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Son of Randall Leicester. Nephew of Sir Charles Leicester and sometime heir to the fortune of Sir Charles.
Chronology
17??: Joined Navy as George Leicester.
1796: Served under Major-General Ralph Abercromby in the West Indies expedition to counter the revolt in Grenada, St Vincent and St Lucia. Left Portsmouth March 1796. 14,000 lives lost, mainly through sickness.
An affair with a planter's wife.
1798: Probably in Nelson's expedition to Naples, arriving 22 September 1798: Nelson and Lady Hamilton welcomed at court of King Ferdinand. Naples taken by French December 1798. George Leicester lost his uniform through cards and disappeared, possibly deserting to the French. Believed dead by Sir Charles.
????: Returned to Britain as George Letcher and joins the army.
1811: A sergeant in North Wilts Regiment stationed in Plymouth. Lodges Southside St with Archibald Plinlimmon.
May 1: Gored by bull.
Arranges the marriage of Archibald Plinlimmon and Isabel Brooks. Officiating clergyman is (Rev) John Whitmore, a layman posing as a priest.
June 19, 5 am: Goes with Archibald Plinlimmon to rob Isaac Rodriguez, but remains in street. Flees when seen by Harry Revel.
Midnight: With dragoons at smuggling cove on Rame Head. Rides to Lydia Belcher's on smuggler's pony.
June 20, 2-3 am: Hides in Belcher's garden and attracts attention of Whitmore who he is blackmailing.
Evening: arrives at Whitmore's lodgings and provides information for Parson Doidge and Jack Rogers.
June 21: North Wilts Regiment travel from Plymouth to Portugal.
Letcher meets Whitmore in Lisbon and blackmails him into the North Wilts.
Travel to Celorico. Whitmore deserts.
North Wilts march to Ciudad Rodrigo.
1812, January 12: Letcher meets Revel outside Ciudad Rodrigo.
January 19-20: Takes part in the assault on Ciudad Rodrigo.
Meets Revel in Ciudad Rodrigo.
Hunts down Whitmore and has him shot.
Letcher stabbed.