Life
?1740-1802; gd. son of 1st Baron Tyrawley; entered Coldstream Guards,
of [which] his f. was colonel, 1756; aide de camp to Granby after Minden;
quarter-master under Tyrawley, Portugal 1762; commandant at Goree, 1766;
comm. brigade of guards in America and wounded at Guilford Courthouse,
1781; captured at Yorktown; received promotions; wounded and captured by French
at Toulon; Gov. of Gibraltar, 1795-1802; gen. 1798; friend
of Walpole; sometime engaged to May Berry; d. Gibraltar. ODNB
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Notes
A
portrait, thought to be of Charles O’Hara included in engraving of
House of Commons of 1790, now preserved in Bank of Ireland (College Green)
[as figure No. 106 in key].
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