Lieutenant General Thomas Fowke

1741-1755

Cornet 1704; his father resigned his company to him, and served as an Ensign under his son Captain, in Lepell’s Regiment of Foot, 30^th June 1707; exchanged to Inniskilling Regiment of Foot as Captain, 26^th December 1711; Major, Somerset L.I, 1716; Lieutenant Colonel, 7^th Dragoons, 25^th June 1720; Lieutenant Colonel in Lieutenant-General Kerr’s Regiment (7^th Hussars), 25^th June 1722; raised the 43^rd Foot, as its Colonel, January 1741; Colonel, 2^nd Queen’s. 12^th August 1741; Brigadier-General, 12^th June 1745; Major-General, 10^th September 1747; Lieutenant-General, 30^th April 1754; Colonel, 14^th Foot, 11^th November 1755 to 7^th September 1756; Governor of Gibraltar, 25^th 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, 10^th 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.

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