A solicitor of the firm of Parke and Pollock, solicitors to the Universal Life Assurance Office, and agents for Pollock, Faithfull and Kier, of Bombay. A member of the Incorporated Law Soc. (63, _Lincoln’s-inn-fields_, W.C.)
Late private secretary to the Chief Secretary for Ireland.
Ent. the army as a cornet, in 1815; app. Col. of the 3rd Dragoon Guards, 1859; promoted to his present rank, 1860. Was present with the French army, under Marshal Gerard, at the siege of Antwerp, in Dec. 1832; and, by permission of the Marshal, accompanied the troops upon every occasion during the siege. In Oct. 1838, was appointed to the command of the cavalry of the Bombay division of the army of the Indus, as Brigadier; served in that rank during the campaigns of 1838–39, in Scinde and Affghanistan, and was present at the attack and capture of Ghuznee. During the latter part of 1839, commanded a detached column, consisting of the whole of the artillery (excepting 4 guns), the cavalry, and one battalion of infantry. This column was destined to secure the subjugation of Upper Scinde, and to co-operate with the main column under Sir Thos. Wiltshire, directed against Khelat. In the action at Maharajpore on the 29th Dec., 1843, commanded a brigade of cavalry, as also at the battle of Sobraon (_United Service Club_).
2. TALBOT, Colonel, the Hon. Wellington Patrick Manvers Chetwynd,
Brother of the present Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot; b. 1817; m. 1860, Lady Emma Charlotte Stanley, only dau. of present Earl of Derby. Formerly a captain 7th Foot. Has been A. D. C. to the Lord-lieut. of Ireland; comtropoller of Her Majesty’s household, 1845; private secretary to the Earl of Derby, 1852; Lieut.-Col. Stffrdsh. Militia since 1853; British resident at Cephalonia, 1855; sergeant-at-arms (H. of L.) since 1858.
Has retired from the army; was formerly attached to the St. Helena regiment. Promoted to his present rank, 1838. Hon. Sec. Church Missionary Society (14, _Salisbury-square_, E.C.)
4. BETHUNE, Rear-Admiral Charles Ramsay Drinkwater, C.B.
Second s. of the late Lieut.-Col. Drinkwater, of Salford, co. Lancaster; b. 1802. Assumed present surname 1837, on his mother inheriting the estates of her brother, G. Bethune, Esq. M. 1846, Frances, only dau. of Henry Stables, Esq., of Park-hill, Clapham. Ent. the navy, 1815; took a prominent part in the China war of 1840; rewarded in consequence with the C.B. Attached to the Earl of Durham’s embassy, 1835, for the purpose of reporting on the naval establishments in Russia; has been assistant hydrographer at the Admiralty; promoted to his present rank, 1855 (_United Service Club_; _Balfour_, _Fifeshire_).