ASHLEY COOPER, Hon. Anthony Henry (1807-1858).
Ensign 85 Ft. 1825, lt. 1826, capt. 1831; capt. Staff Corps (half-pay) 1834; capt. 9 Drag. and res. 1841.
ASHLEY COOPER, Hon. Anthony Henry (1807-1858)
Ensign 85 Ft. 1825, lt. 1826, capt. 1831; capt. Staff Corps (half-pay) 1834; capt. 9 Drag. and res. 1841.
ASHLEY COOPER, Hon. Anthony Henry (1807-1858)
Commr. bd. of control Feb. 1828 – Dec. 1830; commr. of lunacy 1828 – 49, chairman 1849 – 85; ld. of admiralty Dec. 1834 – Apr. 1835; ecclesiastical commr. 1841 – 47; member, bd. of health 1848 – 54; commr. subdivision of parishes 1849 – 56.
Ld. lt. Dorset 1856 – d.
Based on E. Hodder, Life and Work of Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1887), and the best recent biography, G.B.A.M. Finlayson, Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury (1987).
ASHLEY COOPER, Anthony, Lord Ashley (1801-1885)
Ensign 2 Ft. Gds. 1815, half-pay 1818, returned to regt. 1821; lt. 1 Ft. Gds. 1825, ret. 1830.
ASHBURNHAM, Hon. Percy (1799-1881)
Lt. Leics. yeomanry 1803 – 04; capt. W. Leics. vols. 1804; maj. Chatsworth regt. Derbys. militia 1809; cornet, N. Derbys. yeoman cav. 1817.
ARKWRIGHT, Richard (1781-1832)
Sheriff, Suff. 1819 – 20.
ARCEDECKNE, Andrew (1780-1849)
Entered army (ensign) May 1796; lt. 49 Ft. Sept. 1796, capt. 1799; maj. army 1804; maj. 52 Ft. 1805, lt.-col. 1811; half-pay 1815; col. army 1821; maj.-gen. 1830; lt.-gen. 1841; col. 38 Ft. 1843; gen. 1854; col. 79 Ft. 1862 – d.
ARBUTHNOTT, Hugh (?1780-1868)
Ensign and lt. 1 Ft. Gds. 1816; lt. 11 Drag. 1818; capt. 28 Ft. 1820; maj. army (half-pay) 1823; maj. 63 Ft. 1824; lt.-col. army (half-pay) 1825; lt.-col. 72 Ft. 1826; lt.-col. 90 Ft. 1831; lt.-col. 72 Ft. 1838; col. army 1838; lt.-col. (half-pay) 1843; maj.-gen. 1851; col. 89 Ft. 1857; lt.-gen. 1858; gen. 1864; col. 91 Ft. 1864; col. 72 Ft. Aug. 1870 – d.
Page of honour 1812 – 16; equerry in ordinary Sept. 1841 – July 1846.
ARBUTHNOT, Charles George James (1801-1870)
Precis writer, foreign office 1793 – 95; sec. of legation, Stockholm 1795 – 99, charge d’affaires 1795 – 97; envoy to Wurttemberg 1798; consul and charge d’affaires at Lisbon 1800 – 01; envoy extraordinary to Sweden 1802 – 03; under-sec. of state for foreign affairs Nov. 1803 – June 1804; envoy extraordinary to the Porte 1804 – 07; PC 27 June 1804; sec. to treasury Apr. 1809 – Feb. 1823; first commr. of woods, forests and land revenues Feb. 1823 – Apr. 1827, Feb. – June 1828; chan. of duchy of Lancaster June 1828 – Nov. 1830.
ARBUTHNOT, Charles (1767-1850)