Between the period 1715 and 1887 it was not unusual for the Regiment to have several Lieutenant Colonels appointed at the same time, although only one of them commanded. A number of those who commanded succeeded from positions of second or even third Lieutenant Colonel appointments.
1715 – Lieutenant Colonel Henry Killigrew
1716 – Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Rapin
1717 – Lieutenant Colonel William Boyle
1720 – Lieutenant Colonel Beverly Newcomin
1731 – Lieutenant Colonel H. Desgrangues
1737 – Lieutenant Colonel William Wright
1749 – Lieutenant Colonel James Norris
1754 – Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Earle
1773 Lieutenant Colonel Sir John Burgoyne, Bart. (Later Major General)
1781 – Lieutenant Colonel Grice Blackeney (Later General)
1802 – Lieutenant Colonel John Michel (Later General)
1803 – Lieutenant Colonel Sir Samuel Hawker, G.C.H. (Later General)
1805 – Neil Talbot appointed second Lieutenant Colonel
1811 – Lieutenant Colonel Felton Bathurst Hervey
1819 – Lieutenant Colonel Charles Massey Baker
1829 – Lieutenant Colonel John Townsend (Later Colonel)
1845 – Lt Col William Havelock
1845 – Edward Harvey appointed second Lieutenant Colonel (Later Major General)
1848 – Lieutenant Colonel John Wallace King C.B.
1850 – Lieutenant Colonel Henry Edward Doherty C.B. (Later General)
1857 – Lieutenant Colonel Charles Steuart C.B. (Later Lieutenant General)
1857 – Charles Philip de Ainslie appointed second Lieutenant Colonel (Later General)
1861- Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Scudamore (Later Major General)
1861- Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Russell, Bart., C.B. (Later Colonel)
1864 – Lieutenant Colonel Pearson Scott Thompson C.B. (Later Major General)
1876 – Lieutenant Colonel Francis Pemberton Campbell
1876 – Lieutenant Colonel William Arbuthnot C.B. (Later Major General)
1881 – Lieutenant Colonel John Hunter Knox (Later Colonel)
1881 – Francis Shirley Russell C.M.G. appointed second Lieutenant Colonel (Later Major General)
1885 – Lieutenant Colonel Charles Falkiner Morton (Later Colonel)
1885 James Dennis appointed second Lieutenant Colonel (Later Colonel)
1887 – Lieutenant Colonel Henry Blackburne Hamilton (Later Colonel)
1891 – Lieutenant Colonel The Hon George Hugh Gough C.B. (Later Colonel)
1896 – Lieutenant Colonel Augustus John English
1899 – Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Henry Claude Hamilton (Later Colonel)
1901 – Lieutenant Colonel Edmund Donough John O’Brien (Later Brigadier General)
1907 – Lieutenant Colonel Edward Douglas Browne-Synge-Hutchinson V.C., C.B. (Later Colonel)
1911 – Lieutenant Colonel Robert Campbell Stephen C.B. (Later Brigadier General)
1915 – Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Ernest Lynedoch Hill-Whitson
1916 – Lieutenant Colonel Robert Westbrook Hewitt D.S.O.
1917 – Lieutenant Colonel Edgar James Bridges M.C.
1919 – Lieutenant Colonel The Hon. Hugh Edward Joicey D.S.O., J.P.
1919 – Lieutenant Colonel Reginald Vincent Kempenfeldt Applin D.S.O.
1921 – Lieutenant Colonel John Gilbert Browne C.M.G., C.B.E., D.S.O.
