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See also:BECKWITH, See also:SIR See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:SYDNEY (1772–1831) , See also:British See also:general, was the son of See also:Major-General See also:John Beckwith, who was See also:colonel of the loth See also:regiment (See also:Lancashire Fusiliers) in the See also:charge at See also:Minden. In 1791 he entered the 71st regiment (then commanded by Colonel See also:David See also:Baird), in which he served in See also:India and elsewhere until 1800, when he obtained a See also:company in Colonel See also:Conte Manningham's experimental regiment of riflemen, shortly afterwards numbered as the 95th Rifles and now called the See also:Rifle See also:Brigade. In 1802 he was promoted major, and in the following
See also:year See also:lieutenant-colonel. Beckwith was one of the favourite See also:officers of Sir John See also:Moore in the famous See also:camp of See also:Shorncliffe, and aided that general in the training of the troops which afterwards became the See also:Light See also:Division. In 18o6 he served in the expedition to See also:Hanover, and in 1807 in that which captured See also:Copenhagen. In 18o6 the Rifles were See also:present at Vimeira, and in the See also:campaign of Sir John Moore they See also:bore the brunt of the rearguard fighting. Beckwith took See also:part in the See also:great See also:march of See also:Craufurd to the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of Talavera, in the advanced guard fights on the Coa in 1810 and in the campaign in See also:Portugal. On the formation of the Light Division he was given a brigade command in it. After the brilliant See also:action of Sabugal, Beckwith had to retire for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time from active service, but the Rifles and the brigade he had trained and commanded added to their fame on every subsequent battlefield. In 1812 he went to See also:Canada as assistant quartermaster-general, and he took part in the See also:war against the See also:United States. In 1814 he became major-general, and in 1815 was created K.C.B. In 1827 he was made colonel commandant of the Rifle Brigade.
He went to India as See also:commander-in-See also:chief at Bombay in 1829, and was promoted lieutenant-general in the following year. He died on the 15th of See also:January 1831 at Mahableshwar.
His See also:elder See also:brother, Sir See also:GEORGE BECKWITH (1753-1823), distinguished himself as a regimental officer in the See also:American War of See also:Independence, and served subsequently in high administrative posts and in numerous successful military operations in the See also:West Indies during the See also:French Revolutionary and See also:Napoleonic See also:wars. He was made a K.B. for his See also:capture of See also:Martinique in 1809, and attained the full See also:rank of general in 1814. Sir George Beckwith commanded the forces in See also:Ireland, 1816-182o. He died in See also:London on the loth of March 1823.
Their See also:nephew, Major-General JOHN See also:CHARLES BECKWITH (1789-1862), joined the 5oth regiment in 1803, exchanging in 1804 into the 95th Rifles, with which regiment he served in the See also:Peninsular See also:campaigns of 18o8-Io. He was subsequently employed on the See also:staff of the Light Division, and he was repeatedly mentioned in despatches, becoming in 1814 a See also:brevet-major, and after the See also:battle of See also:Waterloo (in which he lost a See also:leg) lieutenant-colonel and C.B. In 182o he See also:left active service. Seven years later an See also:accident See also:drew his See also:attention to the Waldenses, whose past See also:history and present See also:condition influenced him so strongly that he settled in the valleys of See also:Piedmont. The See also:rest of his See also:life was spent in the self-imposed task of educating the Waldenses, for whom he established and maintained a large number of See also:schools, and in reviving the earlier faith of the See also:people. In 1848 See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Charles See also:Albert made him a See also:knight of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order of St See also:Maurice and St See also:Lazarus.
He was promoted colonel in the British See also:army in 1837 and major-general in 1846. He died on the 19th of See also:July 1862 at La Torre, Piedmont.
End of Article: BECKWITH, SIR THOMAS SYDNEY (1772–1831)
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