Brigadier-General John Pocock (died April 1732) was a

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officer and a Colonel of the King's Regiment of Foot.

Life

Pocock obtained a commission in a regiment of foot in June 1695, and having signalised himself in the wars of Queen Anne, he was promoted to the rank of

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in the Army in 1707. In 1710 he succeeded Lord Strathnaver in the colonelcy of a regiment of foot, with which he served in Flanders under

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, and afterwards under the Duke of Ormonde. At the

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his regiment was disbanded, but in 1715 he was commissioned to raise a regiment of foot for the service of King George I. After the suppression of the rebellion of the Earl of Mar, this regiment was sent to Ireland, where it was disbanded in 1718. On 2 December 1720 Pocock was appointed to the colonelcy of the 36th Regiment of Foot, from which he was removed on 21 April 1721 to the 8th, or King's Regiment. On the expectation that Great Britain would become involved in a continental war, in 1727, he was promoted to the rank of

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. He died in April 1732 at his house in

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, London.

References

* ''Historical Record of the Thirty-Sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot'' (1853) pp. 113–114 * ''Historical Record of the King's, Liverpool Regiment of Foot'', ed. A. Cuningham Robertson (1883) p. 266 1732 deaths British Army generals British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession King's Regiment (Liverpool) officers 36th Regiment of Foot officers Year of birth unknown {{British-Army-bio-stub