Robert Hayes.
Appointed 18th February, 1723.
This officer served in the First Foot Guards, in which corps he rose to the rank of captain and lieutenant-colonel, and in February, 1723, he obtained the colonelcy of the Thirty-fourth Regiment, by purchase. He proceeded with his regiment to the relief of Gibraltar, when that fortress was besieged by the Spaniards, in 1727: and subsequently sailed from Gibraltar in command of a body of troops, for Jamaica; where he died on the 7th of April, 1731.
Stephen Cornwallis.
Appointed 8th January, 1732.
Stephen Cornwallis was appointed to a commission in the Second Foot Guards, in March, 1719; and in 1723, he was promoted captain in the Ninth Dragoons; he was afterwards nominated captain and lieutenant-colonel in the Third Foot Guards, and procured the colonelcy of the Thirty-fourth Regiment in 1732: in 1738 he was removed to the Eleventh Foot. On the commencement of the war with Spain in 1739, he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and in 1742 he accompanied the army to Flanders, under Field-Marshal the Earl of Stair: in February, 1743, he was promoted to the rank of major-general. He died in Germany, in May, 1743; at which period he was a member of parliament for Eye.
Lord James Cavendish.
Appointed 1st November, 1738.
Lord James Cavendish, second son of William (second) Duke of Devonshire, was many years an officer in the Third Foot Guards, in which corps he rose to the rank of captain and lieutenant-colonel in 1730, and in 1738, he was promoted to the colonelcy of the Thirty-fourth Regiment: he was a member of parliament for Molton. His decease occurred in November, 1741.
The Honorable James Cholmondeley.