The Earl Ludlow

GCB
Born12 December 1758
Died16 April 1842
Cople Hall, Bedford
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1778–1842
RankGeneral
Unit1st Foot Guards
Commands heldBrigade of Guards
Various ad hoc divisions
Battles/warsAmerican Revolutionary War

French Revolutionary War

Napoleonic Wars

AwardsKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath
Other workEquerry 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

Ludlow depicted (center of three) watching over the mortally wounded Sir Ralph Abercromby at the Battle of Alexandria

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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "No. 19389". The London Gazette. 7 June 1836. p. 1028.
  4. ^ "No. 18846". The London Gazette. 9 September 1831. p. 1834.

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Military offices New regiment Colonel of the 96th Regiment of Foot 1804–1805 Succeeded bySir George Don Preceded byJames Rooke Colonel of the 38th (1st Staffordshire) Regiment of Foot 1805–1836 Succeeded byHon. Sir Charles James Greville Preceded byThe Duke of Gordon Colonel of the Scots Fusilier Guards 1836–1842 Succeeded byThe Duke of Saxony Peerage of Ireland Preceded byAugustus Ludlow Earl Ludlow 1811–1842 Extinct Preceded byAugustus Ludlow Viscount Preston 1811–1842 Extinct Preceded byAugustus Ludlow Baron Ludlow 1811–1842 Extinct Peerage of the United Kingdom New creation Baron Ludlow 1831–1842 Extinct
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