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SUCCESSION OF MAJORS
OF THE
FIFTY-SIXTH, OR WEST ESSEX, REGIMENT OF FOOT.
Names. | Dates of Appointment. |
Remarks | ||||||||||
John Doyne | Dec. | 26, 1755 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, June 30, 1760. | |||||||||
James Stewart | June | 30, 1760 | Promoted to Lieut.-Col. February 20, 1762. | |||||||||
John Heighington | Feb. | 20, 1762 | Resigned September 9, 1762. | |||||||||
Alexander Milbanke | Sep. | 9, 1762 | Died November 4, 1762. | |||||||||
William Forbes | Nov. | 4, 1762 | Removed to Thirty-fifth Foot, October 31, | |||||||||
1762. | ||||||||||||
Thomas Johnston | Oct. | 31, 1762 | Resigned September 11, 1765. | |||||||||
Henry Pringle | Sep. | 11, 1765 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Fifty-first Foot, | |||||||||
August 16, 1770. | ||||||||||||
John Caulfield | Aug. | 16, 1770 | Promoted to Lieut.-Col. October 3, 1776. | |||||||||
Bulleine Fancourt | Oct. | 3, 1776 | Retired August 6, 1783. | |||||||||
Hon. Vere Poulett | Aug. | 6, 1783 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Sixtieth Regiment, | |||||||||
August 31, 1793. | ||||||||||||
Patrick Tytler | Aug. | 31, 1793 | Retired October 8, 1794. | |||||||||
John Alexander | Oct. | 8, 1794 | Retired March 10, 1797. | |||||||||
James Barrington | Sep. | 1, 1795 | Resigned, September 3, 1800. | |||||||||
Robert Douglas | March | 10, 1797 | Promoted Lieut.Colonel Eighteenth Foot, | |||||||||
July 9, 1803. | ||||||||||||
Henry S. Keating | Sep. | 3, 1800 | Promoted August 1, 1804, by Augmenta- | |||||||||
tion. | ||||||||||||
Robert Owen | Aug. | 27, 1803 | Placed upon half-pay, February 21, 1805. | |||||||||
George Andrew Armstrong | Aug. | 1, 1804 | Exchanged to half-pay, January 5, 1805. | |||||||||
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Aug. | 2, 1804 | Exchanged to half-pay, June 23, 1808 | |||||||||
with Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Walsh. | ||||||||||||
Aug. | 27, 1804 | Promoted June 27, 1811. | ||||||||||
William Brooke | Jan. | 5, 1805 | Exchanged to Fifth Dragoon Guards, | |||||||||
July 25, 1805. | ||||||||||||
John McLeod | Feb. | 21, 1805 | Promoted, Lieut.-Colonel Ninth Garrison | |||||||||
Battalion, May 5, 1808. | ||||||||||||
Henry R. Knight | July | 25, 1805 | Exchanged to half-pay, July 17, 1806. | |||||||||
Boyle Travers | July | 17, 1806 | Promoted January 2, 1812. | |||||||||
Samuel Bayley | June | 9, 1808 | Died in 1810. | |||||||||
Thomas Walsh | June | 23, 1808 | Died in 1810. | |||||||||
John William Mallett | Aug. | 29, 1810 | Promoted November 6, 1813. | |||||||||
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Nov. | 29, 1810 | Retired July 26, 1821. | |||||||||
Robert Grant | June | 27, 1811 | Exchanged to Eighty-second Foot, April | |||||||||
12, 1821. | ||||||||||||
Joseph Hanna | Jan | 2, 1812 | Died in 1816. | |||||||||
William S. Forbes | Nov. | 6, 1813 | Placed on half-pay on September 6, 1817, | |||||||||
Henry Capadose | Oct. | 17, 1816 | on the disbandment of second battalion. | |||||||||
George Wroughton Montagu | April | 12, 1821 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, | |||||||||
May 19, 1825. | ||||||||||||
John Gualey | July | 26, 1821 | Cancelled. | |||||||||
Howell Harris Prichard | July | 26, 1821 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, April 26, 1831. | |||||||||
John Elliot Cairnes | May | 26, 1925 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, | |||||||||
March 29, 1827. | ||||||||||||
John Peddie | March | 29, 1827 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, | |||||||||
August 28, 1827. | ||||||||||||
William Gun | Aug. | 28, 1827 | Retired October 11, 1831. | |||||||||
William Mitchell | April | 26, 1831 | Exhanged to half-pay, June 13, 1834. | |||||||||
George Morton Eden | Oct. | 11, 1831 | Promoted to Lt.-Colonelcy, May 20, 1836. | |||||||||
John Wilson | June | 13, 1834 | Died at Jamaica, July 14, 1837. | |||||||||
Forrester Owen Leighton | May | 20, 1836 | Retired September 12, 1843. | |||||||||
Peter Shadwell Norman | July | 15, 1837 | Now serving. | |||||||||
Edmund Wm. Wilton Passy | Sep. | 12, 1843 |