388 CENTENARY CUP. 
In 1792-83 the Field Batteries, then called Brigades, had been 
equipped in a manner to give them increased mobility, and in 1793. 
Captain Macleod obtained permission to raise and equip two troops of 
Royal Horse Artillery, of which he personally commanded one. Two 
more troops were raised later in the year, and others added as necessity 
arose. In 1725 the artillery had been increased to 25,000 men, and the 
Master-General of the Ordnance, in concurrence with the Commander- 
in-Chief, the Duke of York, was authorized to appoint Lieut.-Colonel 
John Macleod, Deputy-Adjutant-General Royal Artillery, to which 
appointment he was gazetted 27th March, 1795, and on the 21st August, 
1797 was promoted Regimental Lieut.-Colonel, and on the 29th April, 
1802 to be Colonel. In the year 1808 Colonel Macleod was ordered to 
raise the 10th Battalion. 
Harly in 1809 a large force was organised under the Harl of Chatham, 
Master-General of the Ordnance, to proceed to Holland, and Colonel 
Macleod accompanied it as Brigadier-General in command of the Royal 
Artillery. He directed the artillery operations at the siege and capture 
of Middleburg and Flushing, and returned with the Army to England 
in September to resume his work as Deputy-Adjutant-General. In the 
same year he was promoted Major-General. 
The duties of the appointment became during the year 1809 more and 
more onerous and important, owing to the return of Sir Arthur 
Wellesley to the Peninsula, and steadily increased during the Welling- 
ton campaigns, which finally ended in the victory of Waterloo and the 
Occupation of Paris, by which time the strength of the artillery had 
increased to 26,000 men and 14,000 horses. 
Major-General Macleod was promoted Lieut.-General in 1814 and 
received from the King the Grand Cross of the Guelph in consideration 
of his eminent services. He had married in 1783 the Lady Emily 
Kerr, daughter of the fourth Marquis of Lothian, and at one time all 
his four sons were serving under Lord Wellington in Spain. The 
eldest, Charles, was killed at Badajoz, while commanding the 43rd 
Light Infantry, and his epitaph in Westminster Abbey is extracted 
from Lord Wellington’s despatch on that occasion. His eldest 
daughter became the wife of Genl. Sir Robert Gardiner, 4.¢.B., K.c.H., 
Royal Artillery. 
In 1827 Lieut.-General Sir John Macleod resigned his appointment 
and was subsequently appointed Director-General of Artillery, the 
duties of which office he discharged till his death in 1833, when he was 
Senior Officer of the Royal Artillery and Colonel-Commandant Royal 
Horse Artillery. He died at Woolwich on 26th of January in his 82nd 
year, sincerely regretted and deeply loved by the corps whose welfare 
and interest he had so faithfully served throughout his long and dis- 
tinguished career. 
