The 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards was a cavalry regiment in the British Army, first raised in 1685 as the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers. It was renamed as the 4th Dragoon Guards in 1788 and
Badge of the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
c. 1742 engraving of a regimental trooper
Regimental standard in 1839
Painting of the regiment departing for the Crimea in 1856
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon was a Scottish army officer, politician, courtier and diplomat. He was a major investor in the failed Darien scheme, which cost many of Sco
4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards
…War, before being amalgamated with 7th Dragoon Guards (Princess Royal's), to form the 4th/7th Dragoon Guards in 1922. The regiment was first raised by James, Earl of Arran, as the Earl of Arran's Regiment of Cuirassiers in 1685 as part of the response to the Monmouth Rebellion, by the regimenting of various independent…
Portrait by John Baptist Medina, 1703
Hamilton Palace – seat of the Dukes of Hamilton
Engraving of the Hamilton–Mohun duel