Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) - Colonels

Colonels

  • 1665-1668 Col. Robert Sidney
  • 1668-1673 Maj-Gen. Sir Walter Vane
  • 1673-1682 Lt-Gen. John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and 3rd Earl of Mulgrave, KG
  • 1682-1684 Col. Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
  • 1684-1685 Lt-Gen. John Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham and 3rd Earl of Mulgrave, KG
  • 1685-1688 Brig-Gen. Sir Theophilus Oglethorpe
  • 1688-1707 Gen. Charles Churchill
  • 1707-1711 F.M. John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll, KG, KT (Earl of Islay, Lord Lorne)
  • 1711-1713 Col. John Selwyn
  • 1713-1715 Brig-Gen. Archibald Douglas, 2nd Earl of Forfar
  • 1716-1725 Gen. Sir Charles Wills, KB (also 1st Guards, 30th Foot)
  • 1726-1729 Col. Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry
  • 1729-1737 Lt-Gen. William Tatton
  • 1737-1749 Lt-Gen. Thomas Howard
  • 1749-1763 F.M. Sir George Howard, KB
  • 1763-1764 Col. John Craufurd
  • 1764-1768 Maj-Gen. Ralph Burton
  • 1768-1779 F.M. Sir Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, KB
  • 1779-1786 Lt-Gen. William Style
  • 1786-1809 Gen. Thomas Hall (also 79th Foot)
  • 1809-1815 Gen. Charles Leigh
  • 1815-1829 Lt-Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, GCB, GCH
  • 1829-1832 Gen. Sir George Don, GCB, GCH
  • 1832-1845 Gen. Kenneth Alexander Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham, GCB
  • 1845-1854 Gen. Sir Henry King, CB, KCH, KC
  • 1854-1857 Lt-Gen. Sir Nathaniel Thorn, KCB, KH
  • 1857 Lt-Gen. Nicholas Wodehouse
  • 1857 Maj-Gen. Sir Henry Havelock, KCB
  • 1857-1860 Lt-Gen. Berkeley Drummond
  • 1860-1863 Gen. The Hon. Charles Grey
  • 1863-1864 Lt-Gen. John Wharton Frith
  • 1864-1870 Lt-Gen. Day Hort Macdowall
  • 1870-1874 Lt-Gen. The Hon. Sir James Lindsay, KCMG
  • 1874-1882 Gen. William Craig Emilius Napier
  • 1882-1909 Gen. Sir Julius Augustus Robert Raines, GCB
  • 1909 Maj-Gen. Frederick Taylor Hobson
  • 1909-1914 Maj-Gen. Robert George Kekewich
  • 1914-1928 Gen. Sir Arthur Henry Fitzroy Paget, GCB, KCVO
  • 1928-1937 Maj-Gen. Sir Arthur Lynden Lynden-Bell, KCB, KCMG
  • 1937-1943 Maj-Gen. Sir John Kennedy, GBE, CB, CMG, DSO
  • 1943-1953 Maj-Gen. The Hon. Percy Gerald Scarlett, CB, MC
  • 1953-1961 Maj-Gen. Valentine Boucher, CB, CBE

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