Below is a list of knights and dames grand cross of the Order of St Michael and St George .
Appointment | Name | Notes |
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27 April 1818 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Thomas Maitland | Grand Master 1818–1824, Governor of Malta and Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian islands |
18 November 1818 | Baron Emmanuel Theotokis (as Emanuel, Baron Theotoky) | President of the Ionian Senate |
Stamo Calichiopulo | Senator of the Ionian Islands | |
Count Antonio Comuto | Former President of the Ionian Senate | |
16 December 1818 | Vice-AdmiralSir Charles Vinicombe Penrose | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
Giuseppe Borg Olivier | President of the Court of Appeal of Malta | |
Raffaele Crispino Xerri | Member of the Supreme Council of Justice of Malta | |
26 October 1819 | Vice-AdmiralSir Thomas Francis Fremantle | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford | Chancellor of the Ionian Academy |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
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28 September 1820 | AdmiralSir Graham Moore | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
27 September 1821 | Sir Frederick Adam | Officer of the troops in the Ionian Islands |
1 March 1823 | Count Nicolo Annino | Senator of the Ionian Islands |
16 January 1824 | AdmiralSir Harry Burrard-Neale, Bart. | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
20 June 1825 | Field MarshalPrince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge | Grand Master 1825–1850 |
30 July 1825 | Marino Veja | President of the Ionian Senate |
23 April 1827 | AdmiralSir Edward Codrington | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
5 November 1828 | Major-General The HonourableSir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby | Lieutenant-Governor of Malta |
21 January 1829 | AdmiralSir Pulteney Malcolm | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
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4 July 1831 | Vice-Admiral The HonourableSir Henry Hotham | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
28 May 1832 | Giuseppe Calcédonio Debono | Member of the Supreme Council of Justice of Malta |
6 June 1832 | Giovanni Cappadoca | Member of the Supreme Council of Justice of Malta |
Angiolo Condari | Senator of the Ionian Islands | |
22 June 1832 | Sir James Macdonald,Bart. | Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, died before investiture |
30 June 1832 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Alexander George Woodford | Commander of the Forces in the Ionian Islands |
12 August 1832 | George Nugent-Grenville, 2nd Baron Nugent | Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands |
4 May 1833 | Sir Frederick Hankey | Chief Secretary to the Governor of Malta |
26 June 1833 | Rear-AdmiralSir Thomas Briggs | Superintendent of the dockyard at Malta |
17 July 1833 | Spiridion Vittor, Count Bulgari | President of the Ionian Senate |
22 February 1834 | AdmiralSir Josias Rowley, Bart. | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
18 March 1835 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Howard Douglas, Bart. | Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands |
2 April 1836 | Paolo, Count Parisio | Lord-Lieutenant of Malta |
28 September 1836 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Henry Frederick Bouverie | Governor of Malta |
10 May 1837 | GeneralHenry Pigot | |
GeneralThomas Graham, 1st Baron Lynedoch | ||
Admiral The HonourableRobert Stopford | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean | |
GeneralSir Martin Hunter | ||
GeneralSir William Wilkinson | ||
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Charles Bulkeley Egerton | ||
GeneralSir John Oswald | ||
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Hudson Lowe | ||
Vice-AdmiralSir Richard Hussey Hussey | ||
17 May 1837 | AdmiralSir George Martin | |
Major-GeneralSir Patrick Ross |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
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26 April 1838 | Pietro Petrizzopulo | President of the Ionian Senate |
2 May 1838 | Vice-AdmiralSir George Eyre | |
30 August 1839 | Sir Vittor Caridi | |
7 July 1840 | Sir Francisco Muzzan | |
Sir Pietro Coidan | ||
6 October 1840 | Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas | Chancellor and Senior Knight Commander of the Order |
15 January 1842 | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha | Queen's consort |
21 January 1842 | Demetrio, Count Della Decima | |
18 March 1842 | Sir Agostino Randon | |
3 July 1843 | Lieutenant-GeneralJohn Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton | Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands |
Lieutenant-General The HonourableSir Patrick Stuart | Governor of Malta | |
16 December 1844 | Antonio, Count Theotoky | |
26 June 1845 | Prince George, Duke of Cambridge | Grand Master 1845–1904 |
31 Mar 1847 | Spiridione Focca Stefano | President of the Senate of the Ionian Islands |
25 June 1849 | Henry George Ward | Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands |
7 September 1850 | Demetrio, Count Salomon | President of the Senate of the Ionian Islands |
23 November 1852 | Count Candianos Romas | President of the Senate of the Ionian Islands |
Demetrio, Count Caruso | Regent of Cephalonia | |
27 June 1853 | Vincenzo Casolani | Collector of the land revenue of Malta |
31 Mar 1855 | Alessandro Damaschino | |
16 May 1855 | Sir John Young,Bart. | Lord High Commissioners of the Ionian Islands, later Baron Lisgar |
11 January 1856 | ColonelSir William Reid | Governor of Malta |
28 January 1856 | Sir Ignatius Gavin Bonavita | |
Giuseppe Maria de Piro, barone di Budaq | ||
9 July 1957 | Demetrio, Count Valsamachi | |
Dionisio, Count Flamburiari | For long services to the Ionian Government | |
15 May 1858 | AdmiralEdmund Lyons, 1st Baron Lyons | Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean |
15 February 1859 | ColonelSir Henry Knight Storks | Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands |
16 April 1860 | Major-GeneralSir John Gaspard Le Marchant | Governor of Malta |
George Ferguson Bowen | Governor of Queensland | |
16 April 1860 | Sir Paolo Dingli | President of the Court of Appeal of Malta |
21 May 1864 | Petros Vrailas Armenis | Secretary of the Ionian Senate |
2 March 1867 | George Marcoras | Judge of the Supreme Court of the Ionian Islands |
24 April 1868 | Sir Adriano Dingli | Crown Law Officer and Crown Advocate of Malta |
Sir Edward Victor Louis Houlton | Chief Secretary to the Government of Malta | |
23 April 1868 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Patrick Grant | Governor of Malta |
13 February 1869 | The Right HonourableCharles Stanley Monck, 4th Viscount Monck | Governor-General of Canada and Governor-in-Chief of Prince Edward Island |
25 Mar 1869 | The Right HonourableEdward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby | Former Secretary of State for War and the Colonies |
The Right HonourableHenry George Grey, 3rd Earl Grey | Former Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | |
The Right HonourableJohn Russell, 1st Earl Russell | Former Secretary of State for War and the Colonies | |
29 June 1869 | Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh | |
24 November 1869 | The Right HonourableEdward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton | Former Secretary of State for the Colonies |
16 April 1870 | Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn | |
23 June 1873 | The Right HonourableJohn Henry Thomas Manners-Sutton, 3rd Viscount Canterbury | Former Governor of Victoria |
20 February 1874 | Sir Henry Barkly | Governor of the Cape of Good Hope |
Sir John Peter Grant | Former Governor of Jamaica | |
31 March 1874 | GeneralSir Garnet Joseph Wolseley | For distinguished services in command of the expedition against the Ashanti |
23 April 1874 | John Hawley Glover | Special Commissioner to the friendly native chiefs on the Gold Coast |
21 January 1875 | Sir Hercules George Robert Robinson | For special services in connection with the cession of the Fiji Islands |
20 March 1876 | Abu Bakar, Sultan of Johore (Honorary) | For services during the disturbances in the Malay Peninsula, in 1875-76 |
11 May 1876 | The Right HonourableFrederick Temple, Earl of Dufferin | Governor-General of Canada |
31 May 1877 | The Prince of Wales (Extra) | |
The Most HonourableGeorge Augustus Constantine Phipps, 4th Marquess of Normanby | Governor of New Zealand | |
12 December 1877 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Arthur Purves Phayre | Governor of Mauritius |
6 February 1878 | The HonourableSir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon | Governor of Fiji |
25 May 1878 | Major-GeneralSir William Francis Drummond Jervois | Governor of South Australia |
25 May 1878 | Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt | Member of the Halifax Fisheries Commission |
3 August 1878 | Chulalongkorn, King of Siam (Honorary) | For services to the Government of the Straits Settlements during the disturbances in the Malay States in 1875-76 |
7 August 1878 | Sir Henry Drummond Wolff | Commissioner on the European Commission for the organisation of Eastern Roumelia |
14 September 1878 | The Right HonourableJohn Douglas Sutherland Campbell, Marquess of Lorne | Governor-General of Canada |
30 October 1878 | Sir John Rose, Bart. | In connection with the representation of British Colonial products at the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1878. |
24 May 1879 | The Right HonourableRichard Bickerton Pemell Lyons, 2nd Baron Lyons | Ambassador to France |
Lord Odo Russell | Ambassador to Germany | |
24 May 1879 | Sir Antonio Micallef | President of the Court of Appeal of Malta |
10 September 1879 | Sir Charles Lennox Wyke | Ambassador to Denmark |
Sir Richard Wood | Consul-General of Tunisia | |
9 October 1879 | His ExcellencyNubar Pasha (Honorary) | Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs |
12 May 1880 | Prince Leopold (Extra) | |
29 May 1880 | GeneralSir Arthur Borton | Governor of Malta |
24 May 1881 | Sir Arthur Edward Kennedy | Governor of Queensland |
Major-GeneralSir Harry St. George Ord | Former Governor of Western Australia | |
28 July 1881 | Kalākaua, King of Hawaii (Honorary) | |
30 November 1881 | Sir Harry Smith Parkes | Minister to Japan |
20 February 1882 | Major-GeneralSir Henry Evelyn Wood | Commissioner for the Settlement of the Transvaal Territory |
30 March 1882 | His HonourJohn Henry Brand (Honorary) | President of the Orange Free State. |
24 May 1883 | The Right HonourableFrederic Rogers, 1st Baron Blachford | Former Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
24 May 1883 | Sir Henry Ernest Gascoigne Bulwer | Governor of Natal |
Sir James Robert Longden | Governor of Ceylon | |
4 July 1883 | Barghash bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar (Honorary) | |
28 January 1884 | The Most HonourableHenry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, Marquess of Lansdowne | Governor-General of Canada |
24 May 1884 | Sir Robert Torrens | |
Sir Alfred Stephen | Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales | |
3 December 1884 | John Hay Drummond Hay | Minister to Morocco |
6 June 1885 | The Right HonourableCharles Robert Carington, 3rd Baron Carrington | Governor of New South Wales |
Sir Andrew Clarke | Inspector-General of Fortifications and Director of Works | |
Sir Anthony Musgrave | Governor of Queensland | |
Frederick Aloysius Weld | Governor of the Straits Settlements | |
26 June 1885 | Sir Edward Baldwin Malet | Ambassador to Germany |
25 August 1885 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Gerald Graham | Special Commissioner for Bechuanaland |
1 December 1885 | Sir Julian Pauncefote | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
18 February 1886 | Sir William Arthur White | Minister to the Ottoman Empire |
The Right HonourableSir Henry Thurstan HollandBart. | Commissioner for the Colonial and Indian Exhibition of 1886 | |
Sir Charles Tupper | High Commissioner of Canada to the United Kingdom | |
Sir John Kirk | Consul General to Zanzibar | |
20 February 1886 | The Right HonourableSir Robert Burnett David Morier | Ambassador to Russia |
29 May 1886 | Sir Robert Biddulph | Former High Commissioner of Cyprus |
Sir Francis Clare Ford | Minister to Spain | |
29 January 1887 | Sir George Strahan | Governor of Tasmania |
24 May 1887 | GeneralSir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons | Governor of Malta |
GeneralSir Henry Wylie Norman | Governor of Jamaica | |
Sir Henry Brougham Loch | Governor of Victoria | |
Sir William Cleaver Francis Robinson | Governor of South Australia | |
21 June 1887 | Sir Edward William Stafford | Former Prime Minister of New Zealand |
Sir Thomas Elder | Member of the Legislative Council of South Australia | |
10 January 1888 | Sir Ronald Ferguson Thomson | Former Minister to Persia |
28 January 1888 | Sir Henry Parkes [1] | Premier of New South Wales |
Sir Henry Turner Irving | Former Governor of British Guiana | |
24 May 1888 | Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart. | |
2 June 1888 | Sir Evelyn Baring | Consul General at Cairo |
Charles Johnson Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak | ||
10 September 1888 | The HonourableSir Lionel Sackville Sackville-West | Minister to the United States of America |
2 January 1889 | Sir Hugh Low | Former Resident at Perak |
4 February 1889 | The Right HonourableWilliam Hillier Onslow, 4th Earl of Onslow | Governor of New Zealand |
The Right HonourableAlgernon Hawkins Thomond Keith-Falconer, 9th Earl of Kintore | Governor of South Australia | |
24 May 1889 | Riyad Pasha (Honorary) | Prime Minister of Egypt |
Sir Thomas Francis Wade | Ambassador to China | |
Sir Robert Hart | Inspector-General of Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs | |
11 September 1889 | The Right HonourableJohn Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun | Governor of Victoria |
1 November 1889 | Khalifah bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar (Honorary) | |
1 January 1890 | The Right HonourableSomerset Richard Lowry-Corry, 4th Earl of Belmore | Former Governor of New South Wales |
21 May 1890 | The Right HonourableHenry Crespigny Vivian, 3rd Baron Vivian | Minister to Belgium |
14 August 1890 | The Right HonourableVictor Albert George Child-Villiers, 7th Earl of Jersey | Governor of New South Wales |
1891 | George Stiebel | Jamaican entrepreneur |
2 April 1891 | Vice-AdmiralColmar, Freiherr von der Goltz (Honorary) | Officer of the Imperial German Navy |
23 July 1891 | Prince Abbas Bey of Egypt (Honorary) | |
1 January 1892 | Sir Cecil Clementi Smith | Governor of the Straits Settlements |
22 February 1892 | The Right HonourableDavid Boyle, 7th Earl of Glasgow | Governor of New Zealand |
25 May 1892 | Sir Horace Rumbold, Bart. | Minister to the Netherlands |
Major-GeneralSir Francis Wallace Grenfell | For services rendered in Egypt | |
6 August 1892 | The HonourableSir Edmund John Monson | Minister to Belgium |
Sir Frank Cavendish Lascelles | Minister to Persia | |
16 August 1892 | Sir John Pender | For services in connection with the telegraphic communication of the Empire |
24 March 1893 | The Right HonourableRobert William Duff | Governor of New South Wales |
4 June 1893 | Sir George William Des Vœux | Former Governor of Hong Kong |
4 July 1893 | Sir Francis Walter de Winton | Comptroller and Treasurer of the Household of The Duke of York |
7 December 1893 | Sir Charles Russell | Attorney-General; for services rendered in connection with the Bering Sea Arbitration |
Sir Richard Everard Webster | For services rendered in connection with the Bering Sea Arbitration | |
3 March 1894 | Sir Spenser Buckingham St. John | Minister to Sweden and Norway |
15 March 1894 | The HonourableSir Francis Richard Plunkett | Minister to Belgium |
26 May 1894 | The HonourableSir Henry Ayers | Former Premier of South Australia |
1 January 1895 | Sir Arthur Elibank Havelock | Governor of Ceylon |
The HonourableSir Samuel Walker Griffith | Chief Justice and former Premier of Queensland | |
14 March 1895 | Sir Charles Rivers Wilson | |
25 May 1895 | The Right HonourableJohn Campbell Hamilton-Gordon, 7th Earl of Aberdeen | Governor-General of Canada |
Lieutenant-ColonelSir Charles Bullen Hugh Mitchell | Governor of the Straits Settlements | |
27 February 1896 | Sir Nicholas Roderick O'Conor | Ambassador to Russia |
23 April 1896 | Shahzada Habibulla Khan of Afghanistan (Honorary) | |
Shahzada Nasrulla Khan of Afghanistan (Honorary) | ||
20 May 1896 | Sir Donald Alexander Smith | High Commissioner of Canada to the United Kingdom |
11 January 1897 | His ExcellencyLuís de Soveral (Honorary) | Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs |
4 June 1897 | Paul-Honoré Vigliani (Honorary) | For services rendered as arbitrator between Great Britain and Portugal on the Manica Boundary question |
22 June 1897 | The Right HonourableJenico William Joseph Preston, 14th Viscount Gormanston | Governor of Tasmania |
The HonourableSir Walter Francis Hely-Hutchinson | Governor of Natal | |
Sir Alfred Milner | Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and High Commissioner of South Africa | |
The HonourableWilfrid Laurier | Prime Minister of Canada | |
The HonourableSir Richard John Cartwright | Canadian Minister of Trade and Commerce | |
Sir William Robinson | Governor of Hong Kong | |
Sir Henry Arthur Blake | Governor of Jamaica | |
The HonourableSir Oliver Mowat | Canadian Minister of Justice | |
Sir Donald Currie | For services to British African Trade | |
Sir Thomas Sutherland | Director of the Suez Canal Company | |
His ExcellencyAboul Kassem Khan (Honorary) | Envoy from the Shah of Persia to announce the Shah's accession | |
6 July 1897 | Prince Amir Khan of Persia | Special Envoy from the Shah of Persia to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the Throne. |
12 August 1897 | His Excellency Chang Yen Hoon | Special Ambassador from the Emperor of China to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of Queen Victoria's accession to the Throne. |
25 October 1897 | Menelik II of Ethiopia (Honorary) | |
21 May 1898 | GeneralSir Arthur James Lyon Fremantle | Governor of Malta |
His ExcellencyMustafa Fahmi Pasha (Honorary) | President of the Egyptian Council of Ministers. | |
31 October 1898 | The Right HonourableGilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto | Governor-General of Canada |
2 January 1899 | The Right HonourableHenry Robert Brand, 2nd Viscount Hampden | Governor of New South Wales |
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton,Bart. | Governor of South Australia | |
His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Charles Stewart Scott | Ambassador to Russia | |
Major-GeneralSir Herbert Charles Chermside | For distinguished services in Crete | |
3 June 1899 | Sir Walter Joseph Sendall | Governor of British Guiana |
Sir Hugh Guion MacDonell | Minister to Portugal | |
Sir Godfrey Lushington | British delegate at the Anarchist Conference at Rome | |
2 December 1899 | Sir Robert Threshie Reid | For services in connection with the Venezuela Boundary Arbitration Commission |
1 January 1900 | Sir Joseph West Ridgeway | Governor of Ceylon |
Sir John Bramston | Former Assistant Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
23 May 1900 | The Right HonourableCharles Wallace Alexander Napier Cochrane-Baillie, 2nd Baron Lamington | Governor of Queensland |
Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming | Governor of Jamaica | |
MajorSir Claude Maxwell MacDonald | Minister to China | |
Sir Henry Mortimer Durand | Minister to Persia | |
28 June 1900 | Prince Muhammad Ali Bey of Egypt (Honorary) | |
1 January 1901 | The Right HonourableSir John Forrest | Premier of Western Australia |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
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9 March 1901 | Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York (Extra) | |
20 March 1901 | Idris Shah I, Sultan of Perak | |
19 April 1901 | General The Right HonourableSir Redvers Henry Buller | For services rendered in connection with the Boer War |
Lieutenant-GeneralHoratio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Baron Kitchener of Khartoum | Commander-in-Chief of the Forces in South Africa | |
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Frederick William Edward Forestier Forestier-Walker | For services rendered in connection with the Boer War | |
GeneralSir George Stuart White | For services rendered in connection with the Boer War | |
6 May 1901 | Sir Frederick Matthew Darley | Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales |
23 May 1901 | The Right HonourableUchter John Mark Knox, 5th Earl of Ranfurly | Governor of New Zealand |
27 June 1901 | His Excellency Mehedi ben el Arbi el Menebhi (Honorary) [2] | Special ambassador from the Sultan of Morocco to congratulate Edward VII on his accession |
28 June 1901 | Sir Charles Bruce | Governor of Mauritius |
9 November 1901 | Sir Giuseppe Carbone | President of the Court of Appeal of Malta |
Sir Henry Hamilton Johnston | Special Commissioner for Uganda | |
2 June 1902 | Vice-AdmiralFelix Robert Eduard Emil Bendemann (Honorary) | Officer of the Imperial German Navy |
26 June 1902 | The Right HonourableSir John Gordon Sprigg | Prime Minister of the Cape of Good Hope |
The Right HonourableEdmund Barton | Prime Minister of Australia | |
Sir Edwin Henry Egerton | Minister to Greece | |
Sir Ernest Mason Satow | Minister to China | |
9 November 1902 | Sir James Lyle Mackay | Special Commissioner for commercial negotiations with China |
His ExcellencyCount Matsukata Masayoshi (Honorary) | Former Prime Minister of Japan | |
6 December 1902 | Sir William Edmund Garstin | Under Secretary of State for Public Works in Egypt |
The Right HonourableEdward Macnaghten, Baron Macnaghten | ||
9 February 1903 | The Moayyed-ed-Dowleh of Persia (Honorary) | |
His ExcellencyMirza Mohamed Khan (Honorary) | Yazir-i-Darbar to the Shah of Persia | |
5 March 1903 | The Right HonourableSir Michael Henry Herbert | Ambassador to the United States of America |
26 June 1903 | His Excellency The Right HonourableHallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson | Governor-General of Australia |
3 May 1904 | His Excellency The Right HonourableHenry Stafford Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote [3] | Governor-General of Australia |
24 June 1904 | ColonelSir Henry Edward McCallum | Governor of Natal |
Sir Robert Bannatyne Finlay [4] | Attorney General, for services before the tribunal at The Hague on the question of priority in the payment of sums due by Venezuela to foreign countries | |
7 October 1904 | Albert Henry George Grey, 4th Earl Grey [5] | Governor-General of Canada |
9 November 1904 | Sir Montagu Frederick Ommaney [6] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Francis Leveson Bertie [7] | Ambassador to Italy | |
2 January 1905 | His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Charles Hardinge [8] | Ambassador to Russia |
17 March 1905 | The Right HonourableWilliam Waldegrave Palmer, 2nd Earl of Selborne [9] | High Commissioner of South Africa and Governor of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony |
30 June 1905 | AdmiralBaron Hermann von Spaun (Honorary) [10] | For services on the International Commission of Inquiry into the Dogger Bank incident |
Vice-AdmiralFrançois Ernest Fournier (Honorary) [10] | For services on the International Commission of Inquiry into the Dogger Bank incident | |
Rear-AdmiralPrince Louis Alexander of Battenberg [10] | ||
ColonelCharles Moore Watson [10] | For services in connection with the St. Louis Exhibition | |
Malcolm McIlwraith [10] | Judicial Adviser to Khedive of Egypt. | |
8 July 1905 | His ExcellencyBaron Jutarō Komura (Honorary) [11] | Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs |
7 August 1905 | Vice-Admiral Charles Touchard (Honorary) [12] | First Sea Lord of the French Admiralty |
Vice-Admiral Jacques Théophile Péphau (Honorary) [12] | Commander-in-Chief, Brest | |
Vice-Admiral Léonce Caillard (Honorary) [12] | Commander-in-Chief of the French Northern Squadron | |
4 October 1905 | Jens Christian Christensen (Honorary) [13] | Danish Minister of Marine |
Vice-AdmiralCarl Frederick Wandel (Honorary) [13] | Officer in the Royal Danish Navy | |
9 November 1905 | His Excellency Captain William James Cohen Stuart (Honorary) [14] | Dutch Minister of Marine |
Vice-AdmiralAbraham George Ellis (Honorary) [14] | In connection with the visit of the Channel Fleet to Dutch waters | |
11 December 1905 | Brevet ColonelSir George Sydenham Clarke [15] | Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence |
The Right HonourableSir Ernest Joseph Cassel [15] | ||
20 February 1906 | Marquis Saionji Kimmochi (Honorary) [16] | Prime Minister of Japan |
Count Inoue Kaoru (Honorary) [16] | In connection with the visit to Japan of Prince Arthur of Connaught | |
Katō Takaaki (Honorary) [16] | Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
GeneralBaron Kuroki Tamemoto (Honorary) [16] | Officer of the Imperial Japanese Army | |
14 March 1906 | His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Arthur Nicolson, Bart. [17] | Ambassador to Russia |
29 June 1906 | Sir John Madden [18] | Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria |
6 May 1907 | Prince Fushimi Sadanaru [19] | |
24 June 1907 | His ExcellencyMirza Hussan Khan (Honorary) [20] | Special Ambassador from Shah of Persia to announce the Shah's accession |
28 June 1907 | Sir William MacGregor [21] | Governor of Newfoundland |
MajorSir Hamilton John Goold-Adams [21] | Governor of the Orange River Colony | |
2 June 1908 | The Right HonourableWilliam Humble Ward, 2nd Earl of Dudley [22] | Governor-General of Australia |
26 June 1908 | Sir Henry Moore Jackson [23] | Governor of Trinidad and Tobago |
11 August 1908 | Sir Francis John Stephens Hopwood [24] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
31 August 1908 | Major and Brevet Lieutenant-ColonelSir Matthew Nathan [25] | Governor of Natal |
22 June 1909 | His Excellency MarshalGhazi Ahmed Muhtar Pasha (Honorary) [26] | Special Envoy from the Sultan of Turkey to announce the Sultan's accession |
25 June 1909 | Sir John Anderson [27] | Governor of the Straits Settlements |
The Right HonourableSir (William) Edward Goschen [28] | Ambassador to Germany | |
The Right HonourableSir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen [28] | Ambassador to Spain | |
Louis Renault (Honorary) [28] | Legal Adviser to the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs | |
11 April 1910 | The Right HonourableWilliam Lee Plunket, 5th Baron Plunket [29] | Governor of New Zealand |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
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24 June 1910 | Sir Arthur Henry Hardinge [30] | Ambassador to Belgium |
2 November 1910 | The Right HonourableHerbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone [31] | Governor-General of South Africa and High Commissioner of South Africa |
2 January 1911 | The Right HonourableAlexander Hugh Bruce, 6th Lord Balfour of Burleigh [32] | For services in connection with the Royal Commission on trade relations between Canada and the West Indian Colonies |
The Right HonourableWilliam Snowdon Robson, Baron Robson [32] | For services in connection with the North Atlantic Coast Fisheries Arbitration | |
19 June 1911 | The Right Honourable Sir Gerard Augustus Lowther [33] | Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire |
Sir Eldon Gorst [33] | Minister to Egypt | |
The Right HonourableThomas Denman, 3rd Baron Denman [33] | Governor-General of Australia | |
The Right HonourableSir George Houston Reid [33] | High Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom | |
The Right HonourableSir Charles Fitzpatrick [33] | Chief Justice of Canada | |
The HonourableSir Richard Solomon [33] | High Commissioner of South Africa to the United Kingdom | |
ColonelSir Frederick John Dealtry Lugard [33] | Governor of Hong Kong | |
1 January 1912 | Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte [34] | Governor of Trinidad and Tobago |
14 June 1912 | The Right HonourableFrederic John Napier Thesiger, 3rd Baron Chelmsford [35] | Governor of New South Wales |
Muhammad Said Pasha (Honorary) [36] | Prime Minister of Egypt | |
12 July 1912 | Sir Patrick Manson [37] | Medical Adviser in London to the Colonial Office; in recognition of his eminent services in connection with the investigation of the cause and cure of tropical disease. |
10 September 1912 | Vice-AdmiralDon Jorge Montt (Honorary) [38] | Director-General of the Chilean Navy |
31 May 1913 | The Right HonourableJohn Poynder Dickson-Poynder, 1st Baron Islington [39] | Former Governor of New Zealand |
3 June 1913 | His Excellency The Right HonourableSir George William Buchanan [40] | Ambassador to Russia |
1 January 1914 | The Right HonourableAlfred Emmott, 1st Baron Emmott [41] | Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
The Right HonourableSir Fairfax Leighton Cartwright [41] | Ambassador to Austria-Hungary | |
13 February 1914 | The Right HonourableRonald Craufurd Munro-Ferguson [42] | Governor-General of Australia |
The Right HonourableSydney Charles Buxton [43] | Governor-General of South Africa | |
22 June 1914 | The Right HonourableArthur William de Brito Savile Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool [44] | Governor of New Zealand |
The Right HonourableRobert Laird Borden [44] | Prime Minister of Canada | |
General Sir Henry Macleod Leslie Rundle [44] | Governor of Malta | |
AdmiralSir Day Hort Bosanquet [44] | Former Governor of South Australia | |
23 June 1914 | His Excellency The Right HonourableSir William Conyngham Greene [45] | Ambassador to Japan |
1 January 1915 | The Right HonourableSir Louis du Pan Mallet [46] | Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire |
19 December 1914 | His ExcellencyHussein Rushdi Pasha (Honorary) [47] | Prime Minister of Egypt |
17 April 1915 | General de DivisionMichel Joseph Maunoury (Honorary) [48] | Officer in the French Army |
20 April 1915 | Lieutenant-GeneralMitsuomi Kamio (Honorary) [49] | Imperial Japanese Army, Commander-in-Chief of the Military Operations against Tsingtau |
Vice-AdmiralSadakichi Kato (Honorary) [49] | Imperial Japanese Navy, Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Operations against Tsingtau | |
3 June 1915 | His Excellency The Right HonourableSir James Rennell Rodd [50] | Ambassador to Italy |
23 June 1915 | GeneralSir Horace Lockwood Smith-Dorrien [51] | Colonel, The Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment |
Lieutenant-GeneralSir James Willcocks [51] | Commanding Indian Army Corps, British Expeditionary Force | |
27 August 1915 | GeneralHenri Joseph Eugène Gouraud (Honorary) [52] | Officer in the French Army |
27 November 1915 | Lieutenant-GeneralNobile Carlo Porro dei Conti di Santa Maria della Bicocca (Honorary) [53] | Assistant Chief of the Staff, Italian Army |
1 January 1916 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Herbert Scott Gould Miles [54] | Governor of Gibraltar |
Ibrahim, Sultan of Johor (Honorary) [54] | ||
14 January 1916 | Lieutenant-General (temporary General)Sir Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer [55] | |
14 March 1916 | Lieutenant-General (temporary General)Sir Charles Carmichael Monro [56] | For services in connection with the withdrawal from Gallipoli |
31 May 1916 | Admiral Sir Cecil Burney [57] | |
3 June 1916 | Sir Arthur Henderson Young [58] | Governor of the Straits Settlements |
His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Cecil Arthur Spring Rice [58] | Ambassador to the United States of America | |
28 July 1916 | His GraceVictor Christian William Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire [59] | Governor-General of Canada |
16 August 1916 | Sir Henry Howard [60] | Minister to the Holy See |
14 November 1916 | Lieutenant-ColonelSir Arthur Henry McMahon [61] | High Commissioner of Egypt |
1 January 1917 | Sir George Vandeleur Fiddes [62] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
20 January 1917 | Lieutenant-General (temporary General)Sir Archibald James Murray [63] | Egyptian Expeditionary Force, for distinguished service in the field |
4 June 1917 | The Right HonourableEdgar Vincent, 1st Baron D'Abernon [64] | Chairman of the Royal Commission on the Natural Resources, Trade and Legislation of certain portions of His Majesty's Dominions |
17 December 1917 | GeneralSir Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby [65] | Egyptian Expeditionary Force, for distinguished services in the field |
1 January 1918 | The HonourableSir Francis Hyde Villiers [66] | Minister to Belgium |
Temporary Surgeon-GeneralSir George Henry Makins [67] | For Military Operations in the field | |
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Cecil Frederick Nevil Macready [68] | Adjutant-General to the Forces | |
Lieutenant-GeneralSir John Steven Cowans [68] | Quartermaster-General to the Forces | |
3 June 1918 | The Right HonourableSir George Eulas Foster [69] | Minister of Trade and Commerce of Canada |
Sir Owen Cosby Philipps [69] | For services to the Dominions and Colonies in connection with Shipping and other matters | |
2 August 1918 | Admiral The HonourableSir Alexander Edward Bethell [70] | Former Commander-in-Chief, Plymouth |
3 August 1918 | The Right HonourableJoseph Cook [71] | Former Prime Minister of Australia |
1 January 1919 | Vice-Admiral The HonourableSir Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe [72] | For services rendered during the First World War |
Vice-AdmiralSir Montague Edward Browning [72] | For services rendered during the First World War | |
Vice-AdmiralSir John Michael de Robeck [72] | For services rendered during the First World War | |
3 June 1919 | Admiral The HonourableSir Stanley Cecil James Colville [73] | For services rendered during the First World War |
AdmiralSir Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram [73] | For services rendered during the First World War | |
Sir Francis Henry May [73] | Governor of Hong Kong | |
Sir Richard Frederick Crawford [73] | Commercial Adviser to the British Embassy at Washington | |
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Henry George Chauvel [74] | For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Egypt | |
Lieutenant-General (Temporary General)Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan [74] | For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in Italy | |
Lieutenant-General (Temporary General)Sir George Francis Milne [74] | For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Balkans | |
Lieutenant-GeneralWilliam Raine Marshall [74] | For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Mesopotamia | |
GeneralSir William Robert Robertson [74] | For services rendered during the First World War | |
Lieutenant-General (Temporary General)Sir Hubert De la Poer Gough [74] | For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in France and Flanders | |
14 October 1919 | GeneralSir John Eccles Nixon [75] | For services rendered in connection with Military Operations in the Mesopotamia |
Field MarshalPaul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen [75] | For services rendered during the First World War | |
GeneralSir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton [75] | For services rendered during the First World War | |
22 December 1919 | His ExcellencyYoussef Wahba Pasha (Honorary) [76] | Prime Minister of Egypt |
1 January 1920 | Sir Eyre Crowe [77] | Assistant Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs |
5 June 1920 | The Right HonourableSir John Newell Jordan [78] | Minister to China |
24 June 1920 | The HonourableSir Thomas MacKenzie [79] | High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
28 June 1920 | The Right HonourableHenry William Forster, 1st Baron Forster [80] | Governor-General of Australia |
21 December 1920 | His ExcellencyMuhammad Tawfiq Nasim Pasha (Honorary) [81] | Prime Minister of Egypt |
1 January 1920 | Brigadier-GeneralSir William Henry Manning [82] | Governor of Ceylon |
1 February 1921 | The Right HonourableGeorge Cave, 1st Viscount Cave [83] | Chairman of the Southern Rhodesia Commission |
3 June 1921 | Sir Hugh Charles Clifford [84] | Governor of Nigeria |
5 July 1921 | General The Right HonourableJulian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Baron Byng of Vimy [85] | Governor-General of Canada |
2 January 1922 | Major-GeneralSir Percy Zachariah Cox [86] | High Commissioner of Iraq |
Sir James Stevenson, Bart. [86] | Advisor to the Secretary of State for the Colonies on business questions and former member of the Munitions Council and the Army and Air Councils | |
18 May 1922 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane [87] | General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Iraq |
3 June 1922 | His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Auckland Campbell Geddes [88] | Ambassador to the United States of America |
22 August 1922 | Sir Harold Arthur Stuart [89] | British Representative on the Inter-Allied Plebiscite Commission in Upper Silesia |
16 October 1922 | Major-GeneralSir Edward Northey [90] | Governor of Kenya and High Commissioner of Zanzibar |
10 November 1922 | Lieutenant-ColonelSir John Robert Chancellor [91] | Principal Assistant Secretary of the Committee of Imperial Defence, former Governor of Trinidad and Tobago and Mauritius |
1 January 1923 | The HonourableSir Francis Henry Dillon Bell [92] | Attorney-General of New Zealand |
His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Esmé William Howard [92] | Ambassador to Spain | |
The Right HonourableSir Horace George Montagu Rumbold, Bart. [92] | High Commissioner to Constantinople | |
2 June 1923 | His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Charles Norton Edgcumbe Eliot [93] | Ambassador to Japan |
6 November 1923 | Brigadier-General The Right HonourableAlexander Cambridge, 1st Earl of Athlone [94] | Governor-General of South Africa |
14 October 1924 | GeneralSir Charles Fergusson, Bart. [95] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
1 January 1925 | Sir Henry Hesketh Joudou Bell [96] | Former Governor of Mauritius |
Sir Francis Alexander Newdigate Newdegate [96] | Former Governor of Western Australia | |
3 June 1925 | The Right HonourableSir John Lawrence Baird, Bart. [97] | Governor-General of Australia |
Sir William George Tyrrell [97] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
16 October 1925 | Vice-AdmiralSir Lionel Halsey [98] | Comptroller and Treasurer to The Prince of Wales |
1 January 1926 | Colonel The HonourableSir James Allen [99] | High Commissioner of New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
Sir Cecil James Barrington Hurst [99] | Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office | |
5 June 1926 | His Excellency The Right HonourableSir Ronald William Graham [100] | Ambassador to Italy |
His Excellency The Right HonourableRonald Charles Lindsay [100] | Ambassador to Turkey | |
Sir Charles Murray Marling [100] | Ambassador to the Netherlands | |
20 July 1926 | The Right HonourableFreeman Freeman-Thomas, 1st Viscount Willingdon [101] | Governor-General of Canada |
1 January 1927 | ColonelHenry Lawson Webster Levy-Lawson, 1st Viscount Burnham [102] | President of the Empire Press Union and Deputy Chairman of the Empire Parliamentary Association |
Sir Laurence Nunns Guillemard [102] | Governor the Straits Settlements High Commissioner to the Malay States | |
Faisal I of Iraq (Honorary) [102] | ||
17 February 1927 | Sir Francis Arthur Aglen [103] | Inspector-General of Chinese Maritime Customs |
3 June 1927 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, Bart. [104] | |
Sir William Lamond Allardyce [104] | Governor of Newfoundland | |
Charles Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak [104] | ||
The Right HonourableSir John Anthony Cecil Tilley [104] | Ambassador to Japan | |
2 January 1928 | Sir Graeme Thomson [105] | Governor of Nigeria |
4 June 1928 | Sir Charles Thomas Davis [106] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs |
Sir Reginald Edward Stubbs [106] | Governor of Jamaica | |
1 March 1929 | Brigadier-GeneralSir Samuel Herbert Wilson [107] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies |
The Right HonourableSir George Russell Clerk [107] | Ambassador to Turkey | |
3 June 1929 | Lieutenant-ColonelSir Maurice Pascal Alers Hankey [108] | Secretary to the Cabinet and Committee of Imperial Defence, Clerk of the Privy Council |
Sir John Cadman [108] | ||
Sulaiman, Sultan of Selangor (Honorary) [108] | ||
The Right HonourableSir George Dixon Grahame [108] | Ambassador to Spain | |
1 January 1930 | The Right HonourableSir Joseph George Ward, Bt. [109] | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
Sir Horace Archer Byatt [109] | Governor of Trinidad and Tobago | |
The Right HonourableSir Malcolm Arnold Robertson [109] | Ambassador to Argentina | |
10 January 1930 | The Right HonourableCharles Bathurst, 1st Baron Bledisloe [110] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
3 June 1930 | Sir Alexander Wood Renton [111] | Chairman of the Irish Grants Committee |
Sir Herbert James Stanley [111] | Governor of Ceylon | |
The HonourableSir William Augustus Forbes Erskine [111] | Ambassador to Poland | |
2 December 1930 | Lieutenant-Colonel The Right HonourableGeorge Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon [112] | Governor-General of South Africa |
1 January 1931 | Muhammad, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of the Negri Sembilan (Honorary) [113] | |
The Right HonourableSir Francis Oswald Lindley [113] | Ambassador to Portugal | |
Sir Robert Gilbert Vansittart [113] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
3 June 1931 | Sir Cecil Clementi [114] | Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States |
1 January 1932 | Lieutenant-ColonelSir Francis Henry Humphrys [115] | High Commissioner of Iraq |
22 April 1932 | The Right HonourableSir Isaac Alfred Isaacs [116] | Governor-General of Australia |
3 June 1932 | Sir Donald Charles Cameron [117] | Governor of Nigeria |
The Right HonourableGranville George Leveson-Gower, 3rd Earl Granville [117] | Ambassador to Belgium | |
Sir James William Ronald Macleay [117] | Ambassador to Argentina | |
2 January 1933 | The Right HonourableSir George Halsey Perley [118] | Minister without Portfolio, Canada |
Sir Horace John Wilson [118] | Chief Industrial Adviser to the Government | |
3 June 1933 | Sir Alexander Ransford Slater [119] | Governor of Jamaica |
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope [119] | High Commissioner of Palestine | |
Iskandar, Sultan of Perak (Honorary) [120] | ||
1 January 1934 | The Right HonourableLyman Poore Duff [121] | Chief Justice of Canada |
Sir John Michael Higgins [121] | For public services to Australia | |
Sir Cecil William Hunter-Rodwell [121] | Governor of Southern Rhodesia | |
Brigadier-GeneralSir Joseph Aloysius Byrne [121] | Governor of Kenya | |
Sir Henry Getty Chilton [121] | Ambassador to Argentina | |
The Right HonourableSir James Eric Drummond [121] | Ambassador to Italy | |
23 April 1934 | The Prince George (Extra) [122] | |
4 June 1934 | Sir Alfred Claud Hollis [123] | Governor of Trinidad and Tobago |
The Right HonourableSir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps [123] | Ambassador to Germany | |
1 January 1935 | Sir Edward Brandis Denham [124] | Governor of Jamaica |
11 January 1935 | Lieutenant-Colonel The Right HonourableGeorge Vere Arundel Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway [125] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
28 March 1935 | Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (Extra) [126] | |
23 May 1935 | John Buchan [127] | Governor-General of Canada |
3 June 1935 | Sir Henry Birchenough, Bart. [128] | President of the British South Africa Company and Chairman of the Beit Trustees |
The Right HonourableJohn Greig Latham [128] | Former Australian Attorney General and Minister for External Affairs | |
The HonourableSir Christopher James Parr [128] | High Commissioner from New Zealand to the United Kingdom | |
The Right HonourableSir William Thomas White [128] | For public services in Canada | |
Sir John Loader Maffey [128] | Permanent Under Secretary of State for the Colonies | |
Sir Herbert James Read [128] | For services to the Colonial Empire | |
Abdullah Ibn Hussein, Emir of Transjordan (Honorary) [128] | ||
The Right HonourableAretas Akers-Douglas, 2nd Viscount Chilston [128] | Ambassador to Russia | |
28 November 1935 | Brigadier-General The HonourableSir Alexander Gore Arkwright Hore-Ruthven [129] | Governor-General of Australia |
1 January 1936 | The Right HonourableSir Robert Henry Clive [130] | Ambassador to Japan |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
---|---|---|
23 June 1936 | The HonourableSir William Hill Irvine [131] | Former Chief Justice of Victoria |
Sir Selwyn Macgregor Grier [131] | Governor of the Windward Islands |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
---|---|---|
1 February 1937 | Sir Thomas Shenton Whitelegge Thomas [132] | Governor of the Straits Settlements and High Commissioner for the Malay States |
Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson [132] | Ambassador to Egypt | |
Sir Herbert William Malkin [132] | Legal Adviser to the Foreign Office | |
5 February 1937 | The HonourablePatrick Duncan [133] | Governor-General of South Africa |
1 April 1937 | Commander The HonourableSir Archibald Douglas Cochrane [134] | Governor of Burma |
11 May 1937 | Sir William Henry Clark [135] | High Commissioner for Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland |
Sir Robert Randolph Garran [135] | For public services Australia | |
The Right HonourableSir Michael Myers [135] | Chief Justice of New Zealand | |
Sir Bernard Henry Bourdillon [135] | Governor of Nigeria | |
The Right HonourableSir Percy Lyham Loraine, Bt. [135] | Ambassador to Turkey | |
Sir Frederick William Leith-Ross [135] | Chief Economic Adviser to HM Government | |
29 June 1937 | The Right HonourableSir Leslie Orme Wilson [136] | Governor of Queensland |
1 January 1938 | The Right HonourableEarle Christmas Grafton Page [137] | Minister for Commerce and Deputy Prime Minister of Australia |
9 June 1938 | The Right HonourableWilliam George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech [138] | Former Secretary of State for the Colonies |
Sir Howard William Kennard [138] | Ambassador to Poland | |
2 January 1939 | Sir Campbell Stuart [139] | Chairman and UK Representative, Imperial Communications Advisory Committee. Treasurer of King George's Trust and of King George's Fields Foundation - for public services |
Malcolm Hailey, 1st Baron Hailey [139] | Director, African Research Survey | |
The HonourableSir Alexander Montagu George Cadogan [139] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs | |
The Right HonourableSir Nevile Meyrick Henderson [139] | Ambassador to Germany | |
8 June 1939 | Sir Edward John Harding [140] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Dominions Office |
1 January 1941 | Sir Harold Alfred MacMichael [141] | High Commissioner for Palestine and High Commissioner for TransJordan |
The Right HonourableSir Robert Leslie Craigie [141] | Ambassador to Japan | |
12 June 1941 | Sir Andrew Caldecott [142] | Governor of Ceylon |
Sir Esmond Ovey [142] | Ambassador to Argentina | |
1 January 1942 | Sir Arthur Frederick Richards [143] | Governor of Jamaica |
Sir Archibald John Kerr Clark Kerr [143] | Ambassador to China | |
11 June 1942 | Sir Gerald Campbell [144] | Former Director-General of the British Information Services in the United States of America |
Sir Frederick Phillips [144] | Third Secretary, HM Treasury, and representative of the Department in the United States of America | |
Sir Arthur Charles Cosmo Parkinson [144] | Former Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office | |
1 January 1943 | Sir Wilfrid Edward Francis Jackson [145] | Governor of Tanganyika |
Sir Kinahan Cornwallis [145] | Ambassador to Iraq | |
2 June 1943 | Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore [146] | Governor of Kenya |
4 August 1943 | Sir Ernest Clark [147] | Governor of Tasmania |
1 January 1944 | Sir George Henry Gater [148] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office |
8 June 1944 | Sir Eric Teichman [149] | Former Chinese Adviser to the British Embassy at Chungking |
22 August 1944 | Major-GeneralSir Winston Joseph Dugan [150] | Governor of Victoria |
1 January 1945 | Captain The HonourableSir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford [151] | Governor of Trinidad and Tobago |
14 June 1945 | Sir Frank Arthur Stockdale [152] | Development Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, late Comptroller, Development and Welfare, West Indies |
1 January 1946 | Sir Harry Fagg Batterbee [153] | High Commissioner to New Zealand |
Sir Mark Aitchison Young [153] | Governor of Hong Kong | |
Sir Horace James Seymour [153] | Ambassador to China | |
29 January 1946 | Field-Marshal The HonourableSir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander [154] | Governor-General of Canada |
Lieutenant-GeneralSir Bernard Cyril Freyberg [154] | Governor-General of New Zealand | |
13 June 1946 | Sir Alan Cuthbert Maxwell Burns [155] | Governor of the Gold Coast |
1 January 1947 | Major-GeneralSir Philip Euen Mitchell [156] | Governor of Kenya |
Sir Ronald Ian Campbell [156] | Ambassador to Egypt | |
Sir Maurice Drummond Peterson [156] | Ambassador to Russia | |
12 June 1947 | The HonourableSir James Mitchell [157] | Lieutenant-Governor of Western Australia |
Major-GeneralSir Hubert Jervoise Huddleston [157] | Former Governor-General of the Sudan | |
1 January 1948 | Sir Crawfurd Wilfrid Griffin Eady [158] | Second Secretary, HM Treasury |
Major-GeneralSir Hubert Elvin Rance [158] | Governor of Burma | |
The Right HonourableAlfred Duff Cooper [158] | Former Ambassador to France | |
Sir Oliver Charles Harvey [158] | Ambassador to France | |
10 June 1948 | The Right HonourableRobert Alderson Wright, Baron Wright [159] | Former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary |
Sir Eric Gustav Machtig [159] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations | |
GeneralSir Alan Gordon Cunningham [159] | Former High Commissioner of Palestine | |
Sir Orme Garton Sargent [159] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office | |
1 January 1949 | The Right HonourableWyndham Raymond Portal, 1st Viscount Portal [160] | For services as President of the Olympic Games |
Sir Ralph Clarmont Skrine Stevenson [160] | Ambassador to China | |
14 May 1949 | The Right HonourableHerwald Ramsbotham, 1st Baron Soulbury [161] | Governor-General of Ceylon |
9 June 1949 | Sir Richard Henry Archibald Carter [162] | Former Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office |
Sir John Huggins [162] | Governor of Jamaica | |
2 January 1950 | Sir John Hathorn Hall [163] | Governor of Uganda |
Sir David Victor Kelly [163] | Ambassador to Russia | |
8 June 1950 | Sir William Strang [164] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office |
1 January 1951 | Sir Percivale Liesching [165] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations |
Sir John Stuart Macpherson [165] | Governor of Nigeria | |
7 June 1951 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Archibald Edward Nye [166] | High Commissioner to India |
Sir Alexander William George Herder Grantham [166] | Governor of Hong Kong | |
Sir Thomas Ingram Kynaston Lloyd [166] | Permanent Under Secretary of State, Colonial Office | |
Sir Edmund Leo Hall-Patch [166] | Permanent United Kingdom Representative on the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation at Paris | |
9 November 1951 | The Right HonourableWilliam John McKell [167] | Governor-General of Australia |
1 January 1952 | Sir Charles Noble Arden-Clarke [168] | Governor of the Gold Coast |
The Right HonourableSir Oliver Shewell Franks | Ambassador to the United States |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
---|---|---|
5 June 1952 | The Right Honourable Edward George William Tyrwhitt Knollys, 2nd Viscount Knollys [169] | Representative of HM Government on the International Materials Conference |
Sir Peter Alexander Clutterbuck [169] | High Commissioner to Canada | |
Sir Victor Alexander Louis Mallet [169] | Ambassador to Italy | |
29 July 1952 | Lieutenant-GeneralSir Charles Willoughby Moke Norrie [170] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
10 December 1952 | Field-MarshalSir William Joseph Slim [171] | Governor-General of Australia |
1 January 1953 | Sir Edward Francis Twining [172] | Governor of Tanganyika |
Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick [172] | High Commissioner to West Germany | |
1 June 1953 | Major-GeneralSir John Noble Kennedy [173] | Governor of Southern Rhodesia |
Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite [173] | High Commissioner to Pakistan | |
GeneralSir Gerald Walter Robert Templer [173] | High Commissioner to Malaya | |
Abu Bakar, Sultan of Pahang (Honorary) [173] | ||
1 January 1954 | Sir John Balfour [174] | Ambassador to Spain |
10 June 1954 | Sir Hubert Miles Gladwyn Jebb [175] | Ambassador to France |
The Right HonourableSir Owen Dixon [176] | Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia | |
24 June 1954 | The HonourableSir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke [177] | Governor-General of Ceylon |
1 January 1955 | Aga Khan III [178] | |
The HonourableSir Evelyn Baring [178] | Governor of Kenya | |
Sir Roger Mellor Makins [178] | Ambassador to the United States | |
9 June 1955 | Sir Esler Maberly Dening [179] | Ambassador to Japan |
31 May 1956 | Sir Charles Brinsley Pemberton Peake [180] | Ambassador to Greece |
1 January 1957 | The HonourableThomas Playford [181] | Premier of South Australia |
Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan (Honorary) [182] | ||
Sir Pierson John Dixon [182] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations | |
13 June 1957 | Sir Hugh Mackintosh Foot [183] | Governor of Jamaica |
Sir Donald Charles MacGillivray [183] | High Commissioner to Malaya | |
Sir James Wilson Robertson [183] | Governor-General of Nigeria | |
16 July 1957 | The Right HonourableEdward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax [184] | Grand Master of the Order |
19 July 1957 | The Right HonourableCharles John Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham [185] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
11 October 1957 | The Right HonourableWilliam Francis Hare, 5th Earl of Listowel [186] | Governor-General of Ghana |
1 January 1958 | The Most HonourableGerald Rufus Isaacs, 2nd Marquess of Reading [187] | Leader of the Delegation to the Colombo Plan Consultative Committee Meeting. Minister of State for Foreign Affairs |
Sir Michael Robert Wright [187] | Ambassador to Iraq | |
12 June 1958 | The Right HonourableSir Arthur William Fadden [188] | Federal Treasurer and former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia |
Sir Robert Heatlie Scott [189] | Commissioner-General for South East Asia | |
1 January 1959 | Sir Frank Godbould Lee [190] | Permanent Secretary, Board of Trade |
Sir Abraham Jeremy Raisman [190] | For services to the Commonwealth | |
Sir Harold Anthony Caccia [190] | Ambassador to the United States | |
13 June 1959 | Sir Arthur Edward Trevor Benson [191] | Former Governor of Northern Rhodesia |
8 December 1959 | The Right HonourableGeorge Nigel Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk [192] | Commissioner for Singapore and South-East Asia |
15 December 1959 | The Right HonourableWilliam Shepherd Morrison, 1st Viscount Dunrossil [193] | Governor-General of Australia |
1 January 1960 | Sir Christopher Eden Steel [194] | Ambassador to West Germany |
26 April 1960 | Field MarshalMohammad Ayub Khan (Honorary) [195] | President of Pakistan |
11 June 1960 | Sir Kenneth Roberts-Wray [196] | Legal Adviser, Commonwealth Relations Office and Colonial Office |
11 November 1960 | Sir Gerald Gray Fitzmaurice [197] | Legal Adviser, Foreign Office |
11 May 1961 | The Right HonourableWilliam Philip Sidney, 1st Viscount De L'Isle [198] | Governor-General of Australia |
24 May 1961 | The Right HonourableDerick Heathcoat, 1st Viscount Amory [199] | High Commissioner to Canada |
9 June 1961 | Sir Maurice Henry Dorman [200] | Governor-General of Sierra Leone |
1 January 1962 | Sir Robert Brown Black [201] | Governor of Hong Kong |
Sir Henry Ashley Clarke [201] | Ambassador to Italy | |
16 March 1962 | Sir Richard Gordon Turnbull [202] | Governor-General of Tanganyika |
6 July 1962 | The HonourableHenry Josiah Lightfoot Boston [203] | Governor-General of Sierra Leone |
17 August 1962 | Sir Kenneth William Blackburne [204] | Governor-General of Jamaica |
3 August 1962 | BrigadierBernard Edward Fergusson [205] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
8 November 1962 | Senator The HonourableClifford Clarence Campbell [206] | Governor-General of Jamaica |
20 November 1962 | Sir Patrick Muir Renison [207] | Governor of Kenya |
3 December 1962 | Sir Solomon Hochoy [208] | Governor-General of Trinidad and Tobago |
3 December 1962 | Sir Walter Fleming Coutts [209] | Governor-General of Uganda |
1 January 1963 | Sir William Allmond Codrington Goode [210] | Governor of North Borneo |
Sir Frank Kenyon Roberts [210] | Ambassador to West Germany | |
2 April 1963 | GeneralSir Reginald Alexander Dallas Brooks [211] | Governor of Victoria |
8 June 1963 | Sir Patrick Henry Dean [212] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
12 July 1963 | The Right HonourableAntony Henry Head, 1st Viscount Head [213] | High Commissioner to Malaysia |
1 January 1964 | Sir Ralph Francis Alnwick Grey [214] | Governor of British Guiana |
Sir Roger Bentham Stevens [214] | Former Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office | |
13 June 1964 | Sir Arthur Hilton Poynton [215] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Colonial Office |
7 December 1964 | Sir Glyn Smallwood Jones [216] | Governor-General of Malawi |
1 January 1965 | The Right HonourableSir Garfield Edward John Barwick [217] | Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia |
Sir Joseph John Saville Garner [218] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Commonwealth Relations Office | |
12 June 1965 | Sir Paul Henry Gore-Booth [219] | Former High Commissioner to India |
Sir Humphrey Trevelyan [219] | Ambassador to Russia | |
The Right HonourableWalter Nash [220] | For political and public services to New Zealand | |
1 September 1965 | The Right HonourableRichard Gardiner Casey, Baron Casey [221] | Governor-General of Australia |
25 October 1965 | Sir John Warburton Paul [222] | Governor-General of The Gambia |
1 November 1965 | Sālote Tupou III of Tonga * (Honorary) [223] | |
26 May 1966 | Sir Richard Edmonds Luyt [224] | Governor-General of Guyana |
11 June 1966 | Sir Norman Victor Kipping [225] | Former Director-General of the Federation of British Industries |
12 September 1966 | AlhajiFarimang Mamadi Singateh [226] | Governor-General of The Gambia |
30 November 1966 | Sir John Montague Stow [227] | Governor-General of Barbados |
15 December 1966 | David James Gardiner Rose [228] | Governor-General of Guyana |
1 January 1967 | Sir John Guthrie Ward [229] | Former Ambassador to Italy |
12 May 1967 | Arleigh Winston Scott [230] | Governor-General of Barbados |
10 June 1967 | Sir Charles Arthur Evelyn Shuckburgh [231] | Ambassador to Italy |
19 July 1967 | Sir Arthur Porritt, Bt. [232] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
12 October 1967 | Prince Edward, Duke of Kent [233] | |
1 January 1968 | Sir Francis Brian Anthony Rundall [234] | Ambassador to Japan |
11 March 1968 | Sir John Shaw Rennie [235] | Governor-General of Mauritius |
2 August 1968 | Arthur Leonard Williams [236] | Governor-General of Mauritius |
1 January 1969 | Sir William Denis Allen [237] | Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Sir David Clive Crosbie Trench [237] | Governor of Hong Kong | |
10 February 1969 | The Right HonourablePaul Meernaa Caedwalla Hasluck [238] | Governor-General of Australia |
14 June 1969 | The Right HonourableSamuel Hood, 6th Viscount Hood [239] | Former Deputy Under-Secretary, Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
1 January 1970 | Sir Christopher William Machell Cox [240] | Educational Adviser, Ministry of Overseas Development |
Sir John Walter Nicholls [240] | Former Ambassador to South Africa | |
13 June 1970 | Sir Bernard Alexander Brocas Burrows [241] | Permanent Representative on the NATO Council, Brussels |
9 October 1970 | Sir Robert Sidney Foster [242] | Governor-General of Fiji |
21 October 1970 | Mr JusticeBanja Tejan-Sie [243] | Governor-General of Sierra Leone |
1 January 1970 | Sir Charles Hepburn Johnston [244] | High Commissioner to Australia |
The Right HonourableJohn McEwen [245] | For eminent political and public services to Australia | |
12 June 1971 | Sir Archibald Duncan Wilson [246] | Ambassador to Russia |
Sir Denis Arthur Hepworth Wright [246] | Ambassador to Iran | |
1 January 1972 | Sir William Alan Nield [247] | Permanent Secretary, Cabinet Office |
Sir Denis Arthur Greenhill [247] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and Head of HM Diplomatic Service | |
The HonourableSir Con Douglas Walter O'Neill [247] | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | |
The Right HonourableArthur Christopher John Soames [247] | Ambassador to France | |
The HonourableSir Henry Edward Bolte [247] | Premier and Treasurer of Victoria | |
25 July 1972 | Sir Edward Denis Blundell [248] | Former High Commissioner from New Zealand to the United Kingdom |
21 December 1972 | RatuGeorge Cakobau [249] | Governor-General of Fiji |
1 January 1973 | Sir John Arthur Pilcher [250] | Former Ambassador to Japan |
6 February 1973 | Abdool Raman Mahomed Osman [251] | Governor-General of Mauritius |
2 June 1973 | Sir Robert Stewart Crawford [252] | Former Deputy Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Sir Colin Tradescant Crowe [252] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York | |
13 June 1973 | The HonourableSir Milo Boughton Butler [253] | Governor-General of the Bahamas |
1 January 1974 | The Right HonourableGeorge Rowland Stanley Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer [254] | Ambassador to the United States |
8 February 1974 | Leo Victor de Gale [255] | Governor-General of Grenada |
15 June 1974 | Sir Patrick Francis Hancock [256] | Ambassador to Italy |
Sir Edward Heywood Peck [256] | Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council | |
1 January 1975 | Sir Thomas Brimelow [257] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of HM Diplomatic Service |
The Right HonourableSir Morrice James [257] | High Commissioner to Australia | |
14 June 1975 | Sir Edward Tomkins [258] | Ambassador to France |
Sir Robert William Askin [258] | Former Premier of New South Wales | |
16 September 1975 | Sir John Guise [259] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
1 January 1976 | Sir William Vincent John Evans [260] | Former Legal Adviser, Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
Sir Roger William Jackling [260] | Former Leader of the UK Delegation to the Conference on the Law of the Sea | |
23 April 1976 | The HonourableSir John Robert Kerr [261] | Governor-General of Australia |
12 June 1976 | Sir Charles Michael Walker [262] | High Commissioner to India |
17 November 1976 | The HonourableDeighton Harcourt Lisle Ward [263] | Governor-General of Barbados |
31 December 1976 | Sir Michael Palliser [264] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of HM Diplomatic Service |
1 March 1977 | Tore Lokoloko [265] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
11 June 1977 | Sir John Nicholas Henderson [266] | Ambassador to France |
Sir Donald Maitland [266] | Permanent Representative to the European Communities, Brussels | |
16 November 1977 | Sir Zelman Cowen [267] | Governor-General of Australia |
31 December 1977 | Sir John Baines Johnston [268] | High Commissioner to Canada |
The HonourableSir Peter Ramsbotham [268] | Governor of Bermuda | |
3 June 1978 | The Right HonourableSir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam [269] | Prime Minister of Mauritius |
Sir Maurice Oldfield [270] | Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service | |
30 December 1978 | Sir David Aubrey Scott [271] | Ambassador to South Africa |
23 February 1979 | Sir Allen Montgomery Lewis [272] | Governor-General of Saint Lucia |
8 March 1979 | Paul Godwin Scoon [273] | Governor-General of Grenada |
2 June 1979 | Fiatau Penitala Teo [274] | Governor-General of Tuvalu |
16 June 1979 | Sir Alan Hugh Campbell [275] | Ambassador to Italy |
Sir John Killick [275] | Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council | |
29 October 1979 | Sir Sydney Douglas Gun-Munro [276] | Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
20 December 1979 | Sir Gerald Christopher Cash [277] | Governor-General of the Bahamas |
31 December 1979 | Sir Antony Duff [278] | Deputy Governor of Southern Rhodesia |
Sir Donald Tebbit [278] | High Commissioner to Australia | |
22 February 1980 | Baddeley Devesi [279] | Governor-General of the Solomon Islands |
14 June 1980 | Sir Michael Wilford [280] | Ambassador to Japan |
1 August 1980 | The HonourableDavid Stuart Beattie [281] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
31 December 1980 | Sir John Oliver Wright [282] | Ambassador to West Germany |
10 March 1981 | The Right HonourableSir Harry Talbot Gibbs [283] | Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia |
18 April 1981 | The Most HonourableFlorizel Augustus Glasspole [284] | Governor-General of Jamaica |
13 June 1981 | Sir Clive Martin Rose [285] | Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council |
Sir Howard Smith [285] | Director-General of MI5 | |
1 November 1981 | Sir Wilfred Ebenezer Jacobs [286] | Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda |
31 December 1981 | Sir Reginald Alfred Hibbert [287] | Ambassador to France |
Sir Anthony Derrick Parsons [287] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations | |
28 May 1982 | The Right HonourableSir Ninian Martin Stephen [288] | Governor-General of Australia |
12 June 1982 | Sir Herbert Ben Curtis Keeble [289] | Ambassador to Russia |
31 December 1982 | Sir Edward Youde [290] | Governor of Hong Kong |
28 February 1983 | The HonourableKingsford Dibela [291] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
29 March 1983 | RatuSir Penaia Kanatabatu Ganilau [292] | Governor-General of Fiji |
11 June 1983 | Sir Percy Cradock [293] | Ambassador to China |
31 December 1983 | Sir Arthur Henry Hugh Cortazzi [294] | Ambassador to Japan |
Sir Albert James Macqueen Craig [294] | Ambassador to Saudi Arabia | |
The Right HonourableRobert David Muldoon [295] | Prime Minister of New Zealand | |
3 February 1984 | Sir Clement Athelston Arrindell [296] | Governor-General of Saint Christopher and Nevis |
14 February 1984 | Elmira Minita Gordon * [297] | Governor-General of Belize |
23 February 1984 | Sir Hugh Worrell Springer [298] | Governor-General of Barbados |
16 June 1984 | Sir Michael Dacres Butler [299] | Permanent Representative to the European Communities |
15 June 1985 | Sir John Thomson [300] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
30 July 1985 | Joseph Lambert Eustace [301] | Governor-General of Saint Vincent and The Grenadines |
6 November 1985 | The Most ReverendSir Paul Alfred Reeves [302] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
31 December 1985 | Sir John Alexander Noble Graham, Bt. [303] | Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council |
25 February 1986 | Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo [304] | Governor-General of Mauritius |
14 June 1986 | Sir Antony Arthur Acland [305] | Ambassador to the United States |
8 July 1986 | Tupua Leupena [306] | Governor-General of Tuvalu |
31 December 1986 | Sir Julian Leonard Bullard [307] | Ambassador to West Germany |
13 June 1987 | Sir John Emsley Fretwell [308] | Ambassador to France |
31 December 1987 | The Right HonourableThomas Edward Bridges, 2nd Baron Bridges [309] | Former Ambassador to Italy |
11 June 1988 | The Right HonourablePeter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington [310] | Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
17 August 1988 | George Geria Dennis Lepping [311] | Governor-General of the Solomon Islands |
31 December 1988 | Sir Crispin Tickell [312] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
21 February 1989 | Ignatius Kilage [313] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
17 June 1989 | Sir Patrick Richard Henry Wright [314] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and Head of HM Diplomatic Service |
8 February 1990 | Vincent Serei Eri [315] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
18 April 1990 | Dame Ruth Nita Barrow [316] | Governor-General of Barbados |
16 June 1990 | The Right HonourableMichael Thomas Somare [317] | Foreign Minister of Papua New Guinea |
1 October 1990 | The Right HonourableToaripi Lauti [318] | Governor-General of Tuvalu |
27 November 1990 | Dame Catherine Anne Tizard * [319] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
31 December 1990 | Sir David Clive Wilson [320] | Governor of Hong Kong |
22 January 1991 | David Emmanuel Jack [321] | Governor-General of St. Vincent and The Grenadines |
15 June 1991 | Sir Arthur David Saunders Goodall [322] | High Commissioner to India |
10 December 1991 | Wiwa Korowi [323] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
31 December 1981 | Sir John Stainton Whitehead [324] | Ambassador to Japan |
13 June 1982 | Sir Michael O'Donel Bjarne Alexander [325] | Permanent Representative on the North Atlantic Council |
6 September 1992 | Reginald Oswald Palmer [326] | Governor-General of Grenada |
31 December 1992 | Sir Ewen Alastair John Fergusson [327] | Ambassador to France |
9 November 1993 | James Beethoven Carlisle [328] | Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda |
31 December 1993 | Sir David Gillmore [329] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State of Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of HM Diplomatic Service |
22 February 1994 | Colville Norbert Young [330] | Governor-General of Belize |
31 December 1994 | Sir David Hugh Alexander Hannay [331] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
22 February 1995 | Orville Alton Turnquest [332] | Governor-General of the Bahamas |
31 March 1995 | Moses Puibangara Pitakaka [333] | Governor-General of the Solomon Islands |
17 June 1995 | Sir Nicholas Maxted Fenn [334] | High Commissioner to India |
30 December 1995 | The Right Honourable JusticeMichael Hardie Boys [335] | Governor-General of New Zealand |
1 January 1996 | Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian [336] | Governor-General of St. Christopher and Nevis |
15 February 1996 | Tulaga Manuella [337] | Governor-General of Tuvalu |
1 June 1996 | Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands [338] | Governor-General of Barbados |
15 June 1996 | Sir Christopher Leslie George Mallaby [339] | Ambassador to France |
9 August 1996 | Daniel Charles Williams [340] | Governor-General of Grenada |
16 October 1996 | Charles James Antrobus [341] | Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
31 December 1996 | Sir Arthur John Coles [342] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
22 February 1997 | William George Mallet [343] | Governor-General of Saint Lucia |
29 January 1998 | Silas Atopare [344] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
15 June 1998 | David Francis Williamson [345] | Former Secretary-General of the European Commission |
16 July 1999 | Calliopa Pearlette Louisy * [346] | Governor-General of Saint Lucia |
21 October 1999 | The Reverend FatherJohn Ini Lapli [347] | Governor-General of the Solomon Islands |
31 December 1999 | Sir Andrew Marley Wood [348] | Ambassador to Russia |
30 December 2000 | Sir Peter John Goulden [349] | Permanent Representative, UKDEL NATO |
4 June 2001 | His ExcellencyTomu Malaefone Sione [350] | Former Governor-General of Tuvalu |
16 June 2001 | Sir John Olav Kerr [351] | Head of HM Diplomatic Service |
15 June 2002 | Sir David John Wright [352] | Group Chief Executive, British Trade International |
12 September 2002 | Sir Tomasi Puapua [353] | Governor-General of Tuvalu |
30 October 2002 | His ExcellencyFrederick Nathaniel Ballantyne [354] | Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
31 December 2002 | Sir Jeremy Quentin Greenstock [355] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
14 June 2003 | Sir John Robertson Young [356] | High Commissioner to India |
31 December 2003 | The Right HonourableGeorge Islay MacNeill Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen [357] | Former Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation |
21 June 2004 | Sir (John) Stephen Wall [358] | Head of European Secretariat, Cabinet Office |
31 December 2004 | Nathaniel Rahumaea Waena [359] | Governor-General of the Solomon Islands |
30 March 2005 | His ExcellencySir Paulias Nguna Matane [360] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
31 December 2005 | The Right HonourableJeremy John Durham "Paddy" Ashdown, Baron Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon [361] | Former High Representative of the International Community in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
17 June 2006 | Sir Michael Hastings Jay [362] | Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth and Head of the Diplomatic Service |
12 January 2007 | His Excellency The ReverendFiloimea Telito [363] | Governor-General of Tuvalu |
16 June 2007 | Sir Emyr Jones Parry [364] | Permanent Representative to the United Nations |
9 October 2007 | His Excellency The Most HonourableKenneth Octavius Hall [365] | Governor-General of Jamaica |
17 October 2007 | Her ExcellencyLouise Agnetha Lake-Tack* [366] | Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda |
29 December 2007 | Sir David Geoffrey Manning [367] | Former Ambassador to the United States |
20 November 2008 | His ExcellencyShimon Peres (Honorary) [368] | President of Israel |
26 March 2009 | His ExcellencyPatrick Linton Allen [369] | Governor-General of Jamaica |
11 September 2009 | His ExcellencyFrank Utu Ofagioro Kabui [370] | Governor-General of the Solomon Islands |
20 May 2010 | His ExcellencySir Arthur Alexander Foulkes [371] | Governor-General of The Bahamas |
31 December 2010 | Sir Peter Forbes Ricketts [372] | Former Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and Head of the Diplomatic Service |
26 April 2011 | His ExcellencyMichael Ogio [373] | Governor-General of Papua New Guinea |
1 June 2011 | His ExcellencyIakoba Taeia Italeli [374] | Governor-General of Tuvalu |
11 June 2011 | Sir Nigel Elton Sheinwald [375] | Ambassador to the United States |
1 June 2012 | His ExcellencyElliott Fitzroy Belgrave [376] | Governor-General of Barbados |
14 December 2012 | His ExcellencySir Edmund Wickham Lawrence [377] | Governor-General of Saint Christopher and Nevis |
24 April 2013 | Her ExcellencyCécile Ellen Fleurette La Grenade* [378] | Governor-General of Grenada |
30 August 2014 | His Excellency Rodney Errey Lawrence Williams [379] | Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda |
11 September 2014 | Her ExcellencyDame Marguerite Matilda Pindling (Lady Pindling)* [380] | Governor-General of The Bahamas |
31 December 2014 | The Right Honourable Catherine Margaret Ashton, Baroness Ashton of Upholland* [381] | Former EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission; for services to the European External Action Service |
Sir Robert John Sawers [381] | Chief of the Secret Intelligence Service; for services to British national security | |
9 November 2015 | His Excellency Samuel Weymouth Tapley Seaton [382] | Governor-General of Saint Christopher and Nevis |
31 December 2015 | Sir Simon James Fraser [383] | Former Permanent Under Secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; for services to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and to the pursuit of British foreign policy interests |
11 June 2016 | Sir Peter John Westmacott [384] | Former Ambassador to the United States |
30 December 2017 | Sir Mark Justin Lyall Grant [385] | Former National Security Adviser; for services to UK foreign and national security policy |
1 January 2018 | His Excellency Emmanuel Neville Cenac [386] | Governor-General of Saint Lucia |
8 January 2018 | Her Excellency Sandra Prunella Mason * [387] | Governor-General of Barbados |
9 August 2019 | The Most Honourable Cornelius Alvin Smith [388] | Governor-General of the Bahamas |
9 August 2019 | The Right Reverend David Vunagi [388] | Governor-General of the Solomon Islands |
29 January 2020 | Her Excellency Susan Dougan * [389] | Governor-General of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
10 October 2020 | Sir David Frederick Attenborough [390] | Broadcaster and Natural Historian |
10 October 2020 | Sir Timothy Earle Barrow [390] | Ambassador to the European Union |
10 October 2020 | Sir Julian Beresford King [390] | Former European Commissioner for the Security Union |
12 June 2021 | Simon McDonald, Baron McDonald of Salford [391] | Former Permanent Under Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office |
18 March 2022 | Her Excellency Froyla Tzalam * [392] | Governor-General of Belize |
1 June 2022 | Sir Iain Macleod [393] | Former Legal Adviser, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office |
Appointment | Name | Notes |
---|---|---|
18 September 2022 | His Excellency The Reverend Tofiga Vaevalu Falani [394] | Governor-General of Tuvalu |
31 December 2022 | Mark Philip Sedwill, Baron Sedwill [395] | Former Cabinet Secretary and National Security Adviser |
26 January 2023 | Her Excellency Marcella Althea Liburd* [396] | Governor-General of Saint Christopher and Nevis |
17 June 2023 | Sir Simon Lawrance Gass [397] | Chair, Joint Intelligence Committee, Cabinet Office; for services to National Security and British Foreign Policy |
11 December 2023 | Her Excellency The Most Honourable Cynthia Alexandria Pratt* [398] | Governor-General of The Bahamas |
30 December 2023 | Sir Stephen Augustus Lovegrove [399] | Former National Security Adviser |
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