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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. OCT. ie, 1920

V. Audley Fanning. Of Matsmount, co. Londonderry. Will dated April 24, 1784, with Codicil dated May 30, 1784. Mentions as his exors : Thos. Fanning, Audley Fanning ; James Mauleverer ; Thomas Shipton and John Spotswood. In the Dublin Journal for Jan. 29, 1757. it says :

" A Commission has lately passed the Govern- ment-Seal of this Kingdom for appointing Audley Fanning Esq. a Justice of the Peace for the Co. of Derry."

He married, but I an unable to trace his wife's name, and had issue : 1. Thomas Fanning.

2. Audley Fanning. A Clerke in Holy7 Orders, he married Dec. 1784. Rebecc* Spotswood, in the announcement of their marriage, they are described as both o Londonderry.

(iii.) Henry Gary Fanning.

(iiii.) Elinor Fanning.

(v.) Ann Fanning.

( vi. ) Letitia Fanning, who married Edward" Steward.

(vii.) Martha Fanning, who marriedi' Andrew Brown.

HENRY FITZGERALD REYNOLDS.

AK ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(See 12 S. ii. passim : iii. 46, 103, 267, 354, 408, 438 ; vi. 184, 233, 242, 290, 329 ; vii. 83, 125, 146, 146, 165, 187, 204, 265.)

The next regiment (p. 67) was raised in July, 1715, as a regiment (known later as th 12th) of Dragoons, by Brigadier- General Phineas Bowles. He "was succeeded in the eo mand in March, 1719, by his son (same name see below).

In 1768 its title was changed to "The 12th, or the Prince of Wales 's Regiment Light Dragoons " and in 1817 it became a "Lancer " regiment, its present (1920) tit being " 12th (Prince of Wales 's Royal) Lancers."

Major-General Bowles's Regiment of

Dates of their

Dates of their first

Dragoons.

present commissions. commissions.

Colonel

Fhineas Bowles (1)

20 Mar. 1718

Captain,

1 Mar. 1709.

Lieutenant Colonel.

. Edward Pole (2)

18 Aug. 1739

2d Lieut.

23 Jan. 1709

Major

Christopher Clarges (3)

5 Sept. 1739

Lieutenant, 3 July 1723

f Johnston (4)

18 June 1723

Ensign,

10 April 171G

Captains

William Steuart

26 Mar. 1737

Ensign,

1 Jan. 1729

I Brett. Norton (5)

20 June 1739

Ensign,

13 Feb. 1706

Captain Lieutenant.

. William Piers (6)

20 June 17-39

Ensign,

1 Get. 1709

f John Alder (7)

25 Aug. 1733

Cornet,

7 June 1720

Lieutenants. .

Thomas Scroggs . < Charles Bernard

2 April 1734 20 Feb. 1736

Ensign, Cornet,

1 Aug. 1716 27 Nov. 1723

George Fielding

16 Jan. 1737

Cornet,

13 Mar. 1723

[Walter Hore

20 June 1739

Cornet,

23 Mar. 1728

/Edward Osburn

25 Aug. 1723

Nicholas Price (8)

1 Jan. 1730

Cornets

. 1 Bowles. .

26 Mar. 1737

IJohii King

14 Jan. 1737



Robert Mulhallen (9). .

16 Jan. 1737

/Thomas Ord. .

20 June 1739

The following

additional names are entered

in ink on the interleaf :

Colonel

Alexander Rose (10)

21 Dec. 1740

/John Hill

24 April 1740

Cornets. .


 * \ Samuel Sluer

1 July 1740

(1) Transferred to the Colonelcy of the Cara- biniers in 1740. Died in 1749. See ' D.N.B.'

(2) 3rd son of Samuel Pole, Bradbourne Hall, Derbyshire. Appointed to the Colonelcy of the 10th Foot on Aug. 10, 1749. Died in 1762.

(3) Captain, Sept. 8, 1725. Died at Chingford, Essex, in 1780.

(4) John Johnston.

(5) Died in 1765.

(6) Captain, April 24, 1740.

(7) Captain-Lieutenant, April 24, 1740.

(8) Lieutenant, April 24. 1740,

(9) Captain, May 11, 1748. The only officer i this list who was still serving in the regiment i 1755.

(10) From the 20th Foot. Died in 1742.

J. H. LESLIE, Lieut. -Colonel (Retired List). (To be continued.)