The 5th Royal Irish Lancers Colonels of the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons & 5th Royal Irish Lancers

 

1689.06.20 Brig-Gen. James Wynne
1695.07.16 Gen. Hon. Charles Ross
1715.10.08 Col. Hon. Thomas Sydney
1729.02.01 Gen. Hon. Charles Ross [reappointed]
1732.08.06 Lt-Gen. Owen Wynne
1737.06.27 F.M. Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth
1758.10.18 Gen. John Mostyn
1760.11.27 Gen. Hon. Sir Joseph Yorke, 1st Lord Dover, KB
1787.04.04 Gen. Robert Cuninghame, 1st Lord Rossmore

(Regiment Disbanded)

1858.02.23 Gen. Sir James Charles Chatterton Bart., GCB, KH
1868.11.22 Gen. Edward Pole
1872.01.01 Gen. Henry Darby Griffith, CB
1887.11.18 Lt-Gen. Sir Somerset John Gough-Calthorpe, Bt., 7th Lord Calthorpe, KCB
1892.01.24 Lt-Gen. Hon. Charles Wemyss Thesiger
1896.10.04 Lt-Gen. William Godfrey Dunham Massy, CB
1906.09.21 Maj-Gen. Thomas Arhur Cooke, CVO
1908.04.07 Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Jenner Scobell, KCVO, CB
1912.02.03 F.M. Sir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, GCB, GCMG, GCVO

Commanding officers of the 5th Royal Irish Dragoons & 5th Royal Irish Lancers

RANK	NAME	DATE
Lieut. Col.	Charles Ross	before 1695
Lieut. Col.	Owen Wynne	20th July 1695
Lieut. Col.	Robert Hunter	1705
Brevitt-Col	Hugh Caldwell	1707
Brevitt-Col	JNO Hill	September 1709
Lieut. Col	Ric. Gore	1st November 1711
Lieut. Col	Thomas Sydney	before 5th October 1715
Lieut. Col	Wrioth Bretton	23rd September 1719
Lieut. Col	Alex Rose	12th September 1729
Lieut. Col	William Cope	10th May 1740
Lieut. Col	Christopher Clarges	20th February 1749
Lieut. Col	William Hill	25th August 1760
Lieut. Col	Hugh Cane	31st March 1768
Lieut. Col	James Stewart	7th January 1778
Lieut. Col	The Hon. Chas. Wm Stewart	1st January 1797
Lieut. Col	Alex J. Goldie	17th February 1798
Regiment Disbanded - Reinstated in 1858
Lieut. Col	Geo. Aug Filmer Sulivan	19th February 1858
Lieut. Col	Robert Portal	12th March 1861
Colonel	W. Godfrey Dunham Massey	31st October 1871
Colonel	William Lloyd Browne	5th March 1879
Colonel	W. Ward Bennit	29th July 1885
Colonel	Alfred Bissel Harvey	31st March 1889
Lieut. Col	Cecil F. Johnstone-Douglas	1st January 1893
Colonel	James Scott-Chisholme	12th August 1894
Lieut. Col	Jas. F. Malcolm Fawcett	12 August 1899
Colonel	Henry Jenner Scobell	27th July 1901
Lieut. Col	Edmund Henry Hynam Allenby C.B.	2nd August 1902
Lieut Col.	Herman W. Gore Graham	19th October 1905
Lieut Col.	George Francis Milner DSO	1909
Colonel	Arthur Parker CMG	1913
Lieut Col.	James Bruce Jardine DSO	1917
Lieut Col.	Herbert Anderson Cape	1919
Regiment Disbanded - 1921 Reformed and amalgamated with 16th (Queens Royal ) Lancers in 1922