Thursday, 11 October 2012

RP No 94 NYW Sir John Hanmar's regt



The regiment was one of those ordered to be raised by James II to meet the challenge of Monmouth's Rebellion of 1685, loyal residents of Devon, Somerset and Dorset were formed into a regiment, under the command of Henry, Duke of Beaufort.
Following Monmouth's defeat, at the Battle of Sedgemoor, the Duke relinquished command of the Regiment to his son.  Charles, Marquis of Worcester was appointed its Colonel on 26th October 1685. In 1687, he it turn was succeeded by William, Viscount Montgomery. However, in the autumn of 1688, while stationed at Hull, the Regiment declared allegiance to William III and all Roman Catholic officers were arrested including Viscount Montgomery.
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Hanmer was appointed the Regiment's new Colonel on 31st December 1688. Six months later, on 15th June 1689, Hanmer's Regiment of Foot arrived in Ireland as part of William III's forces resisting James II's attempt to regain his kingdoms.
The Regiment saw action at the lifting of The Siege of Londonderry and then in July 1690 at The Battle of the Boyne. The following year it was present at the siege and the surrender of Limerick.

Hanmer was the son of Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet of Hanmer and his first wife Elizabeth Baker. In 1659, he was elected Member of Parliament for Flint in the Third Protectorate Parliament. He was knighted on 9 August 1660 and was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire from 1664 to 1665, In October 1669 he was elected MP for Evesham for the Cavalier Parliament. He succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in 1678. In 1681 he was elected MP for Flintshire . He was elected MP for Flint again in 1685. Hanmer married Mary Alston, daughter of Joseph Alston, of Netherhall, Suffolk. He was killed in a duel in 1701 leaving no issue, and was succeeded in the baronetcy by his nephew Thomas.








44 comments:

  1. Nice looking regiment Ray! I do like those closeups on the figures as it's nice to see the details of the brushwork.

    I downloaded one of your flags to use as a template for one I have to make. It's from a post you gave us permission to do the download.

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    1. Excellent go for it Anne, I'm very interested what you come up with!

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  2. Great looking unit you got there Ray. The donkey in the background picture cracked me up!

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  3. Nice looking ! Thank's for the history lesson, i don't know this war !

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  4. I actually really dig the details from the side. The fingers of the right hand.. I like them for some reason.

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  5. Wonderful regiment Ray, bases and painting. A regiment with a eventful history! Thanks!

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  6. Yet another regiment rolls of the Ray palette. Well painted as ever and some history to digest. Nice one Ray.

    See yuo Sunday.

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  7. Traitors and Turncoats, lol. Great history on the regiment, as always Ray. Great painting skill of those little wee men too.

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  8. Another beautiful regiment, Ray! Your work never ceases to please and amaze!

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  9. Great Ray and a great wee bit of history. Good to see they saw sense and joined the Glorious Revoloution.

    You must have a fair number of figures now.

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    1. Far too many already and still more to come!!

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  10. Great looking regiment, the flag those simple in design compared to some of your previously done looks very good. I like the history as well interesting that they changed sides.

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    1. A lot of regts did change sides during the Glorious Revolution.

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  11. Sweet looking outfit Ray. Good to see you are still busy.

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  12. Nice models. It is always interesting to ead something about the regiments you are painting and the flags you offer for download. As far I escaped the clutches of another building site in my wargames room but it is getting harder everythime I watch you models....

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    1. Just give in now Markus, it will save time in the end.

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  13. Nice looking unit and excellent background

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  14. As usual, very high quality work!

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  15. Very nice. Your ploughing through regiments like a cheetah on speed!

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  16. I love the detail on their faces, Ray. It looks fantastic.

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  17. I like 'em! I really like your bases. I'm about to dive into a re-basing project for my British Napoleonics and I'm scouting out basing styles that I like.

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  18. Relentless production of very appealing units !!

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  19. Another great looking unit - love that backdrop too. Best, Dean

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  20. Again you use that nice backdrop, and again you put figures in front of it! Can't you do it the othet way around? :-D

    Excellent painted unit Ray!

    Greetings
    Peter
    http://peterscave.blogspot.be/

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  21. Very nice unit and paint job. I also like the bases.

    Cheers
    Mike

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  22. Great looking unit Ray and I really like the effort you put into writing up the background.

    Christopher

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  23. Very nice work, Sir Ray! I notice that there is not one bald head in the bunch?

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    1. Nope they were known to be very hairy back then!

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  24. Lovely work, Ray! Quite like that backdrop as well.

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  25. How did I miss this? I'm so confused...very nice!!!!

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  26. Lovely jubbly. Have you many more of these guys to go?

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