Beckwith, Sir George (1752/3–1823), army officer and colonial governor, was the second son of John Beckwith (fl. 1733–1772) and his wife, probably the Janet Wishart who married Captain John Beckwith in Edinburgh on 10 June 1750. The elder Beckwith was an officer in the ...
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Lord William Henry Cavendish- Bentinck (1774–1839) by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1804 private collection
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Douglas M. Peers
Bentinck, Lord William Henry Cavendish- [known as Lord William Bentinck] (1774–1839), army officer, diplomatist, and governor-general of India, was born on 14 September 1774 at Burlington House in London, the second son of William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-Bentinck, third duke of Portland (1738–1809)...
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H. M. Stephens
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Bourke, Sir Richard (1777–1855), army officer and colonial governor, was born on 4 May 1777 in Britain Street, Dublin, the only son of John Bourke of Dromsally, co. Limerick, and his wife, Anne, daughter of Edmund Ryan of Boscable, co. Tipperary. He was educated at ...
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E. M. Lloyd
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Browne, Sir Thomas Gore (1807–1887), army officer and colonial governor, was born on 3 July 1807 at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, the son of Robert Browne of Morton House, near Buckingham, a colonel of the Buckinghamshire militia, and his wife, Sarah Dorothea, the second daughter of ...
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Sir Robert Brownrigg, first baronet (1759–1833) by Sir Thomas Lawrence, c. 1809 courtesy of the Director, National Army Museum, London
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Geoffrey S. Powell
Brownrigg, Sir Robert, first baronet (1759–1833), army officer and colonial governor, was born at Rockingham, co. Wicklow, Ireland, the second of the four sons of Henry Brownrigg (d. 1793) and his wife, Mary Alcock (d. 1819). Gazetted as ensign in 1775, his progress in the army was at first slow, his family lacking both wealth and influence. However, on 8 April 1789 ...
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Troy O. Bickham
Calvert [formerly Lazenby Calvert], Charles (c. 1688–1734), army officer and colonial governor, may have been the illegitimate son of Charles Calvert, third Baron Baltimore (1637–1715), proprietor of Maryland. The reasons for his former name Lazenby are uncertain, but most likely it indicates a connection with the ...
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Bede Clifford
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Cambridge, Alexander Augustus Frederick William Alfred George, earl of Athlone [formerly Prince Alexander of Teck] (1874–1957), army officer and governor-general of South Africa, was born at Kensington Palace on 14 April 1874, the third son of Princess Mary Adelaide Wilhelmina Elizabeth (1833–1897)...
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Campbell, Sir Archibald (1739–1791), army officer and colonial governor, was born on 21 August 1739 and baptized on 25 August at Inveraray, Argyll, the second son of James Campbell (1706–1760), commissary of the western isles of Scotland and chamberlain to the duke of Argyll...
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H. M. Stephens
revised by Stewart M. Fraser
Campbell, Sir Colin (1776–1847), army officer and colonial governor, was the fifth son of John Campbell of Melfort, and his wife, Colina, daughter of John Campbell of Auchalader, Perthshire. From boyhood he showed a daring disposition, and in 1792, at the age of sixteen, ran away from ...
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H. M. Stephens
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Campbell, Sir James (1773
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H. M. Stephens
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Campbell, Sir Neil (1776–1827), army officer and colonial governor, second son of Captain Neil Campbell of Duntroon, was born on 1 May 1776. He was commissioned ensign in the 6th West India regiment on 2 April 1797, and exchanged into the 67th regiment...
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Guy Carleton, first Baron Dorchester (1724–1808) by unknown artist, c. 1780 private collection
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Carleton, Guy, first Baron Dorchester (1724–1808), army officer and colonial governor, was born on 3 September 1724 at Strabane, the third son of Christopher Carleton of Newry, co. Down, and his wife, Catherine, daughter of Henry Ball of co. Donegal. Upon the death of his father, after ...
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Carleton, Thomas (c. 1735–1817), army officer and colonial governor, was born in Ireland, the youngest son of Christopher Carleton of Newry, co. Down, and Catherine, daughter of Henry Ball of co. Donegal. He was the brother of Guy Carleton, first Baron Dorchester (1724–1808)...
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Carter, Sir Charles Bonham- (1876–1955), colonial governor and army officer, was born on 25 February 1876 at 91 Gloucester Terrace, Kensington, London, the ninth son of Henry Bonham Carter (1827–1921), barrister and company director, and his wife, Sibella Charlotte (1836/7–1916), daughter of George Warde Norman (1793–1882)...
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Chancellor, Sir John Robert (1870–1952), army officer and colonial governor, was born in Edinburgh on 20 October 1870, the second son of Edward Chancellor (1828–1907), writer to the signet, and his wife, Anne Helen (d. 1932), daughter of John Robert Todd, also a writer to the ...
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Robin F. A. Fabel
Chester, Peter (1717/18–1799), army officer and colonial governor, details of whose parents and upbringing are unknown, married Jane, née Corcoran (d. 1800), in Dublin in 1754. Commissioned in 1740, he served in first the 61st, and then the 76th, foot, taking part in the successful sieges of ...
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Alastair W. Massie
Clarke, Sir Alured (1744–1832), army officer and colonial governor, was born on 24 November 1744, the sixth of the nine children of Charles Clarke (c. 1702–1750), a judge, and his second wife, Jane (d. 1761), the daughter of Major Mullins of Winchester...
