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Captain
Lieutenant
Clerk of the Cheque
Ensign Exon
Lt Col Johnny Moss MBE - Welsh Guards
The third officer - the Ensign - was added by
Charles II, and it may fairly
be assumed that when appointed he had to do an ensign’s duty, namely, to
carry the Banner or Standard of the Corps. Diligent search
has more than once been made for this Standard, but it is not
forthcoming. Thom, in his Book of the court when speaking of the
duties of the Ensign of the Guards says: - “But, though such an
appointment was then (1668) made and has, continued ever since, there
does not exist the smallest evidence that the Corps ever possessed
either Banner or Standard.” The late learned antiquary could not, at
the time he wrote his, have seen the Order Book of the Guard at St
James’s Palace, for one of the first entries therein is as follows:- “In
consequence of the death of Mr Jno Glover, late Secretary of the
Earl of
Macclesfield, his lordship ordered that the Standard, Books, &c
belonging to the Corps and kept by him be now given up, and that they be
considered in future the property of the Corps, and kept as such by the
Secretary
for the time being.” The
Captains was appointed
Captain in
1804, and the great fire in St. James’s Palace occurred 21
January 1809: it's reasonable, therefore, to suppose that the Standard
was amongst the property destroyed. According to Chamberlayne’s
Anglice Notitia for 1672 the Standard of the Guard was “a Cross of
St George and likewise four bends”, but the colours of the field and
the charge are not given. By the regulations now in force the Ensign
before appointment must have held a commission as a lieutenant-colonel
or major in the army or marines or in the Indian army.
Edited from A History of the Yeomen of the Guard 1485 - 1885
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1 |
1668 |
Edward Sackville Esq |
22 |
1869 |
Lt Col Arthur Need
VC |
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2 |
1678 |
Thomas Howard Esq |
23 |
1870 |
Col Hon William J Colville |
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3 |
1685 |
Henry Dutton Colt Esq |
24 |
1888 |
Lt Col Henry Hume
CB |
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4 |
1689 |
Thomas Maule Esq |
25 |
1892 |
Lt Col Sir RG Ellison
CB
*2 |
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5 |
1690 |
Robert Sawyers Esq |
26 |
1908 |
Maj Sir EH Elliott
MVO *3 |
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6 |
1700 |
Robert Uphill Esq |
27 |
1926 |
Maj Colin MacRae
CBE
*4 |
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7 |
1715 |
Thomas Windham Esq |
28 |
1932 |
Lt Col GR Lascelles
CVO CBE |
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8 |
1716 |
Andrew Charlton Esq |
29 |
1937 |
Lt Col ED Frederick |
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9 |
1735 |
Edward Le Grand Esq |
30 |
1950 |
Maj Gen Sir AHS Adair Bart
CB DSO MC |
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10 |
1746 |
Savile Cockayne Cust Esq |
31 |
1951 |
Lt Col VB Turner
VC |
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11 |
1763 |
Cheret Jones Esq |
32 |
1955 |
Brig Gen WG Carr
DSO |
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12 |
1779 |
Jonothan Benjafield Esq |
33 |
1970 |
Col HT Brassey
OBE MC |
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13 |
1783 |
Henry Murray Esq |
34 |
1971 |
Col AB Pemberton
MBE
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14 |
1783 |
Richard Fowler Rickard Esq |
35 |
1979 |
Maj Bruce Shand
MC |
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15 |
1796 |
Shurkbrugh Ashby Apreece
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36 |
1985 |
Col Greville Tufnell |
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16 |
1804 |
Brevet Lt Col William Jepson |
37 |
1987 |
Col Shaun Longsdon |
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17 |
1808 |
Augustus Atkins Esq |
38 |
1993 |
Maj Charles Marriott |
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18 |
1830 |
William Conyngham Burton |
39 |
2002 |
Maj Charles Enderby |
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19 |
1835 |
Capt George Houlton Esq *1 |
40 |
2006 |
Maj Tom Wills |
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20 |
1862 |
Lt Col Jonothan Henry Cooke |
41 |
2007 |
Lt Col Johnny Moss MBE |
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21 |
1866 |
Col William Barton Parnell
CB |
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* Notes:
1. Knighted 1838
2. Knighted 1907
3. Knighted 1911
4. Knighted 1935 |