Military Commissions. Military Records.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Warrants conferring authority to raise and command a body of troops; certificates conferring military or naval rank and authority on officers of certain rank.
Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:
7th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1781-1798.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10964-10967
8th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1808-1875.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10971-10994
9th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1841-1863.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.10998-11006
10th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1845-1903.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11007-11025
11th Marquess of Tweeddale papers., 1905-1959.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.11026-11031
A collection of documents relating to the family of Moubray of Cockairnie.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.12871-13000
Scope and Contents
Comprised of: title deeds to their various estates and other properties in Fife and elsewhere (Ch.12871-12978), burgess tickets (Ch.12979-12984), military commissions (Ch.12985-12993) and other documents (Ch.12994-1296) relating to various members of the family, and a few apparently unrelated documents. An inventory, listing each document individually, is available.
Dates:
1436-1820.
Act of Admission of the Royal Company of Archers in favour of Robert Brown.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2630
Dates:
1755.
Act of admission to the Royal Company of Archers in favour of Sir William Murray, 5th Baronet, of Ochtertyre., 9 September 1769.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17051
Scope and Contents
This document is fully dated Edinburgh, 9 September 1769.
Dates:
9 September 1769.
Active cornet`s commission., 1775.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15439O
Appointment by Queen Anne to Captain Matthew Campbell to be commander of the Dunbarton Castle., 17 July 1703.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15182
Appointment of Patrick Fotheringham to be Captain of H M S `Rugby`., 1781.
Item
Identifier: Ch.10964
Army commissions and other honours and appointments conferred on John Brown, finally Major-General, R S C., 1782-1813.
Series
Identifier: Ch.2478-2490
Dates:
1782-1813.
Army commissions, etc, mostly of and concerning, General Henry Fletcher of Saltoun., 1739-1763.
Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.14730-14739
Burgess-tickets, 1764-1791, of various burghs given to Charles Hay, advocate, afterwards Lord Newton. Includes an act of admission, 1781, to the Royal Company of Archers, and his letter and warrant of appointment, 1806, as an Ordinary Lord of Session., 1764-1806.
File
Identifier: Ch.2103-2114
Scope and Contents
The act of admission, 1781, to the Royal Company of Archers is at Ch.2106 and the letter and warrant of appointment, 1806, as an Ordinary Lord of Session is at Ch.2114.
Dates:
1764-1806.
Captains commission in 8th company of General Colyears regiment, Dutch service, to Patrick Graeme., 1745.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15439J
Captains commission, in 24th company, Scots Brigade, Dutch Service, to Patrick Graeme., 1745.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15439K
Captain`s commission in 72nd Foot, to George Graeme., 1780.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15439Q
Captain`s commission in Perthshire fencible cavalry, to George Graeme., 1794.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15439R
Charters and formal documents of the Graemes of Inchbraikie and Aberuthven, Perthshire.
Collection
Identifier: Ch.15439-15440
Scope and Contents
Collection relates mainly to properties and military service.
Dates:
1680-1871.
Commission, 1921, as temporary Lieutenant-Colonel in the Union Defence Forces, 1917., 1917, 1921.
Item
Identifier: Ch.17420
Commission appointing John Moubray Captain in the Marines., 22 May 1765.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12987
Commission appointing John Moubray [eldest son of Robert Moubray of Cockairnie (d 1779)] first Lieutenant in the 124th Company of Marines., 27 October 1760.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12985
Dates:
27 October 1760.
Commission appointing John Moubray First Lieutenant in 21st Company of Marines., 1 May 1763.
Item
Identifier: Ch.12986
Commission appointing Ralph E Buchanan ensign in the 59th Foot., 1866.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8945
Commission appointing Ralph E Buchanan lieutenant in the 59th Foot., 1868.
Item
Identifier: Ch.8946