Brigadier-General Francis Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham (bapt.
On 26 July 1722, he was commissioned captain and lieutenant-colonel in the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards.
He continued to rise in the Army, and was made lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel in the 1st Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards on 15 July 1731.
The next year, on 22 July 1732, he received the colonelcy of a regiment of foot, which he held until 1737.
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