The Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod is the Gentleman Usher to the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, established in 1687.
The Commander-in-Chief, East Indies was a Royal Navy admiral and the formation subordinate to him from 1865 to 1958. Even in official documents, the term East Indies Station was often used. In 1941 the ships of the China Squadron and East Indies Squadron and were merged to form the Eastern Fleet under the control of the Commander-in-Chief, Eastern Fleet. The China Station then ceased as a separate command. The East Indies Station and its shore establishments continued until disbandment in 1958.
Stubbington House School was founded in 1841 as a boys' preparatory school, originally located in the Hampshire village of Stubbington, around 1 mile (1.6 km) from the Solent. Stubbington House School was known by the sobriquet "the cradle of the Navy". The school was relocated to Ascot in 1962, merging with Earleywood School, and it closed in 1997.
Sir George Sidney Bishop CB OBE was a British civil servant and businessman.
William Rees-Thomas CB MD FRCP FRSM DPM was a Welsh psychiatrist. He was Medical Senior Commissioner for the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency.
Air Commodore Robert Alfred Copsey Carter, was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served with RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War.
Sir Arthur Sydney Hutchinson was a British soldier and civil servant. He was the son of Sir Sydney Hutchinson.
Leslie Arthur Williams was Archdeacon of Bristol from 1967 to 1979.
Sir Frederick Willis CB KBE was an English lawyer and civil servant. He was made CB in 1914 and KBE in 1920. He was chairman of the Board of Control for Lunacy 1921-1928.
Sir Gordon Gordon-Taylor CB KBE FRCS FACS was a British surgeon
Sir Charles Bruce Locker Tennyson CMG was a grandson of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, a civil servant, an industrialist, and an academic of his grandfather.
Air Cdre Geoffrey Nicolas Ernest Tindal-Carill-Worsley CB CBE RAF was a Royal Air Force officer.
Major-General Sir Robert Anthony Pigot, 7th Baronet CB OBE DL RM was a Royal Marines officer. He was commissioned into the RM in 1934 and served during the Second World War, and afterwards.
Air Cdre James Michael Birkin CB DSO OBE DFC AFC DL RAF was a Royal Air Force officer.
Major-General Sir Horace Eckford Roome KCIE CB CBE MC DL was an officer of the Royal Engineers.
Air Vice Marshal Cecil Howard Beamish CB FDSRCS was an Irish RAF officer, who served during the Second World War and was later Director of RAF Dental Services 1969–1973. He was the youngest of the Beamish brothers, the others being Victor, George and Charles, all RAF officers and accomplished sportsmen. Beamish played rugby for London Irish, the Barbarians and the RAF.
