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 i2S. m. FEB. io, 191?.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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Colonel Eland's Regiment of Foot.

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740. (See 12 S. ii. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243, 282, 324, 364, 402, 443, 482, 524; iii. 46.)

THE next regiment (p. 43) was formed by Royal Warrant on June 28, 1701, in Ireland^, by William, 2nd Viscount Charlemont, and was later numbered the 36th. In 1782 the- territorial title " Herefordshire " was conferred upon it. In 1881 it became the 2nd.. Battalion of " The Worcestershire Regiment " :

igiment of Foot.

Humphrey Blani

John Grant (2)

Dudley Aucklani

Roger Hartnoll

Samuel Whitake

James Innes

Robert Hamiltoi i Gorges Jackson ! Edward Whitmore (4). \ Richard Fitzwilliams (5)

Robert Scott (6) f John Gazeau (7) I Erisay Nicholls
 * John "Bodvill . (8)
 * Michael Cheap (8)

John Cuppage (9)

Edward Sandf ord

Gilbert Dodd

Hamilton Lambert (10)

James St. Aubin ( John Moyle

Henry Gore (11) Cholmondley Scott (12) Samuel Dusoul (13). . John Petrie (14) Henry Forbes Robert Ackland (15)

Ensigns

Dates of their

Dates of their first

sent commissions.

commissions.

27 June 1737

Ensign, 4 Feb. 1703-4..

19 Feb. 1723-4

Ensign, 12 Sept. 1695.

1 Nov. 1739

Ensign, 1 Aug. 1705.

16 April 1718

Captain, 16 April 1718.

9 June 1718

Captain, 9 June 1718.

7 July 1722

Ensign, 26 April 1707.

5 Julv 1737

Ensign, 24 May 1728.

8 Nov. 1737

Ensign, 1 June 1723.

1 Nov. 1739

Ensign, 30 Mar. 1710.

ditto

Cornet, 25 June 1725.

ditto

Ensign, 8 Mar. 1717-8.-

7 May 1728

Lieutenant, 2 April 1706.

13 May 1732

Ensign, 10 Sept. 1712.

27 June 1734

Ensign, 10 Sept. 1723.

12 June 1736

Ensign, 19 Feb. 1723-4.-

26 ditto

Ensign, 4 Mar. 1724.

8 Nov. 1737

Ensign, 5 Jan. 1727.

1 May 1739

Ensign, 30 Dec. 1729.

1 Nov. 1739

Ensign, 27 Jan. 1731-2..

28 ditto

Ensign, 13 Mar. 1732.

19 Jan. 1739-40

Ensign, 24 June 1732.

2 April 1734.

27 June 1734.

26 June 1736.

8 Nov. 1737.

1 May' 1739!

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28 ditto.

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George Thomas Collin Grant. , (, John Lloyd

(1) Author of the well-known ' A Treatise of Military Discipline.' Previously had served^ in the llth Dragoons and in the 2nd Horse. Was appointed Colonel of the 13th Dragoons- in 1741. Died May 8, 1763, then being Lieutenant-General. See ' D.N.B.'

(2) Colonel of the 5th Regiment of Marines, 1741. Killed before Carthagena, 1741.

(3) Possibly " Ackland" or "Acland." There was an Ensign Dudley Ackland in the regiment Nov. 15, 1740, who was Captain in 1755.

(4) Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, July 17, 1747, and the only officer in the 1740 list who- was still serving in the regiment in 1755. Colonel of the 22nd Foot, July 11, 1757. Major- General,. Feb. 19, 1761. Drowned in Plymouth Harbour, near Boston, New England, Dec. 11, 1761.

(5) Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, March 10, 1742.

(6) Captain, Nov. 15, 1740.

(7) Captain, Jan. 20, 1741.

(8) Killed before Carthagena, 1741.

(9) Possibly of Killowning, co. Tipperary, younger son of the Rev. John Cuppage, Rector of:' Magherline.

(10) Captain-Lieutenant, Jan. 20, 1741 ; Captain, June 1, 1742.

(11) Lieutenant, May 6, 1740.

(12) Lieutenant, Jan. 20, 1741.

(13) Lieutenant, May 2, 1741.

(14) Lieutenant, Nov. 15, 1740.

(15) Lieutenant, June 1, 1742.

The following additional officers' names are given on the interleaf :

James Fleminge (1) Colonel 4 Jan. 1741. Paul Moreau .. Ensign 25 April 1741.

Philip Jennings .. Lieutenant 18 April 1741. R. Fleming.. .. Ensign 1 June 1742.

Thomas Maule. . Ensign 6 May 1740. W. Dudley. . Ensign 2 June 1742

Seager French. . Ensign 24 Jan. 1741. T. Foley. . . . Ensign 3 June 1742.. (1) Major-General, Sept. 2, 1747. Died March, 1751.