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SIR SAMUEL AUCHMUTY (1756-1822)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 893 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:SAMUEL See also:AUCHMUTY (1756-1822)  , See also:British See also:general, was See also:born at New See also:York in 1756, and served as a loyalist in the See also:American See also:War of See also:Independence, being given an ensigncy in the royal See also:army in 1777, and in 1778 a lieutenancy in the 45th See also:Foot, without See also:purchase . When his See also:regiment returned to See also:England after the war, having neither private means nor See also:influence, he exchanged into the 52nd, in See also:order to proceed to See also:India . He took See also:part in the last war against Hyder See also:Ali ; he was given a See also:staff See also:appointment by See also:Lord See also:Cornwallis in 1790, served in the operations against Tippoo See also:Sahib,and continued in various staff appointments up to 1797, when he returned to England a See also:brevet lieut.-See also:colonel . In' 1Soo he was made lieut.-colonel and brevet colonel; and in the following See also:year, as See also:adjutant-general to See also:Sir See also:David See also:Baird in See also:Egypt, took a distinguished See also:share in the See also:march across the See also:desert and the See also:capture of See also:Alexandria . On his return to England in 1803 he was knighted, and three years later he went out to the See also:River See also:Plate as a brigadier-general . See also:Auchmuty was one of the few See also:officers who came out of the disastrous Buenos Aires expedition of 1806-7 with enhanced reputation . While General See also:Whitelocke, the See also:commander, was cashiered, Auchmuty was at once re-employed and promoted See also:major-general, and was sent out in 18ro to command at See also:Madras . In the following year he commanded the expedition organized for the See also:conquest of See also:Java, which the See also:governor-general, Lord See also:Minto, himself accompanied . The storming of the strongly fortified position of Meester Cornelis (28th See also:August 1811), stubbornly defended by the Dutch See also:garrison under General See also:Janssens, practically achieved the conquest of the See also:island, and after the See also:action of Samarang (See also:September 8th) Janssens surrendered . Auchmuty received the thanks of See also:parliament and the order of K.C.B . (G.C.B. in 1815), and in 1813, on his return See also:home, was promoted to the See also:rank of lieut.-general . In 1821 he became commander-in-See also:chief in See also:Ireland, and a member of the Irish privy See also:council .

He died suddenly on the 11th of August 1822 . AUCHTERARDER (Gaelic, " upper high See also:

land "), a See also:police See also:burgh of See also:Perthshire, See also:Scotland, 13,3-, m . S.W. of See also:Perth by the Caledonian railway . Pop . (1901) 2276 . It is situated on See also:Ruthven See also:Water, a right-See also:hand tributary of the See also:Earn . The chief manufactures are those of tartans and other woollens, and of agricultural implements . At the beginning of the 13th See also:century it obtained a See also:charter from the See also:earl of Strathearn, afterwards became a royal burgh for a See also:period, and was represented in the Scottish parliament . Its See also:castle, now ruinous, was built as a See also:hunting-See also:lodge for See also:Malcolm Canmore, but of the See also:abbey which it possessed as See also:early as the reign of See also:Alexander II . (1198-1249) no remains exist . The See also:ancient See also:church of St Mungo, now in ruins, was a See also:building in the See also:Norman or Early Pointed See also:style . The See also:town was almost entirely burned down by the earl of See also:Mar in 1716 during the abortive Jacobite rising .

It was in connexion with this See also:

parish that the ecclesiastical dispute arose which led to the disruption in the Church of Scotland in 1843 . The See also:estate of Kincardine, 1 m. See also:south, gives the See also:title of earl of Kincardine to the See also:duke of See also:Montrose . The old castle, now in ruins, was dismantled in 1645 by the See also:marquis of See also:Argyll in See also:retaliation for the destruction of Castle See also:Campbell in See also:Dollar Glen on the south See also:side of the Ochils . The old ruined castle of Tullibardine, 2 M. See also:west of the burgh, once belonged to the Murrays of Tullibardine, ancestors of the duke of See also:Atholl, who derives the title of marquis of Tullibardine from the estate . The ancient See also:chapel adjoining, also ruinous, was a See also:burial-See also:place of the Murrays .

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