THE MASTER-GUNNERS OF ENGLAND. 
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SUCCESSION LIST OE THE MASTER-GUNNEKS OF ENGLAND. 
Reign. 
Date of 
Appt. 
Name. 
War Services, &c. 
Queen 
Victoria. 
(Contd.) 
1868 
General 
W. Wylde, 
C.B. 
C Appointed Master-Gunner of St. James’s 
} Park 11th December, 1868. Died in London, 
(14th April, 1877. 
1877 
General 
UJ Sir John 
Bloomfield, 
K.C.B. 
( Appointed Master-Gunner of St. James’s 
< Park 15th April, 1877. Died in London, 
/ 1st August, 1880. 
1880 
General 
Poole V. 
England. 
( Appointed Master-Gunner of St. James’s 
< Park , 2nd August, 1880. Died at Dover, 
(6th November, 1884. 
1884 
General 
Sir John 
St. George, 
K.C.B. 
f Appointed Master-Gunner of St. James’s 
Park 7th November, 1884. Died in London, 
j^l7th March, 1891. 
1891 
General Sir 
Collingvvood 
Dickson, 
#.(£., G.C.B. 
f Son of General Sir Alexander Dickson, 
| former Master-Gunner of St. James’s Park , 
appointed Master-Gunner of St. James’s 
| Park 18th March, 1891, and is the present 
^Incumbent. 
The war services of the successors to Lieut.-General Walton are 
recorded in detail in the Army Lists. 
In 1881 the Master-Gunners were graded into 1st class, pay at 6s. ; 
2nd class, pay at 5s. 8d.; 3rd class, pay at 4s. 6d .; and Warrants were 
conferred upon the 1st and 2nd classes; but, perhaps by oversight, 
the Premier Master-Gunner of England was relegated to the 3rd class, 
with lowest rate of pay, and not given a “ Warrant,” so that at date of 
succession the Master-Gunner of St. James’s Park , London, is junior to 
all the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Class Master-Gunners! 
The “ Master-Gunner of England” was, however, not published 
until 1884 (Proceedings, Royal Artillery Institution, Vol. XIV.) ; the office 
had been dismissed in the Histories of the Royal Artillery with the 
scantiest notice, as little beyond tradition was known before the publica¬ 
tion of the original Royal Warrant of Queen Elizabeth (in the R.A.I. 
“ Proceedings ” quoted) of the dignity and precedence of the Premier 
Master-Gunner of England : but surely it is not too late to restore 
the dignity of Warrant grade, of 1st class, to this illustrious survivor 
of the Artillery ages ? 
