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See also:CARDIGAN, See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
JAMES 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 BRUDENELL, 7TH See also:EARL OR (1797-1868) , See also:English See also:lieutenant-See also:general, son of the 6th earl of Cardigan (the See also:title dating from 1661), was See also:born at Hambleden, Bucks, on the 16th of See also:October 1797. He studied for several terms at See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford; and in 1818 entered See also:parliament. He entered the See also:army in 1824 as See also:cornet in the 8th Hussars, and was promoted within eight years, by See also:purchase, to be lieutenant-See also:colonel in the 15th Hussars. With this See also:regiment he made himself one of the most unpopular of commanding See also:officers. He gave the reins to his natural overbearing and quarrelsome See also:temper, treating his men with excessive rigour and indulging in unscrupulous licentiousness. Within two years he held 105 courts-See also:martial, and made more than 700 arrests, although the actual strength of his regiment was only 350 men. In consequence of one of his numerous See also:personal quarrels, he See also:left the regiment in 1834; but two years later, at the urgent entreaty of his See also:father, he was appointed to the command of the 11th Hussars. He played the same See also:part as before, and was censured for it; but he was allowed to retain his See also:post, and the discipline and equipment of his regiment, in which he took See also:great See also:pride, and on which he spent large sums of See also:money, received high See also:commendation from the See also:duke of See also:Wellington. He succeeded to the See also:peerage on the See also:death of his father in See also:August 1837. In See also:September 1840 See also:Lord Cardigan fought a See also:duel, on See also:Wimbledon See also:common, with one of his own
officers. The latter was wounded, and Lord Cardigan was tried before the See also:House of Lords on a See also:charge of feloniously See also:shooting his adversary. But the trial was a See also:mere sham, and on a trivial technical ground he was acquitted. In 1854, at the outbreak of the See also:Crimean See also:War, he was appointed to the command of the See also:light See also:cavalry See also:brigade, with the See also:rank of See also:major-general, and he spent a very large sum in the purchase of horses and on the equipment of his regiment. He took a prominent part in the See also:early actions of the See also:campaign, and displayed throughout the greatest personal courage and the greatest recklessness in exposing his men. In the charge of the light brigade at See also:Balaklava (q.v.) he was the first See also:man to reach the See also:line of the See also:Russian guns; and Cardigan and his men alike have been credited by the bitterest critics of the charge with splendid daring and unquestioning obedience to orders. At the See also:close of the war he was created K.C.B., and was appointed inspector-general of cavalry, and this post he held till 1860. In 1863 he engaged without success in legal proceedings against an officer who had published an See also:account of Balaklava which the earl held to contain a reflection on his military See also:character. He attained the rank of lieutenant-general in 1861. He was twice married, in 1826 and 1858, but had no See also:children. On his death, which took See also:place on the 28th of See also:March 1868, the See also:family titles (including the English See also:barony of Brudenell, cr. 1628) passed to his relative, the second See also:marquess of Ailesbury.
End of Article: CARDIGAN, JAMES THOMAS BRUDENELL, 7TH EARL OR (1797-1868)
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