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George, Prince of Walt>~. 1751-60; chief equerry and clerk marshal to the same as Geo. III., December, 1760, till he d. April 4, 1771.

William Thompson succ. him as major of the regt., Aug. 24, 1746, and was lieutenant- colonel July 13, 1757, to May 1, 1759.

The vacant captaincy had been filled by Hon. Charles Feild ing' from Oct. 13, 1727, till he was made captain and lieutenant colonel Coldstream Guards, Nov. 7, 1739 ; retired Jan. 23, and d. Feb. 6, 1746 ; pre- viously lieutenant and captain in same regt., Jan. 24, 1721, to 1727.

Charles Bembow was in 1761 (as Benbow) on half-pay of brigadier and lieutenant of the 3rd Troop of Horse Guards from the time it was reduced in 1746 ; but d. before 1770. Of kin to Wm. B., appointed captain in the Queen's Regiment of Horse, June, 1712.

Philip Brown was also in 1761 on half- pay of exempt and captain 3rd Horse Guards from its reduction, 1746, but also disappeared before 1770.

Hon. John Boscawen, fourth surviving son of 1st Viscount Falmouth ; b. January, 1714 ; a Page of Honour to the King in 1738 ; lieutenant in the King's Horse, July 8, 1742 ; exempt and captain 3rd Horse Guards, 1742, till reduced, Dec. 25, 1746 ; adjutant 1st Horse Guards, Feb. 23, 1748; captain and lieutenant - colonel 1st Foot Guards, Feb. 23, 1748, to 1758; colonel of 75th Foot, May 1, 1758; of 45th Foot, Nov. 11, 1761, till he d. May 30, 1767 ; Governor of Jersey, March, 1760 ; major- general, March 4, 1761 ; Master of the Horse to H.R.H. the Duke of Cumberland, 1747-57 ; Groom of his Bedchamber, 1757 till the Duke d., Oct. 31, 1765; defeated for Tre- gony, February, 1737 ; and said to have been a candidate there the next month, but M.P. Truro, 1747-67 ; m. Dec. 29, 1748, Thomasina, first daughter of Robert Surman of Essex.

The Queen's Own Horse (ante, p. 45).

Richard Whitworth, a captain therein, Jan. 2, 1711 ; major, Maj^ 28, 1713, renewed by George I., Aug. 1, 1715 ; lieutenant-colonel thereof, Jan. 1, 1718, to February, 1750 ; a Gentleman Usher of the Privy Chamber in 1734 (t appointed August, 1728) till he d. 1750. A younger son of Rich. W. of Adbaston, co. Stafford, and brother to Chas., Lord Whitworth (1675-1725), the ambassador. Was he the father of Richard Whitworth,

M.P. Stafford, 1768-80, who died at Batchacre Grange, co. Stafford, about Sept. r 1811, aged 77?

Peter Naizon, served at Dettingen, wounded at Fontenoy, as lieutenant-colonel 1st Royal Dragoons,' Jan. 23, 1741, to 1746 ; colonel 13th Dragoons, Feb. 17, 1746, till he d., January, 1751.

Charles Otway (of kin to James Otway : lieutenant -colonel of the same regt., May 28, 1713 ; colonel 9th Foot, Jan. 7, 1718, till he d., 1725 ; and ? nephew of General Chas. O., who was brigadier-general Nov. 28, 1735 ; major-general, July 2, 1739 ; lieutenant- general, May 28, 1745; general March 9, 1761). He succ. Naizon as major 2nd Dragoon Guards Feb. 9, 1741, to April 9, 1748, and was on half -pay (as captain of Marines) of the Duke of Montagu's Ordnance from then till he d. between 1761 and 1770. Query, the " Otway, lieut.-col. in the Guards," who died July 1, 1762, as mentioned by MB. BOASE (ante, p. 75).

Anthony Rankine was still captain in 1745.

Wadham Wyndham, cornet June 8, 1720, to 1732, still lieutenant in 1745; presum- ably the son of Wadham W. of London, who matriculated from Magdalen College, Oxford, April 6, 1722, aged 18 ; his father also of St. Edmund's College, Salisbury, third son of Sir Wadham W. of Norrington, Judge of the King's Bench. The cornet's name is not given in ' Landed Gentry.' The Gent. Mag. under June, 1741, gives " William Wynd- ham, Esq., son-in-law to the Bishop of Durham, appointed Secretary to the Stamp Office." Richard Chandler was Bishop of Durham, 1730-50 ; but in the ' Court and City Registers ' of the period the Secretary's name appears as Wadham W T yndham, at 300Z. a year salary, until he resigned or d. in 1758.* Would he be the cornet ?

Solomon Stevenson was Clerk of the Avery (I25/.) under the Master of the Horse in 1748- till 1761. (Many offices at Court were filled by army officers.)

William Chaworth, cornet April 8, 1721, to 1733; still lieutenant in 1745.

Hon. James Somerville, first son of James, 13th Lord Somerville, Premier Baron of Scotland, whom he succ. 1765 ; b. about 1725; cornet in the Queen's Own Regt. of Horse when a child ; lieutenant do., July 23, 1737 ; captain in the same (2nd Dragoon Guards), Jan. 26, 1750/1, being senior captain in 1761 ; major thereof, Dec. 31, 1761; retired Aug. 17, 1763; d. unm., April 16, 1796.