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&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;New page&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div&gt;{{Short description|British Army officer}}&lt;br /&gt;
{{Other people|George Nugent}}&lt;br /&gt;
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{{Infobox officeholder&lt;br /&gt;
| honorific_prefix = [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]]&lt;br /&gt;
| name          = Sir George Nugent&lt;br /&gt;
| honorific_suffix = [[Baronet|Bt]] [[Order of the Bath|GCB]]&lt;br /&gt;
| image         = Georgenugent.gif&lt;br /&gt;
| caption       =&lt;br /&gt;
| office        = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)|Buckingham]]&lt;br /&gt;
| alongside     = [[William Fremantle (politician)|William Fremantle]], [[Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe|Sir Thomas Fremantle, 1st Bt]]&lt;br /&gt;
| term_start    = 1818&lt;br /&gt;
| term_end      = 1832&lt;br /&gt;
| predecessor   = [[William Fremantle (politician)|William Fremantle]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;[[James Hamilton Stanhope]] &lt;br /&gt;
| successor     = [[Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe|Sir Thomas Fremantle, 1st Bt]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;[[Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet|Sir Harry Verney]]&lt;br /&gt;
| office1       = [[Commander-in-Chief, India]]&lt;br /&gt;
| term_start1   = 1811&lt;br /&gt;
| term_end1     = 1813&lt;br /&gt;
| predecessor1  = [[Forbes Champagné]]&lt;br /&gt;
| successor1    = [[Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings|The Earl of Moira]]&lt;br /&gt;
| office2       = [[Governor of Jamaica]]&lt;br /&gt;
| term_start2   = 1801&lt;br /&gt;
| term_end2     = 1805&lt;br /&gt;
| predecessor2  = [[Alexander Lindsay, 23rd Earl of Crawford|The Earl of Balcarres]]&lt;br /&gt;
| successor2    = [[Eyre Coote (the Younger)|Sir Eyre Coote]]&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_date    = {{birth date|df=yes|1757|06|10}}&lt;br /&gt;
| birth_place   =&lt;br /&gt;
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1849|03|11|1757|06|10}}&lt;br /&gt;
| death_place   = [[Westhorpe House]], [[Buckinghamshire]]&lt;br /&gt;
| education     = [[Charterhouse School]]&lt;br /&gt;
| alma_mater    = [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]]&lt;br /&gt;
| parents       = Hon. Edmund Nugent&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;Ms. Fennings&lt;br /&gt;
| spouse        = {{marriage|Maria Skinner&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;|1797|1834|reason=her death}}&lt;br /&gt;
| children      = 5&lt;br /&gt;
| relations     = [[Thomas Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe]] (grandson)&lt;br /&gt;
| allegiance    = {{UK}}&lt;br /&gt;
| branch        = [[File:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]&lt;br /&gt;
| serviceyears  =&lt;br /&gt;
| rank          = [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|Field Marshal]]&lt;br /&gt;
| commands      = [[97th (The Earl of Ulster&amp;#039;s) Regiment of Foot|97th Regiment of Foot]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;[[Somerset Light Infantry|13th Regiment of Foot]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;[[4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;[[85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers)|Buckinghamshire Volunteers]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;[[Western Command (United Kingdom)|Western District]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;Kent District&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;[[Commander-in-Chief, India]]&lt;br /&gt;
| battles       = [[American Revolutionary War]]&amp;lt;br /&amp;gt;[[French Revolutionary Wars]]&lt;br /&gt;
| awards        = [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]]&lt;br /&gt;
}}&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;, [[Order of the Bath|GCB]] (10 June 1757 – 11 March 1849) was a [[British Army]] officer. After serving as a junior officer in the [[American Revolutionary War]], he fought with the [[Coldstream Guards]] under the [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany|Duke of York]] during the [[Flanders Campaign]]. He then commanded the [[85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers)|Buckinghamshire Volunteers]] in the actions of St. Andria and Thuyl on the river [[Waal (river)|Waal]] and participated in the disastrous retreat from the [[Rhine]]. He went on to be commander of the northern district of [[Ireland]], in which post he played an important part in placating the people of [[Belfast]] during the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish Rebellion]], and then became [[Adjutant-General]] in Ireland. He went on to be [[Governor of Jamaica]], commander of the [[Western Command (United Kingdom)|Western District]] in England, commander of the Kent District in England and finally [[Commander-in-Chief, India]].&lt;br /&gt;
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==Early life==&lt;br /&gt;
Born the illegitimate son of Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. Edmund Nugent (who was the only son of [[Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent]]) and a Ms. Fennings. His father had another illegitimate son, [[Admiral of the Fleet]] Sir [[Charles Edmund Nugent]]. His father&amp;#039;s half sister, Mary Elizabeth Nugent, married [[George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham]]. Through his Mary, he inherited the title of [[Earl Nugent]]. Lord Buckingham&amp;#039;s aunt, [[Hester Pitt, Countess of Chatham|Hester Grenville]], had married [[William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham|William Pitt]], who became [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{citation |first=George |last=Cokayne |author-link=George Cokayne |display-authors=etal |title=[[The Complete Peerage]] |volume=III|page=143}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Nugent was educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]].&amp;lt;ref name=odnb&amp;gt;{{cite ODNB|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20390?docPos=1|title=Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/20390|access-date=2 March 2014}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Military career==&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Portrait of George Nugent, Pembroke Cavalry (4673396).jpg|left|thumb|George Nugent, Pembroke Cavalry, 1798]]&lt;br /&gt;
[[File:Westhorpe House.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Westhorpe House]] where Nugent lived for over 40 years]]&lt;br /&gt;
He was commissioned as an [[ensign (rank)|ensign]] in the [[39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot|39th Regiment of Foot]] on 5 July 1773&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=11377|date=7 August 1773|page=1}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and was posted to [[Gibraltar]].&amp;lt;ref name=heath232&amp;gt;Heathcote, p.232&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He transferred the [[Royal Fusiliers|7th Regiment of Foot]] at [[Province of New York|New York]] with promotion to [[lieutenant]] in September 1777 and saw action at the [[Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery]] in October 1777 and then took part in the [[Philadelphia campaign]] during the [[American Revolutionary War]].&amp;lt;ref name=heath232/&amp;gt; He continued to serve in North America and became a [[Captain (British Army and Royal Marines)|captain]] in the [[57th (West Middlesex) Regiment of Foot|57th Regiment of Foot]] on 28 April 1778&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=11888|date=30 June 1778|page=1}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and a [[Major (United Kingdom)|major]] in the same regiment on 3 May 1782.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=12313|date=13 July 1782|page=3}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Flanders and Ireland===&lt;br /&gt;
Promoted to [[Lieutenant colonel (United Kingdom)|lieutenant colonel]] in September 1783, Nugent was appointed commanding officer of the [[97th (The Earl of Ulster&amp;#039;s) Regiment of Foot|97th Regiment of Foot]] and returned to England, but in the post-war cost reductions the regiment was disbanded and he instead became commanding officer of the [[Somerset Light Infantry|13th Regiment of Foot]] in 1787.&amp;lt;ref name=heath233&amp;gt;Heathcote, p.233&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He became an [[aide-de-camp]] to his brother-in-law, the [[George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham|Marquess of Buckingham]], who was serving as [[Lord Lieutenant of Ireland]], in November 1787.&amp;lt;ref name=heath233/&amp;gt; On Buckingham&amp;#039;s departure from [[Ireland]], Nugent became commanding officer of the [[4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards]] in 1789.&amp;lt;ref name=heath233/&amp;gt; Nugent became [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)|Buckingham]] in 1790.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=13226|date=7 August 1790|page=503}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He exchanged into the [[Coldstream Guards]] as a company commander in October 1790&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=13245|date=12 October 1790|page=622}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and served at the [[Siege of Valenciennes (1793)|Siege of Valenciennes]] in May 1793, the [[Battle of Lincelles]] in August 1793 and the [[Siege of Dunkirk (1793)|Siege of Dunkirk]] also in August 1793 under the [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany|Duke of York]] during the [[Flanders Campaign]].&amp;lt;ref name=heath233/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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The [[War Office]] recalled Nugent to supervise the raising of the [[85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers)|85th Buckinghamshire Volunteers]] in March 1794.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=13628|date=1 March 1794|page=191}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He commanded the regiment under [[Ralph Abercromby|Sir Ralph Abercromby]] in the action at Fort St. Andries, and with [[David Dundas (British Army officer)|Major General David Dundas]] at [[Tuil]] on the river [[Waal (river)|Waal]] and participated in the disastrous retreat from the [[Rhine]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Smith, p.4.&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Promoted to [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|major general]] on 1 May 1796, he became Captain of [[St Mawes Castle]] on 5 November 1796&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=13948|date=5 November 1796|page=1062}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and served in that role until his death. He went on to be commander of the northern district of [[Ireland]] in 1798, in which post he played an important part in placating the people of [[Belfast]] during the [[Irish Rebellion of 1798|Irish Rebellion]] that year, and became [[Adjutant-General]] in Ireland in August 1799.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=15185|date=21 September 1799|page=966}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He also represented [[Charleville (Parliament of Ireland constituency)|Charleville]], [[County Cork]] in the last [[Irish House of Commons]] before the [[Acts of Union 1800]].&amp;lt;ref name=heath233/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Later career===&lt;br /&gt;
Nugent became [[Governor of Jamaica]] in April 1801&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=15365|date=12 May 1801|page=533}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; with promotion to local [[lieutenant general]] on 29 May 1802.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=15483|date=25 May 1802|page=539}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; While serving there, he strengthened the fort that the Spanish slave agent in Jamaica, James Castillo, had built in 1709 in [[Harbour View, Jamaica|Harbour View]]. Named Fort Nugent, the fort guarded the eastern entrance of the city of [[Kingston, Jamaica|Kingston]] Harbour, although all that remains there now is a [[Martello tower]] that was added after Nugent&amp;#039;s departure.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Clements, p. 125&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Promoted to the substantive rank of lieutenant general on 25 September 1803,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=15624|date=27 September 1803|page=1317}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Nugent returned to England in February 1806 and became commander of the [[Western Command (United Kingdom)|Western District]] in England in August 1806.&amp;lt;ref name=odnb/&amp;gt; He was elected Member of Parliament (MP) for [[Aylesbury (UK Parliament constituency)|Aylesbury]] on 3 November 1806&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=16035|date=6 June 1807|page=763}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and created a [[baronet]] of [[Waddesdon]] in the county of [[Buckinghamshire]] on 11 November 1806.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=15973|date=8 November 1806|page=1466}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; He bought [[Westhorpe House]] in Buckinghamshire in October 1808 and became commander of the Kent District in England in July 1809.&amp;lt;ref name=odnb/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Nugent stood down from his seat in Parliament to become [[Commander-in-Chief, India]] in January 1811.&amp;lt;ref name=hop&amp;gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/nugent-george-1757-1849|title=Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet|publisher=History of Parliament|access-date=2 March 2014}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Having been appointed a [[Knight of the Order of the Bath]] on 1 February 1813&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=16699|date=30 January 1813|page=228}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and promoted to full [[general]] on 4 June 1813, Nugent was replaced as Commander-in-Chief by [[Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings|Lord Moira]] in October 1813.&amp;lt;ref name=heath233/&amp;gt; Nugent was relegated to the role of Commander of the [[Bengal Army]] but instead chose to return to England in October 1814.&amp;lt;ref name=odnb/&amp;gt; On return he unleashed a &amp;quot;skin-full of venom&amp;quot; against Lord Moira who in turn complained to the [[George IV of the United Kingdom|Prince Regent]] about Nugent&amp;#039;s hostile behaviour.&amp;lt;ref name=hop/&amp;gt; He was advanced to [[Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath]] on 2 January 1815&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=16972|date=4 January 1815|page=18}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and, having been elected Member of Parliament for [[Buckingham (UK Parliament constituency)|Buckingham]] again in July 1818,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=17376|date=7 July 1818|page=1218}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; he was awarded an honorary [[Doctor of Civil Law|DCL]] by the [[University of Oxford]] in 1819.&amp;lt;ref name=odnb/&amp;gt; He finally retired from Parliament in 1832.&amp;lt;ref name=odnb/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Nugent also served as honorary colonel of the [[85th Regiment of Foot (Bucks Volunteers)|85th (Bucks Volunteers) Regiment of Foot]], then as honorary colonel of the [[62nd (Wiltshire) Regiment of Foot|62nd Regiment of Foot]]&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=15877|date=31 December 1805|page=4}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; and later as honorary colonel of the [[Royal Warwickshire Regiment|6th Regiment of Foot]].&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=15924|date=31 May 1806|page=682}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Promoted to [[Field marshal (United Kingdom)|field marshal]] on 9 November 1846.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{London Gazette|issue=20660|date=10 November 1846|page=3987|supp=y}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==Personal life==&lt;br /&gt;
On 16 November 1797, Nugent was married to Maria Skinner (1771–1834) in [[Belfast]]. Maria was a daughter of [[Cortlandt Skinner]], the [[Attorney-General]] of [[New Jersey]] and a descendant of the [[Schuyler family|Schuyler]] and [[Van Cortlandt family|Van Cortlandt families]] of [[British North America]],&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain &amp;amp; Ireland, Volume 2. London: Harrison 1871, page 1270&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Together, they had three sons and two daughters, including:&amp;lt;ref name=heath233/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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* [[Sir George Nugent, 2nd Baronet|Sir George Edmund Nugent, 2nd Baronet]] (1802–1892), who married Maria Charlotte Ridley-Colborne, a daughter of [[Nicholas Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;historyofparliamentonline&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web |title=RIDLEY COLBORNE, Nicholas William (1779-1854), of West Harling, Norf. |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/ridley-colborne-nicholas-william-1779-1854 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org |publisher=[[History of Parliament Online]] |access-date=15 May 2020}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Louisa Elizabeth Nugent (1803–1875), who married [[Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe]], the eldest son of [[Elizabeth Wynne Fremantle|Betsey]] and Adm. [[Thomas Fremantle (Royal Navy officer)|Sir Thomas Fremantle]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;BaronCottesloe&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Charles Edmund Nugent (1811–1890), who married Louisa Douglas Price, a daughter of [[Price baronets|Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Debrett1840&amp;quot;/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
* Maria Amelia Nugent, who married [[Rice Richard Clayton]], the fourth son of [[Sir William Clayton, 4th Baronet]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Debrett1840&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |last1=Debrett |first1=John |title=The Baronetage of England. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen |year=1840 |page=407 |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_baronetage_of_England_revised_correc/mvIDAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&amp;amp;gbpv=1&amp;amp;dq=Louisa+Douglas+Price+nugent&amp;amp;pg=PA407 |access-date=15 May 2020 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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George and Maria Nugent lived at Stowe and enjoyed a close friendship with his aunt and uncle, [[George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham|Lord and Lady Buckingham]].&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;nugentsofantigua&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web |title=Maria, Lady Nugent of Jamaica |url=http://www.nugentsofantigua.net/?page_id=1958 |website=www.nugentsofantigua.net |publisher=Nugents of Antigua |access-date=15 May 2020}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Lady Nugent, who died in 1834, wrote a journal of her experiences in Jamaica first published in 1907.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web|title=Lady Maria Nugent [Skinner]|url=http://www.dukesofbuckingham.org.uk/people/family/nugent/maria_skinner.htm|publisher=Dukes of Buckingham|access-date=2 March 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302152256/http://www.dukesofbuckingham.org.uk/people/family/nugent/maria_skinner.htm|archive-date=2 March 2014}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;Bohls2005&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite book |last1=Bohls |first1=Elizabeth A. |last2=Duncan |first2=Ian |title=Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology |year=2005 |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |isbn=978-0-19-284051-6 |page=32 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6H7dKT77tooC&amp;amp;pg=PA325 |access-date=15 May 2020 }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Sir George died at Westhorpe House on 11 March 1849 and was buried at St John the Baptist Church in [[Little Marlow]].&amp;lt;ref name=heath233/&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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===Descendants===&lt;br /&gt;
Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of Sir Edmund Charles Nugent, 3rd Baronet and through his daughter Louisa, he was a grandfather of [[Thomas Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe]], Admiral Hon. [[Edmund Fremantle]], and Hon. Augusta Mary Fremantle (wife of [[William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton]]).&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;BaronCottesloe&amp;quot;&amp;gt;{{cite web |title=Cottesloe, Baron (UK, 1874) |url=http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/cottesloe1874.htm |website=www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk |publisher=Heraldic Media Limited |access-date=15 May 2020 |archive-date=1 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101140523/http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/cottesloe1874.htm |url-status=live }}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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==References==&lt;br /&gt;
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==Sources==&lt;br /&gt;
*{{cite book|last=Clements|first=William|year=1999|title=Towers of strength: the story of the Martello towers|publisher=Leo Copper|isbn=978-0850526790|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/towersofstrength0000clem}}&lt;br /&gt;
*{{cite book|last=Heathcote|first=Tony|title=The British Field Marshals, 1736–1997: A Biographical Dictionary |publisher= Leo Cooper|location=Barnsley|year= 1999|isbn= 0-85052-696-5}}&lt;br /&gt;
*{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Henry Stooks|title=An alphabetical list of the officers of the Eighty-Fifth, Bucks Volunteers, the Kings Light Infantry Regiment from 1800 to 1850|year=1851|publisher=London: Simpkin, Marshall|isbn=978-1110157846}}&lt;br /&gt;
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==Further reading==&lt;br /&gt;
*{{cite book| last=Wright| first=Philip | title= Lady Nugent&amp;#039;s Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805| publisher= University of the West Indies Press | year=2002| isbn= 1-84415-143-3}}&lt;br /&gt;
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