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Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot / Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.

Chapter 5: SUCCESSION OF MAJORS
By Richard Cannon
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This regimental history compiles the origin, organization, and deployments of the Fifty-sixth (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, describing its stations, campaigns, battles, sieges, and notable actions; it records casualties, awards, captured colours, and granted badges, and includes lists of officers and non-commissioned men distinguished in service. Prefatory material explains the aims and procedures for assembling official records; biographical notices of colonels and other officers, chronological service summaries, and appendices of orders, honors, and documentary extracts accompany operational narrative and administrative details.

SUCCESSION OF MAJORS

OF THE

FIFTY-SIXTH, OR WEST ESSEX, REGIMENT OF FOOT.

Names. Dates of Appointment. Remarks.
John Doyne Dec.  26, 1755 Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, June 30, 1760.
James Stewart June 30, 1760 Promoted to Lieut.-Col., February 20, 1762.
John Heighington Feb. 20, 1762 Resigned September 9, 1762.
Alexander Milbanke Sep. 9, 1762 Died November 4, 1762.
William Forbes Nov. 4, 1762 Removed to Thirty-fifth Foot, October 31, 1762.
Thomas Johnston Oct. 31, 1762 Resigned September 11, 1765.
Henry Pringle Sep. 11, 1765 Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Fifty-first Foot, August 16, 1770.
John Caulfield Aug. 16, 1770 Promoted to Lieut.-Col., October 3, 1776.
Bulleine Fancourt Oct 3, 1776 Retired August 6, 1783.
Hon. Vere Poulett Aug. 6, 1783 Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel Sixtieth Regiment, August 31, 1793.
Patrick Tytler Aug. 31, 1793 Retired October 8, 1794.
John Alexander Oct. 8, 1794 Retired March 10, 1797.
James Barrington Sep. 1, 1795 Resigned September 3, 1800.
Robert Douglas March 10, 1797 Promoted Lieut.-Colonel Eighteenth Foot, July 9, 1803.
Henry S. Keating Sep. 3, 1800 Promoted August 1, 1804, by Augmentation.
Robert Owen Aug. 27, 1803 Placed upon half-pay, February 21, 1805.
George Andrew Armstrong Aug. 1, 1804 Exchanged to half-pay, January 5, 1805.
Robert O’Neill    {Augmen- Aug. 2, 1804 Exchanged to half-pay, June 23, 1808, with Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Walsh.
Fletcher Barclay {tation. Aug. 27, 1804 Promoted June 27, 1811.
William Brooke Jan. 5, 1805 Exchanged to Fifth Dragoon Guards, July 25, 1805.
John McLeod Feb. 21, 1805 Promoted Lieut.-Colonel Ninth Garrison Battalion, May 5, 1808.
Henry R. Knight July 25, 1805 Exchanged to half-pay, July 17, 1806.
Boyle Travers July 17, 1806 Promoted January 2, 1812.
Samuel Bayley June 9, 1808 Died in 1810.
Thomas Walsh June 23, 1808 Died in 1810.
John William Mallett Aug. 29, 1810 Promoted November 6, 1813.
Sir Charles Wyndham Burdett, Bart. Nov. 29, 1810 Retired July 26, 1821.
Robert Grant June 27, 1811 Exchanged to Eighty-second Foot, April 12, 1821.
Joseph Hanna Jan. 2, 1812 Died in 1816.
William S. Forbes } Nov. 6, 1813 Placed on half-pay on September 6, 1817, on the disbandment of second battalion.
Henry Capadose   } Oct. 17, 1816
George Wroughton Montagu April 12, 1821 Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, May 19, 1825.
John Gualey July 26, 1821 Cancelled.
Howell Harris Prichard July 26, 1821 Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel, April 26, 1831.
John Elliot Cairnes May 26, 1825 Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, March 29, 1827.
John Peddie March 29, 1827 Promoted to Lieut.-Colonel unattached, August 28, 1827.
William Gun Aug. 28, 1827 Retired October 11, 1831.
William Mitchell April 26, 1831 Exchanged to half-pay, June 13, 1834.
George Morton Eden Oct. 11, 1831 Promoted to Lt.-Colonelcy, May 20, 1836.
John Wilson June 13, 1834 Died at Jamaica, July 14, 1837.
Forrester Owen Leighton May 20, 1836 Retired September 12, 1843.
Peter Shadwell Norman July 15, 1837 } Now serving.
Edmund Wm. Wilton Passy Sep. 12, 1843