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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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 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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English nobleman and politician. He was the eldest surviving son of Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort and Mary Capell, and was styled Lord Herbert of Raglan...
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Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 4th Battalion (formerly 2nd Somerset Light Infantry Militia) 1st Volunteer Battalion (formerly 1st Somersetshire Rifle Volunteer...
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John Poulett, 5th Earl Poulett (category Somerset Militia officers)
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...
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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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Frederick North, Lord North (category Somerset Militia officers)
sympathies 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...
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John Poulett, 4th Earl Poulett (category Somerset Militia officers)
1795, an office he held until his death. When the colonel of the 1st Somerset Militia died, Poulett as lord lieutenant took personal command as colonel...
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son of the 1st Baron Talbot) and Hon. Anne Bouverie (a daughter of the 1st Viscount Folkestone), in 1796. Lady Frances Elizabeth Somerset (1774–1841)...
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2001, 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...
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Edmund Boyle, 7th Earl of Cork (category Somerset Militia officers)
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....
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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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Stuart, 1st Earl of Bute, succeeded to the title of 3rd Baronet Stuart, of Bute, in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia, in 1672. As a colonel of the militia in...
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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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Thomas Hussey (Lyme Regis MP) (category Somerset Militia officers)
He was returned for Lyme Regis until 1847. Hussey served in the 1st Somerset Militia, being commissioned as a captain on 4 April 1846. The regiment was...
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(Cork) 1st Brigade (Cork) 1st Somerset Militia (Taunton), 2nd Somerset Militia (Bath), Hereford Militia (Hereford) 2nd Brigade (Limerick) 1st Warwick...
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Coplestone Warre Bampfylde (category Somerset Militia officers)
during the Seven Years' War, he was commissioned as major of the 1st Somerset Militia, which was embodied for fulltime service in home defence on 3 July...
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the 1st Gloucestershire (Gloucester, Somerset and Devon) EVC, with the 1st Devon providing E Company at Torquay and F Company at Exeter, and the 1st Somerset...
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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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languages. Chorley was born in Taunton, Somerset about 1810, the son of Lt Paymaster John Chorley of the 1st Somerset Militia (died February 1839). Most of his...
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Annesley, daughter of Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of Mountnorris. His father was the eighth son of Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort by Elizabeth Boscawen;...
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John Poulett, 2nd Earl Poulett (category Somerset Militia officers)
earldom in 1743, was appointed Lord Lieutenant of Somerset in 1744, colonel of the 1st Somerset Militia from 1759 and was sometime recorder of Bridgwater...
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2001, 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. Lt-Col. C.C.R. Murphy...
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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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Edmund Boyle, 8th Earl of Cork (category Somerset Militia officers)
December 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...
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was primarily militia formation. In 1880, its order of battle was as follows: 1st Division (Edinburgh) 1st Brigade (Edinburgh) Kerry Militia (Tralee), Northumberland...
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New Jersey Army National Guard (redirect from New Jersey Militia)
50th Chemical at Somerset (New Brunswick) 250th Finance Detachment at Somerset (New Brunswick) 350th Finance Detachment at Somerset (New Brunswick) 57th...
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Nympton, father of Sir Lewis Pollard, 1st Baronet (c. 1578–c. 1645)) Edward Dyke (d. 1746), of Pixton, in Somerset, (eldest brother of Thomas Dyke (d....
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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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