Lieutenant-General John Folliot or Folliott (baptised 25 January 1691 – 26 February 1762) was an officer of the
British Army
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.
Biography
The eldest son of
John Folliott of Ballymacward,
[ Folliot joined the Army as a lieutenant on 1 June 1709.]['']Army List
The ''Army List'' is a list (or more accurately seven series of lists) of serving regular, militia or territorial British Army officers, kept in one form or another, since 1702.
Manuscript lists of army officers were kept from 1702 to 1752, the ...
'' for 1740
p. 64
After serving with reputation in the subordinate commissions,Richard Cannon
Richard Cannon (1779–1865) was a compiler of regimental records for the British Army.
Career
On 1 January 1802 Cannon was appointed to a clerkship at the Horse Guards, and attained the grade of first-clerk in 1803.
Under a Horse Guards order ...
, ''Historical Record of the Eighteenth, or the Royal Irish Regiment of Foot'' (1848
p. 89
[ He was constant in his attention to all the duties of commanding officer of that distinguished corps,][ and on 15 June 1743 was rewarded with the colonelcy of the ]61st Regiment of Foot
The 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot was an infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1756. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 28th (North Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot to form the Gloucestershire Regiment ...
,[W. R. Williams, "An English Army List of 1740" in '']Notes and Queries
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'', 12 ser., vol. III
pp. 190–191
10 March 1917. from which he was removed on 22 December 1747 to the Royal Irish Regiment.[ He was promoted to the rank of major-general on 30 March 1754, and in 1756 was appointed major-general on the Staff in Ireland, at a salary of 30 shillings a day; he would hold this post until his death. On 18 January 1758 Folliot was promoted to lieutenant-general.][ He was ]Governor of Ross Castle
Ross Castle ( ga, Caisleán an Rois) is a 15th-century tower house and keep on the edge of Lough Leane, in Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland. It is the ancestral home of the Chiefs of the Clan O'Donoghue, later associated with th ...
from 1753 until his death.[
Besides his military career, Folliot sat in the ]Irish House of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fra ...
for Longford
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from 1721 to 1727, for Granard
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from 1727 to 1760, and for Sligo
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from 1761 to 1762,[Edith Mary Johnston-Liik, ''History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800'' (2002) vol. IV, pp. 195–6.] when he died at Dublin.
Lieutenant-General Folliot had been left the estates of Lickhill and Mitton in Worcestershire by Rebecca, widow of Arthur Lugg and daughter of John Soley by his wife Anne, sister of the last Lord Folliott, as her nearest relative of the name. On the general's death the estates were inherited by his first cousin John Folliott, MP for Kinsale
Kinsale ( ; ) is a historic port and fishing town in County Cork, Ireland. Located approximately south of Cork City on the southeast coast near the Old Head of Kinsale, it sits at the mouth of the River Bandon, and has a population of 5,281 (a ...
.[H. Sydney Grazebrook, ''The Heraldry of Worcestershire'', vol. I (1873]
p. 212
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1691 births
1762 deaths
British Army lieutenant generals
Carabiniers (6th Dragoon Guards) officers
Royal Irish Regiment (1684–1922) officers
Irish MPs 1715–1727
Irish MPs 1727–1760
Irish MPs 1761–1768
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Longford constituencies
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Sligo constituencies