George Ludlow, 3rd Earl Ludlow
The Earl Ludlow | |
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Born | 12 December 1758 |
Died | 16 April 1842 Cople Hall, Bedford |
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | British Army |
Years of service | 1778–1842 |
Rank | General |
Unit | 1st Foot Guards |
Commands | Brigade of Guards Various ad hoc divisions |
Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War
French Revolutionary War
Napoleonic Wars
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Awards | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |
Other work | Equerry to the Prince of Wales Lieutenant-Governor of Berwick-upon-Tweed |
General George James Ludlow, 3rd Earl Ludlow GCB (12 December 1758 – 16 April 1842), was a British peer and soldier.
Military service
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Ludlow served in the British Army as a captain during the American Revolutionary War. Following the British surrender at Yorktown, he was held as a prisoner of war (POW) in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. In May 1782, he was one of 13 POWs forced to draw lots to determine which one should be executed in retaliation for the execution of a patriot captain by loyalists, in what became known as the Asgill Affair.[1] He rose to Colonel of the 1st Foot Guards 21 August 1795, and Major General 18 June 1798. In 1801 he served under Abercromby and Hely-Hutchinson in the Egyptian Campaign commanding the Guards Brigade, seeing action at Aboukir, and Alexandria (Canope). He was made Lieutenant General on 30 October 1805. In August 1807 he commanded the 3rd Division in the Copenhagen Campaign under Lord Cathcart. Ludlow was promoted General in June 1814.
He was a Regimental Colonel in turn of the 96th Regiment of Foot, the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot and the Scots Fusiliers.[2][3]
Family and peerage
Ludlow was the younger son of Peter Ludlow, 1st Earl Ludlow, by Lady Frances, daughter of Thomas Lumley-Saunderson, 3rd Earl of Scarbrough. Ludlow succeeded his elder brother Augustus in the earldom in 1811. As this was an Irish peerage it did not entitle him to a seat in the House of Lords. However, in 1831 he was created Baron Ludlow in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, which enabled him to take a seat in the upper chamber of parliament.[4]
Lord Ludlow died in April 1842, aged 83. He was unmarried and all his titles became extinct on his death.[2]
References
- ^ Graham, James John (1862). Memoir of General Graham: with notices of the campaigns in which he was engaged from 1779 to 1801. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark. p. 87.
- ^ a b Courthope, William (editor).Debrett's Complete Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Twenty-Second Edition. London: J. G. & F. Rivington, 1838.
- ^ "No. 19389". The London Gazette. 7 June 1836. p. 1028.
- ^ "No. 18846". The London Gazette. 9 September 1831. p. 1834.
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Mr George Ludlow
Military offices | ||
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New regiment | Colonel of the 96th Regiment of Foot 1804–1805 | Succeeded by Sir George Don |
Preceded by James Rooke | Colonel of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot 1805–1836 | Succeeded by Hon. Sir Charles James Greville |
Preceded by | Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards 1836–1842 | Succeeded by |
Peerage of Ireland | ||
Preceded by Augustus Ludlow | Earl Ludlow 1811–1842 | Extinct |
Preceded by Augustus Ludlow | Viscount Preston 1811–1842 | Extinct |
Preceded by Augustus Ludlow | Baron Ludlow 1811–1842 | Extinct |
Peerage of the United Kingdom | ||
New creation | Baron Ludlow 1831–1842 | Extinct |