The 2nd Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military regiment in the county of Somerset in South West England. First organised during the Seven Years' War...
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The Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military force in the county of Somerset in South West England. From their formal organisation as Trained Bands in...
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The 1st Somerset Militia was an auxiliary military unit in the county of Somerset in South West England. First organised during the Seven Years' War it...
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2nd Battalion (formerly 2nd Battalion, 13th Foot) 3rd Battalion (formerly 1st Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 4th Battalion (formerly 2nd Somerset Light...
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least two children: Henry Somerset, 2nd Duke of Beaufort, his heir and his father's successor; and Lady Henrietta Somerset, who was born on 27 August...
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President, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort carried out a tour of inspection of the Welsh militia in 1684, when the Brecknockshire Militia consisted of...
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John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (category Somerset Militia officers)
Hinton himself became colonel of the 2nd Somerset Militia, and was appointed a deputy lieutenant of Somerset on 10 January 1805. Upon the death of his...
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fought in the First Boer War. He was first commissioned into the 2nd Somerset Militia as a sub-lieutenant in March 1877, but in October of that year he...
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ISBN 978-1-84342-197-9. W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn. Somerset L.I.), Aldershot:Gale & Polden, 1930. Lord Macaulay, The History...
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South West England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Somerset Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example...
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Somerset was born on 16 October 1744 at Brook Street, Hanover Square, London. He was the only son of Lord Charles Somerset (second son of the 2nd Duke...
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June) and then major in the Monmouth and Brecon Militia, commanded by his elder brother the 6th Duke. Somerset was then commissioned as a lieutenant in the...
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I/2nd Brigade RA (Athlone) 3rd Division (Cork) 1st Brigade (Cork) 1st Somerset Militia (Taunton), 2nd Somerset Militia (Bath), Hereford Militia (Hereford)...
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under Lt-Col Frankland the regiment formed part of a militia brigade including the 1st and 2nd Somersets and 1st Royal Lancashires. At the end of the camping...
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Robert Boyle, 11th Earl of Cork (category Somerset Militia officers)
School. Boyle was commissioned a lieutenant in the 4th (2nd Somerset Militia) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, on 15 April 1882, and resigned his commission...
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John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett (category Somerset Militia officers)
appointed Lord Lieutenant of Somerset, a post he held until his death. He was also a Recorder of Bridgwater. The East Devon Militia was again embodied, under...
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Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, KG (22 December 1766 – 23 November 1835), styled Marquess of Worcester until 1803, was a British politician. Somerset...
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Army and Militia in Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex, 1649–1660', Cambridge University PhD Thesis, 1987. W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn...
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William Pinney (category Somerset Militia officers)
stood for East Somerset once more, but ended bottom of the poll out of four candidates. Pinney was also Colonel of the 2nd Somerset Militia from 18 January...
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family was in residence. Brigaded with the 1st and 2nd Somerset Militia and the North Yorkshire Militia, on 1 September the regiment had 873 men in 12 companies...
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Northumberland Militia (Alnwick), Fermanagh Light Infantry Militia (Enniskillen) 2nd Brigade Antrim Militia (Belfast), Cavan Militia (Cavan), Prince...
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the various militia regiments were grouped into a composite battalion under the command of Lt-Col the Earl of Cork of the Somerset Militia. On 15 August...
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brigaded with the South Hampshires, 1st Somerset and West Yorks at a camp in Barham Downs outside Canterbury. The militia were frequently moved around the country...
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Wiltshire Regiment of Supplementary Militia was embodied at Salisbury in 1797 under the command of the Duke of Somerset as colonel and Sir William à Court...
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Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet (category Somerset Militia officers)
stand in 1774 for health reasons. Tynte was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Somerset Militia when it was first embodied on 3 July 1759 and commanded it until...
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Margaret Trevelyan, a daughter of Sir John Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (1670–1755), of Nettlecombe in Somerset, and widow of Alexander Luttrell (1705–1737) of Dunster...
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Henry Howard, 7th Duke of Norfolk (category Royal Berkshire Militia officers)
son of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, and Lady Anne Somerset, daughter of Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, and Elizabeth Dormer. He was summoned...
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Bergen County Militia, 1777–78 1st Regiment, Essex County, 1777 1st Battalion of Monmouth, 1777–82 1st Battalion of Somerset, 1777–81 2nd Regiment of Essex...
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Hills Iron Ore Company and the West Somerset Mineral Railway. Lethbridge was appointed Colonel of the 2nd Somerset Militia on 23 February 1819 and was also...
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Alexander Barrett (category Somerset Militia officers)
November 1866, the son of Major William Barrett, who served in the 2nd Somerset Militia, and Maria Herring (née Chard). He attended first Eton College and...
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