[2] Regiments and commissions were then considered private assets, that could be used as an investment or to provide an income; their award to children was later discouraged, but drawing pay and delegating duties to a substitute remained a common practice.

[6] In 1737, he submitted to the Society an account of a wound received by his father at the Battle of Brihuega in 1710, when a musket ball remained lodged in his throat for nearly a year.

The brainchild of James Oglethorpe, it was an ambitious, philanthropic venture, which began life as a private enterprise but struggled to attract financial support and was eventually taken over by the Crown in 1752.

[1] Lord Carpenter's Arms appear to be of French or Norman origin, "Paly of six, argent and gules, on a chevron azure, 3 cross crosslets or."

[11] Sir William Boyd Carpenter (1841–1918), Bishop of Ripon, afterwards a Canon of Westminster and Chaplain to the reigning sovereign of England, wrote in a letter dated 7 August 1907 that his family bore the Hereford Arms.

Sir Noel Paton, upon painting the family arms, informed him that the supporters were originally a round-handled sword, which in drawing over time became shortened, until nothing but the cross and globe were left beneath it.