Thomas Handasyd
Thomas Handasyd or Thomas Handasyde was an English soldier of late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He served as Governor of Jamaica from 1702-1711. [1]
After service in the Williamite War in Ireland and the Flanders campaigns of William III's Allied Army during the Nine Years War, he took part in an expedition to Newfoundland in 1697.
Handasyd took over as Governor of Jamaica, a position he held during much of the War of the Spanish Succession. He was promoted to the rank of Major General while in office.
He returned to England in 1711 and retired. He was succeeded as commander of the 22nd Foot by his son Roger Handasyd. He died the following year.
References
- ^ Hamilton p.79
Bibliography
- Hamilton, Douglas J. Jacobitism, Enlightenment and Empire, 1680–1820. Routledge, 2015.
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