Historical Record of the Fifty-Third, or the Shropshire Regiment of Foot / Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755 and of its subsequent services to 1848

by Richard Cannon

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

OF THE

FIFTY-THIRD

OR

THE SHROPSHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.

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Year		Page
1755	William Whitmore	[59]
1759	John Toovey	—
1770	Robert Dalrymple Horne Elphinstone	[60]
1794	Gerard Lake, afterwards Viscount Lake	—
1796	Welbore Ellis Doyle	[62]
1798	Charles Crosbie	[63]
1807	Honorable John Abercromby, G.C.B	—
1817	Rowland Lord Hill, G.C.B.	[65]
1830	Lord FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, G.C.B.	[68]
Memoir of the Services of Major-General Sir George Ridout Bingham, K.C.B.		[69]

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