Letters Patent - Appointment of a Commander-in-Chief [1881-11-26]

Letters Patent - Appointment of a Commander-in-Chief [1881-11-26]

Military

Royal Family

Letters Patent of Queen Victoria appointing the Duke of Cambridge as Commander-in-Chief.

Queen Victoria

"Letters Patent issued under the Great Seal appointing H.R.H. the Duke of Cambridge to be Commander-in-Chief," House of Commons Papers, LXXX.37 (1895).

1881-11-26

Jason Loch

VICTORIA, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, to Our most dear Cousin and faithful Councillor, GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERIC CHARLES, DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, Knight of Our Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Garter, Knight of Our Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, Knight of Our Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath, Knight Grand Cross of Our Most Exalted Order of the Star of India, Knight Grand Commander of Our Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, Knight Grand Commander of Our Most Eminent Order of the Indian Empire, Field Marshal of Our Forces, greeting: WE, reposing especial trust and confidence in your prudence, courage, and loyalty, do by these presents constitute and appoint you, the said GEORGE WILLIAM FREDERIC CHARLES, DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, to be Commander in Chief, during Our pleasure, of all and singular Our Land Forces employed or to be employed in Our service within Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. You are therefore carefully to discharge the said trust of Commander in Chief by doing and performing all and all manner of things thereunto belonging: and We do hereby command all Our Officers and Soldiers who are or shall be employed in Our Land Service within Our United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, to acknowledge and obey you as their Commander in Chief: and you are to observe and follow such instructions and orders from time to time as you shall receive from Us in pursuance of the trust We hereby repose in you. In Witness whereof We have caused these Our Letters to be made patent. Witness Ourself at Westminster, the Twenty-sixth day of November, in the Fifty-first year of Our Reign.

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