Colonels
- 1741.01.13 Gen. Hon. James Cholmondeley
- 1743.03.14 Col. Lord Henry Beauclerk
- 1745.04.22 Col. Francis Ligonier
- 1746.04.06 F.M. Hon. Henry Seymour Conway
- 1749.07.24 Maj-Gen. George Byng, 3rd Viscount Torrington (also 4th Marines)
- 1750.08.11 Lt-Gen. William Home, 8th Earl of Home
- 1752.04.29 Lt-Gen. Thomas Dunbar
- 1755.11.11 Lt-Gen. Daniel Webb
- 1766.12.18 Lt-Gen. William Browne (also 73rd Foot)
- 1773.12.15 Lt-Gen. William Alexander Sorrell
- 1783.03.31 Lt-Gen. Robert Skene (also 99th Foot)
- 1787.05.23 Gen. Patrick Tonyn (also 104th Foot)
- 1805.01.01 Gen. Lord Charles FitzRoy
- 1811 Col. George Henry Duckworth
- 1829.12.25 Gen. Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet, GCB
- 1843.05.31 Lt-Gen. George Middlemore, CB (also 76th Foot; Governor of Saint Helena 1835-41)
- 1850.11.25 Gen. Sir James Henry Reynett, KCB, KCH
- 1864.08.10 Gen. Arthur Dalzell, 9th Earl of Carnwath
- 1875.04.29 Gen. William Anson McCleverty
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