Queen’s Bays – Succession of Colonels and Commanding Officers

The Queen’s Bays (2nd Dragoon Guards)

Date Colonels Commanding Officers
1685 Col Henry Mordaunt, Earl of Peterborough Sir John Talbot
1687     John Chitham
1688 Brig Gen Hon Edward Villiers  
1691    James Kirke
1692   George Carpenter
1694 Brig Gen Richard Leveson  
1699 Gen Daniel Harvey  
1704   Thomas Newcomen
1707   Edward Roper
1708   William Goring
1710   John Bland
1712   Col John Bland
1713   James Otway
1715 Col Thomas Pitt, Earl of Londonderry  
1718   Richard Whitworth
1726 Field Marshal John Campbell, Duke of Argyll  
1733 Gen William Evans  
1740 Gen John Montagu, Duke of Montagu  
1749 Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier Thomas Brudenell
1753 Maj Gen Hon William Herbert  
1757 Lt Gen George Germain, Viscount Sackville James Mure Campbell
1759 Gen John Waldegrave, Earl Waldergrave  
1763 Lord Russell Manners  
1773 Field Marshal George Townshend, Marquess Townhend  
1779   Sir William Arnot
1779   Sir William Innes
1782      Lord George Herbert
1794   Charles Crauford
1799    John Le Marchant
1803   James Erskine
1807 Lt Gen Sir Charles Crauford  
1814      James Kearney
1821 Lt Gen William Loftus  
1830   James Hay
1831 Gen Sir James Hay  
1837 Gen Sir Thomas Montresor Charles Kearney
1841    Henry Wilmot Charleton
1846   William Campbell
1853 Gen Hon Henry Cavendish  
1858    William Henry Seymour
1872   Henry Holden Stewart
1873 Gen Henry White  
1874 Gen Alexander Low  
1877   Thomas W. Sneyd
1881 Maj Gen Thomas Pattle  
 ” ” “ Gen Sir Charles Walker  
1886   C.A.L.A. French
1892   C.E. Beckett
1894 Gen Sir William Seymour  
1895   J.A. Lambert
1899   James E. Dewar
1903   H.D. Fanshawe
1907   William Kirk
1911   H.W. Wilberforce
1915   A. Lawson
1919    G.H.A. Ing
1920   C.S. Rome
1921 Lt Gen Sir Hew Fanshawe  
1924   R.H. Osborne
1928   C.A. Heydeman
1930 Lt Gen Sir Wentworth Harman  
1932   R.M. Wootten
1935   E.D. Fanshawe
1939   W.R. Beddington
1939    G.H. Fanshawe
1940     G.W. Draffen
1942       A.H. Barclay
1944   D.V.H. Asquith
1946     P.T.W. Sykes
1947   K.E. Savill
1948 Brig James Kingstone  
1950   H.J.G Weld
1952   W.B. Manger
1954 Col G.W. Draffen  
1955   C. Armitage