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Lieutenant-General Phineas Bowles (24 January 1690 – 22 October 1749) was a British Army officer and MP. 〔 He was a younger son of Phineas Bowles of St. Michael’s, Crooked Lane, London. His father was a first cousin of Major-General Phineas Bowles (died 1722). He served for much of his life as an officer in the 3rd Foot Guards, in which he became captain and lieutenant-colonel in 1712 (Home Off. Mil. Entry Books, vol. viii.) He made the campaigns of 1710-11 under the Duke of Marlborough, and was employed in Scotland in 1715 during the suppression of the Earl of Mar's rebellion. In 1719, being then lieutenant-colonel, 12th Dragoons, he succeeded his cousin as colonel, and commanded the regiment in Ireland until 1740. He became a brigadier-general in 1735, major-general in 1739, and a lieutenant-general 27 May 1745. He was also Governor of Londonderry (Chamberlayne, Magn. Brit. Not. 1745), and colonel of the 7th horse, now the 6th Dragoon Guards or Carabineers. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Bewdley from 1735 to 1741 in place of his elder brother William, who chose to sit for Bridport. 〔 (【引用サイトリンク】title= BOWLES, Phineas (1690-1749), of Beaulieu, Dublin. ) 〕 He died in Dublin in 1749. He had married Alethea Maria, daughter and heiress of Samuel Hill of Kilmainham, Dublin, with whom he had 2 sons and a daughter. 〔 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Phineas Bowles (British Army officer, born 1690)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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