LIGHT DRAGOONS.
Richard Munden,
Appointed 22nd July, 1715.
Richard Munden served under King William III. in the Netherlands, and also under the celebrated John Duke of Marlborough, and was promoted to the rank of colonel in 1706. On the 6th of May, 1709, he succeeded Lord Lovelace in the colonelcy of a regiment of foot, which served in the war of the Spanish succession, and after distinguishing itself at Saragossa in 1710, it was surrounded and made prisoners in the mountains of Castille, by the army under the Duke of Vendosme. In 1711 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general; but the peace of Utrecht being concluded soon afterwards, his regiment was disbanded, and he remained unemployed until the summer of 1715, when he was commissioned to raise a corps of dragoons—now the Thirteenth regiment of Light Dragoons. He distinguished himself in the attack of the rebels at Preston, in Lancashire, in November, 1715; and was removed to the eighth dragoons in 1722. He died in 1725.
Sir Robert Rich, Baronet,
Appointed 19th November, 1722.
Sir Robert Rich entered the army in 1700, and gave such signal proofs of courage and skill in the wars in the reign of Queen Anne, that, on the 24th of October, 1709, he was advanced to the command of a regiment of foot. At the peace of Utrecht his regiment was disbanded, and he remained for some time unemployed; but being distinguished for his loyalty and steady attachment to the Protestant succession, he was commissioned to raise, in the summer of 1715, a regiment of dragoons, which was instrumental in suppressing the rebellion which broke out that year; but in 1718 it was disbanded. The services of Sir Robert Rich were, however, not forgotten; he was appointed one of the grooms of the bedchamber to the Prince of Wales (afterwards George II.): and on the 19th of November, 1722, King George I. appointed him colonel of the Thirteenth Dragoons; from which he was removed, in September, 1725, to the eighth dragoons; and on the 1st of January, 1731, to the seventh horse, now sixth dragoon guards. He was again removed in 1733 to the first troop of horse grenadier guards; and in 1735 to the fourth dragoons; he was promoted to the rank of major-general in 1735, to that of lieut.-general in 1739, general in 1745; and in 1757 he was advanced to the rank of field-marshal. He was a member of Parliament, and governor of Chelsea Hospital. He died in 1768.
William Stanhope,