THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
287 
SUCCESSION LIST OF THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
Reign. 
Date of 
Appt. 
Name. 
Geo. II. 
1727-1760 
(OontdJ 
4 
War Services, &c. 
^ 1740. John, Duke of Montague, appointed 
Master-General of the Ordnance. 
1742. John, Duke of Argyle, re-appointed 
Master-General of the Ordnance in February ; 
and on resigning, in March, the Duke of 
Montague was re-appointed in succession. 
1749. Duke of Marlborough appointed 
Master-General of the Ordnance. 
1758. Col. Pendlebury, the last Master- 
Gunner of England , would appear to have 
^_died in this year. 
1759 
Captain 
Joseph 
Brome. 
In the <! London Gazette ” of 5th January, 
1759, Captain Joseph Brome was appointed 
Master-Gunner of Whitehall and St. Jamess 
Parky London. Capt. Brome was at this date 
A.-D.-C. to the Marquis of Granby, after 
having been A.-D.-C. to Lord Geo. Sackville, 
Commander-in-Chief. 
The career of Captain Brome is probably 
the most extraordinary in the annals of the 
British army; and at this moment the Memoirs 
of the Brome Family are approaching com¬ 
pletion. 
His mother, Mary Hicks—of an ancient 
yeoman family (her father being lord of the 
manor of Charfield, Gloucestershire)—had 
married, Joseph Walton, of Southwark, and 
their son Joseph was born in 1711 or 1712. 
She subsequently married, in Minorca, Corpl. 
Charles Brome of the Artillery (afterwards 
commissioned in R.A., and rendered distin¬ 
guished services). The boy, Joseph Walton, 
was enlisted, in Minorca, as Drummer Joseph 
Brome, about 1720 (then 8 years of age), in 
the company of which his mother’s husband 
was then Corporal Charles Brome. This 
drummer boy eventually became lord of the 
manor of Charfield, on succeeding to the 
maternal estates, but remained in the Artillery 
and reared a family (some of the sons taking 
the name of Walton, others that of Brome), 
who contracted alliances into families of high 
distinction. He died April 30,1796, aged 84, 
a Lieut.-General, Colonel Commandant R A., 
Commandant of Woolwich Garrison, Master- 
^Gunner of St. James’s Park, and lies buried 
