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 theservice 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