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Before July 1666 Admiral Arthur Herbert 1st Earl Torrington (age 18) was appointed Lieutenant in Defiance.
On 27th May 1676 Captain George Marlay was appointed Lieutenant of the 62nd Regiment.
On 25th April 1743 Joseph Yorke 1st Baron Dover (age 18) was promoted Lieutenant of the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards.
On 16th June 1789 Admiral Joseph Sydney Yorke (age 21) was promoted to Lieutenant. He moved to the 50-gun HMS Adamant to serve under Admiral Sir Richard Hughes.
The London Gazette 18256. War-Office, 9th June 1826.
8th Regiment of Light Dragoons, Captain John Earl of Wiltshire (age 25) to be Major, by purchase, vice Craufurd, promoted in the 94th Foot. Dated 9th June 1826,
Lieutenant James Thomas Lord Brudenell (age 28) to be Captain, by purchase, vice Lord Wiltshire Dated 9th June 1826
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In 1838 George Phipps 2nd Marquess Normanby (age 18) was appointed Lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards.
Before 16th July 1861 Henry Eliot Yorke (age 23) was appointed Lieutenant of the Royal Bombay Artillery.
Before 19th July 1915 Lieutenant Theodore William Warlow (age 20) was appointed Lieutenant of the 6th Battalion King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry.
In August 1660 Thomas Ingram (age 46) was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire.
In 1336 Henry of Grosmont 1st Duke Lancaster (age 26) was appointed King's Lieutenant in Scotland.
In 1471 William Hastings 1st Baron Hastings (age 40) was appointed Lieutenant Calais.
In 1483 John Dynham 1st Baron Dynham (age 50) was appointed Lieutenant Calais.
On 28th November 1520 John Bourchier 2nd Baron Berners (age 53) was appointed Lieutenant Calais.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
On 29th November 1269 Roger Leybourne (age 54) was appointed Lieutenant Gascony.
On 29th April 1424 Archibald Douglas 1st Duke Touraine (age 52) was created 1st Duke Touraine by Charles "Victorious" VII King France (age 21); he was the first non-Frenchman to be appiinted Duke in France. Charles had also appointed him Lieutenant General in the waging of war in the Kingdom of France. Margaret Stewart Duchess Touraine by marriage Duchess Touraine.
In 1569 Henry Carey 1st Baron Hunsdon (age 42) was appointed Lieutenant General.
In 1762 William Keppel (age 34) was appointed Lieutenant general.
On 29th January 1541 Thomas Howard 3rd Duke of Norfolk (age 68) was appointed Lieutenant General North of the Trent.
In 1558 Henry Neville 5th Earl of Westmoreland (age 33) was appointed Lieutenant General North of the Trent.
After September 1397 John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset (age 24) was appointed Lieutenant of Aquitaine.
In 1413 Thomas Beaufort 1st Duke Exeter (age 35) was appointed Lieutenant of Aquitaine.
In 1439 John Holland 2nd Duke Exeter (age 43) was appointed Lieutenant of Aquitaine.
In April 1443 John Beaufort 1st Duke of Somerset (age 40) was appointed Lieutenant of Aquitaine.
In April 1443 John Beaufort 1st Duke of Somerset (age 40) declared himself Lieutenant of Aquitaine and Captain-General of Guyenne. He was paid £25,000 attracting the enmity of Richard Plantagenet 3rd Duke of York (age 31) whose significants debts remained unpaid by the Crown.
In April 1470 John Scott (age 47) was appointed Lieutenant of the Cinque Ports.