PROMOTIONS.

1836.

DECEMBER.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

21. Charles Knight Murray, esq. barrister-at-law, to be treasurer to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England. 17. Major-Gen. H. S. Keating to be K.C.B.

1837.

JANUARY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

9. Knighted, Thomas Baucutt Mash,

esq., of St. James's Palace.

16. Sir James Colquhoun, of Luss, bart., to be lieutenant and sheriff prin. cipal of the shire of Dumbarton.

17. Gen. the hon. Sir Edward Paget, G.C.B. to be governor of Chelsea Hospital.

21. Kenneth Alexander baron Howard of Effingham, G.C.B.created Earl of Effingham, co. Surrey; Thomas lord Ducie created earl of Ducie and baron Moreton of Tortworth; Charles lord

Yarborough created earl of Yarborough, and baron Worsley of Apuldurcombe in the Isle of Wight; Edward Berkeley

Portman, esq., created baron Portman of Orchard Portman, co. Somerset; Thomas Alexander Fraser, esq., created baron Lovat, of Lovat, co. Inverness; and William Hanbury, esq., created baron Bateman, of Shobden, co. Hereford.

23. The right hon. G. B. Abercromby to be lieutenant and sheriff-principal of the shire of Stirling.

28. Right hon. Michael O'Loghlin, to be keeper or master of the Rolls and Records of the Court of Chancery of Ireland.

30. George Lloyd Hodges, esq., to be Consul in Servia.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

15. Major-General Sir H. Wheatley to be receiver-general of the duchy of Corn.

9. John Cunningham, esq., to be one of the lords of Session in Scotland; and Andrew Rutherfurd, esq., to be solicitor general for Scotland.

10. James Kennedy, esq., barristerat-law, to be his Majesty's Judge in the mixed British and Spanish Court of Justice at the Havannah.

Brevet, lieutenant-colonel W. Wylde to have the local rank of colonel, and major J. N. Colquhoun, of lieu tenant-colonel, while employed on a special service in Spain.

Royal military college; major general Sir G. Scovell, K.C.B. to be governor; colonel J. W. Taylor to be lieutenant-governor.

15. Robert Ferguson, of Raith, esq to be lieutenant, and sheriff-principal of the county of Fife.

17. Garrison, major-general, Charles Murray, Lord Greenock to be governor of Edinburgh Castle. Brevet, Captain Richard Hancock to be major in the army.,

C.B.

Theodore Lord John Hay to be a -- To be privy councillors for Ire land; lord Talbot de Malahide; Villiers Stuart, esq., lieutenant of Waterford: John Richards, attorney-general; Anthony Richard Blake, chief remem. brancer.

24. Admiral Sir L. W. Halsted to be G.C.B.

1. Viscount Falkland, to be of the privy council. - Knighted, Woodbine Parish, esq., late consul-general at Buenos Ayres; lieutenant-general Robt. Barton; major-general Thomas Hawker; Edward Chetham, esq., captain R. N.; Thomas Mansell, esq., capt. R. N.; Thomas Coltman, esq., justice of the court of common pleas; Adam Drummond, esq., vice-admiral of the blue; and lieutenant-general Augustus De Butts, roy. Eng. K.H.

8. Knighted, lieut.-gen. Alexander Halkett, K.C.H. and lieut.-col. Hen. Geo. Macleod, lieut.-governor of St. Christopher's.

- Knighted, at Dublin, Dr. Francis W. Smith, and Thomas Finlay, esq., late high sheriff of co. Cavan.

10. Lieut. gen. Sir John Doveton, and major-gen. Sir John W. Adams, E.I.C.to be G.C.E

G.C.B.-Major-generals William Casement, Sir Joseph O'Halloran, Knt., Alex. Caldwell, Sir Robert Houstoun, bt., R. Stevenson, James L. Caldwell, James L. Lushington, James Russell, Charles Deacon, and David Leighton, all of E.I. co's service, to be K.C.B. H. R. Plaw, esq., to be consul at Dantzic; and Joseph Egan, esq., at the Cape Verde Islands.

13. Harrison Gordon Codd, esq., of Kensington, (lately appointed one of the police magistrates at Worship-street) to be equerry to the duke of Sussex.

14. John Rice Crowe, esq., to be consul for the province of Finmarken, in Norway; and Henry Sarell Ongley, esq., to be consul in the Island of Candia.

17. Col. J. Cassidy, to be lieut.-col. of the 80th regiment. Captain John Macphail, to be major in the army.

19. The earl of Carlisle to be K.G.'; the bishop of Oxford to be chancellor of the Garter.

Major-general Sir John Harvey, K.C.H. to be lieut.-governor of New Brunswick.-Charles Augustus Fitzroy, esq., to be lieut.-governor of Prince Edward's Island.

23. Lieut.-col. Richard Doherty to be governor-in-chief of the colony of Sierra Leone, and its dependencies.

28. Hon. Geo. Edgecumbe to be secretary to his majesty's legation to the Swiss Cantons, and Chas. Foley Wilmot, esq., to be secretary to his majesty's legation at Florence.

29. James Alex. Stewart Mackenzie, esq., to be governor and commander-inchief of Ceylon. Col. F. Cockburn, to be lieut.-governor of the Bahama Islands.

31. Knighted, lieut.-col. Wm. M. G. Colebrooke, R.A.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT

Anglesea.-Wm. Owen Stanley, esq. Downshire. Earl of Hillsborouglı. Stafford. Robert Farrand, esq.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. Edward Denison, M.A. to be bishop of Salisbury.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Stephen Woulfe, esq., to be attorneygeneral of Ireland.

ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. E. Stanley, D.D. to be bishop of Norwich.

Rev. T. Musgrave, to be dean of Bristol.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Rev. C. J. Belin, to be head master of Guilford grammar school.

Rev. J. Hogg, head master of Limerick diocesan school.

Rev. J. Carter, head master of Wakefield free grammar school.

MAY

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

3. Knighted, John Wentworth Loring, esq., rear-admiral of the white.

5. Brevet, lieut.-col. Rich. Doherty, governor of Sierra Leone, to have the local rank of colonel on the western coast of Africa.

10. Knighted, gen. John Gustavus Crosbie.

18. Thomas Jas. Tatham, of Bedfordplace, gent. to be an assistant-commissioner of tithes.

22. Sir Francis Bond Head, knt. to be a bart.

26. H. D. Fraser, esq., to be sec. to his majesty's legation at Buenos Ayres. 30. Lieut.-gen. the rt. hon. Sir R. H. Vivian, bart. K.C.B. to be G.C.B.

MEMBERS RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Bridgewater. - Henry Broadwood, Huddersfield.-Edward Ellice, jun, Hythe. Lord viscount Melgund. Longford County. -Charles Fox, esq, Ross and Cromarty. -Thomas Mac

thematical mastership of Christ's Hospital, London.

W. A. Osborne, head master of the free grammar school, Macclesfield.

Mr. Wm. Archer Butler to be (the first) professor of moral philosophy in the University of London.

Wm. Wilkins, esq., to be professor of architecture in the royal academy.

JUNE.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

1. Knighted, Chas. Aug. Fitzroy, esq., lieut.-governor of prince Edward Island.

2. Major-gen. W. Johnston, to be к.с.в.

Chelsea Hospital, lieut.-gen. Sir G. T. Walker, rt. to be lieut.-gov. 5. Knighted, by patent, Simon Heward, esq., chief of the medical staff during the Burmese war.

9. Hospital staff, Donald Macleod, M.D. to be Inspector-general of hospitals James Arthur, M.D., to be deputy Inspector-general of hospitals.

13. John Bassett, esq., to be majorcommandant of the Cornwall Yeomanry.

14. Henry J. Cockburn, esq., to be one of the lords justiciary in Scotland, vice Adam Gillies, esq., resigned, who is nominated to perform the duties of the last remaining baron of the Exchequer in Scotland, now deceased.

24. Robert Blackmore, esq., to be one of her majesty's hon. corps of gen

tlemen-at-arms.

26. Sir John Conroy, of Llanbrynmair, co. Montgomery, knt., created a bart.

27. Albert William Woods, gent. to be Fitz-Allan pursuivant of arms extraordinary. Thomas Maitland, esq., capt. R.N., to wear the supernumary cross of the order of Charles III.

MEMBER RETURNED TO PARLIAMENT.

Glasgow. John Dennistoun, esq.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

H. N. Burrows, esq., B.A. to be principal, and G. F. Simpson, esq., B.A. second master of the new college at Hull.

JULY.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

:10. W. F. Lapidge, esq., capt. R.N. to accept the cross of a commander of the Spanish order of Isabella the Catholic.

12. Lord Foley to be lord-lieutenant and custos rotulorum of Worcestershire; Prince Esterhazy invested with the insignia of an honorary G.C.B.

14. Charles William Frederick Emicon, Prince of Leinengen (her Majesty's half brother) invested a K.G.

19. Henry Charles, earl of Surrey, sworn a privy councillor; Knighted, John Bickerton Williams, of Shrewsbury, esq., LL.D. and F.S.A.; Watkin Owen Pell, esq. capt. R.N.; John Jacob Hansler, of Tavistock-sq., esq. deputy-lieut. for Essex; Richard Westmacott, esq. R.A.; Augustus Wall Callcott, of Kensington Gravel-pits, esq. R.A.; William John Newton, esq. miniature painter in ordinary to the queen dowager; James Spittal, esq. lord provost of Edinburgh ; Dr. David Davies, K.C.H., physician in ordinary to the queen dowager; col. George Arthur, K.С.Н.

21. James Henry Robert, duke of Roxburgh, created a peer of the United Kingdom as earl of Innes; Thomas William Coke, esq., created viscount Coke, and earl of Leicester of Holkham, co. Norfolk; capt. M. F. F. Berkeley to be a lord of the admiralty, vice hon. George Elliott.

24. D. Dundas to be lieut.-col.; sir George Gipps, knt. to be governor of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land.

25. Col. De Lacy Evans, lieut.-gen. in the service of her Catholic Majesty, and G.C. St.F. to wear the insignia of a grand cross of Charles 3rd for his important services, especially at the assault of Irun and capture of Fontarabia.

26. The duke of Sussex to be capt. gen. and col. of the Artillery Company. 27. Gen. sir Frederick Augustus Wetherall, G.C.H., to be extra groom in waiting to her Majesty.

CIVIL PREFERMENTS.

Sir Frederick Madden to be principal keeper of the manuscripts at the British Museum in the room of the rev. Mr. Forshall, who has been appointed secretary.

-A. Panizzi, esq., to be keeper of the printed books, vice Baber resigned.

-Rev. Dr. Lee, to be the principal of the united colleges of St. Salvador and St. Leonard, in the university of St Andrews.

-Rev. J. Hill, to be second master of the Derry Diocesan School.

Rev. A. Philipps to be master of the Free Grammar School, Crewkerne, Somerset.

AUGUST.

GAZETTE PROMOTIONS.

7. Knighted by patent, William

Henry Rough, esq., serjeant-at-law, chief justice of the supreme court at Ceylon.

great seal, re-appointing all the mem bers of the late king's ministry to their respective offices. The marquess of Conyngham is re-appointed Lord Chamberlain, and Lord Charles Fitzroy, vicechamberlain of the royal household; the duke of Argyll is re-appointed lord steward, and the earl of Surrey, treasurer, vice the hon. G. S. Byng; Sir F. B. Watson is re-appointed master of the household; the marquesses of Headfort and Queensberry, viscounts Falkland and Torrington, and lords Byron, Gardiner, Lilford, and Templemore, are re-appointed lords in waiting; sir William Lumley, and sir Robert Otway, colonel Thomas Armstrong, the hon. C. Murray, hon. William Cowper, sir Henry Seton, sir F. Stovin, and H. Rich, erg. grooms in waiting; colonel the hon. H. F. C. Cavendish, to be chief equerryand clerk marshall; lieut-col., the hon. C. Grey, lieut. col. E. Buckley, lord Alfred Paget, and col. W. Wemyss, to be

equerries in ordinary; lord Kilmarnock, C. Ellice, esq., J. C. M. Cowell, esq. and G. H. Cavendish, esq. to be pages of honour in ordinary.

29. In her Majesty's household, mistress of the robes, the duchess of Sutherland; principal lady of the chamber, the marchioness of Lansdowne; ladies of the bedchamber, the marchioness of Tavistock, the countess of Charlemont, the countess of Mulgrave, the lady Portman, the lady Lyttelton, the lady Barham, and the countess of Durham; maids of honour, the hon. Harriet Pitt, the hon. Margaret Dillon, the hon. Caroline Cocks, the hon. Miss

Cavendish, the hon. Matilda Paget, Miss Murray, Miss Lister, and Miss Spring Rice; bedchamber women, the lady Caroline Barrington, the lady Harriet Clive, the lady Charlotte Copley, the viscountess Forbes, the hon. Mrs. Brand, the lady Gardiner, the hon Mrs. G. Campbell; resident wornan of the bedchamber, Miss Davys.

NAVAL PREFERMENTS.

Rear-admiral C. H. Ross, C.B. to be commander-in-chief on the South American station, to hoist his flag in the President, 52; capt. James Scott will command her; capts. W. W. Henderson K.H. to the Edinburgh; F. W. Beechey, African; commander Decimus Hastings, Edinburgh.