Historical Record of the Seventieth, or, the Surrey Regiment of Foot / Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1848

by Richard Cannon

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

OF THE

SEVENTIETH,

OR

THE SURREY REGIMENT OF FOOT.

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John Parslow,

Appointed 28th April, 1758.

John Parslow was many years an officer in the First Regiment of Foot Guards, in which corps he rose to the rank of captain and lieut.-colonel on the 18th of May, 1747. In 1758 King George II. conferred upon him the colonelcy of the SEVENTIETH regiment, from which he was removed, in 1760, to the Fifty-fourth regiment. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1761, to that of lieut.-general in 1770, and of general in 1782. He was removed to the Thirtieth regiment in April, 1770. He died at Bath on the 15th of November, 1786.