I represent John Peter Addenbrooke. I was a Captain in the 54th Regiment of Foot, and Aide-de-Camp to Major General John Campbell, who commanded all troops in West Florida from March 1779 until the capitulation of the town. I was present on that day, May 10, 1781, when after one of the longest sieges of the American Revolutionary War, the British surrendered the last military garrison in West Florida to the Spanish under Bernardo de Gálvez. My obituary notes that, aside from being promoted to Major at some point, I was also “gentleman usher to her late Majesty Queen Charlotte, equerry to her late Royal Highness Princess Charlotte, and retained upon the Establishment of his Royal Highness the Prince of Saxe Coburg.” I was baptized – probably as an infant, as is the tradition of the Church of England – on June 26, 1754 in London, the son of William and Mary Elizabeth Addenbrooke. I died at Versailles in 1821 at the age of 69 from “an aneurism of the heart, after a few hours’ illness.” [The [London] Morning Chronicle, September 20, 1821, p. 3]
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