Robert Dampier HALLIFAX

NOTE: This gent and all his antecedents were originally taken from afamily tree that mostly looks like my mother's handwriting withsome notesabout graves from the 1860s in my grandmother'shandwriting. This latter means at least that she checked thistree and thought some notes of validity should be added...And there is another tree made also by MurielFerrand in 1931,from Daphne Briscoe with some subsequent additions by her.Nevertheless it is to be regarded as material for investigationrather than fact.One clear lead should be his grandfather who was bishop ofGloucester...From Burke it looks likely that the Dampier part of his namecomes from his maternal first couin, twice removed's husband,Thomas Dampier, the bishop of Ely.- TFPL, Dec 1997__________________________________________________________TFPL: Sep 2001:On an internet site,http://redcoat.future.easyspace.com/offzdiedh.htm, I found aseries of entries for army officers and their burials and thisincluded:'Halifax - ColonelRobert Dampier - 75the Foot - died 1st June1857.Son of Rev. Robert andEliza Hallifax. Served Kaffir War 1834.Married Harriet Thomson at Wynberg, Cape Colony, 10th July 1832.Grave at Karnal - "Here rests the bodyof Robert DampierHallifax, eldest son of the late revd Robert Fitz WilliamHallifax of Batchcot near Indow Shropshire. Colonel of H.M.75th Regt and Brigadier with the Army of Delhie.Born 28th July 1804. Died 1stJune 1857 aged 52 years." 'I have asked the site owner if he can let me know where he foundthis gem.__________________________________________________________TFPL, August 2003:The army lists for 1850 and 1855-6 show him to have been in the75th regiment of Foot, "Seringapatam" - TheRoyal Tiger,superscribed "India". Seringapatam was a battle fought inMysore in 1799 against the Tipoo Sultan 'The Tiger of Mysore'.This regiment was in 1883 attached to the Gordon Highlanders.The Army List for 1850 show his promotion history, with hiscolonelcy from 1855-6:1823, 31stJuly: Ensign1825, 23 June: Lieut1826, 8th April: Captain,1836, 30th July: Major,1843, 12th December: Lt-Colonel1854, 20 June: Colonel.If he did make it to Brigadier, this must have been in the lastfew months of his life. Though it sounds as if it was an IndianArmy appointment._TFPL, Late August2003:From the Galway Journal on Thursday October 2nd, 1823 (viahttp://www.irelandoldnews.com/Galway/1823/OCT.html):MILITARY PROMOTIONS________War Office, Sept. 26, 1823.9th Regiment of Light Dragoons- Thomas JohnFitzmaurice,Viscount Kirkwall to be Cornet by purchase, vice Lascelles,promoted to the 67th Foot.13th Ditto- Lieutenant John Gunn Collins, from half-pay 21stLight Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Meunbury Nash, whoexchanges, receiving the difference. George James Christie,Gent, to beCornet, without purchase, vice Elton promoted.2d Regiment of Foot-Serjeant Major _____ Littlejohn, from the72d Foot,to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Munday, promoted,(and to act as Adjt.)10th Ditto- Lieutenant Charles Collins Blane to be Captain bypurchase, vice Rudsdell, promoted. Ensign William Henry Goode tobe Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Blane. Robert Dampier Halifax,Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Goode.[He was 17 then.]

nom prefixe: Brigadier

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