The History of the 2nd Dragoons: "Royal Scots Greys"Almack, Edward
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The History of the 2nd Dragoons: "Royal Scots Greys"
Almack, Edward
Great Britain. Army. Dragoons, 2nd (Royal Scots Greys)
7 November, 1685, appointed Cornet of John Wedderburne's troop. 23
August, 1688, commission to be Lieutenant of Lieutenant-Colonel
George Rattray's own troop.
JOHN MURRAY.
Cornet 1688.
[Illustration:
+H.I.M. the Emperor of Russia+,
+COLONEL-IN-CHIEF OF THE SCOTS GREYS+.]
WILLIAM MURRAY.
Lieutenant, April 1, 1692, to 21 March, 1693. Captain-Lieutenant
22 March, 1692, to ye last, December, 1693. Captain, 1 January,
1693-4, to 12 March, 1697-8.
WILLIAM NAPIER.
Cornet, 2 February, 1746-7. Lieutenant, 21 June, 1749;
Captain-Lieutenant, 25 December, 1755. Captain, 9 March, 1757. "23
February, 1760, Captain the Honourable William Napier, with the
regiment in Germany." Promoted Major and Captain, 14 November,
1770. From the muster ending 24 December, 1772, David Home appears
as a Major, and Napier (then Lord Napier) also is entered.
Resigned, 3 November, 1774.
MICHAEL NELSON.
Quartermaster from Ensign, 45th Foot, 25 December, 1835. Retired on
half-pay, 16 August, 1850.
JAMES NESBIT.
Chirurgeon, 1702, to 31 May, 1715.
HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY NICHOLAS II.
Emperor of Russia, K.G. Colonel-in-Chief, 8 December, 1894.
CLEMENT OCTAVIUS NICHOLSON.
Second Lieutenant, 26th March, 1902.
DAVID NICHOLSON.
Cornet, 1 May, 1794. Lieutenant, 27 May, 1795. Appointed Captain,
28th (or 20th) Light Dragoons, 5 March, 1796.
SIR JOHN NISBET.
Appointed Cornet in Major Douglas's troop, 3 March, 1764. Promoted
Lieutenant in Captain Law's troop, 12 January, 1770. Resigned, 22
February, 1775.
JOHN NISBET.
Cornet. Lieutenant, 3 November, 1774, in Captain Ramsay's
troop. 22 May, 1776, transferred to Captain Heron's troop.
Captain-Lieutenant, 3 March, 1780.
CHARLES NORMAN.
Cornet by purchase, 12 February, 1824. Lieutenant by purchase, 12
December, 1826. Exchanged to half-pay, West Indian Regiment, 10
July, 1828.
THE HONOURABLE FRANCIS NORTH.
Fourth Earl of Guilford, born 25 December, 1761. Succeeded to the
Earldom, 20 April, 1802. Died at Pisa on 11 January, 1817. He
was a patron of the stage, and author of a dramatic piece, "The
Kentish Baron," produced with success at the Haymarket in June,
1791. Cornet in Captain Ramsay's troop, 24 December, 1777. Promoted
Lieutenant in 2nd Dragoon Guards, May, 1779. Lieutenant-Colonel in
1794.
ANDREW NUGENT.
Cornet by purchase, 17 December, 1852. Lieutenant without purchase,
8 December, 1854. Captain by purchase, 8 February, 1856. Major
without purchase, 31 March, 1866. Lieutenant-Colonel by purchase, 3
February, 1869. Colonel in the Army, 3 February, 1867. To half-pay,
21 June, 1880.
ANDREW NUGENT.
(Hon. Lieutenant-General, retired list.) Crimean campaign, 1854-5.
Battles of Balaklava, Inkerman, and Tchernaya, siege and fall of
Sevastopol. Medal with 3 clasps; Turkish medal.
EDWARD O'BRIEN.
Cornet, 2 May, 1816.
HORACE STAFFORD O'BRIEN.
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