, April 24. 1740,
(9) Captain, May 11, 1748. The only officer i this list who was still serving in the regiment i 1755.
(10) From the 20th Foot. Died in 1742.
J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Colonel (Retired List).
(To be continued.)
