William Hargrave
William Hargrave | |
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![]() William Hargrave | |
Died | 21 January 1751 |
Allegiance | ![]() |
Service/ | British Army |
Rank | Lieutenant general |
Battles/wars | Nine Years' War War of the Spanish Succession Jacobite rising of 1715 |
Lieutenant General William Hargrave (died 21 January 1751) was a British Army officer and Governor of Gibraltar.
Military career[]
Hargrave was commissioned into Viscount Charlemonte's Regiment of Foot in 1694.[1] He fought with his regiment in the Low Countries from 1694 to 1696.[1]
In 1702, during the War of the Spanish Succession, he fought at the Battle of Cádiz and the Battle of Vigo Bay; he was also present at the Siege of Barcelona in 1705 and at the Battle of Almansa in 1707.[1]
He was also active at the Battle of Sheriffmuir in 1715 during the Jacobite rising.[1] He was made colonel of the 31st Regiment of Foot in 1730.[1] That same year he was instructed to proceed to Portsmouth and embark with reinforcements for Jersey where the Lieutenant Governor had failed to contain a riot.[2]
In 1739 he became Colonel of The Royal Fusiliers[1] just before he became Governor of Gibraltar in 1740.
He died in 1751 and is buried in Westminster Abbey.[3]
References[]
- 1751 deaths
- British Army generals
- Governors of Gibraltar
- British military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession
- Burials at Westminster Abbey
- East Surrey Regiment officers
- People of the Jacobite rising of 1715
- British military personnel of the Nine Years' War