, of the port family. a captain in the Royal Dragoons also served as a sub-officer in H.M's Bodyguard of the Honorable Company of Gentlemen at Arms. John Glas Sandeman, later a Colonel in the Essex militia, to part in the charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava in 1854 where his horse 'Toby' was shot and killed by a bullet in the neck. The horse was shipped back to Hayling Island where it was buried near the sea front, and a plaque placed on its grave.