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MUSEUM. 
PRESENTED. BY WHOM. 
1 frock coat, Colonel-on-the-Staff, 
1 waistcoat. 
1 „ pants ... 
1 „ jack boots 
1 „ „ spurs 
1 pair cloth overalls 
1 pair Wellington boots 
1' „ spurs 
1 staff shabraque ... 
1 plume for helmet . 
3 collars for patrol... 
1 patrol jacket 
1 forage cap 
1 field service cap ... 
1 gold cross belt and pouch 
1 staff sabretache with slings 
2 gold sword slings for girdle 
1 black silk scarf ... 
1 pair gloves . 
3 collars for frock coat 
R.A.") 
> Colonel W. W. Murdoch, late R.A, 
The Secretary R.A. Institution has received a small lot of Turkish MSS. suitable 
for an officer studying for the interpreter’s examination ; they are available for 
use by any member wishing to borrow them. 
The R.A. Institution have lately acquired the portraits in oil of two famous 
artillerymen, viz. : Major-General Shrapnel and Colonel Griffith Williams. The 
former by Arrowsmith, painted in 1817, was purchased from a descendant of the 
General whose name and reputation, being world-wide, need no more notice here. 
The picture of Colonel Griffith Williams is presented by his nephew C. R. 
Williams, Esq., of Dolmclynllyn, Dolgelley and most gratefully accepted by the 
Committee in the name of the Members of the R.A. Institution ; the picture is 
a half-length, life size painted about the time of Minden to judge by the age ; it 
is especially valuable as an authentic representation of the uniform of that period ; 
the Committee are having it thoroughly cleaned and its frame done up so that it 
may be placed in the prominent position in the Institution building due to 
so distinguished an officer. 
In case there be any who have forgotten the services of Colonel Griffith Williams, 
the following short memoir will remind them :—• 
GRIFFITH WILLIAMS. 1 
Listed as Matross in January 1744 in Captain George Michelson’s Company, 
R.A., at Woolwich ; appointed Cadet-Gunner, 4th April, 1744 ; Cadet Company 
organised, January 1745 and included Griffith Williams; promoted Lieut.- 
Fireworker, 6th April, 1745, in Captain Archibald Cunningham’s Company; sent 
on particular service to America, August 1745 ; promoted 1st Lieutenant, 1st 
March, 1755 ; in command of detachment, R.A., on Carboniere Island, 
1 Kane’s List, Ho. 131. 
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