Honourable Artillery Company - Notable Members of The HAC

Notable Members of The HAC

Captains General of the HAC
Date

Appointed

 Incumbent
1657 Major General Philip Skippon
1660 James II
1690 William III
1702 Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland
1715 George II
1760 ???
1766 George IV
1830 William IV
1837 Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex
1843 Prince Albert, the Prince Consort
24 July 1863 Edward VII
7 May 1910 George V
1 February 1936 Edward VIII
10 December 1936 George VI
6 February 1952 Elizabeth II
Colonel Commandants
  • Colonel the Viscount Galway, DSO, OBE
  • Colonel the Earl Fortescue, KG, PC, MC
  • Field Marshal Viscount Gort, VC, GCB, CBE, DSO**, MVO, MC
  • Field Marshal Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke - President and Colonel Commandant 1946–1954
  • Major General Sir Julian Gascoigne KCMG KCVO CB DSO
  • General Sir Richard Trant
  • General Sir Michael Wilkes KCB CBE KStJ
  • General Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman, GBE, KCB, ADC Gen
  • Lieutenant General Sir Barney White-Spunner, KCB, CBE
Others
  • Major Tom Addington, an outstanding all-rounder: sportsman, Commando, paratrooper and horse gunner, he was awarded an MC in the Netherlands.
  • Jock Airlie (Seton), Association Football Player
  • Kevin Alderton, holder of the blind speed ski world record
  • Bertram Archer GC OBE ERD**, awarded GC for work on bomb disposal in the war. Member of the HAC before joining Royal Engineers.
  • Air Vice-Marshal Sir Cecil Boucher KBE CB DFC started his service career as a trumpeter in the Honourable Artillery Company.
  • Prince Rupert of the Rhine
  • George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle
  • Gregory Barker, MP
  • Robert Henry Cain VC
  • Erskine Childers, joined City Imperial Volunteers 1898, RN commission in 1914
  • Patrick Delaforce, Military historian and author
  • James Gray, MP
  • Charles Greenwood, HAC before joining regular artillery, earned MC at Monte Cassino
  • Reginald Leonard Haine VC, MC*
  • Sir Edward Heath KG, former Prime Minister
  • Adrian Hill, Artist and author
  • Robert Keayne – founder of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts
  • John Patrick Kenneally VC
  • Maj Gen Simon Lalor CB TD, Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff for Reserves and Cadets (UK's senior serving Reservist), 2007–2010
  • John Laurie, Shakespearean and TV actor.
  • LGen Andrew Leslie OMM, MSC, MSM, CD, former Chief of Land Staff, Canadian Forces
  • Nigel Bruce, Soldier and Actor.
  • Major David Liddell MC
  • Ronald Light, defendant in the Green Bicycle Case
  • Vincenzo Lunardi
  • Sir Clive Martin OBE TD DL, former Lord Mayor of the City of London
  • General Sir Richard O'Connor, KT, GCB, DSO, MC, ADC
  • Richard Owen was an English biologist, comparative anatomist and paleontologist.
  • Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) – diarist
  • Alfred Oliver Pollard VC, MC*, DCM
  • Kenneth Powell, Olympic hurdler
  • Edward John Amoore, Olympic Gold and Bronze medalist for shooting at 1908 Olympics
  • Hugh Pritchard (Olympic biathlete 2002 games)
  • David Reindorp, Clergyman
  • Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
  • Andrew Selous MP (b.1962)
  • Lord Francis Seymour
  • Patrick Shovelton, one of Whitehall’s most formidable international negotiators
  • John Talbot, awarded the MC in Normandy in 1944.
  • Ian Wace, hedge fund manager and philanthropist.
  • Colonel Orde Wingate, son of Maj. Gen. Orde Wingate
  • Basil Williams, historian

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