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Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Tarleton, Banastre
TARLETON, Sir BANASTRE (1754–1833), general, third son of John Tarleton (1719–1773), merchant, of Liverpool, and mayor of that city in 1764, and of his wife Jane (d.
1797), eldest daughter of Banastre Parker of Cuerden, Lancashire, was born in his father's house in Water Street, Liverpool, on 21 Aug. 1754.
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He was educated at Liverpool and Oxford University, and was entered in one of the inns of court, but on 20 April 1775 a commission as cornet in the king's dragoon guards was purchased for him. He obtained leave to accompany Lord Cornwallis [see Cornwallis, Charles, first Marquis] as a volunteer to North America, when he took out reinforcements, in Sir Peter Parker's squadron.
Tarleton sailed from Portsmouth on 26 Dec. 1775, and from Cork harbour on 12 Feb. 1776, arriving on 3 May at Cape Fear, North Carolina, where Sir Henry Clinton the elder [q. v.], with his small force, awaited this reinfo