Royal commissions and military appointments in 1790s Britain
The London Gazette item lists numerous militia and army commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant and royal authority. Notable entries include captains, lieutenants, and cornet appointments across Nottinghamshire and Suffolk Militia, Eastern and Western regiments, and Ireland's Royal Artillery and Dragoons. Several officers resignations and exchanges accompany dated approvals from 1789 to 1799.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nottinghamshire
J. Porter Bond
J. Parkyns
J. Sampson
Thomas Hand
Suffolk Militia
Western Regiment
John Sheppard
Charles Stitted
Eastern Regiment
Roger Pettiward
Daniel Dulany
Ireland
Royal Lith Regiment of Artillery
John Daniel Arabin
Nash
Ditto
Arthur Tyrell
Frederick
George Green
Anthony Harvest Traacton
Amery
Richard Thomas Nugent
John Hardy
Welden
Thomas Bury
Ensigs
G6th Regiment of Foot
Edmund Reynell
Irth Haltoy
Rua Foort
Duigany
Francis Krysett Leighton
Gubbins
Regiment of Foot
James Molloy
Forster
Four Tiverton residents linked by complex family ties
In Tiverton on April 28, four people remain alive, two men and two women. The youngest man has children, and the eldest man is his uncle and grandfather as well as brother-in-law and father to the young man. The eldest woman is the sister-in-law, mother-in-law, and sister to the youngest woman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Exeter
Tiverton
Wind and shipping news from May 3 patrols and arrivals
In Downes and Gravesend reports two indiamen cargoes sailed and failed in the wind toward Cork Dublin and Ancona. Royal George and Aftrea remained with cutters and scows as the fleets patrolled. Carlisle from Jamaica, Helen from Virginia, Sterling from Kinsale, Prince Frederick from Norway, and Johannes from Hamburgh arrived at Gravesend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deal
Wind N. E
Warren Hastings
Hawke
Lords and Cabinet Actions and News from Windsor and London
A broad sweep of 18th century items: court adjournment and ongoing royal council actions at Buckingham Palace and Whitehall with details of ministers and envoys. A horse race near Newmarket claims a near 200,000 pound betting stakes as Traveller defeats Meteor by about nine yards. Mont Bailli of Paris discussed Indian astronomy before turning to constitutional aims. A Chichester man of war heading to Botany Bay and a whig club meeting at Crown and Anchor with new members. Mariners report two ships in distress or damaged and two assault incidents with a brutal broom-wielding wife case and a stabbing threat in Aldermanbury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buckingham House
Duke of Leeds
Whitehall
Lord Privy Seal
Exchequer
the Ordnance
Lord
Admiralty
Lord Hawkesbury
H. Dundas
Lord R. Fitzgerald
Paris
Robert Murray Keith
Vienna
Carleton House
Newmarket
Prince of Wales
Earl Grosvenor
Mont. Bailli
Chichester
West Indies
Botany Bay
Whig Club
Crown and Anchor
Duke of Portland
William, Bruce
Nova Scotia
Leghorn
Lisbon
Carolus
Bruhns
St. Ube’s
Stockholm
Cork
Tothillfields Bridewell
Paiba
Aldermanbury
Marriages and bankrupts listed in local notices
Friday notices record marriages of George Thel luffon to Mary Anne Pothertau and Henry Bofatquet to Caroline Anstey at Bath and Trumpington. Deaths include Mr Isaac Strong, and multiple bankruptcy diversions show surrender dates and venues across Nottingham Liverpool Llanidloes London and Birmingham with final dividends and certificates to be granted at Guildhall and related inns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Thelluffon
Mary Anne Pothertau
Philip Fonnereau
Bath
Henry Bofatquet
Lincoln’s Inn
Caroline Anstey
Christopher Anstey
Trumpington
Cambridgeshire
Isaac Strong
Peterborough
William Hopkinson
George Smith
Nottingham
Ateleven
Blackshoor's Head
Cutis
John’ Henry Todd
Andover
James Hore
Inner ‘Temple
Richard Watts
Lendinam
Montgomeryshire
Lion Inn
Llanidloes
Attornies
Maddock and Bigg
Carey-street
London
Thomas Edmund Mart
Westminder
Benjamin Parker
Snow-hill
Birmingham
Robert Parker
Liverpool
Wancashires Grocery
Globe Tavern
John-street
Wilam Crawford
Holborn
St. Giles
Guildhall
George Oriel
Prince’s Street
St. Mary
Rotherhithe
Surry
Taylor
John Piggott
Cumberland Street
St. Leonard
Shoreditch
Middlesex
Dealer
Chapman
Ifaac Lightfoot
Wigton
Cumberland
Southwark
Lucry
Edward Yates
Abingdon
Berks
Samuel Joseph
Great George Street
Minories
Henry Rider
High Holborn
Staffordshire
Kingston Upon Hull
White-hart Tayzin
Kingston Upon Bull
John Dinsdale
Afkrigg
Yorkshire
Richard Deighton
Leyburn
York
Thire
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The
London Gazette
Sudermania
Carlferona
Sweden
St. Michael
Rufian Finland
Hip-News
Lord Dover
Buckingham-house
Blackheath
Royal Regiment of Oxford Blues
Conway
Queen’s House
Spencer
Continent
Polhill
Guardian
Riou
Mr. Pitt
Trat
Warrun Hasrines
Esa
Guengo Gavin Sing
Young
Hastings
David Anderson
General Committee of Revenue
James Smith
Serle-street
Lincoln's-inn-fields
Thomas Hayward
Chelmsford
Essex
West-Riding
Yorkkshire
Melfi Allen
Furnival's Inn
County of
Lincoln
Lowndes
Redlion-square
Windsor
Fleet Street
Jones
Middle-Teimple Langs
Betwen
Midland
Norfolk
A. B. Posta
Northampton
Isis
Rellony
Middigditeh
Hanbury
Thardadnes le-Sreety
Lee
Hereford
Ben. Rooke
Tory and
T Richardson's
Ox Ford Street
Soho-Square
N. B
Shidles, Harnefe,&c
Barbadoes
Island of
Carrie
Lyon
Gray’s Inn
Sik
Goow
Les
Free Grammar School of
Bolton
Moors
Lancaster
Thomas Morg
Betton
John Ridgway
Belton
Robert Metham
Chedofide
Fortes Lane
Q.der
A. B
Lott Smingne
Wickliffe
Pee Ees
R. Wil ‘Kinson
Cornhill
Great Qssery Street
Lincoln’s-laa-field
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