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 12 S. II. JULY 29, 1916.] NOTES AND QUERIES.

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The first of these eight regiments is the "Duke of Maryborough's Regiment of Dragoons.'* It was formed in tf 61 as a Troop of Horse for service in Tangier. By 1683 its establishment, had been increased, and it was in that year named the " Royal Regiment of Dragoons." Its present title is the " 1st (Royal) Dragoons," generally spoken of as the " Royals."

In 1740 the officers were :

Duke of Marlborough's Regiment of Dragoons.

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

Cornets

Duke of. JMarlbQrough (1)

Henry de Grangues. ..

Francis Best ("Samuel Gumley \ Robert Abbot . . (.William. .Wentworth

Henry Gore [ Thomas Parkinson I William Brooks < Charles Blunt. . I Rodok Mackenzie {Peter Guile /Ellias Brevett(2)

Arthur Gegon. . I Francis Rainsford 1 James Surtees

John Mark v Bartholomew Gullitan (3)

Dates of their present commissions.

1 Sept. 1739.

1 July 1737.

25 June 1731.

24 Mar. 1724. 30 April 1734. 20 Dec. 1738.

ditto.

25 Dec. 1726.

11 June 1720. 17 Mar. 1729-30. 20 Dec. 1738.

12 Mar. 1738-9. 3 Oct. 1715.

25 Mar. 1720. 25 Dec. 1727.

9 Oct. 1738.

6 April 1739. 17 Dec. 1739.

(1) Charles Spencer, 5th Earl of Sunderland, and 3rd Duke of Marlborough. He died in 1758. See ' D.N.B.'

( 2 ) In MS. interleaf spelt " Elias Brevet."

(3) Became Major in the regiment on 1 Dec., 1754. His name is in the Army List of 1758 r spelled Gallatin, but not in that of 1759.

The next regiment is styled the " Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons." Three troops of Dragoons had been raised in Scotland in 1678, which, with the addition of three more raised in 1681, were incor- porated in that year as " The Royal Regiment

Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons.

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

James Campbell (1) Sir Robert Hay (2) William Erskine

(Sir Thomas Hay (3)

-{ Alexander Forbess

(.James Ross William Laurence

/"James Dalrymple

I George Mure. .

< James Lindsay William Wilkinson

V.

Cornets

iJenkyn Leyson r James Erskine

George Macdougall

Charles Frederick Scott

Mark Renton

John Forbess

.George Preston (4)

(1) Of Lawers, third son of James, 2nd Earl of Loudoun.Jf-He was Governor of Edinburgh Castle ;. M.P. for Ayrshire ; and was killed at the battle of Fontenoy in 1745. See ' D.N.B.'

(2) Of Linplum, 2nd Baronet. Died in December. 1751, when the baronetcy became extinct.

(3) Of Alderston, 2nd Baronet.

(4) He was Lieut.-Col. of this regiment from 1757 to 1770, when he was appointed to the Colonelcy of the 17th Light Dragoons. In 1782 he returned to his old regiment, being appointed Colonel, and. died in 1785.

of Scots Dragoons." When the Act of Union was passed in 1707 the designation of the regiment was changed to the " Royal Regiment of North British Dragoons." It is now called the " 2nd Dragoons (Royal* Scots Greys)."

Dates of their present commissions.

15 Feb. 1716-7. 27 May 1717. 21 Mar. 1722-3. 11 June 1720.

9 Aug. 1721. 21 Mar. 1722-3.

24 Sept. 1733.

4 July 1723. 10 May 1732.

25 Dec. 1726.

24 Dec. 1733. 23 July 1737.

2 Nov. 1722.

25 Dec. 1726.

ditto. 13 May 1735.

5 July 1735.

16 July 1739.