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Biography found in his sons entry of the same name.

Enlisted in the cavalry and, as a trooper in the Queen's dragoons, lost an arm at the battle of Fontenoy (1745). He became in 1748 a pensioner at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Joined the Moravian Brethren (1749). As a strict Calvinist James Gillray senior had much in common with the Moravians and for over forty years he acted as sexton of their burial-ground at Chelsea.

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-Biography found in his sons entry of the same name.
+Biography found in the entry on his son, the famous satirist of the same name.
-Enlisted in the cavalry and, as a trooper in the Queen's dragoons, lost an arm at the battle of Fontenoy (1745). He became in 1748 a pensioner at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Joined the Moravian Brethren (1749). As a strict Calvinist James Gillray senior had much in common with the Moravians and for over forty years he acted as sexton of their burial-ground at Chelsea.
+Enlisted in the cavalry and, as a trooper in the Queen's dragoons, lost an arm at the battle of Fontenoy (1745). He became in 1748 a pensioner at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. Joined the Moravian Brethren (1749). As a strict Calvinist, James Gillray senior had much in common with the Moravians and for over forty years he acted as sexton of their burial-ground at Chelsea.

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Scottishadmin at 09:59, 22 August 2014

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