Colonels-in-Chief
| 1755 - 1757 |
Major-General John, 1st Earl of Loudoun |
| 1757 - 1758 | Major-General James Abercromby |
| 1758 - 1768 | Colonel Jeffery Amherst, Major-General 1759, Lieutenant-General Sir Jeffery Amherst, KB, 1761 |
| 1768 | Major-General Thomas Gage |
| 1768 - 1797 | Lieut.-General Sir Jeffery Amherst, KB, Lord Amherst 1776, Field-Marshal, 1796 |
| 1797 - 1827 | His Royal Highness Frederick, Duke of York |
| 1827 - 1850 | His Royal Highness Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge |
| 1850 - 1852 | His Royal Highness Prince Albert, The Prince Consort |
| 1852 - 1854 | General Viscount Beresford, GCB, GCH |
| 1854 - 1869 | Field-Marshal Viscount Gough, GCB, KP, GCSI |
| 1869 - 1904 | His Royal Highness George, Duke of Cambridge |
| 1904 - 1936 | His Royal Highness George, Prince of Wales; from 1910, His Majesty King George V |
| 1937 - 1952 | His Majesty King George VI |
| 1953 - 2007 | Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2007 | HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh |