Colonels of the Regiment 1702-2006

Colonels of the Regiment, 1702-2006.

1702-1703 – Colonel George Hastings, 8^th Earl of Huntingdon.

1703-1705 – Colonel Henry Leigh.

1705-1705 – Colonel Robert Duncanson (12^th February to 9^th June 1705).

1705-1717 – Field Marshal George Wade.

1717-1730 – Lieutenant General Henry Hawley.

1730-1739 – Lieutenant General Robert Dalzell.

1739-1753 – Lieutenant General John Johnson.

1753-1760 – Major General Lord Charles Hey.

1760-1766 – Field Marshal John Griffen-Griffen, 4^th Lord Howard de Walden.

1766-1805 – General George Cornwallis, 1st Marquis Cornwallis KG.

1806-1812 – Field Marshal Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1^stDuke of Wellington KG GCB GCH.

1813-1830 – General Sir John Cope Sherbrooke GCB.

1830-1831 – General Lord Charles Henry Somerset.

1831-1845 – General Sir Charles Wale KCB.

1845-1847 – Lieutenant General Sir Henry Sheey Keating KCB.

1847-1855 – General Henry D’Oyley.

1855-1863 – Field Marshal Sir Charles Yorke GCB.

1863-1895 – General William Nelson Hutchinson. *

1895-1897 – General George Erskine.

1897-1909 – General Sir Hugh Rowlands VC KCB.

1909-1934 – Lieutenant General Sir Herbert Eversley Belfield KCB KCMG KBE DSO.

1934-1938 – Brigadier General Percy Alexander Turner CMG.

1938-1947 – Colonel Charles James Pickering CMG DSO.

1947-1957 – General Sir Alexander Frank Philip Christison, Bart, GBE CB DSO MC.

1957-1965 – Major General Kenneth Godfrey Exham CB DSO.

1965-1975 – General Sir Robert Napier Hubert Campbell Bray GBE KCB DSO.

1975-1982 – Major General Donald Edward Isles CB OBE.

1982-1990 – General Sir Charles Richard Huxtable KCB CBE.

1990-1999 – Brigadier William Richard Mundell OBE.

1999-2006 – Major General Sir Evelyn John Webb-Carter KCVO OBE.

*Following the Merger of the 76^th, as the 2^nd battalion, General Frederick Darlby George CB (Colonel of the 76^th) was appointed joint Colonel, with General Hutchinson, from 1881-1886, when he was appointed as Colonel of The Cheshire Regiment