RICHARD RICH WILFORD BRETT

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
SURNAME:Brett
FORENAMES:Richard Rich Wilford
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BORN:23 11 1798
AT:Chelsea London Middlesex
BORN:13 04 1799
AT:St Luke Chelsea London Middlesex
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FATHER:Joseph George Brett
MOTHER:Isabella Maria Charlotte
SIBLINGS: Isabella Christiana Brett, cx Sept 1791, St Marys Lambeth Surrey
Amelia Martha Brett, cx Sept 1791, St Marys Lambeth Surrey
Harriet Gordon Frances Brett, b 08 09 1797, cx 13 04 1799 St Luke Chelsea London
Maria Christiana Brett, b 28 04 1798, cx 13 04 1799 St Luke Chelsea London
Sophia Maria Brett, cx 13 04 1799 St Luke Chelsea London
Louisa Elizabeth Christiana Brett, b 31 05 1802, cx 17 09 1802 St Mary, St Marylebone Road, London
Ann Caroline Brett, cx 17 09 1802 St Mary, St Marylebone Road, London
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APPOINTED: Ensign 11th Foot
Cornet 7th Dragoon Guards 17 02 1814 without purchase
Lieutenant 18th Light Dragoons 24 07 1814 without purchase
Captain of a troop, 10th Light Dragoons, 24 05 1816 by purchase vice Bromley who retires
Captain 10th Light Dragoons Half-Pay
Captain 18th Light Dragoons 05 04 1821 vice John Vernon who exchanges receiving the difference between full pay of a troop and a full pay company
Captain 18th Light Dragoons Half-Pay
Captain 4LD 15 11 1821 vice Hamond Alpe who exchanges receiving the difference
Captain 8th Light Dragoons 26 02 1824 vice Captain Thomas D. Burrowes who exchanges
Major 8th Light Dragoons 30 12 1826 by purchase vice Lord Wiltshire promoted
Major 8th Light Dragoons 1833
EXCHANGED: Ensign 11th Foot to Cornet 7th Dragoon Guards 17 02 1814
Cornet 7th Dragoons Guards to Lieutenant 18th Light Dragoons 24 07 1814
Lieutenant 18th Light Dragoons to Captain 10th Light Dragoons 24 05 1816
Captain 10th Light Dragoobns Half-Pay to Captain 18th Light Dragoons 05 04 1821
Captain 18th Light Dragoons Half-Pay to Captain 4LD on 15 11 1821
Captain 4LD to Captain 8th Hussars 25 02 1824
BREVET:Half-Pay unattached to be Lieutenant Colonel 23 11 1841
Unattached to be Colonel 19 06 1854
LOCAL RANK:.
TROOP NO:May 1822: Troop 2, Troop 3
Jan 1823: Troop 3
Jan 1824: Troop 3
TROOP CAPTAIN:Self
EMBARKATIONS:31 12 1821 Dunira England
DISEMBARKATIONS:16 05 1822 Dunira Bombay India
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DIED:06 05 1861 at 6 Lansdowne Lawn, Cheltenham aged 62 years, rank Major General
The undermentioned promotion to take place consequent on the death of Major-General Richard Rich Wilford Brett on the 6th May, 1861: -
Brevet-Colonel John Fitz Maurice, Major on Half-Pay Unattached, to have the rank of Major-General. Dated 7th May, 1861
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1851 CENSUS:Kent Dover St James the Apostle District 12b
Ref. HO107/1632
Address illegible
Richard Brett, Head, Mar, 52, Lieut. Colonel Army, Middlesex Chelsea
Marianna Brett, Wife, Mar, 45, Northumberland
Plus two servants
1861 CENSUS:Gloucestershire Cheltenham District 26
Ref. RG9/1801
6 Lansdown Lawn
Richard R W Brett, Head, Mar, 65, Major General [Army], Middlesex Chelsea
Marianne Brett, Wife, Mar, 55, Northumberland Newburn
Helen Reed, Sister-in-Law, Unm, 43, banker's Daughter, Northumberland Newburn
Plus Lady's Maid, Cook, Housemaid and Butler
TNA SOURCES:WO/12/635-636
BL SOURCES:IOR/MAR/L/B21
LONDON GAZETTES:No 16863, 01 03 1814
No 16923, 06 08 1814
No 17232, 18 03 1817
No 17767, 24 11 1821
No 18009, 13 03 1824
No 18326, 19 01 1827
No 21564, 22 06 1854
No 22521, 18 06 1861
HART'S ARMY LISTS: A List of the Officers of the Army and of the Corps of Royal Marines War Office, 1833
PRESS/ALMANACKS: Caledonian Mercury Mon 24 03 1817, Mon 23 04 1821
Freeman's Journal Fri 26 11 1841
The Examiner Sat 24 06 1854
Jackson's Oxford Journal Sat 11 05 1861
OTHER SOURCES: The Monthly (Alphabetical) Record of Births, Deaths, & Marriages
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4th Light Dragoons Index

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