Lieutenant-General Harry Trelawny (1726 – 28 January 1800) was a

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officer who served with the

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during the

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. He was wounded while leading a battalion of the Guards during the war and later rose to the lieutenant-colonelcy of the regiment. Trelawny was the son of Capt. William Trelawny and his wife Mary Bisset, and the grandson of Brig-Gen.

Henry Trelawny Brigadier-General Henry Trelawny (ca. 1658 – 8 January 1702) was a British Army officer of Cornish people, Cornish descent, a Member of Parliament and Vice-Admiral of South Cornwall, Vice-Admiral of Cornwall. Origins He was the seventh and you ...

. He served with the " Buffs" as an

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and carried the regimental colours during the

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. He was commissioned an ensign in the

on 28 June 1746. He was promoted lieutenant on 4 March 1752, and on 15 June of that year he married Mary Dormer (d. 22 February 1813) at Mayfair Chapel, by whom he had children, including: *Col.

Charles Trelawny Major General Charles Trelawny, also spelt 'Trelawney', (1653 – 24 September 1731) was an English soldier from Cornwall who played a prominent part in the 1688 Glorious Revolution, and was a Member of Parliament for various seats between 1685 ...

(d. 1820), later Trelawny-Brereton, of Shotwick Park *Sophia Trelawny, married John L. Freeman, of Crickmaillyn on 15 June 1801 Trelawny served with the Coldstreams during the Raid on St Malo and the

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in 1758. He became a

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on 14 March 1762. Trelawny again saw service during the

, in which he led the first battalion of the regiment. He fought at the

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in 1776, and was promoted to a colonel in the army on 6 September 1777. He again led the first battalion at the

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, where he was wounded. He was promoted to first

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of the regiment on 5 May 1780, later to major-general in the army, and was promoted lieutenant-colonel of the Coldstreams on 23 November 1785. He became Governor of Landguard Fort in 1788 and retired from the Guards on 25 May 1789. On 12 October 1793, he was promoted to

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. He died on 28 January 1800, and was buried on 13 February at

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trelawny, Harry 1726 births 1800 deaths British Army lieutenant generals British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War British Army personnel of the Seven Years' War Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) officers Coldstream Guards officers British Army personnel of the Jacobite rising of 1745 Burials at St Anne's Church, Soho