Lord-Lieutenants of Clackmannanshire - Ralph Abercromby, William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart, William Murray (Paperback)

Chapters: Ralph Abercromby, William Cathcart, 1st Earl Cathcart, William Murray, 4th Earl of Mansfield and Mansfield, George Abercromby, 3rd Baron Abercromby, Walter Erskine, 12th Earl of Mar, Lord Lieutenant of Clackmannanshire, David Murray, 3rd Earl of Mansfield. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lieutenant-General Sir Ralph Abercromby, KCB (sometimes spelled Abercrombie) (7 October 1734 28 March 1801) was a British lieutenant-general noted for his services during the Napoleonic Wars. He was the eldest son of George Abercromby of Tullibody, Clackmannanshire. He was born at Menstrie, Clackmannanshire. Educated at Rugby and the University of Edinburgh, in 1754 he was sent to Leipzig to study civil law, with a view to his proceeding to the Scottish bar. On returning from the continent he expressed a strong preference for the military profession, and a cornet's commission was accordingly obtained for him (March 1756) in the 3rd Dragoon Guards. He served with his regiment in the Seven Years' War, and the opportunity thus afforded him of studying the methods of Frederick the Great moulded his military character and formed his tactical ideas. He rose through the intermediate grades to the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the regiment (1773) and brevet colonel in 1780, and in 1781 he became colonel of the King's Irish infantry. When that regiment was disbanded in 1783 he retired upon half pay. Up to this time, he had scarcely been engaged in active service, and this was due mainly to his disapproval of the policy of the government, and especially to his sympathies with the American colonists in their struggles for independence. His retirement is no doubt to be ascribed to similar feelings. On leaving the army he for a time took up political life as member...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=2629