List of Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Below is a List of Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire from the Order's creation in 1917 to the present day. The names and titles of recipients are given as at the time of their appointment or promotion to Knight Grand Cross. The date of the award, as given in the announcement The London Gazette, is included in brackets after the names.
1910s
1917
- Field Marshal HRH The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (4 June)[1]
- The Viscount Gladstone (4 June)[1]
- The Lord Emmott (4 June)[1]
- The Lord Moulton (4 June)[1]
- The Lord Sydenham of Combe (4 June)[1]
- The Lord Strathclyde (4 June)[1]
- The Lord Cunliffe (4 June)[1]
- Arthur Stanley (4 June)[1]
- Sir Eric Geddes (4 June)[1]
- Sir Arthur Pearson, Bt. (4 June)[1]
- Mr Justice Sankey (4 June)[1]
- Mr Justice Younger (4 June)[1]
- Alexander McDowell (4 June)[1]
- The Lord Chelmsford (4 December)[2]
- The Lord Willingdon (4 December)[2]
- Honorary Colonel The Nizam of Hyderabad (4 December)[2]
- Honorary Colonel The Maharaja of Mysore (4 December)[2]
- Honorary Major-General The Maharaja of Gwalior (4 December)[2]
1918
- Lieutenant-General The Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir[3]
- Major-General The Maharaja of Jaipur[3]
- Lieutenant-Colonel The Maharaja of Kotah[3]
- Lieutenant-Colonel The Mahajara of Patiala[3]
- Sir Thomas Dunlop, Bt.[4]
- William Henry Ellis[4]
- Sir Richard Garton[4]
- Sir David Harrel[4]
- Sir Robert Hudson[4]
- Sir Arthur Lee[4]
- Sir William Plender[4]
- General Sir Reginald Wingate[4]
- Basil Zaharoff (honorary)[5]
- David Brooks[6]
- Sir William Garstin[6]
- Sir Charles Blair Gordon[6]
- The Earl of Plymouth[6]
- The Very Reverend Thomas Strong[6]
- The Reverend John Pentland Mahaffy[7]
- The Earl of Liverpool[8]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Miles[9]
1919
- Military Division
- Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Sclater (1 January)[10]
- Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel The Maharaja of Nawanagar (3 June)[11]
- Major-General Sir Frederick Sykes (26 August)[12]
- Civil Division
- Walter Durnford (8 January)[13]
- Sir Charles Ellis (8 January)[13]
- The Viscount Peel (8 January)[13]
- The Lord Raglan (8 January)[13]
- Sir Edward Ward, Bt. (8 January)[13]
- Division and date unknown
- Baber Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (honorary)
1920s
1920
- Civil Division
- Sir Alexander Baird, Bt. (1 January)[14]
- The Viscount Chilston (1 January)[14]
- Brigadier-General Sir Alexander Gibb (1 January)[14]
- Colonel Sir James Gildea (1 January)[14]
- Sir Charles Harris (1 January)[14]
- Sir Nathaniel Highmore (1 January)[14]
- Sir Robert Horne (1 January)[14]
- Sir Robert Kindersley (1 January)[14]
- Sir Harry Livesey (1 January)[14]
- The Earl of Merth (1 January)[14]
- Sir Thomas Munro (1 January)[14]
- Sir John Denison-Pender (1 January)[14]
- Aurelian Ridsdale (1 January)[14]
- Arthur Shipley (1 January)[14]
- Sir Henry Babington Smith (1 January)[14]
- Sir Percy Bates, Bt. (5 June)[15]
- Sir John MacLeod (5 June)[15]
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Thomas Bilbe Robinson (5 June)[15]
- Herbert Samuel (11 June)[16]
- Sir Owen Cox (15 October)[17]
- Division and date unknown
- Henry Morgenthau (honorary)
- Abdullah (honorary) (honorary)
- Prince Zeid bin Hussein (honorary)
- Ali of Hejaz (honorary)
- Padma Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (honorary)
- Frederic Courtland Penfield (honorary)
1921
- Military Division
- Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Haking (1 January)[18]
- Honorary Major-General The Maharaja of Bikaner (1 January)[18]
- Division and date unknown
- The Earl of Scarbrough
- Count Sutemi (honorary)
1922
- Military Division
- Admiral Sir Reginald Tupper (28 December)[19]
- Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Harington Harington (28 December)[19]
- Civil Division
- Evelyn Cecil (2 January)[20]
- Charles Sherrington (2 January)[20]
- Sir Laming Worthington-Evans, Bt. (3 June)[21]
- Herbert Lewis (19 October)[22]
- Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt. (19 October)[22]
- Sir Malcolm Fraser, Bt. (30 December)
- The Viscount St Davids (date unknown)
- José Evaristo Uriburu (date unknown)
1923
- Civil Division
- Sir Harry Lamb (2 June)
- Major-General Sir Lee Stack (2 June)
- Sir Guy Granet (2 June)
- Sir Drummond Chaplin (2 June)
1924
- Military Division
- Admiral Sir Alexander Duff (3 June)
- Civil Division
- Robert Donald (3 June)
- Sir Howard Frank, Bt. (3 June)
- Sir Josiah Stamp (3 June)
- Sir Mansfeldt Findlay (3 June)
- Field Marshal The Lord Plumber (3 June)
1925
- Military Division
- Lieutenant-General Sir George Macdonogh (17 July)
- Civil Division
- Major-General The Lord Cheylesmore (3 June)
- Sir Frederic Kenyon (3 June)
- Sir John Snell (3 June)
- Sir Hugh Clifford (3 June)
- Division and date unknown
- Ignacy Jan Paderewski (honorary)
1926
- Military Division
- Civil Division
- Lieutenant-General Sir Travers Clarke (19 January)
- The Lord Islington (5 June)
- Sir William Mackenzie (5 June)
- The Lord Queensborough (5 June)
1927
- Military Division
- General Sir Noel Birch (9 December)
- Civil Division
- Sir Frank Heath (3 June)
- Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Samuel Hoare, Bt. (3 June)
- Sir Otto Niemeyer (3 June)
- Sir Richard Threlfall (3 June)
- Hilton Young (3 June)
- Sir Henry Strakosch (3 June)
- General The Earl of Cavan (27 June)
- Sir Rowland Blades, Bt. (27 September)
- Colonel The Maharaja of Kapurthala (29 November)
1928
- Civil Division
- Sir John Dewrance (4 June)
- Sir William Grenfell Max Muller (4 June)
- Brigadier-General Sir Henry Maybury (4 June)
- Sir John Oakley (4 June)
- The Lord Phillimore (7 August)
- Brigadier-General Sir William Horwood (2 November)
- Luis Alberto de Herrera (honorary) (date unknown)
1929
- Military Division
- Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game (1 January)[23]
- Civil Division
- Sir Arthur Crosfield, Bt. (1 March)
- Sir Henry Dobbs (1 March)
- Sir William McLintock (1 March)
- Sir William Symington McCormick (1 March)
- Sir Arthur Duckham (3 June)
- Sir Francis Taylor (3 June)
- Sir Beilby Alston (3 June)[24]
- Sir Harold Bowden, Bt. (28 June)
- Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister (28 June)
- Commander Bolton Eyres-Monsell (28 June)
1930s
1930
- Military Division
- Admiral Sir Edward Bradford (1 January)
- Civil Division
- Antonio Chiaramonte Bordonaro (honorary) (date unknown)
- Division and date unknown
- Ras Kassa Darge (honorary)
1931
- No appointments were made in 1931.
1932
- Civil Division
- Sir Robert Gibson (3 June)
- Division and date unknown
- The Crown Prince of Ethiopia (honorary)
- Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia (honorary)
1933
- No appointments were made in 1933.
1934
- Military Division
- Admiral Sir Howard Kelly (1 January)
- Civil Division
- Sir Alan Anderson (4 June) [25]
- Sir John Reith (4 June) [25]
- Colonel Malik Sir Umar Hayat Khan (4 June)
- Division and date unknown
- Bahadur Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana (honorary)
1935
- Military Division
- General Sir Felix Ready (3 June)
- Civil Division
- Sir George Newman (3 June)
- Edward Beatty (3 June)
- Sir Ibrahim Rahimtoola (3 June)
- The Sultan of Johore (honorary) (3 June)
- The Sultan of Zanzibar (honorary) (3 June)
- Sir Stephen Killik (27 September)
1936
- Civil Division
- Sir Sidney Barton (1 January)
- 1937: Archibald Rice Cameron, Frederic Dreyer, Ernest Strohmenger, Kaiser Shumsher Jang Bahadur Rana (honorary)
- 1938: Sir Andrew Duncan, Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (honorary), The Earl of Onslow
- 1939: Frank Edward Smith
1940s
- 1941: Frederick Bowhill, Reginald Dorman-Smith, Thomas Gardiner, The Viscount Nuffield, Arthur Robinson, The Lord Rushcliffe, 1st Baron Wilson
- 1942: Charles Little, 1st Baron Riverdale
- 1943: Prince of Berar, Thomas Blamey, Henry Hallett Dale, Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt, Percy Noble, William Platt, William Charles Wright
- 1944: Cowasji Jehangir, 2nd Baronet, Allan Powell, 1st Baron Salter
- 1945: Vijayaraji Khengarji Sawai Bahadur, Christopher Courtney, The Viscount Finlay, Ernest Gowers, 1st Baronet Lithgow, Maharaja of Rajpipla
- 1946: 1st Baron Alness, Edward Appleton, Thomas Barlow, Muhammad Ahmad Said Khan Chhatari, Douglas Evill, Henry French, Alexander Hood, Maurice Holmes, Harold Howitt, Hubert Huddleston, 1st Baron Iliffe, John Kennedy, Arthur Power, Charles Kennedy-Purvis, Henry Peat, Thomas Williams Phillips, Hubert Rance, Bernard Rawlings, James Somerville, 1st Viscount Slim, 1st Baronet Thomson, Maharaja of Tripura
- 1947: John Chancellor, William Currie, Geoffrey Layton, George Sansom, 3rd Baronet Sassoon
- 1948: 4th Baronet Christison, Guy Garrod, Edward Mellanby, Sir Cyril Radcliffe, Reginald Leeper, John Waddington
- 1949: Robert Howe, Wilson Jameson, Walter Moberly, 2nd Baron Robertson of Oakridge
1950s
- 1950: Robert Burnett, Ralph Cochrane, 6th Earl of Ilchester, Donald Gainer, 1st Baron Silsoe, 1st Baronet Stewart of Strathgarry
- 1951: Patrick Brind, 28th Earl of Crawford, Lord Porter, Neil Ritchie
- 1952: Leslie Hollinghurst, Henry Mack, Alfred Bates M.C.
- 1953: Siddiq Abubakar III (honorary), Hilary Blood, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara, The Duke of Edinburgh, Alvary Gascoigne, Cecil Harcourt, Alexander Knox Helm, 1st Baron Llewellin, Hugh Pughe Lloyd, 5th Earl of Limerick, Guy Russell, Frank Simpson, Charles Woolley
- 1954: 3rd Baron Aberdare, Idris I of Libya, John Wakeling Baker, 2nd Baronet Bowater, Gilbert Rennie, John Whitworth-Jones
- 1955: 3rd Viscount Esher, Geoffrey Oliver, 1st Baron Rootes, John Troutbeck
- 1956: 9th Earl De La Warr, Miles Dempsey, 1st Baron Erskine of Rerrick, John Morison, Christopher Warner, John Whiteley
- 1957: Nevil Brownjohn, 16th Earl of Dalhousie, Francis Evans, Francis Fogarty, Archibald Forbes, 1st Baron Hailes, Charles Keightley, Charles Pizey, Geoffrey Thompson
- 1958: 1st Baron Citrine, Donald Hardman, Claude Pelly, Denis Truscott, 2nd Baronet Yarrow
- 1959: John Balfour, 1st Viscount Kemsley, William Palmer, Frederick Parham
1960s
- 1960: 4th Baron Cottesloe, Gerald Gladstone, Ian Jacob, Sir Ivo Mallet,[26] Cecil Sugden
- 1961: 5th Earl of Bandon, James Bowker, Ellis Hunter, William Luce, Ivan Stedeford
- 1962: Kenneth Blackburne, Hector Hetherington, Oscar Morland
- 1963: Colville Deverell, Walter Merton, Harold Pyman, 10th Earl of Selkirk, Geoffrey Wallinger, Wilfrid Woods
- 1964: Arthur fforde, James Harman, George Labouchere, Roderick McLeod
- 1965: Walter Cheshire, Alexander Gordon, James Miller, William Oliver
- 1966: Robert Bray, Lionel Denny, Alfred Earle, John Graham Hamilton, Hugh Stephenson
- 1967: John Anderson, Robert Bellinger, Alexander Bustamante, Leslie O'Brien
- 1968: The Duke of Norfolk, Nigel Henderson, Gilbert Inglefield
- 1969: Kenneth Darling, Charles Gairdner, Sir Louis Gluckstein,[27] Arthur Kirby, David Lee, Charles Trinder
1970s
- 1970: Ian Bowater, The Lord Thomson of Fleet[28]
- 1972: Sir Edward Howard
- 1973: The Lord Martonmere, The Lord Cole
- 1974: Murray Fox, Jack Marshall, The Lord Shawcross[29]
- 1975: Lindsay Ring, 3rd Baron Rothschild,
- 1976: Hugh Bullock (honorary; first US citizen to receive this honour), Robin Gillett, Sir Murray MacLehose, Richard Ward
- 1977: Robert Mark, Peter White, Peter Vanneck[30]
- 1978: Peter Le Cheminant, Kenneth Cork, Ronald Davison
- 1979: Peter Gadsden, Yuet-keung Kan, The Earl St Aldwyn
1980s
- 1980: Hugh Beach, Ronald Gardner-Thorpe[31]
- 1981: Robert Freer, Christopher Leaver
- 1982: Anthony Farrar-Hockley, John Fieldhouse, Anthony Jolliffe, Anthony Morton, Francis Vallat
- 1984: John Gingell, Alan Traill
- 1985: Allan Davis, Frank Kitson
- 1986: David Rowe-Ham
- 1987: Faisal Alhegelan (honorary), Joshua Hassan, Kenneth Newman, The Lord Plowden, Greville Spratt,
- 1988: Kenneth Berrill, Christopher Collett, Taher al-Masri (honorary), Caspar Weinberger (honorary)
- 1989: Hugh Bidwell, Sze-yuen Chung, Thomas Eichelbaum,[32] David Harcourt-Smith, Sir John Woodward[33]
1990s
- 1990: Alexander Graham, Sir Richard Vincent,[34] Sir Tasker Watkins,
- 1991: Jeremy Black, Sir Patrick Hine,[35] Brian Jenkins
- 1992: Francis McWilliams, Anthony Skingsley
- 1994: Sir Kenneth Eaton
- 1997: The Lord Keith of Kinkel, Sir John Willis,
- 1998: The Lord Rothschild, Sir William Wratten
- 1999: Sir Peter Abbott,[36] Sir Stephen Brown, George J. Mitchell (honorary)
2000s
- 2000: Edward George[37]
- 2002: Sir Anthony Bagnall,[38] Sir Michael Perry,[39] Sir Ronald Waterhouse[39]
- 2004: Sir Cyril Julian Hebden Taylor[40]
- 2007: Sir David Cooksey,[41] Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman[42]
2010s
- 2011: Mervyn King,[43] The Earl of Selborne,[44] The Lord Weidenfeld[44]
- 2012: Sir John Parker[45]
- 2013: Sir Alan Budd,[46] Sir Keith Mills[46]
2014
- Civil Division
- Sir John Bell (31 December)[47]
- Ratan Tata (honorary) (date unknown)[48]
2015
- Military Division
- Air Chief Marshal Sir Stuart Peach (31 December)[49]
2016
- Civil Division
- Sir Ian Wood (11 June)[50]
- Sir Cyril Chantler (31 December)[51]
2017
- Civil Division
- Sir Michael Rawlins (17 June)[52]
- Sir David Weatherall (17 June)[52]
- Sir Keith Peters (30 December)[53]
2018
- Civil Division
- Sir Craig Reedie (9 June)[54]
- Sir Christopher Greenwood (9 June)[55]
See also
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