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Governor Of Duncannon Fort
The Governor of Duncannon Fort was a military officer who commanded the garrison at Duncannon in County Wexford. In later years the post became a sinecure and was abolished on the death of the last holder in 1835. List of governors * Sir Cary Reynolds * Sir John Brockett * Sir John Dowdall * 1604–1606: Sir Josias Bodley * 1606–1646: Laurence Esmonde, 1st Baron Esmonde * Thomas Roche * 1649–1650: Edward Wogan * 1650–1654: Maj. Overstreet * 1654–1659: Capt. Betts (Bates) * 1659–: Col. Simon Rugeley * 1690–1698: Sir James Jefferyes * 1698–1711: Toby Purcell * 1711–1728: Robert Stearne * 1728–1735: Philip Honywood * 1735–1740: Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart * 1741–1751: Gervais Parker * 1751–1767: John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes * 1768–1782: Lord Robert Bertie * 1782–1795: James Johnston * 1795–1802: Sir Robert Sloper * 1802–1814: Ralph Dundas * 1814–1835: Sir John Hamilton See also * Siege of Duncannon References {{UK-mil-st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duncannon Fort - Geograph
Duncannon () is a village in southwest County Wexford, Ireland. Bordered to the west by Waterford harbour and sitting on a rocky headland jutting into the channel is the strategically prominent Duncannon Fort which dominates the village. Primarily a fishing village, Duncannon also relies heavily on tourism and is situated on the clearly signposted and very scenic ''Ring of Hook'' drive. Duncannon beach, a mile long golden beach, was once a blue flag recipient. Duncannon Fort, which was built in 1588, incorporates a maritime museum, Cockleshell Arts Gallery, Officer's Mess Café and Craft shop and various other Art and Craft outlets and is open daily to visitors seven days from June to September. During the off season guided tours are available from Monday to Friday. Duncannon Fort was the location for the opening scenes of the 2002 remake of 'The Count of Monte Cristo', starring Jim Caviezel and Richard Harris. After being closed for some time, Duncannon Fort reopened to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gervais Parker
General Gervais Parker (also spelt Gervase; 1695 – 19 June 1750) was a British Army officer. For the final decade of his life, he served as Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Irish Army during the reign of George II. He was the elder surviving son of the Jacobite Colonel John Parker by his first wife Johanna Rouse. His younger brother, Rear-Admiral Christopher Parker, was the father of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet. The family went into exile in France following Colonel Parker's service at the Battle of the Boyne, but Gervais escaped from his father and joined the English army.Paul HopkinsParker, John (b. c.1651, d. in or after 1719)in ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004). Parker was commissioned an ensign in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards on 27 December 1690,Charles Dalton, ''English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661–1714''volume III(1896) p. 137-138, note 16. and his early career was assisted by his Williamite relatives. He was made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Military Appointments
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * Briton (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
History Of County Wexford
County Wexford ( ga, Contae Loch Garman) is a county located in the south-east of Republic of Ireland, in the province of Leinster. It takes its name from the principal town, Wexford, named 'Waesfjord' by the Vikings – meaning 'inlet (fjord) of the mud-flats' in the Old Norse language. In pre-Norman times it was part of the Kingdom of Uí Cheinnselaig, with its capital at Ferns. The county was formed in Norman times. It was created in 1210 by King John during his visit to Ireland. Pre-history Evidence of early human habitation of County Wexford is widespread. Ireland was inhabited sometime shortly after the ending of the last Ice Age, approximately 10,000 – 8000 BC Conservative estimates place the arrival of the first humans in County Wexford as occurring between 5000 BC – 3000 BC, referred to as the Mesolithic period in Ireland,''Wexford: History and Society"'', pp 3 – 4. though they may have arrived slightly earlier. Its proximity to Britain and Europe means that C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siege Of Duncannon
The siege of Duncannon took place in 1645, during the Irish Confederate Wars. An Irish Catholic Confederate army under Thomas Preston besieged and successfully took the town of Duncannon in County Wexford from an English Parliamentarian garrison. The siege was the first conflict in Ireland in which mortars were utilized. Background At the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion of 1641, most of south-eastern Ireland fell to the Catholic insurgents. Roughly 1,000 rebels blockaded Duncannon, which was heavily fortified and contained an English garrison of about 300 men. Around 150 of the English troops were killed in forays against the Irish at nearby Redmond's Hall, but without siege artillery, or expertise in siege warfare, the rebels were unable to take Duncannon. Hostilities continued throughout 1642, as the Irish, now organised as the Irish Confederacy raided the town's hinterland. As in much of Ireland, the conflict was bitter. In one incident, Laurence Esmonde, Lord Esmo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir John Hamilton, 1st Baronet, Of Woodbrook
Lieutenant-General Sir John James Hamilton, 1st Baronet (4 August 1755 – 24 December 1835) was a British officer of the Honourable East India Company, the British Army and during the Napoleonic Wars the Portuguese Army who saw action across the world from India to the West Indies and was honoured for his service by both the British and Portuguese royal families. Of noble Irish descent, related by birth to the first Earl Castle Stewart and by marriage to the Earl of Tyrone, Hamilton's extensive career and brave service was widely recognised during his life and after his death. Early career John Hamilton was born in Woodbrook near Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland to James and Elinor Hamilton in 1755. His mother was the niece of the Earl Castle Stewart and through family connections young Hamilton was able to secure a commission in the army of the Honourable East India Company aged only 16 in 1771. Taking a Bengal cadetship and joining the Bengal Light Infantry in 1772, Hamilton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Dundas
General Ralph Dundas (1730 – 7 February 1814) was a Scottish officer of the British Army. Early life Ralph Dundas was the son of John Dundas of Manour (1701–1780) and Anne Murray, daughter of John Murray of Polmaise. In 1730 his father bought the Airthrey estate and built Airthrey House there in 1747. They sold the house in 1759 to the Haldane family (who rebuilt it as Airthrey Castle). Military career He was appointed cornet in the 4th Regiment of Dragoons in 1755, and in February 1762 he obtained the command of a troop in the 11th Regiment of Dragoons, then serving in Germany under Prince Ferdinand of Brunswick. His regiment returned to England in the following year; in 1770 he was appointed to the majority, and in 1775 to the lieutenant-colonelcy of that distinguished corps. His zealous attention to all his duties, as commanding officer of the 11th Dragoons, was rewarded in 1781 with the rank of colonel; in 1790, with that of major-general; He was sent by Horse Guar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Sloper
General Sir Robert Sloper KB (8 May 1729 – 18 August 1802) was Commander-in-Chief, India. Military career Educated privately at Bishops Cannings in Wiltshire, Sloper was commissioned into the 10th Dragoons being promoted to major in 1755. He was appointed commanding officer of 1st King's Dragoon Guards in 1759 and subsequently saw service in Flanders and Germany. He was appointed Governor of Hurst Castle in 1767. In 1778 he was deployed to Ireland and from 1779 he was sent to India seeing service in the Second Anglo-Mysore War as well as the Third Anglo-Mysore War. In 1785 he became Acting Commander-in-Chief in Madras and from July 1785 he was appointed Commander-in-Chief, India. In May 1788 he was invested KB and appointed Governor of Duncannon Fort in 1795. He was promoted to full general in 1796. He lived at West Woodhay House at West Woodhay in Berkshire and is buried at St. Martin's Church in East Woodhay in Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Johnston (died 1795)
James Johnston (21 May 1721 – 26 November 1795) was a general of the British Army, colonel of the Royal Horse Guards (the Blues) then colonel of the Scots Greys where he succeeded his sister's husband, George Preston. Early life Johnston was the only surviving son of James Johnston (1655–1737) and his wife, Lucy (née Claxton) Johnston.Johnston was often confused with another army officer of the same name and much the same age, James "Irish" Johnston whose father, George Johnston, was a third cousin of James, sharing descent from Archibald Johnston (died 1619) and his wife Rachel Arnot. His father's first wife was Catharine Poulett (a daughter of John Poulett, 2nd Baron Poulett). His sister, Lucy Johnston, was the wife of George Preston. His father was the fourth and second surviving son of Archibald Johnston, Lord Warriston, and his second wife Helen Hay (a daughter of Alexander Hay, Lord Fosterseat). His maternal grandfather was Thomas Claxton of Dublin. Among his mate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Robert Bertie
General Lord Robert Bertie (14 November 1721 – 10 March 1782) was a senior British Army officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1751 to 1782. Early life Bertie was the fifth son of Robert Bertie, 1st Duke of Ancaster and the third son by the Duke's second wife Albinia Farrington and was educated at Eton College in 1728. In 1745 he inherited his mother's estate at Chislehurst.Paula WatsonBERTIE, Lord Robert (1721-82), of Chislehurst, Kent.in ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754'' (1970). Online version Retrieved 25 August 2012. Military career Bertie joined the Coldstream Guards as an ensign in 1737, and was promoted to lieutenant in 1741 and captain in 1744. He was granted brevet rank as colonel in 1752, major-general in 1758, lieutenant-general in 1760 and general in 1777. He was Regimental Colonel of the 7th Regiment of Foot from 1754 to 1776, and of the 2nd Troop of Horse Guards from 1776 to 1782. Bertie also commanded a regiment o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Leslie, 10th Earl Of Rothes
General John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes KT (169810 December 1767) was a senior British Army officer who became Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Irish Army between 1758 and 1767. Military career Born the eldest son of John Hamilton-Leslie, 9th Earl of Rothes and Lady Jean Hay, daughter of John Hay, 2nd Marquess of Tweeddale, Leslie was commissioned into the 9th Regiment of Dragoons in 1715.John Leslie, 10th Earl of Rothes Oxford Dictionary of National Biography In 1717 he transferred to the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards. He became of the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gentleman's Magazine
''The Gentleman's Magazine'' was a monthly magazine founded in London, England, by Edward Cave in January 1731. It ran uninterrupted for almost 200 years, until 1922. It was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (from the French ''magazine'', meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Samuel Johnson's first regular employment as a writer was with ''The Gentleman's Magazine''. History The original complete title was ''The Gentleman's Magazine: or, Trader's monthly intelligencer''. Cave's innovation was to create a monthly digest of news and commentary on any topic the educated public might be interested in, from commodity prices to Latin poetry. It carried original content from a stable of regular contributors, as well as extensive quotations and extracts from other periodicals and books. Cave, who edited ''The Gentleman's Magazine'' under the pen name "Sylvanus Urban", was the first to use the term ''magazine'' (meaning "storehouse") for a periodical. Contributions to the magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
