HADDON, JAMES [SSNE 8035]
- Surname
- HADDON
- First name
- JAMES, JACQUES
- Title/rank
- LIEUTENANT-COLONEL
- Nationality
- SCOT
- Social status
- OFFICER
Text source
James Haddon was an officer in the Scots-Dutch Brigade. Very little information is available about him in Ferguson's The Scots Brigade and is only noted as being the lieutenant-colonel of Sir David Balfour's [SSNE 8033] regiment between 22 October-21 December 1629. He may have also simultaneously assumed the sergeant-majorship after the death of Archibald Bethune [SSNE 8036], or it may have passed to Mungo Hamilton [SSNE 8037], who Ferguson contends was made sergeant-major before Bois-le-Duc. He was dead by the second date and succeeded by Sir James Livingstone, Lord Almond [SSNE to follow] to the lieutenant-colonelcy. Mungo Hamilton was certainly sergeant-major of the regiment after Haddon's death.
Sources:
J. Ferguson, Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the service of the United Netherlands, 1572-1697 (Edinburgh, 1899), pp. 311, 332.
This entry created by Mr Jack Abernethy.
Service record
- THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, THE SCOTS BRIGADE, COL. D. BALFOUR
- Arrived 1629-10-22, as LIEUTENANT-COLONEL
- Departed 1629-12-21, as DECEASED
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY