Humphrey Bland

Humphrey Bland
Governor's House, Gibraltar; Bland's residence as Governor, 1751 to 1753
Commander in Chief, Scotland
In office
1753–1756
Governor of Edinburgh Castle
In office
1752–1763
Governor of Gibraltar
In office
March 1749 – May 1754
Governor of Fort William
In office
1743–1752
Personal details
Born1686
Lisburn, County Down
Died8 May 1763(1763-05-08) (aged 76)
London
Resting placeWestminster Abbey
SpouseElizabeth Dalrymple (1755-his death)
OccupationSoldier and administrator
Military service
Years of service1704 to
RankLieutenant General
UnitColonel, 2nd King's Own Horse 1752-1763
Battles/warsWar of the Spanish Succession
Siege of Alicante; Almenar;
1715 Jacobite Rising
Preston
War of the Austrian Succession
Dettingen; Fontenoy; Lauffeld
1745 Jacobite Rising
Falkirk Muir; Culloden

Lieutenant General Humphrey Bland (1686 – 8 May 1763) was an Irish professional soldier, whose career in the British Army began in 1704 during the War of the Spanish Succession and ended in 1756.

First published in 1727, his Treatise of Military Discipline was the most successful and widely used military drillbook to appear in English during the 18th century. It was reprinted nine times between 1727 and 1762, George Washington being among those who owned copies.

He was twice Commander-in-Chief, Scotland, first from 1747 to 1751, then 1753 until 1756, when ill-health forced his retirement. He died in London in 1763.

Life

Modern-day Gordon House in London, built on Bland's original property

Humphrey Bland was born in Lisburn circa 1686, second child of Thomas Bland; little is known of his mother, but his father's family settled in Ireland in 1670 and may have been related to the Bland baronets of Kippax in Yorkshire. He was the second of six children, including three sisters, Frances, Anne and Elizabeth.[1]

His elder brother John (died 1728) ended his career in 1715 as Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards; after his retirement, he built Blandsfort in Abbeyleix, County Laois and died unmarried. William (died 1746) was a captain in the 8th Dragoons; he had five children, the eldest son John (1723-1789) inheriting Blandsfort.

In 1755, Bland married the much younger Elizabeth Dalrymple (1732-1816), sister of the 5th Earl of Stair (1720-1789) and niece of Field Marshal John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (1673-1747). He had no legitimate children but acknowledged paternity of Martha Maria Beresford (1746-ca 1800).[2]

After his retirement in 1756, he purchased Thistleworth House, in Isleworth, outside London, whose redesign was one of the earliest pieces of work by Scottish architect Robert Adam. As Gordon House, it was greatly expanded by the Earl of Kilmorey in 1868.[3] He died here on 8 May 1763 and his property split between Martha, Elizabeth and his nephew, General Thomas Bland (died 1816).[citation needed]

Career

During the War of the Spanish Succession in March 1704, Bland was commissioned as an ensign; Parliamentary accounts show he was Town Major or military administrator for Tortosa, in Catalonia from May to October 1707.[4] In July 1709, he was promoted major in Colonel Frederick Sibourg's Regiment of Foot.[5] This was one of five units raised in April 1705 from exiled French Huguenots.[6]

Sent to Spain, it suffered heavy casualties at the Siege of Alicante in 1709, where Sibourg was killed.[7] Bland's brothers John and William also served with the regiment and all three fought at Almenar in 1710, where Humphrey was wounded. Despite this victory, the Allied war effort in Spain was winding down and it was increasingly difficult to replace losses; the regiment was disbanded in 1712 and Bland placed on half-pay.[5]

In 1715, he was reinstated as major in Honywood's Dragoons, a new regiment raised for the 1715 Jacobite Rising; he was closely connected to Sir Philip Honywood for the rest of his career. After the Battle of Preston, Bland was entrusted with escorting senior Jacobite prisoners to London. He transferred to the Royal Regiment of Dragoons in 1717 and promoted lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd King's Own Horse in 1718.[1]

Britain was at peace from 1715 to 1740 and promotion slow, but Bland made his reputation with the publication in 1727 of A Treatise of Military Discipline. A practical and clearly written work summarising the basic duties of regimental officers, it became the most successful and widely used English drill book of the 18th century and frequently reprinted. George Washington owned a copy and popularised its use with officers of the Virginia militia and later the Continental Army.[8]

Appointed colonel of the 36th Foot in 1737, he transferred to the 13th Dragoons in 1741 and was made Quartermaster-General to the Forces in 1742, a post he held until his death.[9] During the War of the Austrian Succession, he served in the Low Countries, where he commanded the 3rd Dragoons and fought at Dettingen in June 1743. Technically an Allied victory, the battle has been described as 'a happy escape, rather than a great success' and is now chiefly remembered as the last time a ruling British monarch led troops in battle.[10]

It was also the first major action for the Duke of Cumberland, who replaced George Wade as commander in Europe. Bland became part of his small circle of trusted senior officers and commanded a cavalry brigade at Fontenoy in May 1745. In October, he was transferred to Scotland to help suppress the 1745 Jacobite Rising, fighting at Falkirk Muir in January 1746 and Culloden in April.[1]

Bland fought at the Battle of Fontenoy in May 1745, Cumberland's first battle

In early 1747, Bland returned to Europe, where he took part in the Battle of Lauffeld in July, a British defeat saved from disaster by a series of courageous cavalry charges. In September, he replaced the Earl of Albemarle as Commander-in-Chief, Scotland; as an Irish Presbyterian, Bland had little sympathy for the largely Episcopalian Jacobites or Highland culture in general. He worked closely with Lord Milton, a senior Scottish judge who advocated reforming the land tenure system to reduce the power of clan chiefs and introducing industry to improve the general economy. These ideas were summarised in a paper titled Proposals for civilising the Highlands; not all were carried out, but it shaped general policy.[11]

Bland also proposed re-establishing the network of military garrisons set up by Cromwell throughout Scotland, including detailed regulations for their relationships with the surrounding population, including education and intermarriage. This approach to 'converting' a hostile civilian populace was used by his colleague William Blakeney as governor of the Spanish island of Menorca and by Bland himself as Governor of Gibraltar.[12] He has been described as a classic example of senior career soldiers in this period; a 'bluff, methodical, proficient general officer, who took his duties seriously.'[1]

He was appointed Governor of Gibraltar in 1749, a position that did not require residence and was considered a military backwater; however, he asked to be relieved of command in Scotland and moved there in 1751 due to ill-health. When Sir Philip Honywood died in 1752, he succeeded him as colonel of his former regiment, the 1st King's Dragoon Guards and also given the sinecure appointment of Governor of Edinburgh Castle. When his successor in Scotland, George Churchill, died in 1753, he returned from Gibraltar for a second period as Commander-in-Chief before retiring in 1756. He died in London on 8 May 1763.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Houlding 2004.
  2. ^ "Martha Maria Beresford (Bland)". Geni.com. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Thistleworth (now Gordon) House, Isleworth, Middlesex: executed designs for an extension; a greenhouse; and two variant unexecuted designs for a temple for Lieutenant General Humphrey Bland, 1758-63 (12)". Sir John Soane's Museum Collection Online. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
  4. ^ Shaw 1952.
  5. ^ a b Dalton 1904, p. 176.
  6. ^ Knighton 2006, p. 105.
  7. ^ Costello 2008, p. 89.
  8. ^ Wright 1931, p. 83.
  9. ^ "No. 8113". The London Gazette. 24 April 1742. p. 2.
  10. ^ Brumwell 2006, p. 31.
  11. ^ Royle 2016, pp. 130–134.
  12. ^ Gruber 2014, p. 70.

Sources

  • Brumwell, Stephen (2006). Paths of Glory: The Life and Death of General James Wolfe. Hambledon Continuum. ISBN 978-1852855536.
  • Costello, Vivien (2008). "Huguenot regiments in the War of the Spanish Succession". Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 86 (345).
  • Dalton, Charles (1904). English army lists and commission registers, 1661-1714 Volume VI. Eyre & Spottiswood.
  • Gruber, Ira (2014). Books and the British Army in the Age of the American Revolution. The University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0807833780.
  • Houlding, J.A (2004). "Humphrey Bland". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/2607. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • Knighton, CS, ed. (2006). Calendar of State Papers 1705-1706: Of the Reign of Anne Volume. Boydell Press. ISBN 978-1843832515.
  • Royle, Trevor (2016). Culloden; Scotland's Last Battle and the Forging of the British Empire. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-1408704011.
  • Shaw, William, ed. (1952). Declared Accounts 1707: Army in Calendar of Treasury Books, Volume 22, 1708. HMSO.
  • Wright, John W (1931). "Some Notes on the Continental Army". The William and Mary Quarterly. 11 (2): 82–105. doi:10.2307/1921003. JSTOR 1921003.
Military offices
Preceded by Colonel, 36th Foot
1737–1741
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Robert Dalway
Colonel, 13th Dragoons
1741–1743
Succeeded by
Preceded by Quartermaster-General to the Forces
1742–1763
Succeeded by
Preceded by Colonel, 3rd Dragoons
1743–1752
Succeeded by
Preceded by Governor of Fort William
1743–1752
Succeeded by
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Scotland
September 1747 to December 1751
Succeeded by
Preceded by Governor of Gibraltar
1749–1755
Succeeded by
Preceded by Governor of Edinburgh Castle
1752–1763
Succeeded by
Preceded by Colonel, King's Dragoon Guards
1752–1763
Succeeded by
Preceded by Commander-in-Chief, Scotland
November 1753 to July 1756
Succeeded by

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