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DICKENS, GUSTAVUS GUY, brother of Frederick William Guy Dickens (qv); b.; adm. (aged 9) Sep 1741; left 1741; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 10 Feb 1745/6; Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 16 Feb 1748/9, Canoneer Student 9 Jul 1750 - void 14 Jul 1759; BA 1752; Cornet, 6th Dragoons 25 Nov 1754; Lieut., 2 Sep 1756; Lieut. and Capt., 3rd Foot Guards 1 May 1761; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 22 Feb 1775; Brevet Col., 16 May 1782; Second Major, 3rd Foot Guards 20 Oct 1784; First Major, 18 Apr 1786; Lieut. -Col., 13 Sep 1791; Maj. -Gen., 28 Apr 1790; retd. 31 Jul 1793; ADC to Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, during Seven Years War; Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to Queen Charlotte 10 Jul 1765 – Feb 1783, Gentleman Usher of Privy Chamber to Queen Charlotte 13 Feb 1783 – 28 Aug 1793; discovered in a compromising situation in Hyde Park in Aug 1792, which led to his disgrace and to his retirement from the Army and from public life; m. 7 Apr 1762 Elizabeth Frances, youngest dau. of John Tracy, Stanway, Gloucs.; d. 1793.
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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.