{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} The '''Drum Major General''' was a royal appointment in the British Army used from the mid-17th century and into the 18th century. Under this appointment, all training and licensing of military drummers took place.
== List of Drum Major Generals == The following individuals held the appointment of Drum Major General, with date of appointment:<ref>{{cite web | title=The artistic establishment: Drummers, harpers and fifers | website=British History Online| url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=43813#s2 | access-date=2019-08-30}}</ref> *20 June 1660 – John Maugridge *1 May 1688 – John Maugridge *24 April 1705 – Robert Maugridge Jnr. *18 February 1720 – John Clothier *4 February 1754 – John Conquest *{{circa}}1762 – L. Higgins<ref>{{cite book|last=Barrington|first=William Wildman|title=An Eighteenth-Century Secretary at War: The Papers of William, Viscount Barrington|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rXdnAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Bodley Head|isbn=978-0-370-31227-9}}</ref> *1766 – H. Moore<ref>{{cite book|last1=Highfill|first1=Philip H. |last2=Burnim|first2=Kalman A.|last3=Langhans|first3=Edward A.|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660–1800 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xE2a06VfoogC |volume=10: M'Intosh to Nash |year=1984|publisher=SIU Press |isbn=978-0-8093-1130-9}}</ref> *4 January 1777 – C. Stuart<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Scots magazine|volume=39|date=1777|pages=55 v |language=en|hdl = 2027/nyp.33433081660478}}</ref> *6 February 1791 – William Hood<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Scots magazine|volume=53|date=1791|pages=55 v |language=en|hdl = 2027/njp.32101065087346}}</ref>
== See also == * Drum major * Corps of drums * Royal Corps of Army Music
== References == {{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Drum Major}} Category:Military appointments of the British Army