| { In and about Head-quarters | | | | | | 1| | | | 1| | 4| 7| | { Wanting to complete | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1| | |---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+ | Total | | | 1| | 1| 1| | 1| 2| 3| 1| 43| 53| | +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+ |Joined lately from West Indies, and not } | | | | | | | | 4| 1| 2| 1| 11| 19| | included in any of above numbers } | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +---------------------------------------------+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+-----+-----+ A change was also made in the Paymasters of the Regiment. It will be remembered that Mr. Cox had been appointed Paymaster to the Artillery in 1759. He was [Sidenote: Cleaveland’s MSS.] succeeded in 1783 by Mr. Adair, who was followed by Messrs. Meyrick. On the 1st July, 1797, the Paymastership [Sidenote: Letters from D. A. G.] was resumed by Messrs. Cox and Greenwood, and continued in that house (subsequently Messrs. Cox and Co.) until [Sidenote: Confirmed by J. C. Woollacott, Esq.] abolished on the 30th September, 1858, since which date they have been agents to the Corps. In 1797 the first Regimental School was established at Woolwich for soldiers’ children. On the 13th August, Captain--afterwards Sir William--Robe recommended its [Sidenote: MS. by Sir W. Robe, in R. A. Record Office.] formation; and was strongly supported by the Commandant, General Lloyd. A building, then unfinished, and now part of the Horse Artillery Square in Woolwich Barracks, was procured for the purpose; the Duchess of York subscribed 20 guineas for the purchase of books, and this was followed by subscriptions from all the officers at Head-quarters. A sergeant, named Dougherty, was appointed Schoolmaster; and the success of the institution was so great as to induce the Board of Ordnance to undertake its management and support. The first pupil was a difficult, but very creditable subject. He was the son of a gunner in the Invalid Battalion, who lost both his arms when firing the evening gun at an out-station for his father. So remarkable was his progress at school, that it attracted the attention of the military authorities; and this, taken in conjunction with the way in which he had received his injury, obtained for him from the Board a pension for life as a drummer,--although he had never been enlisted as such.