Historical Record of the Fifty-Sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot/Succession of Lieutenant-Colonels

by Richard Cannon

SUCCESSION OF LIEUTENANT-COLONELS

OF THE

FIFTY-SIXTH, OR WEST ESSEX, REGIMENT OF FOOT.

Names.	Dates of Appointment.		Date of Removal, &c.
Peter Parr	Dec.	26, 1755	Removed to Fourth Foot, June 30, 1760.
John Doyne	June	30, 1760	Retired February 20, 1762.
James Stewart	Feb.	20, 1762	Died September 1, 1762.
Alexander Monypenny	Sep.	1, 1762	Retired October 3, 1776.
John Caulfield	Oct.	3, 1776	Retired November 6, 1778.
Henry Johnson	Nov.	6, 1778	Removed to Seventeenth Foot in 1778.
Peter Craig	Jan.	9, 1779	Removed to Sixty-second Foot, November 25, 1799.
William Earle Bulwer	Sep.	1, 1795	Placed on half-pay, November 18, 1795.
John Whitwell	Nov.	18, 1795	Died in 1796.
Thomas Picton	May	1, 1796	Promoted to the colonelcy of Seventy-seventh Foot, October 15, 1811.
P. K. Skinner	Dec.	11, 1799	Removed July 25, 1814.
Samuel Keating	Aug.	1, 1804	Promoted to Boubon regiment, March 25, 1812.
Fletcher Barclay	June	27, 1811	Retired April 26, 1831.
Boyle Travers	Jan.	2, 1812	Removed July 25, 1814.
Nigel Kingscote	Oct.	17, 1811	Placed on half-pay, December 25, 1818.
J. Frederick Brown	March	5, 1812	Exchanged to Twenty-eighth Foot, May 9, 1816, with Sir Charles Belson.
Henry Sullivan	July	1, 1813	Placed on half-pay, on the reduction of second battalion, on September 6, 1817.
John William Mallet	Nov.	6, 1813	Placed on half-pay, December 25, 1814, on the reduction.
Sir Charles P. Belson, K.C.B.	May	9, 1816	Placed on half-pay, on September 6, 1817, on the reduction of second battalion.
H. H. Pritchard	April	26, 1831	Retired May 20, 1836.
G. M. Eden	May	20, 1836	Removed to Scots Fusilier Guards, on July 5, 1839.
Robert O’Hara	July	5, 1839	Exchanged to the Eighty-eighth on August 16, 1839, with Lieut.-Colonel W. H. Eden.
William Hassel Eden	Aug.	16, 1839	At present in command.