Military officer; born in 1730; was a lieutenant of the Coldstream Guards in 1756, and, as colonel of the Foot Guards, came to
America in 1780 in command of them.
He served under Cornwallis, and commanded the van in the famous pursuit of
Greene in 1781.
He was badly wounded in the battle of
Guilford (q. v.), and was commander of the
British right, as brigadier-general, at the surrender at
Yorktown, when he gave to
General Lincoln the sword of Cornwallis, the latter too ill, it was alleged, to appear on the field.
After serving as governor of several English colonies, he was lieutenant-governor of
Gibraltar in 1787, and governor in 1795.
In 1797 he was made general.
He died in
Gibraltar Feb. 21, 1802.
