The Devon Militia was a part-time military force in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England. From their formal organisation as Trained...
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The 1st or East Devon Militia, later the 3rd Battalion, Devonshire Regiment, was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the...
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The North Devon Militia, later the Devon Artillery Militia, was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England....
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The South Devon Militia was a part-time military unit in the maritime county of Devonshire in the West of England. The Militia had always been important...
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The Devon Trained Bands were a part-time militia force recruited from Devonshire in South West England, first organised in 1558. They were periodically...
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Barnstaple, and of Umberleigh House, Umberleigh, Lt. Col. of the North Devon Militia 1779-93), MP for Barnstaple 1780-84. He is not however stated in his...
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Norman Leslie, 19th Earl of Rothes (category Devon Militia officers)
earldom in 1893. Lord Rothes was commissioned into the 4th Battalion (1st Devon Militia), Devonshire Regiment in 1895. He was promoted lieutenant in 1897 and...
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John Russell, 4th Duke of Bedford (category Devon Militia officers)
many public offices: lord-lieutenant of Bedfordshire and Devon, Colonel of the East Devon Militia, and chancellor of the University of Dublin among others...
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additional regiments, the Nottinghamshire Militia and the North Devon Militia. The colonel of the North Devon Militia at the time was John Parker, the second...
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The British Militia was the principal military reserve force of the Kingdom of Great Britain. Militia units were repeatedly raised in Great Britain during...
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George Dare Dowell (category Devon Militia officers)
George Dare Dowell, VC (15 February 1831 – 3 August 1910) was a Royal Marines officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry...
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Hudson Lowe (category Devon Militia officers)
chiefly at Salisbury Grammar. He obtained a post as ensign in the East Devon Militia when he was eleven. In 1787 he entered his father's regiment, the 50th...
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Ferdinando Gorges (category Devon Militia officers)
Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. In 1633 he was Colonel of a regiment of Devon Trained Band Horse. With the end of the Anglo-Spanish War in 1604, there...
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1st Devon Militia guarding French prisoners at Exeter. On being relieved by the 3rd Devon Militia, the 1st Somersets went to relieve the 4th Devon Militia...
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Sir Edward Seymour, 2nd Baronet (category Devon Militia officers)
MP for Lyme Regis. He was J.P. for Devon and Vice Admiral of Devon from 1617. In 1621 he was elected MP for Devon. He was elected MP for Callington in...
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William Courtenay (died 1630) (redirect from William Courtenay, 3rd Earl of Devon)
Historical Records of the 1st Devon Militia (4th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment), With a Notice of the 2nd and North Devon Militia Regiments, London: Longmans...
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Hugh Fortescue, 1st Earl Fortescue (category Devon Militia officers)
as follows: Castle Hill, Filleigh, North Devon. Ebrington Manor, Gloucestershire. Weare Giffard Hall, Devon. Lord Fortescue married Hester Grenville (1767–1847)...
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Francis Courtenay (died 1638) (redirect from Francis Courtenay, 4th Earl of Devon)
Francis Courtenay, de jure 4th Earl of Devon, (c. 1576 – 3 June 1638) of Powderham, Devon, was an English Member of Parliament. In 1831 he was recognised...
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Richard Bampfylde (category Devon Militia officers)
1747 until his death in 1776. He was Lieutenant-Colonel of the East Devon Militia from its formation in 1758 until he resigned in 1771. On 8 August 1742...
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Sir John Rogers, 3rd Baronet (category Devon Militia officers)
when he was unseated. He served as colonel of the South Devon Militia and was High Sheriff of Devon in 1749 and in 1755. On 28 October 1742, he married Hannah...
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John Parker, 1st Earl of Morley (category Devon Militia officers)
grandest houses in Devon. The Parker family had risen to prominence in the mid-16th century as the bailiff of the manor of North Molton, Devon, under Baron...
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John Chichester (died 1569) (category Devon Militia officers)
Historical Records of the 1st Devon Militia (4th Battalion The Devonshire Regiment), With a Notice of the 2nd and North Devon Militia Regiments, London: Longmans...
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East Allington (redirect from East Allington, Devon)
Edmond Nathaniel William Fortescue (born 1777), a major in the South Devon Militia, who was the proprietor of Fallapit in 1810. The house was rebuilt circa...
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Richard Harrison (British Army officer) (category Devon Militia officers)
was granted an honorary colonelship of the Devon Royal Garrison Artillery Militia in 1906 and of the Devon Royal Field Reserve Artillery in June 1908...
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Edmund Parker, 2nd Earl of Morley (category Devon Militia officers)
benches in the House of Lords. He was appointed Colonel of the South Devon Militia on 8 January 1845 and held the post until it was abolished in 1852....
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John Dyke Acland (category Devon Militia officers)
the parish of Landkey in North Devon, where it is first recorded in 1155. Acland was Colonel of the 1st Devon Militia, formed to protect Great Britain...
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Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue (category Devon Militia officers)
Knight of the Garter in 1856. Fortescue was also Colonel of the 1st Devon Militia, headquartered in Exeter Castle. In 1858, together with the Rev. Joseph...
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Devon) in Western District alongside the 11th Foot, the 1st Devon Militia and the 2nd Devon Militia. The Childers Reforms of 1881 took Cardwell's reforms further...
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John Rolle, 1st Baron Rolle (category Devon Militia officers)
He was colonel of the South Devon Militia and was instrumental in forming the Royal 1st Devon Yeomanry and the North Devon Yeomanry. He was a slave owner...
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Lupton, Brixham (category Country houses in Devon)
Hayne (1747–1821), Sheriff of Devon in 1772 and Colonel of the North Devon Militia. It received a Grade II* listing in 1949. The park and gardens are Grade...
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