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An unidentified officer of the 105th Regiment, a relative of the Spring family, 1795 (c). Miniature on ivory, probably by Frederick Buck (1771-1840), 1795 (c). Bust-length portrait, three-quarters to right, wearing uniform and a shoulder belt plate inscribed, ‘105’. In a gold coloured frame with suspension loop, the back decorated with blue enamel and a hair plait, in a satin-lined red leather case. Forbes’s Regiment of Foot was raised in Leeds in April 1794. It chiefly recruited in Yorkshire and was posted to Dublin in Ireland in September before being numbered the 105th Regiment of Foot in October of that year. After mutinying in Cork in September 1795, the short-lived regiment was disbanded in February 1796. There is no officer by the family names of Spring, Day, Carter, Montague Smyth, Knight or Tidy listed as having served with this regiment.