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 84 NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. vn. Juw si, 1920. First Battalions. FOOT. The Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment). The Northumberland Fusiliers. The Lancashire Fusiliers. The King's Own Scottish Borderers. The Gloucester Regiment. The East Lancashire Regiment. The Duke of Wellington's (West Riding Regiment). The Royal Sussex Regiment. The Hampshire Regiment. The Dorsetshire Regiment. The first Regiment (page 63) was formed as a Regiment of Cuirassiers in July 1685 (from six Troops of Horse which had been independently raised earlier in that year). It was called " Arran's Cuirassiers," after its first Colonel, James, Earl of Arran (became 4th Duke of Hamilton in 1698. See 'D.N.B.,' under "Douglas.") Since 1788 it has been styled " The Fourth (or Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoon Guards," which title, slightly altered, it still retains. Dates of their Dates of their first present commissions. . . 26 Aug. 1739 . . 10 May 1738 . . 10 May 1738 .. 24 Jan. 1133-4 . . 31 Mar. 1737 . . 10 May 1738 .. 10 May 1738 27 June 1723 Lord Tyrawley's Regiment of Horse. Colonel Lieu tenant- Colonel Major commissions. Lord Tyrawley (1) Peter Renouard Edward Brown (2) Captains Captain Lieutenant Lieutenants} Cornets ( Lord Daer { Robert Ogle . . t Richard Corbett (3) Lewis Folliott (4) /Robert Bettes worth Joseph White (5) J William Stopford Thomas Cox I William Hanchett /'Edmund Uvedale John Allen 1 Philip Roberts J John Asburnham (6) I.Arthur Skeffington 30 Nov. 1725 4 April 1734 27 Feb. 1737 10 May 1738 15 Oct. 1730 31 Mar. 1737 28 June 1739 29 June 1739 30 June 1739 Cornet 10 Aug. 1702. Captain, 14 May 1715. ditto 6 May 1723. .Lieutenant, 15 Mar. 1730. Cornet,25 Mar. 1718. ditto 24 June 1751. ditto 14 Aug. 1717. ditto 27 June 1723. ditto 27 June 1723. ditto 26 Nov. 1723. ditto 26 July 1726. Ensign, 24 Feb. 1710-11 One name is entered in ink on the interleaf: Cornet John Johnstone 24 April 1740 (1) James O'Hara, Baron Kilmaine and 2nd Baron Tyrawley. Appointed to the Colonelcy of the 2nd Troop of Horse Grenadier Guards in April 1743. See ' D.N.B.' (2) Lieut.-Colonel in the Regiment, May 11, 1748. Still serving in 1755. (3) Major in the Regiment, May, 11, 1748. Still serving in 1765. (4) Died in Ireland, 1741. (5) Captain, May 26, 1747. Still serving in 1755. (6) Captain-Lieutenant, March 12, 1754. Still serving in 1755. J. H. LESLIE, Lieut.-Colonel, R.A. (RetiredList). (To be continued.) College, Oxford. STATUES AND MEMORIALS IN THE BRITISH ISLES. (See 10 S. xi., xii. ; US. i.-xii. ; 12 S. i.-iv. passim ; v. 89, 145, 259 ; vi. 5) ROYAL PERSONAGES (continued). Arthur. Glastonbury Anfr'q. Soc,. 1-4. i John. Archceologia, iv. 29-46. Edward the Confessor. St. Paul's Eccles. Soc., iv. 237-242. Harold. Marble group, Hastings Museum, 'Edith finding the body of Harold.' William II. Archceoloc/ia xlii, 309- "~" and Chambers's ' Book of Days,' ii. 160. Honry I. Berks. Arch, and Archit. Soc., i. 95 and Antiquary, xlv. 1909, 284. Henry III. Merton statue over gateway. Edward II. Archceologia, 1., 215-226; Arch. Journ. xvii., 297-310 and xxxviii. 309-321 I 361-364. Oriel College, Oxford, statue in centre of buildings. Edward III. Statues at Oriel College, Oxford and Trinity College, Cambridge,