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

by Richard Cannon

SUCCESSION OF MAJORS

OF THE

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

Names.

Dates of
Appointment.

Remarks

John Doyne

Dec.

26, 1755

Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, June 30, 1760.

James Stewart

June

30, 1760

Promoted to Lieut.-Col. February 20, 1762.

John Heighington

Feb.

20, 1762

Resigned September 9, 1762.

Alexander Milbanke

Sep.

9, 1762

Died November 4, 1762.

William Forbes

Nov.

4, 1762

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Removed to Thirty-fifth Foot, October 31,

⁠1762.

Thomas Johnston

Oct.

31, 1762

Resigned September 11, 1765.

Henry Pringle

Sep.

11, 1765

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Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Fifty-first Foot,

⁠August 16, 1770.

John Caulfield

Aug.

16, 1770

Promoted to Lieut.-Col. October 3, 1776.

Bulleine Fancourt

Oct.

3, 1776

Retired August 6, 1783.

Hon. Vere Poulett

Aug.

6, 1783

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Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Sixtieth Regiment,

⁠August 31, 1793.

Patrick Tytler

Aug.

31, 1793

Retired October 8, 1794.

John Alexander

Oct.

8, 1794

Retired March 10, 1797.

James Barrington

Sep.

1, 1795

Resigned, September 3, 1800.

Robert Douglas

March

10, 1797

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Promoted Lieut.Colonel Eighteenth Foot,

⁠July 9, 1803.

Henry S. Keating

Sep.

3, 1800

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Promoted August 1, 1804, by Augmenta-

⁠tion.

Robert Owen

Aug.

27, 1803

Placed upon half-pay, February 21, 1805.

George Andrew Armstrong

Aug.

1, 1804

Exchanged to half-pay, January 5, 1805.

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Aug.

2, 1804

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Exchanged to half-pay, June 23, 1808

⁠with Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Walsh.

Aug.

27, 1804

Promoted June 27, 1811.

William Brooke

Jan.

5, 1805

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Exchanged to Fifth Dragoon Guards,

⁠July 25, 1805.

John McLeod

Feb.

21, 1805

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Promoted, Lieut.-Colonel Ninth Garrison

⁠Battalion, May 5, 1808.

Henry R. Knight

July

25, 1805

Exchanged to half-pay, July 17, 1806.

Boyle Travers

July

17, 1806

Promoted January 2, 1812.

Samuel Bayley

June

9, 1808

Died in 1810.

Thomas Walsh

June

23, 1808

Died in 1810.

John William Mallett

Aug.

29, 1810

Promoted November 6, 1813.

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Nov.

29, 1810

Retired July 26, 1821.

Robert Grant

June

27, 1811

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Exchanged to Eighty-second Foot, April

⁠12, 1821.

Joseph Hanna

Jan

2, 1812

Died in 1816.

William S. Forbes

Nov.

6, 1813

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Placed on half-pay on September 6, 1817,

Henry Capadose

Oct.

17, 1816

⁠on the disbandment of second battalion.

George Wroughton Montagu

April

12, 1821

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Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached,

⁠May 19, 1825.

John Gualey

July

26, 1821

Cancelled.

Howell Harris Prichard

July

26, 1821

Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, April 26, 1831.

John Elliot Cairnes

May

26, 1925

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Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached,

⁠March 29, 1827.

John Peddie

March

29, 1827

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Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached,

⁠August 28, 1827.

William Gun

Aug.

28, 1827

Retired October 11, 1831.

William Mitchell

April

26, 1831

Exhanged to half-pay, June 13, 1834.

George Morton Eden

Oct.

11, 1831

Promoted to Lt.-Colonelcy, May 20, 1836.

John Wilson

June

13, 1834

Died at Jamaica, July 14, 1837.

Forrester Owen Leighton

May

20, 1836

Retired September 12, 1843.

Peter Shadwell Norman

July

15, 1837

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Now serving.

Edmund Wm. Wilton Passy

Sep.

12, 1843