Identity area
Type of entity
Authorized form of name
Parallel form(s) of name
Standardized form(s) of name according to other rules
Other form(s) of name
Identifiers for corporate bodies
Description area
Dates of existence
History
DOYLE, SIR CHARLES WILLIAM, eldest son of William Doyle KC (I), Bramblestown, co. Kilkenny, a Master in Chancery (I), and his second wife Cecilia, dau. of Gen. --- Salvini, Austrian Army; b. (Dublin); adm.; at school 1791; Min. Can. (aged 14) 1792; Ensign, 105th Foot 28 Apr 1783, half-pay 1783; Lieut., Capt. Grey’s Independent Co. Foot, 12 Feb 1793; Capt. Hardy’s Independent Co. Foot, 7 Mar 1793; 91st Foot, 30 Oct 1793; Capt. -Lieut., 108th Foot 21 Jun 1794; 87th Foot, 3 Sep 1795; Capt., 1 Aug 1798; Maj., 61st Foot 9 Jul 1803; Lieut. -Col., 87th Foot 22 Aug 1805; Col., 4 Jun 1813; half-pay, 84th Foot 25 Dec 1818; Maj. -Gen., 12 Aug 1819; Lieut. -Gen., 10 Jan 1837; served in Netherlands 1793, wounded at siege of Valenciennes and battle of Lannoy; in West Indies 1796-8; on Abercromby’s expedition to Egypt, wounded 21 Mar 1801; sent by British government to help insurgents in Spain, with local ranks of Brig. and Maj-Gen.; wounded at battle of Col de Balaguer and in defence of Tarragona; made Lieut. -Gen. in Spanish Army for his brilliant services in Catalonia; Director and Inspector-General of Military Instruction, Cadiz 1811-4; knighted 1815; CB 3 Feb 1817; KCH 1821; GCH 1837; m. 1st, 15 May 1802 Sophia Cramer, dau. of Sir John Coghill, Bart., MP (I); m. 2nd, 1828 Sophia, widow of William Stair; d. at Paris 25 Oct 1842. DNB.
Places
Legal status
Functions, occupations and activities
Mandates/sources of authority
Internal structures/genealogy
General context
Relationships area
Access points area
Subject access points
Place access points
Occupations
Control area
Authority record identifier
Institution identifier
Rules and/or conventions used
International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Prepared for import into AtoM by Westminster School Archive staff, 2019-2020
Language(s)
Script(s)
Sources
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.