Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet
Sir Eyre Coote | |
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Personal details | |
Born | 10 June 1757 |
Died | 11 March 1849 Westhorpe House, Buckinghamshire | (aged 91)
Spouse | |
Relations | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
Military service | |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Branch/service | British Army |
Rank | Field Marshal |
Commands | 97th Regiment of Foot 13th Regiment of Foot 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards Buckinghamshire Volunteers Western District Kent District Commander-in-Chief, India |
Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War French Revolutionary Wars |
Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet,
Early life
Born the illegitimate son of Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. Edmund Nugent (who was the only son of
Nugent was educated at Charterhouse School and the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich.[2]
Military career
He was commissioned as an ensign in the 39th Regiment of Foot on 5 July 1773[3] and was posted to Gibraltar.[4] He transferred the 7th Regiment of Foot at New York with promotion to lieutenant in September 1777 and saw action at the Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery in October 1777 and then took part in the Philadelphia campaign during the American Revolutionary War.[4] He continued to serve in North America and became a captain in the 57th Regiment of Foot on 28 April 1778[5] and a major in the same regiment on 3 May 1782.[6]
Flanders and Ireland
Promoted to lieutenant colonel in September 1783, Nugent was appointed commanding officer of the 97th Regiment of Foot and returned to England, but in the post-war cost reductions the regiment was disbanded and he instead became commanding officer of the 13th Regiment of Foot in 1787.[7] He became an aide-de-camp to his brother-in-law, the Marquess of Buckingham, who was serving as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in November 1787.[7]
On Buckingham's departure from Ireland, Nugent became commanding officer of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards in 1789.[7] Nugent became Member of Parliament for Buckingham in 1790.[8] He exchanged into the Coldstream Guards as a company commander in October 1790[9] and served at the Siege of Valenciennes in May 1793, the Battle of Lincelles in August 1793 and the Siege of Dunkirk also in August 1793 under the Duke of York during the Flanders Campaign.[7]
The
Later career
Nugent became
Nugent stood down from his seat in Parliament to become Commander-in-Chief, India in January 1811.[20]
Having been appointed a
Nugent also served as honorary colonel of the 85th (Bucks Volunteers) Regiment of Foot, then as honorary colonel of the 62nd Regiment of Foot[24] and later as honorary colonel of the 6th Regiment of Foot.[25] Promoted to field marshal on 9 November 1846.[26]
Personal life
On 16 November 1797, Nugent was married to
- Sir George Edmund Nugent, 2nd Baronet (1802–1892), who married Maria Charlotte Ridley-Colborne, a daughter of Nicholas Ridley-Colborne, 1st Baron Colborne.[29]
- Louisa Elizabeth Nugent (1803–1875), who married Thomas Fremantle, 1st Baron Cottesloe, the eldest son of Betsey and Adm. Sir Thomas Fremantle.[30]
- Charles Edmund Nugent (1811–1890), who married Louisa Douglas Price, a daughter of Sir Rose Price, 1st Baronet.[31]
- Maria Amelia Nugent, who married Rice Richard Clayton, the fourth son of Sir William Clayton, 4th Baronet.[31]
George and Maria Nugent lived at Stowe and enjoyed a close friendship with his aunt and uncle, Lord and Lady Buckingham.[32]
Lady Nugent, who died in 1834, wrote a journal of her experiences in Jamaica first published in 1907.[33][34] Sir George died at Westhorpe House on 11 March 1849 and was buried at St John the Baptist Church in Little Marlow.[7]
Descendants
Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of Sir Edmund Charles Nugent, 3rd Baronet and through his daughter Louisa, he was a grandfather of Thomas Fremantle, 2nd Baron Cottesloe, Admiral Hon. Edmund Fremantle, and Hon. Augusta Mary Fremantle (wife of William Brodrick, 8th Viscount Midleton).[30]
References
- Cokayne, George; et al., The Complete Peerage, vol. III, p. 143
- ^ required.)
- ^ "No. 11377". The London Gazette. 7 August 1773. p. 1.
- ^ a b Heathcote, p.232
- ^ "No. 11888". The London Gazette. 30 June 1778. p. 1.
- ^ "No. 12313". The London Gazette. 13 July 1782. p. 3.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Heathcote, p.233
- ^ "No. 13226". The London Gazette. 7 August 1790. p. 503.
- ^ "No. 13245". The London Gazette. 12 October 1790. p. 622.
- ^ "No. 13628". The London Gazette. 1 March 1794. p. 191.
- ^ Smith, p. 4.
- ^ "No. 13948". The London Gazette. 5 November 1796. p. 1062.
- ^ "No. 15185". The London Gazette. 21 September 1799. p. 966.
- ^ "No. 15365". The London Gazette. 12 May 1801. p. 533.
- ^ "No. 15483". The London Gazette. 25 May 1802. p. 539.
- ^ Clements, p. 125
- ^ "No. 15624". The London Gazette. 27 September 1803. p. 1317.
- ^ "No. 16035". The London Gazette. 6 June 1807. p. 763.
- ^ "No. 15973". The London Gazette. 8 November 1806. p. 1466.
- ^ a b "Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet". History of Parliament. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ^ "No. 16699". The London Gazette. 30 January 1813. p. 228.
- ^ "No. 16972". The London Gazette. 4 January 1815. p. 18.
- ^ "No. 17376". The London Gazette. 7 July 1818. p. 1218.
- ^ "No. 15877". The London Gazette. 31 December 1805. p. 4.
- ^ "No. 15924". The London Gazette. 31 May 1806. p. 682.
- ^ "No. 20660". The London Gazette (Supplement). 10 November 1846. p. 3987.
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- ^ Burke, Bernard. A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland, Volume 2. London: Harrison 1871, page 1270
- History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ a b "Cottesloe, Baron (UK, 1874)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Archived from the original on 1 November 2020. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ a b Debrett, John (1840). The Baronetage of England. revised, corrected and continued by G.W. Collen. p. 407. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ "Maria, Lady Nugent of Jamaica". www.nugentsofantigua.net. Nugents of Antigua. Archived from the original on 14 May 2021. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
- ^ "Lady Maria Nugent [Skinner]". Dukes of Buckingham. Archived from the original on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 2 March 2014.
- ISBN 978-0-19-284051-6. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
Sources
- Clements, William (1999). Towers of strength: the story of the Martello towers. Leo Copper. ISBN 978-0850526790.
- Heathcote, Tony (1999). The British Field Marshals, 1736–1997: A Biographical Dictionary. Barnsley: Leo Cooper. ISBN 0-85052-696-5.
- Smith, Henry Stooks (1851). An alphabetical list of the officers of the Eighty-Fifth, Bucks Volunteers, the Kings Light Infantry Regiment from 1800 to 1850. London: Simpkin, Marshall. ISBN 978-1110157846.
Further reading
- Wright, Philip (2002). Lady Nugent's Journal of Her Residence in Jamaica from 1801 to 1805. University of the West Indies Press. ISBN 1-84415-143-3.