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General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore, KT, PC (c. 1656 – 2 January 1730) was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar.
3 de may. de 2022 · General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore KT PC (c. 1656 – 2 January 1730) was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar. Military career. Colyear was commissioned into the Army of William of Orange in 1674. He served in most of William's Irish campaigns and in 1691 became Governor of Limerick.
- Zwijndrecht, South Holland
- Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester
- South Holland
- 1656
General David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore KT PC (c. 1656 – 2 January 1730) was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar. He was the elder son of Sir Alexander Robertson, of the family of Strowan, Perthshire, who settled in Holland, where he acquired a considerable property, and adopted the...
David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore, nació en Escocia en el año 1656. Se unió al Ejército Británico y participó en varias batallas, incluyendo la guerra de los nueve años. En 1692, fue nombrado general de brigada y en 1695, Comandante en jefe de las Fuerzas en Escocia.
General David Colyear, The Earl of Portmore. 1703-1710. The first Earl of Portmore was the elder son of Sir Alexander Roberston of the Strowan family, Perthshire, who settled in Holland. Sir David acquired a considerable property and adopted the name of Colyear.
This regiment took a prominent part in the Irish campaigns, and after the conclusion of the siege of Limerick in 1691 Portmore in April 1703 was appointed as military governor of the city.
Earl of Portmore was a title in the Peerage of Scotland. It was created in 1703 for the Scottish military commander David Colyear, 1st Lord Portmore.
