List of Captains of Deal Castle
List of Captains

List of Captains of Deal Castle

Section Title: List of Captains
Table Section Text: None

Appointed	Incumbent	Notes

1540	Thomas Wingfield	First incumbent

1551	Thomas Boys

1569	John Baker

1572	Peter Hammond

1599	Matthew Bredgate

1611	Erasmus Finch

1611	William Byng

1625	Thomas Pulnetby

1643	William Batten	Royalist

1648	Col. Thomas Rainsborough	Parliamentarian. Dismissed from office.

1648	Capt. Wyne

1648	Maj. Samuel Kemm

1648	Col. Nathaniel Rich	Royalist forced to surrender to Parliamentary forces, August, 1648

1653	Samuel Taverner	Parliamentarian appointment

1660	William Byng	Returned to office at the Restoration of the Monarchy

1661	Col. Silius Titus

1671	Capt. Francis Digby

1672	Francis Hawley, 1st Baron Hawley

1673	Sir John Berry

1690	Lt. Col. Sir John Granville

1690	Sir Francis Wheler	Died in office, 1694

1745	John Norris	Died 1749

1777	Francis Godolphin Osborne, Marquis of Carmarthen

1786	George Augustus, 9th Lord North

1802	Robert Smith, 1st Baron Carrington

1838	William Wellesley-Pole, Lord Maryborough

1843	James Andrew Brown Ramsey, Earl of Dalhousie

1847	Richard Charles Francis Meade, Earl of Clanwilliam

1879	John Robert Townshend, Earl Sydney

1890	Farrer Herschell, 1st Baron Herschell

1899	Rt. Hon. Lord George Francis Hamilton

1923	Field Marshal John French, Earl of Ypres

1925	Field Marshal Lord Allenby

1927	Rufus Isaacs, 1st Marquess of Reading

1934	Field Marshal Lord Birdwood

1951	Position vacant

1972	General Sir Norman Tailyour

1980	Maj. Gen. Ian Harrison	Henceforth tied to the appointment of the Commandant General Royal Marines

Sentence(s)

Birdwood was Captain of Deal Castle in 1934.

final_sentence: Birdwood was Captain of Deal Castle in 1934.