In 1775, Darwin met Elizabeth Pole, daughter of Charles Colyear, 2nd Earl of Portmore, and wife of Colonel Edward Pole ( 1718 – 1780 ); but as she was married, Darwin could only make his feelings known for her through poetry.

Abbot married a daughter of Colonel Purefoy of Caldecote.

Also in 1855, Stuart met Flora Cooke, the daughter of the commander of the 2nd U. S. Dragoon Regiment, Lieutenant Colonel Philip St. George Cooke.

He was sent into the military abroad to be away from her, and while gone, the girl suffered numerous misfortunes partly as a consequence of her unhappy marriage, finally dying penniless and disgraced, and with a natural ( i. e., illegitimate ) daughter, who becomes the ward of the Colonel.

The marriage was an unhappy one, and it is revealed that her daughter was left as Colonel Brandon's ward when he found his lost love dying in a poorhouse.

This daughter married Colonel Charles Churchill of Chalfont ( 1720 – 1812 ), a great-nephew of the 1st Duke of Marlborough, with whom she had two daughters.

On January 22, 1829, at the age of 35, Houston married 19-year-old Eliza Allen, the daughter of the well-connected planter Colonel John Allen ( 1776 – 1833 ) of Gallatin, Tennessee, who was a friend of Andrew Jackson.

Here young Dick Groves met Grace ( Boo ) Wilson, the daughter of Colonel Richard Hulbert Wilson, a career Army officer who had served with Chaplain Groves with the 8th Infantry in Cuba.

He married secondly Joan, daughter of Colonel H. C. Denny, in 1933.

:::::::: March 13 – 14 – Widow of Alamo defender Almaron Dickinson, Susanna Dickinson arrives in Gonzales with her daughter Angelina and Colonel Travis ’ slave Joe.

Their eldest surviving son, William Abbott, married the daughter of Colonel John Hamilton Gray, a Father of Confederation and Premier of Prince Edward Island.

Colonel Edward Morgan ( c. 1616-after 1665 ) was a Royalist during English Civil War 1642-9, Captain General of the Kings forces in South Wales, escaped to the continent, and married Anna Petronilla the daughter of Baron von Pöllnitz, Westphalia, ( governor of Lippstadt, a city 20 miles east of Dortmund Germany ).

Ruth Henshaw Bascom ( 1772 – 1848 ), the wife of Reverend Ezekial Lysander Bascom and daughter of Colonel William Henshaw and Phebe Swan, became America's premier portrait folk artist and pastelist, producing over one thousand portraits from 1789 to 1846.

Colonel Hill convinced the local ladies to name the town after the Greek goddess Clio, muse of history and poetry and daughter of Jupiter.

He travelled to the area then known as the State of Franklin or western North Carolina, called " the Holston country ," by 1785 and, during a stay at a tavern adjacent to Colonel Thomas Amis ' home, had fallen in love with the Colonel's daughter, Mary Amis.

He married the great heiress Janet Charteris, daughter of Colonel Francis Charteris, who had made a large fortune by gambling and was noted for the rape of Anne Bond.

In Koblenz, he married Dorothy Ruth Miller, the daughter of Colonel R. B. Miller, the chief surgeon of the American forces there, on 22 May 1922.

his father, Thomas Brooke, was an English Judge Court of Appeal at Bareilly, British India ; his mother, Anna Maria, born in Hertfordshire, was the daughter of Scottish peer Colonel William Stuart, 9th Lord Blantyre, and his mistress Harriott Teasdale.

He was the son of Walter Thornhill of Wareham and Mary, eldest daughter of Colonel William Sydenham, governor of Weymouth.

Their daughter Mariela currently heads the Cuban National Center for Sex Education, while Déborah is married to Colonel Luis Alberto Rodríguez, head of the Armed Forces ' economic division.

Lord Howe was married on 10 March 1758 to Mary Hartop, the daughter of Colonel Chiverton Hartop of Welby in Leicestershire, and had three daughters.

It soon becomes apparent that Colonel Brandon is attracted to Marianne, and Mrs. Jennings teases them about it.

Marianne is not pleased as she considers Colonel Brandon, at thirty-five, to be an old bachelor incapable of falling in love, or inspiring love in anyone else.

In sympathy for Marianne, and to illuminate his character, Colonel Brandon reveals to Elinor that Mr. Willoughby had seduced Brandon's fifteen-year-old ward, and abandoned her when she became pregnant.

Edward and Elinor are soon married and in a very few years Marianne marries Colonel Brandon.

* Colonel Stjerbinsky in Jacobowsky and the Colonel, a comedy by Franz Werfel, adapted by S N Behrman, ( Redgrave also directed ) with Rachel Kempson as Marianne, Piccadilly Theatre, June 1945

Cosmo Gordon, second son from the third marriage of the second Earl, was a Colonel in the Army.

* Rupert Davies as Colonel Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon

The Duke at the time, the founder and colonel of the regiment, was the Duchess of Richmond's father, and he saw no active service overseas during the Napoleonic Wars ; his son and the Duchess's brother, the Marquis of Huntly ( later the 5th Duke ) was a distinguished general, but also missed the Waterloo campaign ; the senior representative of the family at the battle was in fact the Duchess's own twenty-three-year-old son, the Earl of March, who would eventually become the 5th Duke's heir in 1836, and who served as a major and an aide de camp to the Duke of Wellington ; another branch of the family was represented by another ADC, Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon, aged twenty-eight or twenty-nine, the brother of the Earl of Aberdeen ; in reality, both were young men similar in age and duty to Lord Hay.

The field commander of the Gordon regiment during the campaign, Lieutenant Colonel, John Cameron of Fassiefern, had been killed at the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June.

The museum was named after Colonel Gordon Johnston, an American soldier who served in the Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War and World War I.

After the Norse occupation, South Uist was held by the MacDonalds of Clanranald until 1838 when Colonel Gordon of Cluny bought the island and initiated Highland Clearances to make way for sheep farming, supplanting the crofters with farmers from the Borders, who brought Blackface sheep flocks.

In 1980, he played " Colonel Gordon " in the Buck Rogers television series, with Gil Gerard.

* 1980 Guest-starred in the Buck Rogers in the 25th Century episode " Planet of the Slave Girls " as an aged pilot named " Colonel Gordon ," a tongue-in-cheek reference-and salute-to his Flash Gordon roles

* 1815 — Battle of Quatre Bras: The commander of the 92nd ( Gordon Highlanders ) Regiment of Foot, Colonel John Cameron of Fassfern, was shot and killed by a man whom he had recently flogged.

The river was named the Orange River by Colonel Robert Gordon, commander of the Dutch East India Company garrison at Cape Town, on a trip to the interior in 1779.

His father, Colonel Arthur Henry Bagnold ( 1854-1943 ) ( Royal Engineers ), participated in the rescue expedition 1884-1885 to rescue General Gordon in Khartoum.

To carry out the assassination, a regiment of dragoons under the command of an Irish Colonel Butler and the Scots colonels Walter Leslie and John Gordon first fell upon Wallenstein's trusted officers Adam Trczka, Vilém Kinsky, Christian Illov and Henry Neumann whilst the latter banqueted at Cheb Castle ( which had come under the command of John Gordon himself ), and massacred them.

Gordon Haine, Jack Holt as Colonel Charles Prescott, and Robert Cain as Brigade Surgeon Fielding ; 6 reels

The first ferries were side-loading paddle steamers named Gordon, Duncan and Hutton ( being named after General Gordon of Khartoum, Colonel Francis Duncan MP and Professor Charles Hutton ).

On 3 July 1914, he sailed for England with his wife and three children to replace Colonel James Gordon Legge as the Australian representative on the Imperial General Staff.

In 1797, Governor King, Colonel Patterson, Captain Waterhouse and Kent purchased sheep in Cape Town from the widow of Colonel Gordon, commander of the Dutch garrison.

The Barra estates of MacNeil ( including all the Barra Isles ) were sold to Colonel John Gordon of Aberdeenshire in 1840 whose lack of consideration for his tenants during the potato famines was matched by his zeal for evictions to create sheep farms.

* Henry L. Roberts " The Diplomacy of Colonel Beck " pages 579 – 614 from The Diplomats 1919 – 1939 edited by Gordon A. Craig & Felix Gilbert, Princeton University Press: Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1953.