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 until the present day. Titles of recipients are given as at the time of the award of GBE, not including any titles awarded later (e.g. peerage). Some honorary names have been included but the List of honorary British knights and dames is where honorary recipients have been listed by year of receipt.
1910s
- 1917: The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn,[1] The Viscount Gladstone,[1] The Lord Emmott,[1] The Lord Moulton,[1] The Lord Sydenham of Combe,[1] The Lord Strathclyde,[1] The Lord Cunliffe,[1] Arthur Stanley,[1] Sir Eric Geddes,[1] Sir Arthur Pearson, Bt.,[1] Mr Justice Sankey,[1] Mr Justice Younger,[1] Alexander McDowell,[1] The Lord Chelmsford,[2] The Lord Willingdon,[2] The Nizam of Hyderabad,[2] The Maharaja of Mysore,[2] The Maharaja of Gwalior.[2]
- 1918: David Brooks, 1st Baronet Dunlop, William Henry Ellis, William Garstin, Richard Garton, Charles Blair Gordon, David Harrel, Robert Hudson, Maharaja of Jaipur, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir, Maharaja of Kotah, Sir Arthur Lee, The Earl of Liverpool, John Pentland Mahaffy, Mahajara of Patiala, Sir William Plender, The Earl of Plymouth, Howard Spicer, Rev Thomas Strong, Reginald Wingate.
- 1919: Walter Durnford, Charles Ellis, 1st Baronet Ellis of Wilbraham Place, Maharaja of Nawanagar, 1st Earl Peel, The Lord Raglan, Henry Sclater, Walter Stanford
1920s
- 1920: Abdulbaha, 1st Baronet Baird, 4th Baronet Bates, The Viscount Chilston, Edward Owen Cox, Alexander Gibb, 1st Baron Kindersley, 12th Earl of Meath, 1st Viscount Samuel, 1st Viscount Horne of Slamannan, Henry Babington Smith
- 1921: 10th Earl of Scarbrough
- 1922: Evelyn Cecil,[3] Charles Sherrington,[3] John Herbert Lewis, 3rd Baronet Sassoon, 1st Viscount St Davids
- 1923: Francis Chaplin, Sir Malcolm Fraser, Bt., Guy Granet, Harry Lamb, Lee Stack, Reginald Tupper,
- 1924: Alexander Ludovic Duff, Mansfeldt Findlay, 1st Baronet Frank, Sir Josiah Stamp,
- 1925: Ignacy Jan Paderewski (honorary)
- 1926: Travers Clarke, 1st Baron Queenborough
- 1927: Jagatjit Singh Bahadur, The Earl of Cavan, 1st Baron Kennet, 1st Viscount Templewood
- 1928: Sir William Horwood, The Lord Phillimore,
- 1929: Sir Philip Game,[4] Sir Beilby Alston,[5] 2nd Baronet Bowden, 1st Baronet Crosfield, William Symington McCormick, John Lome MacLeod, 1st Baronet McLintock, 1st Viscount Monsell, Thomas Robinson, 1st Earl of Swinton, Sir Arthur Duckham
1930s
- 1932: Lord Baden-Powell, Robert Gibson
- 1934: Sir Alan Anderson,[6] Sir John Reith,[6] Malik Umar Hayat Khan.
- 1935; Edward Wentworth Beatty, Ibrahim of Johor (honorary)
- 1936; Sidney Barton
- 1937: Archibald Rice Cameron, Frederic Dreyer, Ernest Strohmenger
- 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
- 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, 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,[7] 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,[8] Arthur Kirby, David Lee, Charles Trinder
1970s
- 1970: Ian Bowater, The Lord Thomson of Fleet[9]
- 1972: Sir Edward Howard
- 1973: The Lord Martonmere, The Lord Cole
- 1974: Murray Fox, Jack Marshall, The Lord Shawcross[10]
- 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[11]
- 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[12]
- 1981: Michael Cardew, 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,[13] David Harcourt-Smith, Sir John Woodward[14]
1990s
- 1990: Alexander Graham, Sir Richard Vincent,[15] Tasker Watkins,
- 1991: Jeremy Black, Sir Patrick Hine,[16] 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,[17] Sir Stephen Brown, George J. Mitchell (honorary)
2000s
- 2000: Edward George[18]
- 2002: Sir Anthony Bagnall,[19] Sir Michael Perry,[20] Sir Ronald Waterhouse[20]
- 2004: Sir Cyril Taylor[21]
- 2007: Sir David Cooksey,[22] Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman[23]
2010s
- 2011: Mervyn King,[24] The Earl of Selborne,[25] The Lord Weidenfeld[25]
- 2012: Sir John Parker[26]
- 2013: Sir Alan Budd,[27] Sir Keith Mills[27]
- 2014: Ratan Tata (honorary)[28]
- 2015: Sir John Bell[29]
- 2016: Sir Stuart Peach[30]
See also
- List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
- List of Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
- List of honorary British knights and dames
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 30250. p. 8794. 24 August 1917.
- 1 2 3 4 5 The London Gazette: no. 30413. p. 12680. 4 December 1917.
- 1 2 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 32563. p. 10716. 31 December 1921.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 33472. p. 1440. 1 March 1929.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 33501. p. 3677. 3 June 1929.
- 1 2 The London Gazette: no. 34056. p. 3564. 4 June 1934.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 41909. p. 21. 1 January 1960.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44863. p. 5968. 14 June 1969.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 44999. p. 8. 1 January 1970.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 46162. p. 7. 1 January 1974.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 47360. p. 13431. 25 October 1977.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 48354. p. 14931. 28 October 1980.
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 51636. p. 1. 6 February 1989.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 51772. p. 4. 17 June 1989.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 51981. p. 5. 30 December 1989.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 52588. p. 26. 29 June 1991.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 55354. p. 5. 31 December 1998.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 55879. p. 7. 19 June 2000.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 56797. p. 6. 31 December 2002.
- 1 2 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 56430. p. 7. 31 December 2001.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 57155. p. 7. 31 December 2003.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58358. p. 6. 16 June 2007.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 58196. p. 5. 30 December 2006.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59808. p. 7. 11 June 2011.
- 1 2 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 59647. p. 6. 31 December 2010.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60173. p. 6. 16 June 2012.
- 1 2 The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 60367. p. 6. 29 December 2012.
- ↑ Foreign and Commonwealth Office (10 April 2014). "Honorary British Awards to Foreign Nationals - 2014".
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61092. p. N8. 31 December 2014.
- ↑ The London Gazette: (Supplement) no. 61450. p. N7. 31 December 2015.
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