John Moyle (British Army officer)

Major-General John Moyle (died 3 November 1738) was an officer of the British Army.

Biography

Moyle entered the Army on 4 January 1696 as a captain in the Royal Regiment of Ireland.^[1] He served with reputation under the Duke of Marlborough, and was present at the Battle of Blenheim.^[2] On 12 April 1706 he was made lieutenant-colonel of Colonel Roger Townshend's newly raised regiment of infantry,^[3] and on 13 April 1707 he was promoted to the brevet rank of colonel in the Army.^[4] At the peace of Utrecht in 1713 his regiment was disbanded, and he was placed on half-pay, but in 1715 he was made lieutenant-colonel of Colonel William Newton's Regiment of Dragoons.^[2] Colonel Moyle was advanced to the rank of brigadier-general on 13 March 1727. On 14 May 1732 King George II conferred the colonelcy of the 36th Regiment of Foot on Brigadier-General Moyle, who was promoted to the rank of major-general on 5 November 1735. On 27 June 1737 he was removed to the 22nd Regiment of Foot.^[5] Major-General Moyle died on 3 November 1738.

References

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Historical Record of the Thirty-Sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot by Richard Cannon (1853) pp. 114-115.

1. ↑ Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661-1714, vol. 4 (1898) p. 136.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. 5 (1902) Part II, pp. 54-55, n. 3
3. ↑ Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. 5 (1902) Part I, p. 198.
4. ↑ Dalton, English Army Lists, vol. 6 (1904) p. 194.
5. ↑ Richard Cannon, Historical Record of the Twenty-Second, or the Cheshire Regiment of Foot (1849) p. 53.