Samuel Robert Poyntz^{[1, 2]}

Abt 1795 -

• Name	Samuel Robert Poyntz
  Born	Abt 1795
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I11	Family
  Last Modified	31 Aug 2016

  
  

  Father	Arthur Poyntz,   b. 1752,   d. Abt 1812  (Age 60 years)
  Family ID	F507	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S6] Other Researchers - Penny Graham. July 1811 - Ensign 30th Regiment. Lieutenant 30th Regiment; served in the Peninsular. 25 July 1818 - Lieutenant. 1821 - Lieutenant 2nd Ceylon Regiment; Court martialled for violent, outrageous and unofficerlike conduct and cashiered from the Army. [S10] Galignani's Messenger. At a General Court Martial held at Colombo, in the Island of Ceylon, on the 4th of April 1821, and continued by adjournments to the 9th of the same month, Lieut. Samuel Robert Poyntz, of the 2nd Ceylon Regiment, was arraigned upon four Charges, viz:- For shameful and repeated intoxication; for coming to sit on a Court Martial in that disgraceful state; for writing an insolent letter to his commanding officer; and for outrageous conduct in breaking his arrest and striking the sentry, etc. The Court found him guilty of all charges, and sentenced him to be cashiered. The next item in the book is the court martial of a 2nd Lieut. who embezzled away regimental money, fraudulently misapplying the sum of seven thousand and seventy-two vix(?) dollars, ten fansans(?), three pice, four-fifths(?) or thereabouts. Plus drunkenness and lying! So Samuel was a pussy cat by comparison.