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KDG - Succession of Colonels and Commanding Officers
1st King's Dragoon Guards
| Date | Colonels | Commanding Officers |
| 1685 | Lt Gen Sir John Lanier | William Legge |
| 1688 | Hon. Henry Lumley | |
| 1692 | Gen Hon Henry Lumley | William Palmer |
| 1704 | Thomas Crowther | |
| 1707 | John Deane | |
| 1713 | Richard Lord Lumley | |
| 1715 | Thomas Panton | |
| 1717 | Col Richard Ingram,Lord Irvine | |
| 1718 | Humphrey Bland | |
| 1721 | Field Marshal Sir Richard Temple,Viscount Cobham | |
| 1733 | Lt Gen Henry Herbert, Earl of Pembroke | |
| 1737 | John Brown | |
| 1742 | Martin Madan | |
| 1743 | Gen Sir Philip Honeywood | |
| 1746 | Timothy Carr | |
| 1752 | Lt Gen Humphrey Bland | |
| 1757 | William Thompson | |
| 1759 | Robert Sloper | |
| 1763 | Gen John Mostyn | |
| 1778 | Anthony Lovibond | |
| 1779 | Field Marshal Sir George Howard | |
| 1784 | Richard Vyse | |
| 1796 | Gen Sir William Augustus Pitt | |
| 1797 | William Ann Willets or (Villettes) | |
| 1799 | John Elliott | |
| 1804 | Henry Fane | |
| 1805 | William Fuller | |
| 1810 | Gen Francis Augusts Eliott, Lord Heathfield | |
| 1813 | Gen Sir David Dundas | |
| 1815 | George Teesdale | |
| 1820 | Gen Francis Edward Gwyn | |
| 1821 | Gen William Cartwright | |
| 1827 | Gen Sir Henry Fane | |
| 1838 | Hon George Cathcart | |
| 1840 | Gen Hon Sir William Lumley | |
| 1844 | Henry Aitchison Hankey | |
| 1852 | Anthony Spottiswode | |
| 1857 | Gen Charles Murray Cathcart, Earl Cathcart | |
| 1859 | Thomas Pattle | |
| 1865 | Gen Sir Thomas William Brotherton | |
| 1868 | Gen Sir James Jackson | Herbert Dawson Slade |
| 1872 | Gen Henry Aitchison Hankey | |
| 1876 | Henry Alexander | |
| 1881 | R.J.C. Marter | |
| 1884 | W.H. Thompson | |
| 1886 | Lt Gen Sir James Sayer | |
| 1887 | G.V.C. Napier | |
| 1890 | H.P. Douglas-Willan | |
| 1894 | R.C.B. Lawrence | |
| 1898 | H.M. Mostyn Owen | |
| 1902 | S. Bogle Smith | |
| 1906 | W.J.S. Fergusson | |
| 1908 | Maj Gen W.V. Brownlow | |
| 1910 | F.C.L. Hulton | |
| 1914 | J.A. Bell Smyth | |
| 1918 | H. J. Williams | |
| 1922 | A.C. Little | |
| 1925 | W.F. Chappell | |
| 1926 | Lt Gen Sir Charles Briggs | |
| 1929 | S.J. Howes | |
| 1933 | E.W.H. Sprott | |
| 1936 | J.G.E. Tiarks | |
| 1939 | J.A. Paton | |
| 1940 | Brig The Earl of Gowrie | D. McCorquodale |
| 1942 | R.A. Herman | |
| 1944 | A.P.C. Crossley | |
| 1944 | M.J. Lindsay | |
| 1945 | Brig S.J. Howes | |
| 1946 | W.B. Radford | |
| 1948 | R.F. Luck | |
| 1951 | M.J. Lindsay | |
| 1953 | Brig J.G.E. Tiarks | |
| 1954 | W.N. Cairns | |
| 1957 | H.C. Selby |