SIR WILLIAM PAYNE first entered the army, as Cornet in the Royal Dragoons, on the 25th of January, 1776; and, having served in the subordinate commissions, was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment in 1794. He served in the Netherlands under his Royal Highness the Duke of York, and was present at the principal actions during the campaign of 1794. In 1796 he was removed from the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Royal Dragoons to the THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS; in 1798 he was promoted to the rank of Colonel in the army; and, in 1805, he was removed to the Tenth Light Dragoons. He was promoted to the rank of Major-General in the same year, and served four years on the Staff in Ireland. In November, 1807, he obtained the Colonelcy of the Twenty-third Light Dragoons; and, in 1809, he proceeded to Portugal with the local rank of Lieutenant-General, and served the campaign of that year under Sir Arthur Wellesley. He took an active part in the operations by which the French were driven from Oporto; and commanded the British cavalry at the memorable battle of Talavera, fought on the 27th and 28th of July, 1809, for which he received a medal. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General on the 4th of June, 1811; was removed from the Twenty-third to the Nineteenth Light Dragoons in July, 1814, and to the Twelfth Lancers in January, 1815. He was further advanced to the rank of General on the 27th of May, 1825; and, in the following month, he obtained the Colonelcy of the THIRD DRAGOON GUARDS. He subsequently took the name of Galway; and died in April, 1831. SAMUEL HAWKER, G.C.H., _Appointed 22nd April, 1831_. FOOTNOTE: [59] _Vide_ the Historical Record of the Sixth Dragoon Guards. LONDON: Printed by WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, Stamford Street. TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. A superscript is denoted by ^x; for example, und^r (under) or vi^d (six pence). Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained. For example, mean-time, mean time; War Office, War-Office; connexion; gallopped; jesuitical. Pg 5, 'Lievtenant vi^s' replaced by 'Lieutenant vi^s'. Pg 16, the anchor for Footnote [16] was missing, and has been inserted here. Pg 24 Footnote [22], '--' inserted before "_London Gazette_". Pg 27 Footnote [24], '--' inserted before "_Parker's Memoires_". Pg 52, 'ordered so send' replaced by 'ordered to send'. Pg 114, 'of' replaced by 'OF' in 'EARL OF PLYMOUTH' (twice). Pg 117, 'of' replaced by 'OF' in 'FOURTH REGIMENT OF HORSE' (twice). End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Historical Record of the Third or Princes of Wales' Regiment of Dra, by Richard Cannon