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Own, Norfolk (The King’s Own Royal Regt.), and Suffolk (Yeomanry). Royal Regiment of Artillery, The Honourable Artillery Company, and 5th London Brigade Royal Field Artillery (Territorial Force), Royal Malta Artillery, Corps of the Royal Engineers, Grenadier Guards, Coldstream Guards, Scots Guards, Irish Guards, The Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regt.), 3rd Batt. The Prince of Wales’s Own (West Yorkshire Regt.), The Royal Welsh Fusiliers, The King’s Royal Rifle Corps, The Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, Princess Victoria’s (Royal Irish) Fusiliers, Officers Training Corps, 1st Duke of York’s Own Lancers (Skinnner’s Horse), 6th King Edward’s Own Cavalry. 11th King Edward’s Own Lancers (Probyn’s Horse), 18th King George’s Own Lancers 26th King George’s Own Light Cavalry, 38th and 39th King George’s Own Central India Horse, 1st King George’s Own Sappers and Miners, 14th King George’s Own Ferozepore Sikhs, 61st King George’s Own Pioneers, 102nd King Edward Own Grenadiers, 130th King George’s Own Baluchis (Jacob’s Rifles, 1st King George’s Own Gurkha Rifles), The Malaun Regt,) 2nd King Edward’s Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), The Royal Marines, and 8th Isle of Wight Rifles, “Princess Beatrice’s” Battn. the Hampshire Regt.; Hon. Commander of the 1st Dragoon Guards (Germany); Hon. Colonel 8th (Zamora) Infantry Regt.; Sovereign of the Orders of the Garter, the Thistle, St. Patrick, the Bath, the Order of Merit, the Star of India, St. Michael and St. George, the India Empire, the Royal, Victorian, Distinguished Service, and Imperial Service; Sovereign and Patron of the Order of the Hospital of St. Jerusalum in England, and of the Order of Mercy; has received the Orders of the Black Eagle of Prussia, the Golden Fleece of Spain, St. Andrew of Russia, Grand Cordon of the Osmanieh, the Hanedani Ali Osman, and the Murassa Initias of Turkey, the Annunciata of Italy, the White Elephant of Denmark, the Seraphim of Sweden, the Legion of Honour, and many other Foreign Orders; an Elder Brother of the Corporation of Trinity House (formerly Master); President of many Societies, Colleges, etc.. and Patron of many Institutions; installed Chancellor of the University of the Cape of Good Hope, 1901, and of the University of Wales 1902: Hon. D.C.L. Oxford, LL.D. Cambridge, and many other Universities, F.R.S.; was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports 1905-7; Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn 1892, Treasurer 1904; Trustee of the British Museum; High Steward of Reading and Plymouth; and Member of the Royal Commission on Food Supply in War-time 1903, etc. Visited India as Prince of Wales in 1906 and personally presided over the Durbar at Delhi in 1911, as King-Emperor.