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Army Promotions

1852

SOURCE: THE GLOBE and Traveller, Wednesday, May 26, 1852.

Globe and Traveller


FROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

DOWNING STREET, MAY 25

The Queen has been pleased to appoint Arthur Edward Kennedy, Esq. to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over her Majesty's Settlements in the River Gambia and their dependencies.

WHITEHALL, MAY 24.

The Queen has been pleased to grant the office of Solicitor General for Scotland to Charles Neaves, Esq., Advocate in the room of John Inglis, Esq., appointed her Majesty's Advocate for Scotland.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAY 24.

The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Earl of Sandwich, to appoint Captain Edward Wilson Kenworthy, late of the Madras Army, one of her Majesty's Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Philip Salomons, retired.

CROWN OFFICE, MAY 24.
Member returned to serve in
this present Parliament.

Borough of New Windsor—Charles Wm. Grenfell, of Belgrave square, in the city and liberty of Westminster, Esq., in the room of George Alexander Reid, Esq. deceased.

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Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Huntingdon.

John Bonfoy Rooper, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant; John Moyer Heathcote, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant; May 17.

Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Leicester.

Prince Albert's Own Leicestershire Yeomanry Cavalry—Captain Edward Basil Farnham to be Major, vice Packe, resigned; March 6. Lieutenant Hampden Clement to be Captain, vice

Farnham, promoted; March 6. Cornet Sir George Howland Beaumont, Bart. to be Lieut., vice Clement, promoted; March 6. The Hon, Gerald James Noel to be Cornet, vice Russell, promoted; March 6. George Henry Littledale, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Heygate, promoted; April 12. Cornet the Hon. William Henry Curzon to be Lieutenant, vice Arkwright, resigned; May 14. William Unwin Heygate, Gent. to be Cornet, vice Beaumont, promoted; May 14.