Historical Record of the Forty-sixth or South Devonshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1741 and of Its Subsequent Services to 1851Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Forty-sixth or South Devonshire Regiment of Foot: Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1741 and of Its Subsequent Services to 1851
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 46th (South Devonshire)
of October, 1793, Sir William Howe was promoted to the rank of
general. In 1799, he succeeded to the Irish peerage held by his
brother Richard Earl Howe, the celebrated Admiral; and in 1805 he
was appointed Governor of Plymouth. General William Viscount Howe
died on the 12th of July, 1814, in the eighty-fifth year of his age.
THE HONORABLE SIR JOHN VAUGHAN, K.B.
_Appointed 11th May, 1775._
LIEUT.-COLONEL Commandant the Honorable John Vaughan, who
distinguished himself at the capture of Martinique in February,
1762, was appointed from the ninety-fourth, Royal Welsh Volunteers
(since disbanded) to be lieut.-colonel of the FORTY-SIXTH regiment
on the 25th of November, 1762, in succession to Lieut.-Colonel
John Young, who retired. Lieut.-Colonel the Honorable John Vaughan
was promoted to the rank of colonel in the army on the 25th of
May, 1772, and His Majesty King George III. appointed him to the
colonelcy of the FORTY-SIXTH regiment on the 11th of May, 1775,
upon Major-General the Honorable Sir William Howe, K.B., being
removed to the twenty-third, Royal Welsh Fusiliers. Colonel Vaughan
embarked with his regiment for North America in the beginning of
the year 1776, and, for his services during the American war, was
promoted to the rank of major-general on the 29th of August, 1777,
and was advanced to that of lieut.-general on the 20th of November,
1782. In 1792 His Majesty conferred upon him the dignity of a
Knight of the Order of the Bath. Lieut.-General the Honorable Sir
John Vaughan died on the 30th of June, 1795, at which period he was
Commander in Chief of the troops stationed in the Leeward Islands.
SIR JAMES HENRY CRAIG, K.B.
_Appointed 1st August, 1795._
JAMES HENRY CRAIG was appointed ensign in the thirtieth foot, in
1763, and served with his regiment at Gibraltar: in 1771 he was
promoted to captain in the forty-seventh regiment, with which
corps he served several campaigns in America; and in 1777 he was
promoted to the majority, and in 1781 to the lieut.-colonelcy, of
the eighty-second regiment, from which he was removed, in 1783, to
the sixteenth. He was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1790, and
to that of major-general in 1794; in August, 1795, he was nominated
to the colonelcy of the FORTY-SIXTH regiment; he was advanced to
the rank of lieut.-general in 1801, and removed to the eighty-sixth
in 1804. He commanded an expedition to the Mediterranean, in
1805, with the local rank of general, and the dignity of a Knight
of the Bath; the troops under his orders landed at Naples, and
subsequently took possession of the island of Sicily. In 1806
he was removed to the twenty-second regiment; and in 1807 he was
appointed Governor of Upper and Lower Canada, with the local rank
of General in America; in 1809 he was removed to the seventy-eighth
Highlanders. He was also appointed Governor of Blackness Castle. He
died on the 12th of January, 1812.
JOHN WHYTE.
_Appointed 5th January, 1804._
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