edward, pole, british, army, officer, lieutenant, general, edward, pole, 1682, december, 1762, officer, british, army, biography, editthe, third, samuel, pole, radbourne, hall, derbyshire, pole, joined, army, second, lieutenant, regiment, welsh, fusiliers, feb. Lieutenant General Edward Pole c 1682 22 December 1762 was an officer of the British Army Biography editThe third son of Samuel Pole of Radbourne Hall in Derbyshire 1 Pole joined the Army as a second lieutenant in the Regiment of Welsh Fusiliers on 23 February 1709 2 He served with his regiment in the Netherlands during the War of the Spanish Succession and was present at the battle of Malplaquet in 1709 3 The war ended with the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 and Pole was promoted to captain on 13 August 1713 1 4 He was actively employed in suppressing the rebellion in Scotland in 1715 and 1716 on 22 December 1726 he became captain in Humphrey Gore s Regiment of Dragoons and on 9 March 1732 he was promoted to major 1 Pole was several years major in the 23rd Regiment of Foot 3 On 18 August 1739 he was promoted to the lieutenant colonelcy of the 12th Regiment of Dragoons 5 and on 22 December 1747 he was promoted to colonel 1 succeeding to John Folliot s Regiment of Foot 6 On 10 August 1749 King George II rewarded his long and faithful service with the colonelcy of the 10th Regiment of Foot 3 He was promoted to the rank of major general in 1757 7 and to that of lieutenant general in 1759 8 Lieutenant General Pole died at Park Hall Derbyshire on 22 December 1762 aged eighty 9 Family editHis son Edward Sacheverell Pole 1718 1780 was also an army officer serving at the Battle of Fontenoy and reaching the rank of colonel He was grandfather of Edward Sacheverell Chandos Pole 10 References edit a b c d Charles Dalton English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661 1714 vol VI 1904 p 342 n 16 Dalton English Army Lists p 341 a b c Richard Cannon Historical Record of the Tenth or the North Lincolnshire Regiment of Foot 1847 p 78 Dalton English Army Lists p 101 Army List for 1740 p 67 No 8728 The London Gazette 15 19 March 1747 p 2 No 9661 The London Gazette 12 15 February 1757 p 3 No 9924 The London Gazette 21 25 August 1759 p 2 Gentleman s Magazine vol 32 p 601 Burke s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry H Colburn 1847 p 1051 Military officesPreceded byJohn Folliot Colonel of the 61st Regiment of Foot1747 1748 Succeeded byRegiment disbandedPreceded byThe Lord Tyrawley Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Foot1749 1763 Succeeded byEdward Sandford nbsp nbsp This biographical article related to the British Army is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Edward Pole British Army officer amp oldid 1164910800, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,