Colonels
- 1741.01.13 Brig-Gen. John Price
- 1743.06.23 Lt-Gen. Hon. Thomas Murray
- 1764.11.21 Gen. Sir William (Howe), 5th Viscount Howe, KB (also 19th Lt Dgns, 23rd Foot; CinC North America 1775-78]
- 1775.05.11 Lt-Gen. Hon. Sir John Vaughan, KB (also 94th Foot; CinC Leeward Is. 1779-82]
- 1795.08.01 Gen. Sir James Henry Craig, KB [also 22nd Foot, 78th Foot, 86th Foot; Governor of Lower Canada 1807-11, Governor of the Cape 1795)
- 1804.01.05 Gen. John Whyte
- 1816.04.01 Gen. Henry Wynyard
- 1838.04.06 Lt-Gen. Sir John Keane, 1st Baron Keane, GCB, GCH
- 1839.08.01 Lt-Gen. John Ross, CB
- 1843.05.31 Gen. Sir John Hamilton Dalrymple, Bt., later 8th Earl of Stair, KT
- 1853.01.24 Lt-Gen. Richard Egerton, CB
- 1854.11.19 Gen. Sir John Lysaght Pennefather, GCB (also 22nd Foot; Gov. R Hospital 1870-72)
- 1860.02.13 Gen. John Geddes, KH
- 1860.04.24 Gen. Thomas Gerrard Ball
- 1861.06.17 Lt-Gen. Sir Charles Ashe Windham, KCB
- 1870.02.03 Lt-Gen. Edward Hungerford Delaval Elers Napier
- 1870.06.20 Gen. Charles Stuart
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