David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore

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David Colyear, 1st Earl of Portmore KT PC was a Scottish general and Governor of Gibraltar

He was created Lord Portmore in 1699. He was further created Earl of Portmore, Viscount Milsington and Lord Colyear in 1703. He was elevated to the Privy Council in 1712 and created a Knight of the Thistle in 1713.

He married Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester, former mistress of James II. They had two sons:

  1. David Colyear, Viscount Milsington (b 1698, dvpsps 1728-9)
  2. Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore

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Preceded by
Thomas Stanwix		 Governor of Gibraltar
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1713–1720		 Succeeded by
Richard Kane
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Governors of Gibraltar

Capture of Gibraltar 1704
Sir George Rooke · Prince George of Hesse-Darmstadt · Roger Elliott · Thomas Stanwix

Treaty of Utrecht 1713
The Earl of Portmore · Richard Kane · Jasper Clayton · Joseph Sabine · Francis Columbine · William Hargrave · Sir Humphrey Bland · Thomas Fowke · The Lord Tyrawley · The Earl of Home · John Toovey · John Parslow · Edward Cornwallis · Robert Boyd · George Augustus Eliott · Sir Robert Boyd · Charles Rainsford · Charles O'Hara · Charles Barnett · The Duke of Kent · Sir Thomas Trigge · Henry Edward Fox · James Drummond · Sir Hew Dalrymple · James Drummond · Sir John Francis Cradock · John Smith · Alex McKenzie Fraser · Sir Colin Campbell · Sir George Don · The Earl of Chatham · Sir George Don

British crown colony 1830
Sir William Houstoun · Sir Alexander George Woodford · Sir Robert Thomas Wilson · Sir Robert William Gardiner · Sir James Fergusson · Sir William John Codrington · Sir Richard Airey · Sir William Williams · The Lord Napier of Magdala · Sir John Miller Adye · Sir Arthur Edward Hardinge · Sir Leicester Smyth · H. R. L. Newdigate · Sir Lothian Nicholson · G.J. Smart · Sir Robert Biddulph · Sir George Stuart White · Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker · Sir Archibald Hunter · Sir Herbert Scott Gould Miles · Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien · Sir Charles Monro · Sir Alexander Godley · Sir Charles Harington Harington · Sir Edmund Ironside · Sir Clive Gerard Liddell · The Viscount Gort · Noel Mason-Macfarlane · Sir Noel Mason-Macfarlane · Sir Ralph Eastwood · Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson · Sir George MacMillan · Sir Harold Redman · Sir Charles Keightley · Sir Alfred Dudley Ward · Sir Gerald Lathbury · Sir Varyl Begg · Sir John Grandy · Sir William Jackson · Sir David Williams · Sir Peter Terry · Sir Derek Reffell · Sir John Chapple · Sir Hugo White · Sir Richard Luce · David Durie · David Blunt

British overseas territory 2002
Sir Francis Richards · Philip Barton · Sir Robert Fulton
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