Lieutenant-General Francis D'Oyly (c.1750–1803) was a British Army officer. He was a younger son of Thomas D'Oyly. He purchased a lieutenancy on 10 April 1775. He received a commission as captain (regimental rank) and lieutenant colonel (army rank) in the First Regiment of Foot Guards on 27 April 1780 and received command of a company on 9 May. On 22 November 1790, he was promoted to colonel (army rank). D'Oyly was lightly wounded at the

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, and served with the

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in Flanders from 1794 to 1795. He was promoted to major general on 3 October 1794. Promoted from second to first major of the regiment on 3 October 1797, he was then appointed the regimental lieutenant colonel on 11 October. He served as a brigade commander in the 1799 Anglo-Russian expedition to the Netherlands. He became colonel commandant of the 2nd Battalion, 15th Regiment of Foot on 18 November 1799. D'Oyly was promoted to lieutenant general on 1 January 1801. He went on half-pay in 1802, when the 2nd Battalion was disbanded, and was appointed colonel of the

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on 25 February 1803.

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