Cornet
1704; his father resigned his company to him, and served as an Ensign
under his son Captain, in Lepell’s Regiment of Foot, 30th
June 1707; exchanged to Inniskilling Regiment of Foot as Captain,
26th December 1711; Major, Somerset L.I, 1716; Lieutenant Colonel,
7th Dragoons, 25th June 1720; Lieutenant Colonel in Lieutenant-General
Kerr’s Regiment (7th Hussars), 25th June 1722; raised the
43rd Foot, as its Colonel, January 1741; Colonel, 2nd Queen’s.
12th August 1741; Brigadier-General, 12th June 1745; Major-General,
10th September 1747; Lieutenant-General, 30th April 1754; Colonel,
14th Foot, 11th November 1755 to 7th September 1756; Governor of
Gibraltar, 25th December 1752 to 1756; tried by Court Martial for
not having sent reinforcements to Minorca, which had to surrender,
June 1756, and sentenced to be suspended for nine months; but the
King, George II, directed that he should be dismissed the service;
reinstated in his former rank, 10th August 1761; died at Bath 1765.
Served as Brigadier-General at the battle of Preston Pans 1745;
and as a Major-General on the Staff in Flanders in 1748. |