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MEMOIR. 
that the Committee of the R.A. Institution had decided to accept his 
manuscripts and to bring 1 out a revised edition of Kane's List, which 
when it appears will be for ever associated with his name. 
General Askwith went most carefully over Cleaveland's MSS. which 
are so valuable as giving records of the Royal Artillery in its earliest 
days and before it was formed into a regiment. He compared numer¬ 
ous authorities and was able to fill in several gaps in Cleaveland and 
vice versa in Kane. He also (at no small expense) got copies of the 
records of service of all the officers, almost down to the present day, in 
order to supply the necessary additions to Kane's List which will 
make it a unique register when it is completed. 
The subject of this memoir was born on 7th September, 1811, his 
family belonging to Ripon in Yorkshire. He entered the Royal 
Military Academy in February 1826, and got his commission as 2nd 
Lieutenant in 1829, 1st Lieutenant, 1830; 2nd Captain in 1841; 
Brevet-Major for service in the field in 1842; 1st Captain, 1846; Lieut.- 
Colonel, 1854; Brevet-Colonel, 1857; Colonel, 1858 ; Major-General, 
1868; Lieut.-General, 1877, and General, 1879. He became a Colonel- 
Commandant in 1877. 
After foreign service in Corfu, (whence he travelled in Albania and 
Greece), he went in January, 1838 to Spain as Military Attache to the 
British Embassy, and for nearly 3 years was on constant active service 
as British Commissioner with the Spanish Army of the centre in Aragon 
and Valencia, during the long struggle to suppress the Carlist rebellion. 
During this period he was present at a great number of actions and was 
constantly under fire—at the action of Muniesa his horse was wounded 
—and he took part in the operations about, and siege and attack of 
Morelia, the action of Miella, retreat to Caspie, actions near Segura 
and Utrillos, also at the action of La Scenia where he was wounded. 
General Askwith once informed the writer with reference to the wound 
he received, that on an aide-de-camp of the general (on whose staff he 
was at the time) being sent with some order, he volunteered to accomp¬ 
any him ; the aide-de-camp was killed and Askwith was struck, but 
the bullet fortunately, w r as partly spent; as the weather was cold, he 
was wearing a Horse Artillery Pelisse at the time over another jacket 
and when he felt himself hit, he put his hand inside his jacket to feel 
the place where the bullet had struck and the bullet came out into his 
hand. During the period that he served in Spain, he made the acquain¬ 
tance of all the leading Spanish generals and statesmen of the day, 
with some of whom he was on the most friendly terms. 
As a senior Subaltern, he was appointed to the R.H.A.; but, owing 
to his employment in Spain lasting almost up to the date of his pro¬ 
motion to 2nd Captain, he never (so far as the writer knows), had an 
opportunity of joining his troop. 
In recognition of his valuable services whilst attached to the head¬ 
quarters of the Spanish army, Queen Christina conferred upon him 
the Insignia of a Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the 
Catholic, Cross of the Order of Charles the III, and two Crosses of the 
