Luke Lillingstone
Luke Lillingstone or Lillingston (1653โ1713) was a British Army general who accompanied William of Orange to England in 1688.
Early life
Lillingstone's surname is variably spelled Lillingstone, Lillingston and Lillingstein. He was born to Colonel Henry Lillingstone, of German extraction from Lilienstein. His maternal uncle, Colonel Thomas Dolman, served with his father in the Anglo-Dutch Brigade. Lillingstone himself was commissioned as an officer in the Brigade in 1673 and 1688 he accompanied William of Orange to England.
Command
After fighting against Jacobite forces in Ireland, Lillingstone received his first command in 1692, when he took over the colonelcy of Jonathan Foulkes's Regiment on the latter's death. On assuming command the regiment became Luke Lillingstone's Regiment of Foot, and was to be the first of three regiments to bear this title.
Lillingstone's regiment was disbanded in 1694, but was reraised the same year for service in the West Indies. This second regiment was disbanded in 1696 or 1697.[1]
Lillingstone was without a command until 1705, when he was authorised to raise a regiment of foot. The third Lillingstone's Regiment was duly raised at the King's Head, Bird Street,
Later life
Lillingstone was refused the purchase price of his regiment, and this led to the forced sale of his estate, Ferriby Grange,
References
- John Childs, 'Lillingstone [Lillingston], Luke (1653โ1713)โ, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [2]
- ^ [1] 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot, (regiments.org), accessed 11 September 2007 Archived 15 April 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ISBN 0-7001-0001-6.
- ^ All Saints North Ferriby (accessed 11 September 2007)
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