David Carnegie Andrew Agnew

“ Major Montresor had acquired the estate of Thurland Hall, Nottingham, in which he was succeeded by his son, James Gabriel, born 19th November 1702, who seems to have served in the army, because he was married at Gibraltar on 11th June 1735, and his eldest son, John, was born there on 6th April 1736. John was his Majesty’s Chief Engineer of America; the second son, James, was a Lieutenant, R.N., lost in the Aurora frigate; the third son, Henry Amand, was in the army, and died in 1773, aged twenty-seven, of wounds received at the siege of Trichinopoly ”

“ He had three military sons, namely, General Sir Henry Tucker, Montresor, K.C.B., G.C.H., Colonel of the 11th Foot, born 18th April 1767, died 10th March 1837; Lieut.-Colonel John Montresor, born at New York, 11th November 1768, died at Penang in 1805 ”