Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart
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Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart (1686 – 20 December 1740) was a British Army officer and peer.
Family
He was the second son of
Alan Cathcart, 7th Lord Cathcart by his wife Elizabeth, daughter of James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount of Stair
. His elder brother Alan died at sea in 1699.
Career
Military career
Cathcart joined the
brigade-major to the Earl of Stair. Continuing in active service after the Scots Army was merged with the English Army to form the British Army, Captain Cathcart was at most of the general actions fought by the army commanded by the Duke of Marlborough
, acquiring the reputation of a brave and zealous officer. In 1709 he was appointed major of the Scots Greys and shortly afterwards obtained the lieutenant-colonelcy of the regiment.
In autumn 1715, on the breaking out of the rebellion of
9th Foot
on 15 February 1717, but he only retained the appointment eleven months.
On 13 August 1728 Cathcart obtained the colonelcy of the
7th Horse (later 6th Dragoon Guards); in 1735 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and in 1739 to that of major-general. In 1740, when it was resolved to attack the Spanish possessions in America, Lord Cathcart was selected to command the expedition and was appointed commander-in-chief in America, but he died on his passage on 20 December 1740[1] and was buried on the beach at Portsmouth, Dominica
, where a monument was erected to his memory.
At court
On the accession of King George II in 1727 he was appointed a
representatives of the Scottish peerage in several parliaments, and was governor of Duncannon Fort and of Londonderry
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References
This article incorporates text from publications now in the public domain:
- Sir James Balfour Paul, The Scots Peerage, volume II (Edinburgh, 1905) pp. 518–520
- Richard Cannon, Historical Record of the Ninth, or the East Norfolk Regiment of Foot (London, 1848) pp. 118–119
- Richard Cannon, Historical Record of the Sixth Regiment of Dragoon Guards, or the Carabineers (London, 1839) pp. 97–99
- Richard Cannon, Historical Record of the Thirty-First, or the Huntingdonshire Regiment of Foot (London, 1850) pp. 216–217
- George Edward Cokayne, ed. Vicary Gibbs with H. Arthur Doubleday, The Complete Peerage, new edition, volume III (London, 1913) pp. 105–106
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