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...

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...

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...

3rd Battalion (formerly 1st Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 4th Battalion (formerly 2nd Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 1st Volunteer Battalion (formerly...

were largely Tory. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the 1st Somerset Militia on 23 June 1759 when it was embodied for fulltime service, and commanded...

South West England from 1558 until they were reconstituted as the Somerset Militia in 1662. They were periodically embodied for home defence, for example...

The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during...

expedition the following year, Lunsford commanded a regiment raised from the Somerset Trained Bands. His regiment fought at the Battle of Newburn on 28 August...

Several rebellion leaders, including Harmon Husband, lived in Somerset. The federal militia sent to put down the rebellion worked from its headquarters...

Charles Somerset, Marquess of Worcester (25 December 1660 – 13 July 1698) was an English nobleman and politician. He was the eldest surviving son of Henry...

the King's Own Royal Tower Hamlets Militia (now the 7th Battalion Rifle Brigade). For more than 60 years, Somerset made his home in Enfield Town, Middlesex...

Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort KG (16 October 1744 – 11 October 1803) was an English courtier and politician. He was styled the Marquess of Worcester...

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...

Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (died 29 August 1791), Colonel of the Somerset Militia, who married Mary Knight, 2nd daughter of Edward Knight of Wolverley...

1785. On 27 May 1787, he was commissioned a lieutenant in the 1st Somerset Militia, (commanded by his father) and was promoted from captain-lieutenant...

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...

School. Boyle was commissioned a lieutenant in the 4th (2nd Somerset Militia) Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry, on 15 April 1882, and resigned his commission...

War he was Lieutenant-Colonel of Lord Paulet's Somerset Trained Band, the 800-strong force of local militia. However, Paulet was a committed Royalist and...

Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953. W.J.W. Kerr, Records of the 1st Somerset Militia (3rd Bn. Somerset L.I.), Aldershot:Gale & Polden, 1930....

Temple in 1622. Popham was a prominent figure and Justice of the Peace in Somerset. In April 1640 he was elected Member of Parliament for Bath in the Short...

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...

Forman of New Jersey, who accepted. Forman had formerly been a New Jersey militia leader. Washington also offered command of an additional regiment to Oliver...

William Strode, Jr (11 January 1589, Shepton Mallet, Somerset – 20 December 1666, Barrington Court, Somerset) — called William Strode of Barrington to distinguish...

English peer and militia officer. Educated at Harrow and Brasenose College, Oxford, Hinton was commissioned a captain in the 1st Somerset Militia in 1801. His...

was brigaded with the 11th and 22nd Foot and the Northumberland and Somerset Militia under Maj-Gen William Crosbie. While at Colchester the War Office ordered...

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...

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...

Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, KG (22 December 1766 – 23 November 1835), styled Marquess of Worcester until 1803, was a British politician. Somerset...

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 was...

John Stawell or Stowell, 29 August 1600 – 21 February 1662, was MP for Somerset at various times from 1625 to 1662, and one of the leading Royalists in...