THE LONDON GAZETTE, MARCH 28, 1873. 1713

S9tk Foot, Lieutenant Albert James Hesketh Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Macgowan, Bombay Daubeny to be Captain, vice A. D. Grier, Staff Corps. Dated llth December, 1872. retired. Dated 26th March, 1873. Lieutenant-Colonel John Clarke Phillips Prescott, 9Qth Foot, Major Henry Wellington Palmer to be Madras Staff Corps. Dated llth December, Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel E. 8. 1872. F. G. Dawson, transferred to a Brigade Depdt. Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Francis Grant Lamb, Dated 1st April, 1873. Bengal Staff Corps. Dated Jlth December, Captain Robert Montresor Rogers, V.C., to be 1872. Major, vice Palmer. Dated 1st April, 1873. Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Alexander, Bengal Lieutenant Duncan Maclachlan to be Captain, Staff Corps. Dated llth December, ]872. vice Rogers. Dated 1st April, 1873. Lieutenant - Colonel Edmond Tudor Boddam, Madras Staff Corps. Dated llth December, 93rd Foot, Herbert Spencer Compton Gordon, 1872. Gent., to be Sub-Lieutenant, in succession to Lieutenant-Colonel John Seymour Dunbar, Bengal Lieutenant D. Hay, promoted in 78th Foot. Staff Corps. Dated 11 th December, 1872. Dated 29th March, 1873. Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Lane Magniac, Madras 95th Foot, Captain John W. J. Stockwell to be Staff Corps. ' Dated 23rd December, 1&72. Major, vice Brevet-Colonel Lord Clarina, pro- moted in 97th Foot. Dated 1st April, 1873. The undermentioned Officers to have the hono- rary rank of Major :— 9Tth Foot, Major and Brevet Colonel Eyre C. H., Lord Clarina, from the 95th Foot, to be Lieu- Paymaster and Honorary Captain Alexander tenant-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel E. T. Davidson, 105th Foot. Dated 12th August, Gloster, transferred to a Brigade Depot. Dated 1872. 1st April, 1873. Paymaster and Honorary Captain George M. Davidson, 22nd Foot. Dated 22nd August, 98th Foot, Major and Brevet Colonel Francis 1872. Gilbert Hamley, from the 50th Foot, to be Captain William Wynch George Back Willis, Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Brevet Colonel F. retired Royal Marine Light Infantry. Dated Peyton, transferred to a Brigade Dep6t. Dated 14th March, 1873. 1st April, 1873. 103rd Foot, Captain Edward Brandt to be Major, The following promotions to take place conse- vice E. A. Law, retired on a pension. Dated quent on the death, on 13th February, 1873, of 26th March, 1873. Lieutenant-General J. Hale, Colonel of the 103rd Lieutenant Edmund Leopold Clarke to be Captain, Foot:— vice Brandt. Dated 26th March, 1873. Major-General John Maxwell Perceval, C.B., to 105lh Foot, Lieutenant Thomas Kelly to be Cap- be Lieutenant-General. Dated 14th February, tain, vice H. F. Wilson, retired. Dated loth 1873. March, 1873. Brevet Colonel Charles Lennox B. Maitland, from Major, Chelsea Hospital, to be Major-General. 106th Foot, Lieutenant Charles Fleming G-leig to Dated 6th March, 1868, such antedate not to be Captain^ vice E. G. Peyton, retired. Dated carry back pay prior to 14th February, 1873. . 15th March, 1873. Major Thomas Lynden Bell, 6th Foot, to be Lieu- Lieutenant Henry Alexander Bruce Moorhouse tenant-Colonel. Dated 14th February, 1873. retires from the Service. Dated 29th March, Captain John Stephenson Ferguson, 2nd Life 1873. Guards, to be Major. Dated 14th February, 2nd West India Regiment, Lieutenant Francis 1873. William Seafield Grant to be Captain, vice W. Phelps, retired. Dated 26th March, 1873. The following promotions to take place con- sequent on the death on 14th February, 1873, of Unattached, Lieutenant and Brevet Captain Lieutenant-General Thomas Matheson :— George Edmonds, on the Unattached List of Her Majesty's Indian Army, to be Captain, Major-General Sir Henry William Stisted, K.C.B., Bengal Establishment. Dated 29th March, to be Lieutenant-General. Dated 15th Feb- 1873. ruary, 1873. Brevet Colonel William Twisleton Layard, from BREVET. Lieutenant-Colonel half-pay, late Ceylon Rifles, Major Thomas Witchell, 23rd Foot, to have the to be Major-General. Dated 6th March, 1868, honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel on retiring such antedate not to carry back pay prior to on full-pay. Dated 29th March, 1873. 15th February, 1873. * • Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals Francis Major Leonard Sidebottom-Venner, hal.'-pay, late Reid, M.D., retired upon half-pay, to have Depot Battalion, to b «Lieutenant-Colonel. the honorary rank of Inspector- General of Dated 15th February, 1873. Hospitals. Dated 28th February, 1873. Captain Robert Whigham, 16th Lancers, to be Major. Dated loth February, 1873. The undermentioned Officers, having completed the qualifying service with the rank of Lieutenant- The following promotions to take place on the Colonel, to be Colonels :— British Establishment, consequent on the death of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bates, Bombay Staff General B. B. Parlby, C.B., Madras Infantry, on Corps. Dated 4th December, 1872. 7th March, 1873 :— Lieutenant - Colonel Thomas Tristram Piers, Brevet Colonel Joseph Henry Laye, from Major Bombay Staff Corps. Dated 10th December, half-pay, late Dep&t Battalion, to be Major- 1872, General, dated 6th March, 186S, such antedate Lieutenant-Colonel George Noble Cave, Bengal not to carry back pay prior to 8th March, 1873. Staff Corps. Dated 10th December, 1872. Major Augustus Alexander Dick, half-pay, late Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Schneider, Bombay 13th Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel. Dated Staff Corps. Dated 10th December, 1872. 8th March, 1873. Lieutenant-Colonel John Dawson, Bengal Staff Captain Charles Alexander Thomson, 54th Foot, Corps. Dated 10th December, 1872. to be Major. Dated 8th March, 1873.