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 316 CLYDE — COBHAM. and in ISO!) at Walcheren ; returned to Spain in 1S10 ; was at Barrosa, Tarifa, Victoria, being twice severely wounded (25 July 1S13) while leading a forlorn hope at the siege of San Sebastian, and again at the battle of Bidassoa four months Inter, after which he returned to England. In 1S42 lie was made Col. and Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, and, as Lieut.-Col. of the 98th Foot, served in China at the capture of Cliiiikeanfoo ; in 1848 he served in India, being iu command of the 3rd Division of the Army of the Punjab, in the second Sikh war, being at Ramnuggur, and in 1849, at Chilliau Wallah (where, though again wounded, his leadership decided the action), and at Goojerat. In the Crimean war ha commanded the Highland brigade : was personally thanked for his conduct at the battle of Alma, 1854, and was entrusted with the defence of Balaklava, in an assault on which he put to flight some 1,500 Russian Cavalry. He, being then Major-Hen., was made Col. of the 47th Foot in Oct. 1847, was thanked by Pari., and cr. G C.B. in 1855 ; made free of the city of London, and cr. D.C.L., Oxford, 24 June 1857. In June 1857 he was made Commander-in-Chief in India, where he succeeded in quelling the Sepoy mutiny, storming Lucknow iu Nov. 1857, which he finally captured in March 1858, completing the re-conquest of the Doab, Boliilcund, and Oude. In 1S5S he was rained to the Peerage as above- mentioned, receiving (again) the thanks of Pari, in 1859 ; was made Col. of the Coldstream C4uards, I860 ; K.S.I., 1861 ; and FIELD-MARSHAL in Nov. 1862, on the majority of the Prince of Wales. He was also a Grand officer of the French Legion of Honour ; a Knight Grand Cross of the Sardinian Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus, and 1st Class of the Turkish Order of Medjidie. Hon. Col. of the 15th Midx. (Loudon Scottish) Rifle Volunteers. Field-Marshal Lord Clyde, d. num.. aged 70, at the Government House, Chatham, 14 and was bur. 22 Aug. 1863, in Weatm. Abbey, when his honours became extinct. Will pr. 7 Sep. 1863, under £70,000; re- sworn, Oct. 1867, vtnder £100,000. CLYVEIMIX. Reginald de Clyvedmn- (of whom neither Du^tlale km any other genealogical writer gives any account) was, with about 60 other persons, earn. 8 June (1294) 22 Ed. I, to attend the King wherever he might be, to advise on the affairs of the realm, but there is very considerable doubt if that writ can be considered as a regular writ of .summons to Par].(") Writ I. 1291 by COBIIAM, or COBIIAM OF KENT.(") Barony by 1. Henry de Cobham, of Coljham arid Cowling, en. Kent, Writ. Si ;lrJ d ],_ 0 f John, de Cobhain of the same, Constable of Rochester, I 1313 and one of the Barons of the Exchequer, by his 1st wife, Joane, da, and coheir of Sir Robert DE Septvans, sue. his Father in 1300, being then aged 40, in which year (as again 1311-15) lie was in the expedition to Scotland ; Constable of Rochester, for life, 1304, and Constable of Dover Castle, and Warden of the cinque ports, 1305 and again so appointed 131 1. He was sum. to Pari, as a Baron (LORD COBHAM) by writs 8 Jan. (1312/3) 6 Ed. II to 22 Jan. (1335/6) 9 Ed. III. He sided with the King (Edward II) against the rebellious Barons, and presided at Canterbury at the arraignment of Lord Badlesmere as a traitor in 1322. Governor of Tonbridge Castle, 1324. He m. Maud, widow of Matthew mCowunam, da. of Eudo de Morevillb. He d. 25 Aug. 1339, aged 79, II. 1339. 2. John (de Cobuam), Loed Codha.v, s. and h. who Lad, v.p., been Knight of the Shire for Kent, 1312-35, and who had been made, in 1334, Constable of Rochester, jointly with his Father, for their lives, and. in 1335, Admiral of the Fleet from the Thames Westward. He was sum. to a Council, ( a ) See Vol. i, p. 259, note " c," sub. " Basset de Safcote." ( b ) See articles by J. G. Waller on " the Lords of Cobham " in the " Archicvlorjia Cantiana." Vol. xi, pp. 49-112, and Vol. xii, pp. 113-166.