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 |