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was second major, Jan. 25, 1741 probably till Aug. 31, 1744 ; and query, first major from then to May 1, 1745 ? He was perhaps father of James Russell Madan (p. 132).

Mark Anthony Saurin was wounded at Dettingen, 1743, when a captain in the King's Horse ; was made Assistant Gentleman Usher to the King (salary 66?. 13*. 4d.), 1715 ; and in 1727 was the junior of the four Gentlem n Ushers, Daily Waiters to George I. He was one of three similar officials in the Queen Consort's Household (150?.) in 1734, probably from 1727 till her Majesty's death, Nov. 20, 1737. He was one of the four Gentlemen Ushers of the Privy Chamber (200?.) to George II. from 1750 till the King's death, 1760.

Charles Clarke became cornet and second major, Aug. 31, 1744 ; guidon and eldest major, May 1, 1745 ; second lieutenant- colone 1, July 24, 1749; and first lieutenant- colonel, Dec. 2, 1754, to 1757.

John Brattle became " Chief Exempt," September, 1744 (Gent. Mag.).

Francis Desmarette was promoted from brigadier to exempt, May, 1745.

Joseph Scudder is said in Gent. Mag. to have been made brigadier and ceased to be adjutant, September, 1744; but as it again says in November, 1748, that Adjutant Scudder then became lieutenant, he may .have been made sub-brigadier, September, 1744.

3rd Horse Ghiards (ante, pp. 5, 131).

Christopher Kien was still first lieutenant- colonel 3rd Horse Guards in February, 1745, apparently till it was reduced, Dec. 25, 1746.

Mr-. Jane Kien, or Keen, who was the King's Housekeeper (100?.) and also Standing Wardrobe Keeper (100?.) at Kensington in 1734 till 1762, may have been in some way related to him.

Francis Otway succeeded John Lloyd as second major in Lord Albemarle's 3rd Troop f (Life or) Horse Guards, October, 1740 (Gent. Mag.); and was first major thereof, 1741; and apparently second lieutenant- colonel, March 9, 1745, till reduced, Dec. 25, 1746 ; then on half-pay till lieutenant-colonel

3rd Dragoon Guards, March 26, 1748, to 1751. The Gent. Mag. on May 20, 1753, gives the marriage of " Col. Otway to Miss Haye, but as there were three officers of this rank and name at the time it is uncertain which it was.

John Johnson was made second major of tho regiment, 1741 ; first major, March 9,

1745, till reduced, 1746 ; and was wounded at Dettingen, 1743.

Capt. Wills was wounded at Dettingen, and was second major, March 9, 1745, till reduced, 1746.

Capt. Bradshaigh was not an equerry (the statement in Millan's List of Officers, 1751, to that effect being incorrect), but he was in 1748, and until 1760, a Gentleman Usher to the Royal Princesses. Second son of Sir Roger Bradshaigh, 2nd Bart., M.P., of Haigh, Lancashire.

William Peter became second major 4th Horse Guards, February, 1743 ; first major, Sept. 19, 1743 ; lieutenant-colonel thereof, May 27, 1745, till it was reduced, Dec. 25, 1746.

Edw r ard Jeffreys, promoted from brigadier to exempt of the regiment (then in Flanders), February, 1743.

Was there any connexion between William Hollingworth, who d. January, 1744 (pp. 5, 76), and William and John Hollingsworth of Battersea (p. 126) ? A Fred. Hollingsworth was made lieutenant and captain 3rd Foot Guards, Sept. 2, 1757. A John Holling- worth was in 1761 a captain in Col. Hugh Morgan's (new) 90th Light Infantry from Dec. 10, 1759.

4th Horse Gitards (ante, pp. 5, 132).

John Stevenson, second lieutenant-colonel 4th Horse Guards, February, 1743, till reduced, December, 1746.

Capt. Hilgrove was wounded at Fontenoy, 1745.

Francis Martin was promoted exempt and captain, Sept. 19, 1743.

Thomas Goddard was cornet and major, February, 1743, to Sept. 19, 1743 (see also p. 312).' W. R.WILLIAMS.

(To be continued.)

Ante, p. 403.

Brigadier - General Thomas Pagett. He was Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales in 1722, and continued as Groom to him as King in 1727 ; member of Parlia- ment for Ilchester, 1722; and deputy gov- ernor of Minorca, where he died at Port Mahon, April 29, 1741, as I have ascertained from the British Consular Records there. He owned Randalls, near Leatherhead. His wife Mary-, daughter and coheiress of Peter Whitcomb of Great Braxted, predeceased tier husband, dying Feb. 15, 1741 ; she was buried at Leatherhead, Feb. 23 (P. R.). Their only child Caroline, appointed maid of honour to Queen Caroline, November, 1732, married Sir Nicholas Bayly, Bart. The