This officer was promoted on the 27th of February, 1751, from the lieut.-colonelcy of the twenty-fourth, to the colonelcy of the thirty-eighth regiment; and was removed in 1756 to the KING'S OWN. In 1758 he was promoted to the rank of major-general, and in 1760 to that of lieut.-general. He died in 1765.
ROBERT BRUDENELL, third son of George Earl of Cardigan, was many years a member of parliament for Marlborough, also groom of the bedchamber to his Royal Highness the Duke of York, whose train he bore at the coronation of George III. He was appointed captain and lieut.-colonel in the third foot guards in 1758; was promoted to the colonelcy of the sixteenth foot in 1763; and removed to the KING'S OWN in 1765. He died at Windsor in October, 1768.
STUDHOLME HODGSON, after serving several years in the army, was appointed, in 1745, aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland, whom he attended at the battles of Fontenoy and Culloden. He obtained the command of a company, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the first foot guards, on the 22d of February, 1747; and on the 30th of May, 1756, he was promoted to the colonelcy of the fiftieth foot. He obtained the rank of major-general on the 25th of June, 1759; and was removed to the colonelcy of the fifth foot in October of the same year. In 1761 he was advanced to the rank of lieutenant-general, and he commanded the land forces of a successful expedition against Belle Isle in the same year, for which he obtained the approbation of the king, and received the expression of the "warm sense of the great service he had done his king and country;" also the congratulation, "on the completion of so important and critical an operation which must ever be remembered to his honour," from the secretary of state, the celebrated William Pitt, afterwards Earl of Chatham. He was appointed in 1765, governor of Forts George and Augustus. In 1768 he was removed to the KING'S OWN; in 1778 he was promoted to the rank of general; and in 1782 he was removed to the colonelcy of the fourth Irish horse, now seventh dragoon guards. He was again removed, in 1789, to the eleventh light dragoons, and on the 30th of July, 1796, he was promoted to the rank of field-marshal. He enjoyed this elevated rank two years, and died in the autumn of 1798, at the advanced age of ninety years.