His only surviving child married Sir Edward Buller, Bart., and more than one of her sons has served with distinction in the Regiment, in which they may be said to bear the honourable distinction of ‘founder’s kin.’
FOOTNOTES:
[12] Frederick, Duke of York.
[13] ‘Memoirs of the Court and Cabinet of George III.,’ vol. iii. 88.
[14] Major-General Sir Robert Travers, C.B., K.C.M.G., died at Cork, December 24, 1834.
[15] Sir James Pulteney’s Despatch, August 27.
[16] ‘Handbook of Spain.’
[17] It was popularly known as ‘Manningham’s Sharpshooters.’
[18] ‘Cumloden Papers,’ 23.
[19] ‘Regulations for the Rifle Corps formed at Blatchington Barracks by Colonel Manningham:’ London, 1801. Stewart also published ‘Outlines of a Plan for the General Reform of the British Land Forces:’ a pamphlet, of which a second edition, enlarged, appeared in octavo. London, 1806.