Appointed 22nd December, 1746.
The Honourable James O'Hara entered the army on the 15th of March, 1703, as lieutenant in the royal regiment of fusiliers, commanded by his father. He proceeded with his regiment to the relief of Barcelona in 1706; in the following year he served on the staff of the army in Spain, and was wounded at the battle of Almanza, where he was instrumental in saving the Earl of Galway's life. He afterwards served in Catalonia, and in the island of Minorca, and in 1713, he was promoted to the colonelcy of the seventh royal fusiliers, in succession to his father, at whose decease, in 1733, he succeeded to the dignity of Baron Tyrawley. The rank of brigadier-general was conferred on his lordship, in 1735, that of major-general, in July 1739, and in the following month he was removed from the royal fusiliers to the fifth horse, now fourth dragoon guards. In March, 1743, he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general, and in April of the same year, he obtained the colonelcy of the second troop of horse grenadier-guards, from which he was removed, in 1745, to the third troop of life-guards, which gave him the privilege of taking the court duty of gold-stick. King George II. resolved to disband the third and fourth troops of life-guards, in 1746, and Lord Tyrawley was removed to the Tenth foot; he was again removed, in 1749, to the fourteenth dragoons; in 1752 to the third dragoons, and in 1755, to the second regiment of foot-guards. He was appointed governor of Portsmouth, in 1759, and was promoted to the rank of general in 1761. Lord Tyrawley held the appointment of governor of Minorca for several years, and was employed as envoy and ambassador to the courts of Portugal and Russia. He died in 1773.
Edward Pole.
Appointed 10th August, 1749.
This officer was appointed cornet in the Scots Greys on the 23rd of January, 1709, and he served with his regiment in the Netherlands during the remainder of the war, which was terminated by the treaty of Utrecht, in 1713. He was at the battle of Malplaquet in 1709, and was actively employed in suppressing the rebellion in Scotland, in 1715 and 1716. He was several years major in the twenty-third foot; in 1739 he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the twelfth dragoons, and in 1749, King George II. rewarded his long and faithful services with the colonelcy of the Tenth foot. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1757, and to that of lieut.-general in 1759. His decease occurred in December 1762.
Edward Sandford.
Appointed 14th January, 1763.
Edward Sandford served many years in the first regiment of foot-guards, in which corps he was promoted to captain and lieut.-colonel in February, 1748. On the 21st of April, 1758, he was appointed colonel of the sixty-sixth regiment, which was formed at that period of the second battalion of the nineteenth; and in June of the same year he was removed to the fifty-second foot. He was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1761; was removed to the Tenth regiment in 1763, and was advanced to the rank of lieut.-general in 1770. He died in 1781.
Sir Robert Murray Keith, K.B.