Edward Viscount Cornbury.
Appointed 1st August, 1685.
Edward Hyde Viscount Cornbury, son of the second Earl of Clarendon, was appointed lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Dragoons when that corps was first embodied; and having distinguished himself at the battle of Sedgemoor, he succeeded Lord Churchill in the colonelcy of the regiment. The circumstances of his removal are stated at [page 19] in the 'Historical Record of the Royal Dragoons.'
Robert Clifford.
Appointed 24th November, 1688.
Major Robert Clifford of the Royal Dragoons was firmly devoted to the Roman Catholic interest, and in November, 1688, by his exertions he recovered the regiment for the service of King James, as stated at [page 19] in the Historical Record of the corps. At the revolution he adhered to King James, and he commanded a corps of dragoons in Ireland, until the siege of Limerick in 1691, when he was imprisoned by the Irish on a charge of favouring the passage of the Shannon by the English; and would have been condemned to death, if the town had not surrendered soon afterwards.
Edward Viscount Cornbury.
Re-appointed 31st December, 1688.
Lord Cornbury was restored to the colonelcy of the Royal Dragoons by the Prince of Orange; but was removed from his command a few months afterwards. He was governor of New York, in the reign of Queen Anne; and in October, 1709, succeeded to the title of Earl of Clarendon. His decease occurred on the 31st of March, 1723.