Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
General Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet KCB (13 August 1772 – 13 January 1847) was a British Army officer of the Anson family.Serving in the 1st Foot Guards, Anson saw service in the Flanders Campaign during the French Revolutionary Wars.
He was the third son of George Anson; his elder brothers were Thomas Anson, 1st Viscount Anson, and General Sir George Anson. Sir William was the uncle of Thomas Anson, 1st Earl of Lichfield , and Major-General George Anson and the great-nephew of George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (see Earl of Lichfield, 1831 creation , for more information on the ...
Sir William Reynell Anson, 3rd Baronet (1843–1914) Sir Denis George William Anson, 4th Baronet (1888–1914) Sir John Henry Anson, 5th Baronet (1897–1918) Sir Edward Reynell Anson, 6th Baronet (1902–1951) Sir Peter Anson, 7th Baronet (1924–2018) Sir Philip Roland Anson, 8th Baronet (born 1957) The heir apparent is the present holder's ...
William Anson may refer to: Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet (1772–1847), general in the British Army Sir William Anson, 3rd Baronet (1843–1914), British jurist and Liberal Unionist politician
Anson was born at Walberton, Sussex, the eldest son of Sir John William Hamilton Anson, 2nd Baronet, and his wife Elizabeth Catherine (née Pack).Educated at Eton, 1857–62, [1] and Balliol College, Oxford, 1862–66, he took a first class in both Classical Moderations, 1863, and Literae Humaniores ('Greats', a combination of philosophy and ancient history), 1866. [2]
The I'Anson Baronetcy of Bassetbury was a title in the Baronetage of England.It was created on 6 May 1652, at the Louvre in Paris, by Charles II of England for Sir Bryan I'Anson, Knight of Ashby St Ledgers, Northamptonshire, Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Charles I of England for whom he raised a regiment of horse and £10,000 and for which support had been knighted by Viscount Falkland on 14 ...
1st existence [ edit ] It was created in 1781 as the 23rd Regiment of (Light) Dragoons by Sir John Burgoyne , Bt. at Bedford but renumbered in 1786 as the 19th Regiment of (Light) Dragoons .
James died before this scheme could be implemented, but it was carried out by his son Charles I, who created the first Scottish baronet on 28 May 1625, covenanting in the creation charter that the baronets of Scotland or of Nova Scotia should never exceed 150, that their heirs apparent should be knighted on coming of age (21), and that no one ...