Sir James Wood served many years in the army of the States-General of the United Provinces of the Netherlands. His first commission was dated the 31st of December, 1688, and he rose to the rank of brigadier-general in 1704, in which rank he was admitted into the British service, in consequence of his reputation; and in 1727, he was appointed colonel of the TWENTY-FIRST regiment. In 1735 he was promoted to the rank of major-general. His decease occurred on the 18th of May, 1738.
John Campbell.
Appointed 1st November, 1738.
John Campbell, of Mamore, was an officer in the army in the reign of Queen Anne, and attained the rank of lieut.-colonel. During the rebellion in 1715 and 1716, he was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Argyle: and in June, 1737, he obtained the colonelcy of the Thirty-ninth regiment, from which he was removed in the following year to the ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS. He commanded a brigade at the battle of Dettingen, in 1743;—was appointed major-general in the following year; and during the rebellion in 1745 and 1746, he held a command in Scotland. He was advanced to the rank of lieut.-general in 1747; removed from the Fusiliers to the Scots Greys in 1752; and in 1761 he was appointed governor of Limerick; and also succeeded to the title of Duke of Argyle. The Order of the Thistle was conferred upon his Grace in 1765. He died in 1770.
William, Earl of Panmure.
Appointed 29th April, 1752.
William Maule, who had been several years an officer in the Scots Foot Guards, and a Member of Parliament, was created a peer of Ireland on the 6th of April, 1743, by the title of Earl of Panmure. He served at the battle of Dettingen in the same year; also at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745; and on the 1st of December, 1747, was promoted to the colonelcy of the Twenty-fifth foot; from which he was removed, in 1752, to the ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS. The rank of major-general was conferred upon his Lordship in 1755. In the following year he was second in command at Gibraltar; and in 1758 he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general. He was further advanced to the rank of general in 1770; and obtained the colonelcy of the Scots Greys in November of the same year. He died on the 4th of January, 1782.
The Honorable Alexander Mackay.
Appointed 10th May, 1770.
The Honorable Alexander Mackay, son of George, third Lord Reay, was appointed ensign in the Twenty-fifth regiment, in 1737, and in 1745 he obtained the commission of captain, in the Earl of Loudoun's newly raised regiment of Highlanders, afterwards disbanded. He served against the rebels in the same year, and was taken prisoner at the battle of Preston-pans. In 1750 he was nominated major in the Third foot, and on the 21st of December, 1755, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the Fifty-second regiment, then newly raised, from which he exchanged, in March, 1760, to the Thirty-ninth: in 1761, he was elected a Member of Parliament for Sunderland. In August, 1762, he was promoted to the colonelcy of the 122nd regiment, which was disbanded at the peace of Fontainebleau; and in March, 1764, he obtained the colonelcy of the sixty-fifth. He served in America, in which country he obtained the local rank of major-general in 1768; in 1770 he received the same rank in the army, and was removed to the ROYAL NORTH BRITISH FUSILIERS in the same year. In 1772 he received the appointment of Governor of Tynemouth, and Clifford's Fort; in 1777 he was promoted to the rank of lieut.-general, and in the following year appointed Governor of Landguard Fort,—from which he was afterwards removed to the government of Stirling Castle. In 1780 he was nominated Commander-in-chief in Scotland. He died in May, 1789.