This officer served in the wars of King William III., who promoted him to the commission of captain in the Third Horse, now Second Dragoon Guards. On the augmentation of the army in 1702, he was nominated colonel of the Thirty-seventh regiment, then newly raised, and he accompanied that corps to Holland in 1703. In 1704, he served at the battles of Schellenberg and Blenheim, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general on the 25th of August, 1704. In 1705 he commanded a brigade at the forcing of the French lines at Helixem and Neer-Hespen. He was advanced to the rank of major-general in 1706, and to that of lieut.-general in 1707; in 1710 he was removed to the Twenty-first regiment, and in 1714 to the Twentieth. He died in 1719.
Charles, Earl of Orrery, K.T.
Appointed 8th December, 1710.
The Earl of Orrery took an active part in raising a regiment of foot (afterwards disbanded), of which he was appointed colonel, on the 1st of May, 1703; in 1705 he was nominated Knight of the Thistle, and in 1706 he was removed to another regiment, afterwards disbanded. He was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1709, and served at the battle of Malplaquet, at the head of a brigade of infantry, and evinced great gallantry. In 1710 he was advanced to the rank of major-general,—nominated Envoy extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the States of Brabant and Flanders,—and removed to the Twenty-first Fusiliers; in 1711 he was created a peer of Great Britain, by the title of Baron Boyle, of Marston, in Somersetshire; and in 1712 he served under the Duke of Ormond. He was sworn a member of the Privy Council in 1713. On the arrival of King George I. in England, in the autumn of 1714, the Earl of Orrery was appointed one of the Lords of the Bedchamber; he was afterwards sworn a member of the Privy Council. In 1722, he was committed a prisoner to the Tower of London, on a charge of high treason; but no crime was proved against him. He died on the 28th of August, 1731.
George Macartney.
Appointed 12th July, 1716.
This officer entered the army in the reign of King William III., and was promoted, in April, 1703, to the colonelcy of a newly raised regiment of foot (afterwards disbanded), with which he served three campaigns on the Continent, under the great Duke of Marlborough. He afterwards proceeded to Spain, and commanded a brigade of infantry at the battle of Almanza, where he distinguished himself, and was taken prisoner. In 1709 he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1710 to that of lieut.-general. His regiment having been disbanded at the peace of Utrecht, he was appointed to the colonelcy of the Royal North British Fusiliers in 1716, and removed in 1727 to the Seventh Horse, now Sixth Dragoon Guards. He died in July, 1730.
Sir James Wood.
Appointed 9th March, 1727.