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)
Cornet by purchase, 7 April, 1843. Lieutenant by purchase, 16 May,
1845. Captain by purchase, 27 August, 1852. Retired, 11 November,
1853.
CHARLES SCOTT.
Cornet in Muster, ending 24 June, 1760. Resigned, 1762.
CAROLUS FREDERICK SCOTT.
Cornet, 24 December, 1726. Made Captain in "Guize's," and succeeded
by Alexander Hepburn, 18 September, 1741.
FREDERICK W. A. SCOTT.
2nd Lieutenant, 2 July, 1892. Lieutenant, 24 January, 1894.
GEORGE THOMAS SCOTT.
Cornet by purchase, 30 March, 1866. Lieutenant by purchase, 9
October, 1869. Captain, 30 June, 1875. Retired, 24 February, 1877.
JAMES SCOTT.
Adjutant, 11 May, 1705. Lieutenant, 24 February, 1707-8.
[Illustration: +Colonel H. J. Scobell.+]
ROBERT SCOTT.
Adjutant, 1702. do., 31 May, 1715. Captain-Lieutenant, 7 June, 1720.
SAMUEL SEGGIE.
Cornet, from Sergeant-Major, without purchase, 19 February, 1855.
Lieutenant, by augmentation, without purchase, 17 November, 1857.
Exchanged to the 1st Foot, 29 March, 1861.
HENRY SELWYN.
16 September, 1705, Ensign in the Guards. 10 October, 1710, Captain
of Foot. 31 May, 1715, Captain in the Greys.
ALEXANDER SETON, VISCOUNT KINGSTOUN.
Born about 1621, 3rd son of George, 3rd Earl of Winton. On the
visit of Charles the First to Seton Palace in 1633, he as a boy
of twelve, welcomed Charles in a formal Latin oration. In 1636 he
went to study at La Flèche, in France, and afterwards made a tour
in France, Italy, and Spain. In 1640 he came back to Scotland, but
to avoid taking the covenant, he went to Holland in 1643. Venturing
to return, and still declining to subscribe, he was excommunicated
in Tranent Church, 8 October, 1644. He went to France and was
for some while in attendance on the young Prince Charles. After
the Coronation of Charles II. at Scone, he was created Viscount
Kingston and Lord Craigiehall. He died, 21 October, 1691.
ARCHIBALD GEORGE SEYMOUR.
Born, 21 September, 1875. 2nd Lieutenant, 25 March, 1896.
WILLIAM R. SHAPTER.
Surgeon, 9 July, 1788. Appointed Apothecary to the General
Hospital, 8 April, 1794.
JOHN WINGFIELD SHAWE.
Cornet by purchase, 10 October, 1816. Lieutenant by purchase, 16
March, 1820. Exchanged, 27 July, 1820, to half-pay, 18th Light
Dragoons.
EDWARD R. C. SHELDON.
Cornet, 14 February, 1805.
SAMUEL SHULDHAM.
Cornet by purchase, 19 January, 1815. Killed at Waterloo.
JAMES SHUTTLEWORTH.
Cornet, 1800, in the Lieutenant-Colonel's troop.
CHARLES DE LAET WALDO SIBTHORPE.
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