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HANDASYDE, ROGER, eldest son of Maj. -Gen. Thomas Handasyde, Lieut. -Gov. Jamaica, and his first wife; b.; at school under Busby and Knipe (Steward, Anniversary Dinner 1759); Ensign, Col. John Gibson’s Foot (afterwards 28th Foot) 24 Dec 1696; Capt., 1703; Lieut. -Col., 16th Foot 1709; Col., 22nd Foot 3 Apr 1712 – Jul 1730, 16th Foot from 9 Jul 1730; Brig. -Gen., 28 Nov 1735; Maj. -Gen., 2 Jul 1739; Lieut. -Gen., 29 Mar 1743; Gen., 6 Mar 1761; Lieut. -Governor, Fort Philip, Minorca 1737; Governor of Berwick 1745; Commander-in-Chief, Scotland Oct – Dec 1745; MP Huntingdon 1722-41, Scarborough 1747-54; of Gaines Hall, Great Stoughton, Hunts.; lic. to m. 21 Jan 1709/10 Elizabeth, dau. of Sir John Thornycroft, Bart., Milcombe, Oxfordshire; d. 4 Jan 1763, aged 78.
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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.