Stephen Payne Adye (ca. 1740 – 1794) was an English brevet-major of the

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Life

He entered the Royal Military Academy,

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, as a cadet, in 1757, and was appointed as second-lieutenant in the royal artillery in 1762. He served some time as brigade-major of artillery in North America, where he prepared his well-known book on courts-martial, entitled ''Treatise on Courts-Martial, to which is added an Essay on Military Punishments and Rewards.'' rinted at New York, and reprinted in London, 1769.The book went through several subsequent editions, the second appearing in London in 1778, and was modified by later editors. He was a member of the

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, elected in 1772. Major Adye died in command of a company of invalid artillery, in Jersey, in 1794.

Family

Of three sons in the regiment, the eldest, Captain Ralph Willett Adye, who died in 1808, was author of the ''Pocket Gunner'', a standard work of reference, which first appeared in 1798, and passed through many editions; the second, Major-General

Stephen Galway Adye Stephen Galway Adye CB (1772 – 13 September 1838) was a British Army officer who fought at the Battle of Waterloo. Career The second son of Stephen Payne Adye, he was appointed first lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 1January 1794. Promo ...

, served in the Iberian Peninsula and at the

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, and died Chief Firemaster of the

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in 1838; the third, Major James Pattison Adye, died in 1831.

References

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