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 m a. IL NOV. 4, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Major General Armstrong's Regiment of Foot (continiwl).

Dates of their present commissions.

Dates of their first commissions.

''harles Hutchinson ..

.. 13 July 1718

Lieutenant, April 1710.

Anthony Bessiere

.. 27 May 1725

Captain, 20 May 1712.

Thomas Borrett

.. 11 Oct. 1725

Captain, 10 April 1710.

Captains. .

George Martin

.. 11 April 1726

Lieutenant, 6 July 1712..

Thomas Dunbar. .

4 Sept. 1734

Lieutenant, 3 Dec. 1723.

Robert Pearson

.. 11 Mar. 1735-6

Ensign, 10 Aug. 1709.

[.Lord Maitland(3)

. . 14 Jan. 1739-40.

Captain Lieutenant James Latour ..

.. 11 Mar. 1735-6

Ensign, 4 Nov. 1703.

f Henrj' Barrett

.. 13 July 1718

Ensign, Mav 1707.

Peter Laprimaudaye (4) James Rietfield

. . 20 June 1727 .. 28 Dec. 1721

Ensign, 16 Feb. 1715. Ensign, 17 Aug. 1694.

Abraham Pinchinat. .

9 Nov. 1723

Ensign, 19 Feb. 1708-9

Lieutenants. . J Bobcrt Cotter

.. 23 Dec. 1727

Ensign, 27 Sept. 1715.

John Cunningham

.. 25 Mar. 1729

Ensign, 20 April 1718.

Robert Sterling

4 Sept. 1734

Ensign, 28 Nov. 1710.

Edward Corneille

.. 11 Mar. 1735-6

Ensign, 25 Mar. 1729.

William Nethersole

.. 23 July 1737

Ensign, 14 May 1729.

^ John Armstrong

. . 20 June 1739

Ensign, 20 June 1735-

William Wyville

8 July 1731.

George Owens

. . 4 July 1733.

John Moody

.. 11 July 1735.

Charles Ramsay

.. 11 Aug. 1737.

Ensigns

Bigoe Armstrong

. . 20 June 1739.

Robert Hamilton

.. 16 July 1739.

Benjamin McCullock. .

2 Feb. 1739-40.

Richard Hyde

3 ditto.

_ William Carleton

4 ditto.

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(3) James, elder son of Charles, 6th Earl of Lauderdale. He succeeded {his father, as 7th Earl, in.; 1744. Died in 1789.

(4) Died when on active service at Carthagena,, April, 1741 ; he was then serving as an " Engineer-in-ordinary."

Col. Howard's Regiment of Foot (p. 32) follows. It was formed early in 1689 from some companies of pikemen and musketeers which had been raised at Exeter in 1688.. Francis Luttrell of Dunster Castle, Somersetshire, was the first Colonel, and the regiment in due course took rank as the 19th Foot. In 1782 its title was expanded, and it became the " 19th or the 1st Yorkshire North Riding Regiment." It is now " Alexandra, Princess of Wales' s Own (Yorkshire Regiment) " :

Colonel Howard's Regiment of Foot.

Colonel

Dates of their Dates of. their first- present commissions. commissions.

Colonel

Major

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Hon. Charles Howard (1) Lord Sempill (2) Richard Hawley (3). .

/James Phillips. .

Joseph Stistcd. . I I Vtcr Franquefort I William IVtitot(4)

Thomas Burton "William Mercer

Sir Warren Crosbie (5)

1 Nov. 1738 11 June 1731 28 June 1710

10 Jan. 1709

11 Jan. 1714 10 May 1732 2ii Mar. 1737

1 Mar. 1737 31 Mar. 1737

Aug. 1707

10 Aug. 1715. July 1709. May 1692.

Sept. 1702.

1 May 1709.

April 1694.

1721.

1724. Jan. 1702.

18 Oct. 1703.

(1) Second son of the 3rd Earl of Carlisle. A.D.C. to the King, 1734. Colonel of the 3rd Dragoon Guards. 1748-65. Died at Bath, Aug. 25, 1765. See ' Dictionary of National Biography.' It was from this otlicci- thai the rc-ginu-nt. about the year 1744, became known as the " Green Howards," BO i-.- lied to distinguish it from the " Buffs," which from 1737 to 1749 was commanded by Col. Thomas Howard.

(2) Hugh, 12th Lord Sempill. Colonel of the 42nd Foot, 1741-5, and of the 25th Foot, 1745-6. Died at Aberdeen, Nov. 25, 1746.

(3) Younger son of Henry Hawley of Brentwood.

(4) Colon. ! c,f th, 71st Foot, 1758 to 1763, when the regiment was disbanded. Died] at Northaller- lon. .Julj 20, 1764.

(5) Third Bart., of Crosbie Park, co. WickloW. Retired in June, 1746, and died Jan. 30,