Rutland Yeomanry Cavalry
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The Rutland Yeomanry Cavalry was a yeomanry
regiment
of the British Army
, first raised as the Rutland Fencible Cavalry in Rutland
in 1794 and finally disbanded in 1825.
The regiment was raised following a meeting on 31 March 1794, at Oakham Castle, where it was resolved to form three troops of fencible Light Dragoons; it was the first regiment to be accepted by the Crown as complete. In 1803 it was absorbed into the Rutland Legion, a mixed force of volunteer cavalry and infantry. When the Legion was disbanded in 1825, the Leicestershire Yeomanry
began to recruit from Rutland, and no subsequent yeomanry regiment was raised.
The Riding School built for the Rutland Fencibles by the MP Gerard Noel Edwards
now houses the Rutland County Museum
.
Yeomanry
Yeomanry is a designation used by a number of units or sub-units of the British Territorial Army, descended from volunteer cavalry regiments. Today, Yeomanry units may serve in a variety of different military roles.-History:...
regiment
Regiment
A regiment is a major tactical military unit, composed of variable numbers of batteries, squadrons or battalions, commanded by a colonel or lieutenant colonel...
of the British Army
British Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
, first raised as the Rutland Fencible Cavalry in Rutland
Rutland
Rutland is a landlocked county in central England, bounded on the west and north by Leicestershire, northeast by Lincolnshire and southeast by Peterborough and Northamptonshire....
in 1794 and finally disbanded in 1825.
The regiment was raised following a meeting on 31 March 1794, at Oakham Castle, where it was resolved to form three troops of fencible Light Dragoons; it was the first regiment to be accepted by the Crown as complete. In 1803 it was absorbed into the Rutland Legion, a mixed force of volunteer cavalry and infantry. When the Legion was disbanded in 1825, the Leicestershire Yeomanry
Leicestershire Yeomanry
The Leicestershire Yeomanry was a yeomanry regiment of the British Army, first raised in 1794 and again in 1803, which provided cavalry and mounted infantry in the South African War and First World War and provided two field artillery regiments of the Royal Artillery in the Second World War,...
began to recruit from Rutland, and no subsequent yeomanry regiment was raised.
The Riding School built for the Rutland Fencibles by the MP Gerard Noel Edwards
Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet
Sir Gerard Noel Noel, 2nd Baronet , of Welham Grove in Leicestershire and Exton Park in Rutland, known as Gerard Edwardes until 1798, was an English Member of Parliament.-Background:...
now houses the Rutland County Museum
Rutland County Museum
Rutland County Museum is located in Oakham, Rutland, in the old Riding School of the Rutland Fencible Cavalry which was built in 1794-95. The museum, opened in 1969, houses a collection of objects relating to local rural and agricultural life, social history and archaeology. Temporary exhibitions...
.