SUCCESSION OF MAJORS
OF THE
FIFTY-SIXTH, OR WEST ESSEX, REGIMENT OF FOOT.
| Names. | Dates of Appointment. | Remarks. | |
| John Doyne | Dec. | 26, 1755 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, June 30, 1760. |
| James Stewart | June | 30, 1760 | Promoted to Lieut.-Col., February 20, 1762. |
| John Heighington | Feb. | 20, 1762 | Resigned September 9, 1762. |
| Alexander Milbanke | Sep. | 9, 1762 | Died November 4, 1762. |
| William Forbes | Nov. | 4, 1762 | Removed to Thirty-fifth Foot, October 31, 1762. |
| Thomas Johnston | Oct. | 31, 1762 | Resigned September 11, 1765. |
| Henry Pringle | Sep. | 11, 1765 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Fifty-first Foot, August 16, 1770. |
| John Caulfield | Aug. | 16, 1770 | Promoted to Lieut.-Col., October 3, 1776. |
| Bulleine Fancourt | Oct | 3, 1776 | Retired August 6, 1783. |
| Hon. Vere Poulett | Aug. | 6, 1783 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Sixtieth Regiment, August 31, 1793. |
| Patrick Tytler | Aug. | 31, 1793 | Retired October 8, 1794. |
| John Alexander | Oct. | 8, 1794 | Retired March 10, 1797. |
| James Barrington | Sep. | 1, 1795 | Resigned September 3, 1800. |
| Robert Douglas | March | 10, 1797 | Promoted Lieut.-Colonel Eighteenth Foot, July 9, 1803. |
| Henry S. Keating | Sep. | 3, 1800 | Promoted August 1, 1804, by Augmentation. |
| Robert Owen | Aug. | 27, 1803 | Placed upon half-pay, February 21, 1805. |
| George Andrew Armstrong | Aug. | 1, 1804 | Exchanged to half-pay, January 5, 1805. |
| Robert O’Neill {Augmen- | Aug. | 2, 1804 | Exchanged to half-pay, June 23, 1808, with Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Walsh. |
| Fletcher Barclay {tation. | Aug. | 27, 1804 | Promoted June 27, 1811. |
| William Brooke | Jan. | 5, 1805 | Exchanged to Fifth Dragoon Guards, July 25, 1805. |
| John McLeod | Feb. | 21, 1805 | Promoted Lieut.-Colonel Ninth Garrison Battalion, May 5, 1808. |
| Henry R. Knight | July | 25, 1805 | Exchanged to half-pay, July 17, 1806. |
| Boyle Travers | July | 17, 1806 | Promoted January 2, 1812. |
| Samuel Bayley | June | 9, 1808 | Died in 1810. |
| Thomas Walsh | June | 23, 1808 | Died in 1810. |
| John William Mallett | Aug. | 29, 1810 | Promoted November 6, 1813. |
| Sir Charles Wyndham Burdett, Bart. | Nov. | 29, 1810 | Retired July 26, 1821. |
| Robert Grant | June | 27, 1811 | Exchanged to Eighty-second Foot, April 12, 1821. |
| Joseph Hanna | Jan. | 2, 1812 | Died in 1816. |
| William S. Forbes } | Nov. | 6, 1813 | Placed on half-pay on September 6, 1817, on the disbandment of second battalion. |
| Henry Capadose } | Oct. | 17, 1816 | |
| George Wroughton Montagu | April | 12, 1821 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, May 19, 1825. |
| John Gualey | July | 26, 1821 | Cancelled. |
| Howell Harris Prichard | July | 26, 1821 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, April 26, 1831. |
| John Elliot Cairnes | May | 26, 1825 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, March 29, 1827. |
| John Peddie | March | 29, 1827 | Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, August 28, 1827. |
| William Gun | Aug. | 28, 1827 | Retired October 11, 1831. |
| William Mitchell | April | 26, 1831 | Exchanged to half-pay, June 13, 1834. |
| George Morton Eden | Oct. | 11, 1831 | Promoted to Lt.-Colonelcy, May 20, 1836. |
| John Wilson | June | 13, 1834 | Died at Jamaica, July 14, 1837. |
| Forrester Owen Leighton | May | 20, 1836 | Retired September 12, 1843. |
| Peter Shadwell Norman | July | 15, 1837 | } Now serving. |
| Edmund Wm. Wilton Passy | Sep. | 12, 1843 | |
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