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NOTES AND QUERIES. [is s. n. JULY 20, 1916.

"The Kin-:'s "Regiment of Dragoons" was raised in 1685, being then styled "The Queen Consort's Regiment of Dragoons." This designation was changed in 1714 (Cannon's 'Historical Records')

The King's Regiment of Dragoons

Colonel. . Lieutenant Colonel Major. .

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

Lieut. Gen. Phil. Honywood (1)

Joshua, Guest .. .. ...

Samuel Foley .. _ /Alexander Mullen -{ Thomas Brown I William Oglie (2)

Philip Honywood /"Henry Whitley I Leonard Robinson -! John Parsons I Robert Bailie v Robert Leigh

George Fage

George Carey

Cornets

Thomas Carr Thomas Dawson Hon. Josiah Child (3) Robert Monteath

( 1) Was appointed to the Colonelcy of the " King s 'which year also he was made K.B.

(2) Query " Ogle."

(3) Third son of Richard, 1st Earl of Tylney of Castlemaine (peerage of Ireland). became extinct in 1784.

to " The King's Own Regiment of Dragoons," but in the list of 1740 the word " Own " is not given. At the present time the regiment is called the " 3rd (King's Own) Hussars."

Dates of their present commissions.

29 May 1732.

22 Dec. 1712.

11 April 1712.

23 Dec. 1712. 10 Mar. 1712-3. 16 Jan. 1721-2.

12 July 1739. 16 Jan. 1721-2. 20 June 1735.

ditto.

20 April 1738. 25 Oct. 1739. 14 Mar. 1733-4. 20 June 1735.

ditto.

1 Feb. 1737-8. 20 April 1738. 25 Oct. 1739.

Regiment of Horse " in 1743, in

Own

The title

" Sir Robert Rich's-Regiment of Dragoons" now known as the " 4th (Queen's Own) Hussars" was raised in 1685, then being styled " Princess Anne of Denmark's Regi- ment of Dragoons." / This title was discon-

tinued in 1688, and for many years the regiment was called by the name of its colonel for the time being. In 1788 the title " The Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Dragoons" was conferred upon it.

Sir Robert Rich's Regiment of Dragoons.

Colonel .. . . Sir Robert Rich (1) Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Leighton (2) Major .. .. Richard Hartshorne

{George Macartney Francis Boggest William Higgenson William Adamson /"Matthew Sewell I Samuel Pashler -! Henry Bickerton James Musgrave VCharles Rich .. /Ralph Scurrah I William Benson J Samuel Browne

1 Forrester. .

(Archibald Douglass ^Samuel Horsey

(1) Fourth Baronet. Became Field-Marshal in 1757, andjdied .(2) Third son of Sir Edward Leighton, 1st Baronet.

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

Lieutenants

Cornets

Dates of their present commissions.

13 May 1735. ! 30 June 1737. 13 Aug. 1739. 4 Feb. 1722-3.

24 May 1733. 13 Aug. 1739.

ditto.

25 Mar. 1731.

23 April 1736.

12 July 1739.

13 Aug. 1739. 7 Nov. 1739.

24 Feb. 1728-9. 23 April 1736.

12 July 1739. 16 ditto.

13 Aug; 1739. 7 Nov. 1739.

n 1768.

Further information about any of these officers would be welcome.

J. H. LESLIE, Major, R.A. (Retired List). (To be continued.)