Cyrus Trapaud,
Appointed 10th July, 1760.
Cyrus Trapaud, descended from a family of distinction in France, was related to Marshal Turenne and other noblemen in that country: his father was a Protestant, and was forced by persecution to seek an asylum in England. Cyrus Trapaud entered the British army, and was many years an officer in the Buffs. He accompanied his regiment to the Netherlands in 1742, served at the battle of Dettingen in 1743, and of Fontenoy in 1745. Returning to Great Britain in the same year, he served, in 1746, at the battles of Falkirk and Culloden. In 1747 he again proceeded to the Netherlands, and served at the battle of Val. On the 3rd of February, 1750, he was appointed lieut.-colonel of the Buffs, and commanded that regiment in the expedition to the coast of France, in 1757. He served at the attack of Martinique, and commanded a brigade at the reduction of Guadaloupe in 1759. In 1760 he was rewarded with the colonelcy of the SEVENTIETH regiment; he was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1762, and to that of lieut.-general in 1772; was removed to the Fifty-second regiment in 1778, and promoted to the rank of general in 1783. He was conspicuous for courage, and for the exact performance of every duty both of public and private life, united with a kind and gentlemanly deportment, which procured him the esteem of all who knew him. He lived to be the senior general in the army, and dying on the 3rd of May, 1801, was buried with military honors at Chelsea, many distinguished persons attending his funeral.
William Tryon,
Appointed 14th May, 1778.
This Officer served many years in the First Foot Guards, in which corps he was promoted to the rank of captain and lieut.-colonel in 1758; in May, 1772, he was advanced to the rank of colonel, and in 1776 he was nominated major in his regiment. He was appointed governor of the state of North Carolina, where he evinced great zeal and ability in suppressing the rising seeds of insurrection, and he conciliated the loyal British subjects. Being afterwards called to the government of New York, his abilities were conspicuously displayed there during the American War of Independence. He raised a body of Provincials for the King’s service, and evinced gallantry in several military services, particularly in the expedition to Danbury in the spring of 1777. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in the same year, and to that of lieut.-general in 1782. In 1778 he was rewarded with the colonelcy of the SEVENTIETH regiment, and was removed to the Twenty-ninth in 1783. He died in 1788.
John, Earl of Suffolk,
Appointed 16th August, 1783.
John Howard was page to His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and entered the army as ensign in the First Foot Guards, on the 13th of June, 1756; he was promoted to the rank of captain and lieut.-colonel in 1773. In 1782 he was nominated colonel of the Ninety-seventh regiment, afterwards disbanded; he succeeded to the dignity of Earl of Suffolk in 1783, and was removed to the SEVENTIETH regiment in the same year. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1787, to that of lieut.-general in 1797, and of general in 1802. In 1814 he was removed to the Forty-fourth regiment. He was many years governor of Londonderry and of Calmore fort. His Lordship died in 1820.