PITT, Joseph (?1759-1842), of Cirencester, Glos. and Eastcourt House, Crudwell, Wilts.
PITT, Joseph (?1759-1842)
PITT, Joseph (?1759-1842)
Ensign, 85 Ft. 1780; lt. 88 Ft. 1780; lt. 93 Ft. 1781, capt. 1782; a.d.c. to gov. Gibraltar 1782; half-pay 1783; capt. 1 Ft. Gds. 1784; a.d.c. to ld. lt. [I] 1784 – 87; lt-col. 1 Ft. Gds. 1793, brevet col. 1796; maj.-gen. 1801, lt.-gen. 1808; col. commdt. 60 Ft. 1807 – d.; gen. 1819.
Paymaster of marines Jan. 1810–1812, clerk of deliveries at the Ordnance Oct. 1812–30.
PHIPPS, Hon. Edmund (1760-1837)
PC 30 May 1832; gov. Jamaica 1832 – 34; ld. privy seal July – Dec. 1834; ld. lt. [I] 1835 – 39; sec. of state for War and Colonies Feb. – Aug. 1839, for Home affairs Aug. 1839-Sept. 1841.
Ambassador to France 1846 – 52, to Tuscany 1854–8.
Capt. 1 batt. Hull militia 1816.
PHIPPS, Constantine Henry (1797-1863)
Ensign, 1 Ft. Gds. 1775, lt. and capt. 1778; maj. 85 Ft. 1779; lt.-col. 88 Ft. 1780, 45 Ft. 1782; capt. and lt.-col. 1 Ft. Gds. 1783, brevet col. 1790; col. 31 Ft. 1793 – d.; brig.-gen. and lt.-gov. Toulon 1793; maj.-gen. 1794; gov. Scarborough Castle 1796 – d.; lt.-gen. 1801, gen. 1809.
PC 6 June 1804; chancellor of duchy of Lancaster June 1804 – Jan. 1805; sec. of state for Foreign affairs Jan. 1805 – Feb. 1806; first ld. of Admiralty Apr. 1807 – May 1810; master gen. of Ordnance May 1810–1818.
Ld. lt. E. Riding, Yorks. 1807–24.
PHIPPS, Hon. Henry (1755-1831)
Ensign, 12 Ft. 1771, lt. 1777; capt. 75 Ft. 1778; half-pay 1783; capt. 17 Ft. 1794; maj. 68 Ft. 1794; lt.-col. 56 Ft. 1796 (antedated 1795); brig.-gen. 1801, maj.-gen. 1808, lt.-gen. 1813.
Military gov. Trinidad 1797 – 1801, civil gov. June 1801 – July 1802, civil commr. July 1802-May 1803.
H. B. Robinson, Mems. Lit.-Gen.Sir Thos. Picton, 2 vols. 1835; DNB; R. D. Rees, ‘Parl. Rep. S. Wales 1790-1830’ (Reading Univ. Ph.D. thesis, 1962), ii. 451.
PICTON, Sir Thomas (1758-1815)