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HARVEY, EDWARD, brother of Eliab Harvey (adm. Jan 1723/4, qv); b. 1 Aug 1718; adm. (aged 8) Jan 1726/7; left 1735; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 24 May 1736; Cornet, 10th Dragoons 19 Mar 1740/1; Lieut. , 31 Aug 1744; Capt. , 7th Dragoons 6 Feb 1747; Maj. , 8 Mar 1751; Lieut. -Col. , 6th Dragoons 25 May 1754; Equerry to George III 1760; Col. in the Army 2 Dec 1760; Maj. -Gen. , 10 Jul 1762; Adjutant-General 1763-72; Col. , 12th Dragoons 17 Mar 1763 – Sep 1764, Carabineers 28 Sep 1764 – Oct 1775, 6th Dragoons from 18 Oct 1775; Lieut. -Gen. 25 May 1772; Governor of Portsmouth 1773-7; served with distinction in Seven Years War; wounded at Wetter and Kloster Kampen; MP Gatton 5 Dec 1761-8, Harwich from 1768; described by Horace Walpole as “the King’s confidential tool for the Army” (Journal of the Reign of George III 1771-83, ed. Doran, I, 179); m. ; d. 27 Mar 1778.
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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.