1755
colonelcy, his commission bearing date the 26th of December, 1755. It was numbered the Fifty-eighth Foot; but two inefficient colonial corps being soon afterwards disbanded, (viz., Major-General Shirley’s and Major-General Sir William Pepperel’s,) it obtained the rank of the Fifty-Sixth Regiment.
1756Active measures were adopted in the beginning of 1756, for completing the numbers of the regiment to its establishment of ten companies, of seventy-eight non-commissioned officers and soldiers each; and its quarters were established at Newcastle and Gateshead. Its costume was scarlet, faced, lined, and turned up with deep crimson; a few years afterwards the facing was changed to a purple, which had been denominated “Pompadour” colour: this circumstance gave rise to the Fifty-sixth Regiment being commonly styled “The Pompadours.”
The following officers received commissions in the regiment:—
Colonel, Lord Charles Manners.
Lieut.-Colonel, Peter Parr.
Major, John Doyne.
Captains. |
Lieutenants. |
Ensigns. |
| James Stewart | Wilson Marshall | John Brereton |
| William Skipton | John Forster | Edward Jenkins |
| William Playstowe | Thomas Harrison | James Lyons |
| Wm. Earl of Sutherland | Edwin Eyre | Archibald Wight |
| Thomas Hargrave | John White | Joseph Baillie |
| John Heighington | James Perrin | William Sandys |
| John Deaken | John Ingram | Fiennes Jenkinson |
| John Archer | Christopher Hales | |
Captain-Lieutenant. |
David Dundas[1] | John Woodford |
| Francis Gregor | St. John Pierce Lacy |
Chaplain, John Halsted; Adjutant, John Hardy;
Quarter-Master, William Lamplow; Surgeon, William Pitman.
- ↑ Afterwards General Sir David Dundas, K.B., author of a valuable work on the principles of military movements which became the basis of regulations for the field exercises of the British army.
