Historical Record of the Nineteenth, or the First Yorkshire North Riding Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Nineteenth, or the First Yorkshire North Riding Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Green Howards
to the 6th of October. On returning to England he was appointed to
the command of the southern district, in which he continued until
the peace in 1802. He was advanced to the rank of General in 1803;
appointed Lieut.-Governor of the Royal Hospital at Chelsea in 1806;
and removed to the sixty-second regiment in 1810. He was one of
the earliest servants placed by King George III. on the household
establishment of the Prince of Wales, and was many years his Royal
Highness's treasurer and receiver-general; on the accession of the
Prince to the throne, General Hulse was nominated treasurer of the
household. On the 19th of February, 1820, on the decease of General
the Right Honorable Sir David Dundas, he was appointed Governor of
Chelsea Hospital. In 1821 he was Knighted. He was also appointed
ranger of Windsor home park; a privy councillor; and Knight Grand
Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. On the accession of
King William III., General Sir Samuel Hulse, G.C.H., was promoted to
the rank of Field-Marshal. He died in 1837, at the advanced age of
ninety years.
SIR HEW DALRYMPLE, BART.
_Appointed 25th June, 1810._
SIR HEW DALRYMPLE was appointed Ensign in the thirty-first regiment
in 1763; Captain in the second battalion of the Royals in 1768,
Major in the same corps in 1777, and was Knighted in 1779. He was
promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the sixty-eighth regiment in
1781, and obtained the rank of Colonel in 1790; he afterwards
exchanged into the First foot guards. He served the campaign of
1793 in the grenadier battalion of the foot guards, and was at the
battle of Famars, at the siege of Valenciennes, and in the action
before Dunkirk. At the conclusion of the campaign he returned to
England; and was promoted to the rank of Major-General in 1794; in
1795 he was placed on the staff of the northern district; and in 1796
appointed Lieut.-Governor of Guernsey, where he held the local rank
of Lieut.-General from 1799. In 1801 he was promoted to the rank of
Lieut.-General, and was placed on the staff in the command of the
northern district in 1802; in 1806 he was removed to the staff of
Gibraltar. Receiving orders to take the command of the British army
in Portugal, in 1808, he arrived in that kingdom in time to become
responsible for the Convention of Cintra, by which treaty the French
army evacuated that country. Sir Hew Dalrymple was promoted to the
rank of General in 1812; and was advanced to the dignity of a BARONET
in 1815. He obtained the colonelcy of the thirty-seventh regiment in
1798, was removed to the NINETEENTH in 1810, and to the fifty-seventh
in 1811. He died in 1830.
SIR TOMKYNS HILGROVE TURNER.
_Appointed 27th April, 1811._
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