ix. JULY 16, i92i.] NOTES AND QUERIES. 45
In some family papers I possess, William Witherington, the first of this family of whom I have any record, is described as of Northumberland, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, but I cannot find any confirmation of this, and all the records I have searched describe him as a "woollen-draper" of Dublin. He is given as such also in Peter Wilson's 'Dublin Directory.' The entries in this are as follows:—
1768-1774. William Witherington, Woollen-draper, Grafton Street.
1775. William Witherington, Woollen-draper, 22, Grafton Street.
1776-1782. William Witherington, Woollen-draper, 68, Grafton Street.
AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.
(See 12 S. ii., in., vi., vii. passim; viii. 6, 46, 82, 185, 327, 405, 445.)
The next regiment (p. 78) was raised by Colonel Thomas Meredith in February, 1702, and in due course became the 37th Regiment of Foot. In 1782 it received the territorial title "North Hampshire," and was styled the "37th (North Hampshire) Regiment," a title which it retained for exactly 100 years. In 1881, when the regimental numbers were abolished, it became the "Hampshire Regiment," which title it still (1921) retains.
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Colonel Ponsonby's Regiment of Foot.
Dates of their present commissions.
Dates of their first commissions.
Colonel Henry Ponsonby (1) 13 May 1735 Captain, 25 Aug. 1705
Lieutenant Colonel Edward Richbell (2) 18 May 1722 Captain,ditto 24 Mar. 1708
Major
Captains
Richard Bassett (3) 11 April 1722 Lieutenant, 10 Apr. 1710-11
Lord John Sackville (4) 3 April 1734 Captain, 3 April 1734
Thomas Timpson 7 Dec. 1734 Ensign, 1 July 1709
James Coates 26 Aug. 1737 Ensign,ditto 20 May 1732
William Gee 28 Oct. 1737 Lieutenant, 11 Sept. 1711
James Dehays 1 May 1739 Lieutenant,ditto 24 Mar. 1712
Captain Lieutenant George Bell (5) 1 May 1739 Ensign, 7 Dec. 1711
Lieutenants
Henry Wetherall (6) 3 Sept. 1725 ditto 9 Sept. 1715
Thomas Brady 2 Jan. 1726 ditto 7 Dec. 1711
Russell Chapman 7 Aug. 1733 ditto 22 Oct. 1718
Jordan Wren (7) 2 April 1734 ditto 28 July 1720
Samuel Boucher (8) 11 May 1735 ditto 3 Sept. 1725
George Wheatley 10 April 1736 ditto 31 Mar. 1721
Edward Loftus 7 Mar. 1736-7 ditto 2 Jan. 1726
John Kirrell 26 Aug. 1737 ditto 10 April 1736
John Doyne 28 Oct. 1737 ditto 2 Jan. 1732-3
John Hill (9) 1 May 1739 ditto 3 April 1734
(1) 2nd son of William Ponsonby, 1st Viscount Duncannon. He was killed at the battle of Fontenoy, May 11, 1745.
(2) Major in the regiment, June 3, 1720. Became Colonel of the 39th Foot in 1743, and in 1752 of the 17th Foot. Died in 1757.
(3) Major, Jan. 15, 1739-40; Brevet Lieut-Colonel, 1745. Died in 1746.
(4) Lord John Philip Sackville, 2nd son of the 1st Duke of Dorset. Died in 1765.
(5) Captain, Jan. 15, 1739-40.
(6) Captain Lieutenant, Jan. 15, 1739-40.
(7) Major, Dec. 26, 1755. Lieut. -Colonel in the 75th Foot, April 20, 1758, and in the 37th again, Nov. 24, 1759. Colonel of the 41st Foot, Aug. 5, 1771. Major-General, Aug. 29, 1779; Lieut.-General, Feb. 19, 1779. Died Jan., 1784. He served in the battles of Dettingen, Fontenoy, and Culloden (April 16, 1746), for the last of which he was awarded one of the so-called "Cumberland" medals—gold.
(8) Captain, May 7, 1745.
(9) Captain, Feb. 17, 1745-6.
