George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine (13 October 1751 – 31 March 1824) was a Lieutenant-Colonel of the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.
Biography[]
George Hanger was born on 13 October 1751 in Gloucestershire, England to a prosperous family which held peerage titles in Ireland, and Hanger attended Eton College and University of Gottingen before joining the British Army. His womanizing was detrimental to his military duties, and he resigned his post as Lieutenant in 1776 due to a junior officer buying a rank above him. Hanger purchased a captaincy in the Hessians during the American Revolutionary War before serving under Banastre Tarleton in the southern theater of the war. In 1780, he took over Tarleton's legion after he fell ill, and he was defeated in the minor Battle of Charlotte on 26 September 1780. Hanger later fell ill from yellow fever, so he headed to the Bahamas to recover. Hanger had a failed military career in the 1790s, switching between being an officer and an ensign, and he refused to join the House of Commons and the Irish House of Lords. He died in 1824 at the age of 73.