SUCCESSION OF MAJORS
OF THE
SEVENTH, OR QUEEN'S OWN, REGIMENT OF HUSSARS.
| Name. | Date of Appointment. | Name. | Date of Appointment. | ||
| George Wishart. | Dec. | 30, 1690 | William Calcraft | July | 19, 1799 |
| Patrick Hume, afterwards Lord Polwarth | 1694 | Charles Taylor | May | 16, 1801 | |
| John Johnston | March | 30, 1697 | Richard Hussey Vivian | March | 9, 1803 |
| George Douglas | April | 28, 1707 | Edward Kerrison | May | 12, 1803 |
| Archibald Lord Wandale | Sept. | 22, 1711 | James Stuart | Sept. | 28, 1804 |
| ———— Preston | Oct. | 30, 1711 | Hon. Berkeley Paget | April | 4, 1805 |
| James Lord Torphichen | Feb. | 15, 1712 | William Tuyll | Jan. | 1, 1807 |
| James Nasmyth | April | 15, 1714 | Hon. G. H. C. Cavendish | June | 23, 1808 |
| Matthew Stewart | Jan. | 31, 1715 | Charles Denshire | Feb. | 23, 1809 |
| James Agnew | April | 4, 1733 | George Cholmley | April | 27, 1809 |
| John Guerin | July | 23, 1748 | Edward Hodge | May | 7, 1812 |
| Edward Harvey | March | 8, 1751 | William Thornhill | April | 8, 1813 |
| James Wharton | Jan. | 5, 1754 | William Verner | June | 17, 1815 |
| George Lawson Hall | April | 8, 1755 | Thomas William Robins | Dec. | 24, 1818 |
| James Shipley | May | 14, 1757 | Edward Keane | Dec. | 16, 1819 |
| John Litchfield | Feb. | 10, 1758 | James Hamlyn Williams | Oct. | 24, 1821 |
| Thomas Hay | Oct. | 14, 1761 | James John Fraser | Feb. | 27, 1823 |
| Thomas Bland | June | 14, 1765 | William Shirley | June | 17, 1824 |
| Robert Lawrie | Feb. | 27, 1771 | Hon. George Berkeley Molyneux | Sept. | 28, 1826 |
| Thomas Warburton | April | 26, 1779 | Charles John Hill | Dec. | 31, 1827 |
| William Osborne | March | 7, 1787 | Philip Dundas | Dec. | 3, 1830 |
| Richard Watson | March | 1, 1794 | John James Whyte | April | 5, 1833 |
| Michael Barne | March | 1, 1794 | Arthur William Biggs | Oct. | 21, 1837 |
| John Walhouse | Oct. | 18, 1798 | Thos. Edmund Campbell | Nov. | 4, 1840 |
FOOTNOTES:
[1] These two troops have, by several authors, been erroneously styled "regiments."
[2] See the Historical Record of the Third Foot, or the Buffs, from page 63 to 66.
[3] The following speculative account of the regiment is extracted from Mc Pherson's Secret History of England; edition of 1775, vol. 2, page 7; Mr. Scott's relation, "An Account of the State of Scotland, in July, 1706."
"The Earl of Lothian's regiment of dragoons (as I remember) consists of six companys, each company, including serjeants corporals, and drummers, is thirty men. The colonel's character is already given. The lieut.-colonel is son to Polwarth, now called Earl of Marchmont. When the late Earl of Hume listed, this lieut.-colonel was thought well-affected, and very much under the influence of Hume; but what to say of him now I know not. The major of the regiment, John Johnston of Westraw, is reported to have loyal inclinations, being much managed that way by his very loyal lady, whom few of any side must trust."
[4] See the Record of the First, or Royal Regiment of Dragoons, pages 52 and 53.