Appointed 12th July, 1819.
After serving in the subordinate commissions, this officer was promoted to the Lieutenant-Colonelcy of the Seventeenth Foot on the 4th of October, 1778, and, serving with his regiment in America and the West Indies, he obtained the rank of Colonel in the army on the 25th of December, 1782. In 1793 he was promoted to the rank of Major-General; and he obtained the Colonelcy of the Eighty-first Foot on the 18th of June, 1798. He commanded a body of troops in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, and obtained great credit for his conduct in an action at New Ross. In the succeeding year he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-General; and to that of General on the 25th of April, 1808. After the decease of Lieutenant-General Wynyard, the Colonelcy of the Fifth Foot was conferred on General Sir Henry Johnson: he was many years Governor of Ross Castle; and died in 1835.
THE HONOURABLE SIR CHARLES COLVILLE, G.C.B. and G.C.H.
Appointed 25th March, 1835.
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[46] War-Office Records.
[47] This regiment was disbanded in 1711.
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