NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. n. OCT. 7, me.
Col. Pulteney's Regiment of Foot was raised in June, 1685 the Earl of Huntingdon
being its first Colonel in the southern counties of England, with head-quarters at
Buckingham. It was later known as the 13th Regiment of Foot, and in 1782
assumed the county title of the 1st Somerset Regiment. In 1822 it was constituted
a Light Infantry regiment, and is now designated " Prince Albert's (Somerset Light
Infantry) " :
Dates of their first
commissions. Ensign, 10 Jan. 1703. Captain, 24 Aug. 1709. Ensign, 25 April 1704. Ensign, 11 Nov. 1709. Lieutenant, 1708.
Ensign, 14 May 1706. 6 April 1709. 15 June 1716.
Colonel Pulteney's Regiment of Foot.
Colonel
Lieutenant Colonel Major
Captains
Henry Pulteney (1) .
Moses Moreau
James Cunningham .
C James Stuart . .
Charles Walker
John Quinchant (2) . < James Charleton
Thomas Cockayne (3)
Robert Bullman t Maule
Captain Lieutenant
Lieutenants
Ensigns
Thomas Williams
Thomas Lister (4)
Daniel Nicholas
Christopher Legard
Samuel Beecher
John Hadzor
Edward Scott
John Farie
David Robert De Lajonquire
William Burnet . George Mackenzie
Richard Hargrave . . "
George Middleton
William Jones
Peter Lyons
Charles Maitland
James Haliburton
Gilbert Gray
John Crawford . John O-Carroll
(1) Younger brother of William Pulteney, Earl of Bath see
Dates of their
present commissions.
5 July 1739 . 20 Jan. 1735-6
ditto , 13 Oct. 1720
3 Feb. 1724-5 1 Feb. 1726-7
7 May 1729 5 July 1735
, 20 Jan. 1735-6 , 18 July 1737. 20 Jan. 1735-6
24 Nov. 1716
17 July 1717
4 Jan. 1717-8.
18 Nov. 1726
1 Feb. 1726-7
14 Sept. 1730 20 Sept. 1735 20 Jan. 1735-6
25 Jan. 1737-8
19 Jan. 1739-40 13 July 1728.
15 Mar. 1733-4
20 June 1735. 23 Aug. 1735. 20 Sept. 1735. 25 June 1736 11 Aug. 1737.
8 Feb. 1737-8. 19 Jan. 1739-40.
D.N.B.'
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
27 Jan. 1705-6.
Ensign, 8 Sept. 1708.
Lieutenant, Nov. 1716.
Ensign, 27 Jan. 1705-6.
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign,
Ensign, .
Ensign,
Ensign,
5 June 1704.
11 June 1712.
28 Feb. 1717-8.
29 Feb. 1709-10. 4 Aug. 1709.
14 April 1715. 1 Feb. 1726-7.
21 April 1725.
Ensign, 19 July 1735.
Had served in the l>t
and 2nd Regiments of Foot Guards. Governor of Hull. Died on Oct. 28, 1767, then being a General.
(2) Of Park Hall, Shropshire. The spelling of the name was later changed to Kinchant. Killed at Fontenoy, May 11, 1745. In earlier lists of commissions the Christian names are given as Jean Janvre.
(3) Younger brother of Francis Cockayne, Lord Mayor of London 1751-2. Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, May 29, 1744. Died Oct. 9, 1749.
(4) Major in the regiment, Oct. 9, 1749.
The regiment next following was raised at Canterbury in June, 1685, by Sir Edward Hales, Bart., of Woodchurch, Kent. Later it was called the 14th (or Bedfordshire) Regiment of Foot, and in 1809 the Buckinghamshire. Since 1881 it has been designated " The Prince of Wales' s Own (West Yorkshire Regiment) " :
Lieutenant General Clayton's
Regiment of Foot.
Lieutenant Gen. . .
Lieutenant Colonel
Major
Captains
Jaspar Clayton, Col, (1)
Robert Moore
Per. Thomas Hopson (2) f George Heighington
John Gough . .
Peter Carew . . < Jaspar Clayton
I John Severn Andrew Simpson ( William Stanhope
Dates of their
present commissions.
15 June 1713
3 Jan. 1738-9
, ditto
26 May 1721 21 May 1725 26 Dec. 1726 13 June 1734 13 May 1735 11 Mar. 1735-6 10 Jan. 1738-9
Dates of their first
commissions. Lieutenant, 24 June 1695. Ensign, 29 Nov. 1709. Lieutenant, 6 Dec. 1703. Ensign, 29 Nov. 1704. Captain, 5 Feb. 1710-11. Captain, 18 Dec. 1710. Lieutenant, 25 Mar. 1708. Ensign, 26 Sept. 1715. Ensign, 30 April 1711. Ensign, 7 Feb. 1737-8.
(1) Lieutenant- Governor of Gibraltar, 1727-30. Killed at Dettingen, 1743. See note on p. 340,
vol. i. of Dalton's ' George the First's Army, 1714-27.'
(2) Thomas Peregrine Hopson, Colonel of the 29th Foot, 1748-54, and of the 40th, 1754-9, dying in 1759 at Guadeloupe. Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Nova Scotia, 1752-4.
