Richard Augustus Warren

Colonel Richard Augustus Warren (1705–1775), also known as Sir Richard Warren, was an Irish Jacobite soldier who served in the French Irish Brigade and in the Jacobite rising of 1745. He led the naval mission to rescue Charles Edward Stuart from Scotland in 1746.

Biography Warren was born at Corduff, County Dublin in 1705, the son of John Warren and Mary Jones. The family's financial situation compelled Warren to emigrate to France, where he briefly worked as a merchant in Marseille. In 1744 he became a volunteer captain in the French army, joining an Irish regiment and fighting at the Battle of Fontenoy. He was commissioned by Louis XV to lead two ships of French reinforcements for the 1745 Jacobite rising, landing at Stonehaven in October 1745 with soldiers for the army of Prince Charles, the Young Pretender. Charles promoted Warren to Colonel after observing his construction of battery defences at Perth and Warren became aide-de-camp to General Lord George Murray.

French service Warren returned to French service and became aide-de-camp to Marshall Maurice de Saxe. In 1750 he was made "brigadier general of the English troops" as a reward for his loyalty to the Jacobite cause. He visited London in 1751 and was included on a list of proposed attainders for Jacobite rebels in 1752.