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Encyclopedia > Alexander Cosby

Alexander Cosby, (c 1685 – 1742), was born in Ireland and had a younger sister who married Richard Philipps, governor of Nova Scotia and a military man. Through this connection, Cosby was appointed major in the 40th regiment and was stationed in Nova Scotia around 1721. He looked to be appointed lieutenant governor in 1725 but the appointment went to Lawrence Armstrong. Look up Circa on Wiktionary, the free dictionary The Latin word circa, literally meaning about, is often used to describe various dates (often birth and death dates) that are uncertain. ... Events February 6 - James Stuart, Duke of York becomes King James II of England and Ireland and King James VII of Scotland. ... // Events January 24 - Charles VII Albert becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ...


This was a time when the governor was often absent as was the case with Philipps. Cosby refused to follow orders given by Armstrong and also was appointed lieutenant governor of Annapolis Royal in 1727 by Philipps to succeed John Doucett. It appears that Cosby was always in some kind of turmoil within the military and the governing body, a condition which continued until his death. Accounts of his actions must be tempered by the fact that his correspondence did not survive and accounts are only from the other perspectives. Annapolis Royal [[1]] , population 548 (Nova Scotia Statistical Review 2004 [[2]] ) was founded in 1610, down and across the Annapolis River from the site of Port Royal, which was the first permanent European settlement in North America north of Florida. ...


External links

  • Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online


Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia
This is a list of viceroys (governors and lieutenant-governors) of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, before and after Confederation in 1867. ...

Vetch | Nicholson | Caulfield | Philipps | Doucett | Armstrong | Cosby | Mascarene | Cornwallis | Hopson | Lawrence | Belcher | Wilmot | Campbell | Green | Francklin | Legge | Arbuthnot | Hughes | Hamond | Parr | Fanning | Bulkeley | Wentworth | Prevost | Croke | Sherbrooke | Smith | Dalhousie | Kempt | Jeffrey | Maitland | Campbell | Falkland | Dickson | Harvey | Bazalgette | Le Marchant | Phipps | Mulgrave | Doyle | MacDonnell | Williams Samuel Vetch (December 9, 1668-April 30, 1732) a British military officer and colonial governor of Nova Scotia. ... Portrait thought to be Nicholson Sir Francis Nicholson (1655-1728) was a British military officer and was colonial governor or acting governor of New York, Virginia, Maryland, Nova Scotia, and South Carolina. ... Edward Cornwallis, (c 1713 – 14 January 1776), was a British military officer, known as “the Founder of Halifax”. He was born in London, the sixth son of Charles, fourth Baron Cornwallis, and Lady Charlotte Butler, daughter of the Earl of Arran2. ... Charles Lawrence (December 14, 1709 – October 19, 1760) was a British military officer who, as lieutenant governor and subsequently governor of Nova Scotia, was responsible for overseeing the expulsion of Acadians from the colony in the Great Upheaval. ... Jonathan Belcher (1682-1757) was colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and New Jersey. ... Montague Wilmot (? - May 23, 1766) was an 18th century British colonial Governor of Nova Scotia. ... Lord William Campbell ( ? -1778) was the last English Governor of South Carolina. ... Michael Francklin (1733-1782) served as Nova Scotias Lieutenant Governor from 1766-1772. ... Admiral Marriott (or Mariot) Arbuthnot (1711 – 31 January 1794) was a British admiral, who commanded the Royal Navys North American station during the American War for Independence. ... Sir Andrew Snape Hamond, 1st Bt. ... Edmund Fanning (April 24, 1739–February 28, 1818) first gained fame for his role in the Battle of Alamance, but later had a distiguished career as a colonial governor and British general. ... John Wentworth (1737-1820) was the British colonial governor of New Hampshire at the time of the American Revolution. ... George Prevost Sir George Prévost (Hackensack May 19, 1767 – January 5, 1816 London) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. ... Sir John Coape, Lord Sherbrooke (baptised April 29, 1764 - February 14, 1830) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. ... George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie (October 23, 1770 – March 21, 1838) was lieutenant-governor of Nova Scotia from 1816 to 1820, Governor General of British North America from 1820 to 1828 and later became commander-in-chief in India. ... Sir James Kempt, GCB (c. ... Sir Peregrine Maitland (July 6, 1777–May 30, 1854) was a British soldier and colonial administrator. ... Major-General Sir Colin Campbell, KCB (1776-13 June 1847). ... Lucius Bentinck Cary, Tenth Viscount Falkland (1803-1884) succeeded to the title after the death of his father in a duel in 1809. ... Sir John Harvey (April 23, 1778 – March 22, 1852) was a British army officer and a Lieutenant Governor. ... Sir John Gaspar LeMarchant (1803 – 1874) army officer and governor of Newfoundland, Canada from 1847 to 1852. ... George Augustus Constantine Phipps, 2nd Marquess of Normanby (July 23, 1819 - April 3, 1890) was a politician of the United Kingdom. ... Marquess of Normanby was a title in the peerage of England and later a separate title in the peerage of the United Kingdom. ... Sir Charles Hastings Doyle, K.C.M.G. (April 10, 1804 – March 19, 1883) was a British soldier and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. ... Sir Richard MacDonnell Sir Richard Graves Macdonnell , KCMG C.B. (Chinese Translated Name 麥當奴) (3 September 1814 – 5 February 1881) was a British colonial governor who became the 6th Governor of Hong Kong. ... William Fenwick Williams Sir William Fenwick Williams, 1st Baronet GCB (December 4, 1800 – July 26, 1883) was a British military leader of the Victorian era. ...


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Alexander Cosby (502 words)
Francis Cosby, fearing that he would be entirely abandoned, went over the bridge in the hope of making good his retreat to the abbey, but the instant that he cleared the battlements he was mortally wounded and fell dead into the river.
Richard Cosby succeeded to the estates and became captain of the Kern and was eager to avenge the deaths of his father and brother.
Governor William Cosby, of New York, and Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia, was descended from Richard Cosby and Elizabeth Pigot.
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