Names.Dates of Appointment.Remarks.
John DoyneDec. 26, 1755Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, June 30, 1760.
James StewartJune30, 1760Promoted to Lieut.-Col., February 20, 1762.
John HeighingtonFeb.20, 1762Resigned September 9, 1762.
Alexander MilbankeSep.9, 1762Died November 4, 1762.
William ForbesNov.4, 1762Removed to Thirty-fifth Foot, October 31, 1762.
Thomas JohnstonOct.31, 1762Resigned September 11, 1765.
Henry PringleSep.11, 1765Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Fifty-first Foot, August 16, 1770.
John CaulfieldAug.16, 1770Promoted to Lieut.-Col., October 3, 1776.
Bulleine FancourtOct3, 1776Retired August 6, 1783.
Hon. Vere PoulettAug.6, 1783Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Sixtieth Regiment, August 31, 1793.
Patrick TytlerAug.31, 1793Retired October 8, 1794.
John AlexanderOct.8, 1794Retired March 10, 1797.
James BarringtonSep.1, 1795Resigned September 3, 1800.
Robert DouglasMarch10, 1797Promoted Lieut.-Colonel Eighteenth Foot, July 9, 1803.
Henry S. KeatingSep.3, 1800Promoted August 1, 1804, by Augmentation.
Robert OwenAug.27, 1803Placed upon half-pay, February 21, 1805.
George Andrew ArmstrongAug.1, 1804Exchanged to half-pay, January 5, 1805.
Robert O’Neill {Augmen-Aug.2, 1804Exchanged to half-pay, June 23, 1808, with Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Walsh.
Fletcher Barclay {tation.Aug.27, 1804Promoted June 27, 1811.
William BrookeJan.5, 1805Exchanged to Fifth Dragoon Guards, July 25, 1805.
John McLeodFeb.21, 1805Promoted Lieut.-Colonel Ninth Garrison Battalion, May 5, 1808.
Henry R. KnightJuly25, 1805Exchanged to half-pay, July 17, 1806.
Boyle TraversJuly17, 1806Promoted January 2, 1812.
Samuel BayleyJune9, 1808Died in 1810.
Thomas WalshJune23, 1808Died in 1810.
John William MallettAug.29, 1810Promoted November 6, 1813.
Sir Charles Wyndham Burdett, Bart.Nov.29, 1810Retired July 26, 1821.
Robert GrantJune27, 1811Exchanged to Eighty-second Foot, April 12, 1821.
Joseph HannaJan.2, 1812Died in 1816.
William S. Forbes }Nov.6, 1813Placed on half-pay on September 6, 1817, on the disbandment of second battalion.
Henry Capadose }Oct.17, 1816
George Wroughton MontaguApril12, 1821Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, May 19, 1825.
John GualeyJuly26, 1821Cancelled.
Howell Harris PrichardJuly26, 1821Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, April 26, 1831.
John Elliot CairnesMay26, 1825Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, March 29, 1827.
John PeddieMarch29, 1827Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, August 28, 1827.
William GunAug.28, 1827Retired October 11, 1831.
William MitchellApril26, 1831Exchanged to half-pay, June 13, 1834.
George Morton EdenOct.11, 1831Promoted to Lt.-Colonelcy, May 20, 1836.
John WilsonJune13, 1834Died at Jamaica, July 14, 1837.
Forrester Owen LeightonMay20, 1836Retired September 12, 1843.
Peter Shadwell NormanJuly15, 1837} Now serving.
Edmund Wm. Wilton PassySep.12, 1843

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FOOTNOTES:

[1] Afterwards General Sir David Dundas, K.B., author of a valuable work on the principles of military movements, which became the basis of regulations for the field exercises of the British army.

[2] Strength of the garrison of Gibraltar, at the commencement of the blockade, 21st June, 1779.

OfficersStaff.Serjeants.Drummers.Rank & File.
British.
Royal Artillery2501715428
Royal Engineers8062106
12th Regiment2632922519
39th ”2542922506
56th ”2343022506
58th ”2532922526
72nd, or, Royal Manchester Volunteers (disbanded 1783)2944722944
Hanoverians.
Hardenberg’s Regiment16134214367
Reden’s ”15124214361
De la Motte’s ”17164214367
Total 209593131694,632

Governor, General George A. Eliott, afterwards Lord Heathfield.

Lieut.-Governor, Lieut.-General R. Boyd.

Commanding the Hanoverian Brigade, Major-General De la Motte.

[3] The Duke of York’s despatch.