CROMWELL ROAD.
1. SCOTT, Lieut.-Gen. John, C.B.
Ent. the army as a cornet, in 1815; app. Col. of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 1859; promoted to his present rank, 1860. Was present with the French army, under Marshal Gerard, at the siege of Antwerp, in Dec. 1832; and, by permission of the Marshal, accompanied the troops upon every occasion during the siege. In Oct. 1838, was appointed to the command of the cavalry of the Bombay division of the army of the Indus, as Brigadier; served in that rank during the campaigns of 1838–39, in Scinde and Affghanistan, and was present at the attack and capture of Ghuznee. During the latter part of 1839, commanded a detached column, consisting of the whole of the artillery (excepting 4 guns), the cavalry, and one battalion of infantry. This column was destined to secure the subjugation of Upper Scinde, and to co-operate with the main column under Sir Thos. Wiltshire, directed against Khelat. In the action at Maharajpore on the 29th Dec., 1843, commanded a brigade of cavalry, as also at the battle of Sobraon (United Service Club).
2. TALBOT, Colonel, the Hon. Wellington Patrick Manvers Chetwynd,
Brother of the present Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot; b. 1817; m. 1860, Lady Emma Charlotte Stanley, only dau. of present Earl of Derby. Formerly a captain 7th Foot. Has been A. D. C. to the Lord-lieut. of Ireland; comtropoller of Her Majesty’s household, 1845; private secretary to the Earl of Derby, 1852; Lieut.-Col. Stffrdsh. Militia since 1853; British resident at Cephalonia, 1855; sergeant-at-arms (H. of L.) since 1858.
3. STRAITH, Major Hector,
Has retired from the army; was formerly attached to the St. Helena regiment. Promoted to his present rank, 1838. Hon. Sec. Church Missionary Society (14, Salisbury-square, E.C.)
4. BETHUNE, Rear-Admiral Charles Ramsay Drinkwater, C.B.
Second s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Drinkwater, of Salford, co. Lancaster; b. 1802. Assumed present surname 1837, on his mother inheriting the estates of her brother, G. Bethune, Esq. M. 1846, Frances, only dau. of Henry Stables, Esq., of Park-hill, Clapham. Ent. the navy, 1815; took a prominent part in the China war of 1840; rewarded in consequence with the C.B. Attached to the Earl of Durham’s embassy, 1835, for the purpose of reporting on the naval establishments in Russia; has been assistant hydrographer at the Admiralty; promoted to his present rank, 1855 (United Service Club; Balfour, Fifeshire).
4. BUCKINGHAM, 3rd Duke of (Grenville)
B. 1823; suc. his father, 1861; m. 1851, Caroline, only dau. of Robert Harvey, Esq., of Langley-park, Bucks. Has issue, 3 daus. Educ. at Ch. Ch., Oxford; a lord of the treasury in 1852; keeper of the Privy Seal to the Prince of Wales, 1852; special deputy warden of the Stannaries, 1852; chairman of the North Western Railway, 1853; Capt. Bucks Yeomanry, 1845–58; Dep.-lieut. of Bucks and Northampton, 1846; M.P. for Buckingham, 1846–57; chairman of the Aylesbury and Bucks Railway (Carlton; Wotton House, Aylesbury).
Manners House. RUTLAND, 6th Duke of (Manners),
B. 1815; suc. his father, 1857. Educ. at Eton and Trinity Coll., Camb. Lord-lieut. of Lincolnsh. 1852–57. Lord-lieut. of Leicestersh. since 1857. Hon. Col. Leicestersh. Militia; lord of the bedchamber to the late Prince Consort, 1843–46; M.P. for Stamford, 1837–52; and for North Leicestersh. 1852–57; a conservative (Carlton, Belvoir Castle, Grantham; Cheveley Park, Newmarket).
Cromwell House. FREAKE, Charles James, Esq.
An architect.