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