PROMOTIONS.

1843.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

29. 1st Foot, Major G. Bell, to be Lieut.-Colonel.-10th Foot, Capt. T. H. Franks, to be Major.-Brevet, to be Majors in the Army: Capt. T. Aubin, of the 1st Foot; Capt. R. Williams, of the 22nd Foot.-Cecil Chandless, of Trinity College, Cambridge, eldest son of Thomas Chandless, esq., barrister, by Caroline his late wife, youngest daughter of Sir William Long, of Kempston, Bury, county of Bedford, Knt., deceased, to take the name of Long only, in compliance with the will of his maternal grandfather.

1844.

JANUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Thomas Leaman Hunt, second son of Richard Hunt, of Paignton, county of Devon, esq., by Mary Ann, sister and coheir of Thomas Leaman, of Tiverton, esq., to take the name of Leaman after Hunt.

8. Sir James Hawkins Whitshed, Bart., G. C. B., Admiral of the Red, to be Admiral of the Fleet.

19. 42nd Foot, Lieut.-General Sir John Macdonald, K. C.B., to be Colonel. -67th Foot, Lieut.-General John Clitherow to be Colonel.-80th Foot, Lieut. General Sir Maurice C. O'Connell to be Colonel. 81st Foot, Major-General Sir George H. F. Berkeley to be Colonel.

20. Robert Montgomery Martin, esq., to be Treasurer for the Colony of Hong Kong.

24. Robert Murray Rumsey, esq., to be Colonial Secretary and Registrar for St. Christopher's.

26. 50th Foot, Lieut.-General Sir John Gardiner, K. C.B., to be Colonel. -61st Foot, Major-General Sir Jeremiah Dickson, K. C.B., to be Colonel.Ceylon Rifles, Major Samuel Braybrooke to be Lieut.-Colonel.-Brevet Capt.

Thomas Hamilton, 63rd Foot, to be Major in the Army.

29. Henry John Baker Tower, of Elemore Hall, county of Durham, eldest son and heir apparent of Henry Tower, esq., by Isabella Judith, only daughter and heir of George Baker, late of Elemore Hall, esq., to take the name of Baker only, and bear the arms of Baker in the first quarter.-Charles Richard Ogden, esq., Barrister-at-Law, to be Her Majesty's Attorney General in the Isle of Man, vice James Clarke, esq., resigned.

31. John Edward Cornwallis, Earl of Stradbroke, to be Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the county of Suffolk.-The Rev. Henry Moseley, A. M., Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy, and the Rev. Frederick Charles Cook, A. M., to be two of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. C. Drury, Rev. W. E. Evans, Rev. W. J. Thornton, Rev. J. Venn, and Rev. J. B. Webb, to be Honourable Prebendaries in Hereford Cathedral.

CHAPLAINS.

Rev. J. S. Anderson, to be Preacher at Lincoln's Inn.

Rev. J. Griffiths, to the Bombay Presidency.

FEBRUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

2. Unattached, Major R. Law, from Royal Newfoundland Companies, to be Lieut.-Colonel.

9. John Francis Davis, esq., to be Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, and also Governor and Commander-inChief of the colony of Hong Kong; John Walter Hulme, esq., to be Chief Justice; the Hon. F. W. A. Bruce to be Secretary to the Government; Robert Dundas Kay, esq., W. S., to be Registrar of the Supreme Court; Alexander Gordon, esq., to be Surveyor General.

16. Ist or Grenadier Foot Guards, Lieut. and Capt. the Hon. A. F. Foley to be Capt. and Lieut.-Colonel.-Brevet, to be Majors in the Army: Capt. J. Johnstone, of the 9th Foot; Capt. F. H. Hart, of 90th Foot.

20. Herbert Davies, son of Capt. D.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

4. Charles Grantham, of Ketton, esq., to be Sheriff of Rutlandshire.

5. Henry Robert Plaw, esq., (now Consul at Dantzig,) to be Consul-General in Prussia, to reside at Dantzig.Francis Coleman Macgregor, esq., to be Consul at Canton.-George Balfour, esq., to be Consul at Shangai. ---Robert Thom, esq., to be Consul at Ningpo, in the province of Che-keang.-Henry George Kuper, esq., to be Consul in Denmark, and for the Oresound, to reside at Elsinore. Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, esq., to be Consul at Bagdad.

7. Rawson William Rawson, esq., to be Treasurer for the Island of Mauritius; George Williams Lewes, esq., to be Provost Marshal for the Virgin Islands, and Daniel H. O. Gordon, esq., to be Treasurer for the Virgin Islands.

8. 1st West Indian Regiment, MajorGeneral Sir G. T. Napier, K. C. B., to be Colonel, vice Lieut.-General Sir G. H. B. Way,

13. Knighted, Colonel Robert Nickle, K.H.; James Clark Ross, esq., Capt. R. N. and F.R. S.; Charles Fergusson Forbes, M. D. and K. C. H., Deputy Inspector of Army Hospitals; and George Philip Lee, esq., Lieutenant of the Yeomen of the Guard.

18. The Rev. Hender Molesworth, of Clowance, second but eldest surviving son and heir of the Rev. John Molesworth, by Catharine, sister to the late Sir John St. Aubyn, of Clowance, Bart., in regard to the memory of his late brother, the Rev. John Molesworth St. Aubyn, to take the name of St. Aubyn with Molesworth, and bear the arms of St. Aubyn in the first quarter.

20. Knighted, William Bain, esq., Master R. N.

22. 21st Foot, Major R. T. R. Pattoun to be Lieut.. Colonel; Brevet Major J. C. Peddie, to be Major.-31st Foot, Major H. C. Van Cortlandt to be Lieut.Colonel; Brevet Major Jas. Spence, to be Major. Brevet, Capt. George Jackson, 64th Foot, to be Major.

25. Francis Manley Shawe, of Bembridge, I. W., and Castle Taylor, county Galway, esq., late Captain Coldstream Guards, and Albinia Hester his wife, eldest daughter and coheiress of Lieut.General Sir John Taylor, K. C. B., to take the name of Taylor after Shawe. 26. George Benvenuto Mathew, esq., to be Governor and Commander-inChief of the Bahama Islands.

29. Coldstream Guards, Lieut. and Capt. G. Drummond, to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel.-49th Foot, Major T. S. Reignolds, to be Lieut.-Colonel; Brevet Major D. M'Andrew to be Major. -Brevet Capt. D. Brown, 45th Foot, and Capt. T. Armstrong, 1st W. I. Regiment, to be Majors in the Army.Staff, Colonel Sir R. H. Sale, G.C. B., of 13th Foot, to be QuartermasterGeneral to the Queen's troops in the East Indies.

MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT. Londonderry County.-Thomas Bateson, esq.

NAVAL PREFERMENTS. Commander Charles Tyler, (1812,) to be Captain in the retired list.

Rev. E. Field, to be Bishop of Newfoundland.

Rev. W. Clive, to be Archdeacon of Montgomery.

Rev. J. Jones, to be Archdeacon of Anglesea.

Rev. J. C. Moore, to be Archdeacon of the Isle of Man, and Rector of Andreas.

Rev. W. F. Chilcott, to be Prebendary of Easton in Gordans, in Salisbury Cathedral.

Rev. M. Meade, to be prebendary of Combe, in Salisbury Cathedral.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Dr. Paris, to be President of the College of Physicians.

APRIL.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. The Rev. G. R. Gleg, (Chaplain of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea,) to be Principal Chaplain to the Forces, vice the Rev. W. W. Dakins, D. D., who retires; Rev. R. W. Browne, M. A., to be Chaplain to troops stationed in London.

3. The Hon. John Arthur Douglas Bloomfield, (now Secretary of Her Majesty's Embassy at St. Petersburg,) to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of all the Russias; Andrew Buchanan, esq., (now Secretary of Legation at Florence,) to be Secretary of Legation at the Court of Russia; Hon. Peter Campbell Scarlett, to be Secretary to Her Majesty's Legation at the Court of Tuscany. John Campbell, of the College of New Sarum, esq., and Caroline Frances, his wife, in compliance with the wills of Henry Penruddocke Wyndham and Wadham Wyndham, esqs., deceased, to take the name of Wyndham after Campbell.

4. William Hatfield Gossip, Fellow Commoner of St. John's College, Cambridge, in compliance with the will of the Rev. C. H. Reaston Rhodes, of Barlborough-Hall, County of York, to take the name of De Rhodes only, and bear the arms of Rhodes.-The 40th Regiment, to bear on its regimental or second colour, and likewise on its appointments, in addition to any other distinctions heretofore granted, the words " Candahar," "Ghuznee," and "Cabool," "1842," in

commemoration of its services during the second campaign in Affghanistan.

5. Grenadier Foot Guards, Lieut. and Capt. E. B. Reynardson to be Captain and Lieut.-Colonel. - Unattached, Brevet Colonel Sir De Lacy Evans, K. C.B., from Captain half-pay 5th W. I. Regiment, to be Major.-Brevet, Captain W. Butler, 86th Foot; Capt. G. C. Collins, 73rd Foot; and Capt. J. R. T. Graham, 2nd Dragoons, to be Majors in the Army.-Staff, Colonel T. E. Napier, on half-pay Unattached, to be Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces serving in Ireland.

9. Patrick Walker, esq., to be Her Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in the Mosquito territory.-John Lindegren, esq., to be Her Majesty's Consul in the Island of Porto Rico.-Royal Artillery, Captain and Brevet Majors J. H. Wood, W. E. Jackson, and G. Durnford to be Lieut.-Colonels.-The Hon. James Hope of Featherstone Castle, Northumberland, in compliance with the will of Thomas Baron Wallace, to take the name of Wallace after Hope, and bear the arms of Wallace in the first quarter.

10. Master George Grant Gordon, to be Page of Honour to Her Majesty, vice Wemyss.

11. Alfred Miller Mundy, esq., to be Colonial Secretary for the Province of South Australia; James Morris Collier, esq., to be Treasurer for the Island of Tobago.

12. 18th Foot, Lieut.-Colonel T. S. Reynolds, from 49th Foot, to be Lieut.Colonel, vice Lieut.-Colonel H. W. Adams, who exchanges.-79th Foot, Capt. E. J. Elliot to be Major.

17. The Right Hon. John Hope, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, and the Right Hon. Sir F. Pollock, Knt., Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, sworn of the Privy Council.-William Earl of Lonsdale, sworn Lord Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmoreland.-The Rev. H. Walford Bellairs, the Rev. Frederick Watkins, and Joseph Fletcher, esq., to be three of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. - Knighted by letters patent, Colonel William Chalmers, of Glenericht, county of Perth, C. B.

18. Colonel T. F. Wade, to be an Assistant Commissioner of Poor-laws.

22. Royal Artillery, Captain and Brevet Major C. Dalton, to be Lieut. Colonel.

26. Charles Bennett, esq., to be Provost-Master-General for the Island of St. Lucia.

30. Brevet: Majors Thomas Ryan, 50th Foot; E. W. Bray, 39th Foot; G. L. Christie, 3rd Foot; James Stopford, 40th Foot; Marcus Barr, 29th Foot; P. J. Petit, 50th Foot; Henry Havelock, 13th Foot; and C. T. Van Straubenzee, 39th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonels in the Army Captains Patrick M'Kie, 3rd Foot; Fitz Herbert Coddington, 40th Foot; J. B. Oliver, 40th Foot; A. W. F. Somerset, Grenadier Guards; M. G. Nixon, 39th Foot; and W. L. Tudor, 50th Foot, to be Majors in the Army.

:

Follett, to be Attorney-General; Frederick Thesiger, esq., to be SolicitorGeneral.

The Earl of Haddington, (First Lord of the Admiralty,) to be an Elder Brother of the Trinity House.

MAY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

:

2. Major-Generals John Grey and H. G. Smith, to be Knights Commanders of the Bath Colonels James Dennis, 3rd Foot, and Thomas Valiant, 40th Foot; Lieut.-Colonels Alexander Campbell, 9th Lancers; Thomas Wright, 39th Foot; C. R. Cureton, 16th Lancers; G. J. M. Macdowell, 16th Lancers; Joseph Anderson, 50th Foot; J. O. Clunie, 3rd Foot; E. W. Bray, 39th Foot; and James Stopford, 40th Foot, to be Companion of the said Order: also, Major-Generals James Rutherford Lumley, (AdjutantGeneral,) and John Hunter Littler, Bengal Infantry, to be Knights Commanders of the Bath; and Lieutenant-Colonels Walter A. Yates, G. E. Gowen, Alexander Pope, Edward Biddulph, and Charles Hamilton, of the Bengal Army, to be Companions of the said Order.

3. Charles Fitzgerald, esq., Commander R. N., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Her Majesty's settlements in the Gambia.-1st Foot, Capt. Thomas Graham, to be Major.

4. Viscount Mahon and the Right Hon. T. B. Macaulay, to be additional Commissioners for inquiring whether advantage might not be taken of the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament for promoting and encouraging the Fine Arts. 6. Royal Marines, Brevet Major J. R. Coryton, to be Lieutenant-Colonel.

9. Captain Robert Maunsell, C. B., to be one of the Commissioners of Greenwich Hospital, vice Locker.

13. Rear-Admiral William Bowles, C. B., to be a Commissioner of the Admiralty, vice Sir G. F. Seymour.Knighted by patent, James Annesley, esq., of the Madras Medical Establishment.

14. Richard Mansel Oliver, of Melton Lodge, county of Leicester, gentleman, and Margaret Elizabeth, his wife, only child and heir of the late Rev. Millington Massey Jackson (formerly Massey), late of Warminster, and formerly of Dunham Massey, county of Chester, to take the

name of Massey after Oliver, and bear the arms of Massey in the first quarter.

17. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Bart., to be Her Majesty's Secretary at War.Unattached, brevet Col. Cecil Bisshopp, from 11th Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel; brevet Colonel Sir T. H. Browne, from Captain half-pay 23rd Foot, to be Major; Captain R. B. Wood, from 10th Light Dragoons, to be Major.

18. 11th Foot, Major William Chambers, to be Major.

20. Rev. Charles Loder Stephens, of Kencot, county of Oxford, to use the name of Loder only, in compliance with the will of Charles Loder, of Lechlade, esq.-James Weale, of Sparchford, in Diddlebury, county of Salop, in compliance with the will of William Beddoes, late of Sparchford, esq., to take the name of Beddoes instead of Weale.

21. Lord Arthur Lennox, to be a Commissioner of the Treasury, vice Young, appointed Secretary.

Sir T. F.

23. The Right Hon. Fremantle, Bart., sworn of the Privy Council. Frederick Thesiger, esq., Her Majesty's Solicitor-General, knighted.

24. 15th Foot, Captain George Pinder, to be Major. Unattached, Brevet Col. G. H. Zuhicke, from Major half-pay Portuguese service, to be Lieut.-Colonel; Brevet Colonel Sir William Chalmers, from Captain half-pay 57th Foot, and Brevet Colonel Charles Beckwith, from Captain half-pay Rifle Brigade, to be Majors.-Brevet Captain W. L. Peard, 41st Foot, and Captain Charles Agnew, 11th Foot, to be Majors in the Army.

30. George Tradescant Lay, esq., to be Consul at Amoy, in China; Rutherford Alcock, esq., to be Consul at Foochow-foo, in China; Charles Edward Keith Kortright, esq., to be Consul at Carthagena, in New Granada; and John William Perry Farren, esq., to be Consul in the Philippine Islands.

31. 70th Foot, Captain J. Brown, to be Major.-Rifle Brigade, Captain R. Walpole, to be Major.-Unattached, Brevet Colonel the Hon. C. Gore, from Major half-pay unattached, to be LieutenantColonel; Major the Hon. J. St. Vincent Saumarez, from the Rifle Brigade, to be Lieut.-Colonel; Brevet Colonel W. Campbell, from Captain half-pay 23rd Foot, to be Major.-Brevet, Major A. M. Tulloch, half-pay, Unattached Military Superintendent of Out Pensioners, to be Lieut.-Colonel in the Army.

6. Samuel William Need, of Langwith Lodge, Notts, esq., in compliance with the will of his maternal uncle, William Welfitt, of Pelham, county of Lincoln, esq., to take the name of Welfitt only, and bear the arms of Welfitt, in the first quarter.

7. Knighted by letters patent, William Cornwallis Harris, esq., Major Bombay Engineers.-11th Light Dragoons, Captain I. Jones, to be Major; unattached brevet Lieut.-Colonel J. R. Rotton, from the 11th Dragoons, to be Lieut.Colonel; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel J. Crosse, from Major unattached, to be