General Sir John Doyle Bt GCB KC, who raised the 87th Regiment of Foot in 1793, died on this day. Officers marked regimental mourning by wearing a band of black crepe on their left arm for 14 days. The Colonelcy of the Regiment passed not to a disappointed Sir Hugh Gough but rather to Sir Thomas Reynell. Gough did at last succeed Reynell between 1841 and 1855.