Phineas Bowles (British Army officer, died 1722)

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Phineas Bowles (died 1722) was an English army major-general.

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The subject's father was Valentine, his uncle was Colonel John Seymour, Governor of Maryland , and a brother named Tobias, a London merchant, was nominated to succeed his uncle as Royal Governor of Maryland. [1] Bowles served in the Admiralty as a secretary from 6 March 1689 until 15 January 1690. [2] Bowles is first mentioned in the Military Entry Books in January 1692, when he was appointed captain-lieutenant in the regiment of Colonel W. Selwyn, later the 2nd Queen's, then just arrived in Holland from Ireland. In July 1705 he succeeded Colonel Caulfield in command of a regiment of foot in Ireland, with which he went to Spain and served at the Siege of Barcelona.

According to the memoranda of General Erie, Bowles's was one of the regiments broken at the bloody battle of Almanza. It appears to have been reorganised in England, as Narcissus Luttrell mentions Bowles's arrival in England on parole, and afterwards that he was at Portsmouth with his regiment, awaiting embarkation with some troops supposed to be destined for Newfoundland. Instead, he again went with his Regiment to Spain, where it was distinguished at the battle of Saragossa in 1710, and was one of the regiments surrounded in the mountains of Castile, and made prisoners, in December of the same year.

After this Bowles's regiment disappeared from the rolls, and its colonel remained unemployed until 1715, when, as a brigadier-general, he was commissioned to raise a corps of dragoons, of six troops, in Berkshire, Hampshire, and Buckinghamshire, to rendezvous at Reading. This corps became the 12th Royal Lancers. In 1719 Bowles was transferred to the colonelcy of a Regiment of Dragoons. Brigadier General Bowles was replaced in 1721 at Dublin Castle by Philip Honywood, Esq. [3]

He died in 1722. His cousin's son Phineas Bowles (1690–1749) was a lieutenant-general.

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References

  1. Barnes, Robert William.(1999-2002). British roots of Maryland families. Baltimore:Genealogical Pub. Co. v. 1, pp. 67-68. ISBN   9780806316154.
  2. "Alphabetical list of officials: A-J." Office-Holders in Modern Britain: Volume 4, Admiralty Officials 1660-1870. Ed. J C Sainty. London: University of London, 1975. 106-135. British History Online Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  3. "Volume 235: August 2-December 27, 1721." Calendar of Treasury Papers, Volume 6, 1720-1728. Ed. Joseph Redington. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1889. 70-96. British History Online website Retrieved 11 March 2019.

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Military offices
New regiment Colonel of Bowles's Regiment of Dragoons
1715–1719
Succeeded by
Preceded by
John Pepper
Colonel of Bowles's Regiment of Dragoons
1719–1722
Succeeded by