Brigadier-General William Graham (died 29 September 1747) was a British Army officer from Balliheridon, county Armagh, Ireland.
Biography Graham joined the Army as an ensign in the 2nd (Queen's) Regiment of Foot on 1 September 1706,Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers 1661-1714, vol. 6 (1904) p. 66, n. 11.Army List for 1740, p. 16. and was present at the Battle of Almanza, where he was taken prisoner.Dalton, English Army Lists, p. 363. He was promoted to lieutenant on 2 March 1710Dalton, English Army Lists, p. 65. and served in the expedition to Canada in 1711. On 23 March 1723 he became lieutenant-colonel of the Queen's Regiment, and on 12 August 1741 he was promoted to colonel of the 54th (later 43rd) Regiment of Foot. He transferred to the colonelcy of the 11th Regiment of Foot on 7 February 1746,Richard Cannon, Historical Record of the Eleventh, or the North Devon Regiment of Foot (1845) p. 33. was promoted to brigadier-general on 18 April 1746, and took part in the raid on Lorient. He died on 29 September 1747.Cannon, North Devon Regiment, p. 34.Buried at St James, Westminster, on 3 October 1747. Source: The Register of Marriages (and Burials) belonging to St James's Westminster. 1723-1754. 3 October 1747.
Family William Graham was the son of Arthur Graham. His daughter and heir, Alice, married Joshua McGeough, of Drumsill, Co. Armargh, progenitor of the McGough-Bond family of Drumsill.
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