The 39th Regiment of Foot was an infantry

Infantry

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 regiment

Regiment

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 of the British Army

British Army

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, formed in 1719 and amalgamated into The Dorsetshire Regiment in 1881.

The regiment was raised by Colonel Richard Coote in Ireland in August 1702. This was in fact a reforming of Richard Coote's Regiment of Foot, which he had in turn inherited in 1692 from Viscount Lisburne

Viscount Lisburne

Viscount Lisburne is a title that has been created twice, both times in the Peerage of Ireland.The first creation came in 1685 in favour of Adam Loftus, along with the subsidiary title of Baron of Rathfarnam. These titles became extinct upon his death in 1691.The second creation came in 1695 in...

's Regiment of Foot which was originally formed in 1689.

In 1751, they were numbered the 39th Regiment of Foot, and in 1782 took a county title as the 39th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot. In 1794 the regiment was captured, and reformed in Ireland the following year by absorbing the short-lived 104th Regiment of Foot (Royal Manchester Volunteers).

In 1805 a number of regiments had their territorial affiliations shuffled, with the East Middlesex title passing to the 77th Foot

77th (East Middlesex) Regiment of Foot

The 77th Regiment of Foot was a line regiment of the British Army . In 1881 it was united with the 57th Regiment of Foot to form The Middlesex Regiment ....

 and the 39th taking the Dorsetshire title previously held by the 35th (Sussex) Regiment of Foot to become the 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot. The 39th arrived in the British colony of New South Wales

New South Wales

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 toward the end of 1825. The regiment saw service in Hobart, Sydney

Sydney

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, Swan River colony

Swan River Colony

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 and Bathurst

Bathurst, New South Wales

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, leaving on July 5, 1832 to see service in India

India

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Colonels

• 1689.03.08 Adam Loftus, 1st Viscount Lisburne
• 1692.02.01 Col. Richard Coote

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• 1702.02.12 Col. Richard Coote
• 1703.03.17 Lt-Gen. Nicholas Sankey
• 1719.03.11 Brig-Gen. Thomas Ferrers (also 23rd Dragoons, 17th Foot, Ferrers's Foot)
• 1722.09.28 Brig-Gen. William Newton
• 1730.11.10 Lt-Gen. Sir John Cope, KB
• 1732.12.15 Lt-Gen. Thomas Wentworth
• 1737.06.27 Gen. John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
  John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll
  General John Campbell, 4th Duke of Argyll KT PC was a Scottish Whig politician in the 17th and 18th centuries.He was born to John Campbell, the third son of Archibald Campbell, 9th Earl of Argyll, and Elizabeth Elphinstone, daughter of John Elphinstone, 8th Lord Elphinstone...
  
  , KT
• 1738.11.01 Lt-Gen. Richard Onslow
  Richard Onslow (British Army officer)
  Lieutenant-General Richard Onslow was a British army officer and politician.He was the second son of Foot Onslow and the younger brother of Arthur Onslow, Speaker of the House of Commons. On 9 December 1726, he married his brother's sister-in-law, Rose Bridges, daughter of John Bridges of Thames...
  
  
• 1739.06.06 Col. Robert Dalway
• 1740.12.28 Brig-Gen. Samuel Walter Whitshed
• 1743.06.14 Maj-Gen. Edward Richbell (also 17th Foot, 61st Foot)
• 1752.03.14 Lt-Gen. John Adlercron
  John Adlercron
  Lieutenant General John Adlercron was Commander-in-Chief, India.-Military career:Born into a Huguenot family who had taken refuge in Dublin at the end of the seventeenth century, Adlercron joined the Royal Army: in 1754 he went to India as Commanding Officer of the 39th Regiment of Foot to...
  
  
• 1766.08.06 Gen. Sir Robert Boyd, KB
• 1794.07.02 Gen. Nisbett Balfour also 93rd Foot)
• 1823.10.28 Lt-Gen. Sir George Airey, KCH
• 1833.03.04 Lt-Gen. Hon. Sir Robert William O'Callaghan, GCB
• 1840.06.15 Gen. Sir Frederick Philipse Robinson, GCB (also 59th Foot; Governor of Tobago 1816-27)
• 1852.02.11 Lt-Gen. George Burrell, CB
• 1853.01.17 Gen. Sir Richard Lluellyn, KCB
• 1867.12.08 Gen. Sir Charles van Straubenzee, GCB

External links

• 39th (Dorsetshire) Regiment of Foot, regiments.org