List of knights and dames grand cross of the Royal Victorian Order appointed by George VI

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The embroidered star of an English order of Knighthood, with radiating silver rays, topped with a white Maltese cross and royal cypher in the centre
The star of a Knight or Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order

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letters patent under the Great Seal of the Realm by Queen Victoria.[3] It was instituted with five grades, the two highest of which were Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) and Knight Commander (KCVO), which conferred the status of knighthood on holders (apart from foreigners, who typically received honorary awards not entitling them to the style of a knight).[4][5][6] Women were not admitted until Edward VIII altered the statutes of the order in 1936; those receiving the highest two awards were styled dames and those grades, when conferred on women, are Dame Grand Cross and Dame Commander (DCVO).[7]

No limit was placed on the number of appointments which could be made.[8] King George VI appointed 43 Knights Grand Cross and 12 Dames Grand Cross between his accession to the throne on 11 December 1936 and his death on 6 February 1952.

Knights and dames grand cross appointed by George VI

The list below is ordered by date of appointment. Full names, styles, ranks and titles are given where applicable, as correct at the time of appointment to the order. Branch of service or regiment details are given in parentheses to distinguish them from offices. The offices listed are those given in the official notice, printed in the London Gazette. Where applicable, the occasion is given that was listed either with the notices or in published material elsewhere, in which case that material is cited.

Name Date Refs.
Queen Elizabeth 1 February 1937 [9]
Commander Lord Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten 1 February 1937 [10]
Hugh Pattison Macmillan, Baron Macmillan 1 February 1937 [10]
Maud, Queen of Norway 11 May 1937 [11]
Mary, Princess Royal 11 May 1937 [11]
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll 11 May 1937 [11]
Princess Beatrice 11 May 1937 [11]
Evelyn Emily Mary Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire 11 May 1937 [12]
Nina Cecilia Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne 11 May 1937 [12]
Gilbert Heathcote-Drummond-Willoughby, 2nd Earl of Ancaster 11 May 1937 [12]
Field Marshal Sir William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baronet 11 May 1937 [12]
Lieutenant-General Sir George Sidney Clive 11 May 1937 [12]
Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Woolcott Game 11 May 1937 [12]
Major Sir
Alexander Henry Louis Hardinge
 11 May 1937 [12]
Most Rev. Cosmo Gordon Lang 11 May 1937 [12]
Sir John Allsebrook Simon 11 May 1937 [12]
Admiral Sir
Roger Roland Charles Backhouse
 20 May 1937 [13]
Admiral Sir
Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound
 20 May 1937 [13]
Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding 26 June 1937 [13]
Helen Magdalen Percy, Duchess of Northumberland 1 January 1938 [14]
Lieutenant-Colonel
David Lyulph Gore Wolseley Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie
 1 January 1938 [14]
Thomas Jeeves Horder, 1st Baron Horder 1 January 1938 [14]
Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay 6 July 1938 [15]
Sir George Frankenstein 25 July 1938
George Charles Bingham, 5th Earl of Lucan
 2 January 1939 [16]
Sir John Charles Walsham Reith 2 January 1939 [16]
Sir
Eric Clare Edmund Phipps
 21 March 1939 [17]
George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon 8 June 1939 [17]
Sir John Weir 8 June 1939 [17]
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir 15 June 1939 [18]
Sir Smith Hill Child, 2nd Baronet 30 June 1941
Hon. Sir Arthur Stanley 1 January 1944 [19]
Rear-Admiral Sir Basil Vernon Brooke 2 June 1945 [20]
Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk
 1 January 1946 [21]
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and Brandon 1 January 1946 [21]
Lieutenant-General Sir
Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir
 1 January 1946 [21]
Margaret Russell, Dowager Baroness Ampthill 13 June 1946 [22]
Sir
Edward Ettingdene Bridges
 13 June 1946 [22]
Sir
Alan Frederick Lascelles
 12 June 1947 [23]
Admiral Sir Dudley Burton Napier North 12 June 1947 [23]
The Duchess of Gloucester 1 January 1948 [24]
The Duchess of Kent 1 January 1948 [24]
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone 1 January 1948 [24]
Sir Godfrey John Vignoles Thomas, 10th Baronet 1 January 1948 [24]
Sir James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander 10 June 1948 [25]
Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. Sir
Piers Walter Legh
 10 June 1948 [25]
Major-General Sir
Harold Augustus Wernher, 3rd Baronet
 1 January 1949 [26]
Sir
Maurice Alan Cassidy
 3 May 1949 [27]
Brigadier Sir Thomas Peel Dunhill 3 May 1949 [27]
Sir Morton Smart 3 May 1949 [27]
Captain Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton 9 June 1949 [28]
Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman 2 January 1950 [29]
Sir Henry Davies Foster MacGeagh 2 January 1950 [29]
Sir Oliver Charles Harvey 8 June 1950 [30]
Sir
John Berkeley Monck
 21 July 1950 [31]

Source: Galloway et al., 1996, p. 112

References

Notes

Citations

  1. ^ "Royal Victorian Order", The British Monarchy (accessed 16 August 2014)
  2. ^ "Royal Victorian Order", The Governor-General of Canada (accessed 16 August 2014)
  3. ^ The London Gazette, issue 26733, p. 2455
  4. ^ McCreery, 2008, p. 29
  5. ^ Honorary Knighthood Archived 2015-03-16 at the Wayback Machine, Debrett's (accessed on 20 August 2014)
  6. ^ Knighthood, The British Monarchy (accessed on 20 August 2014)
  7. ^ Duckers, 2004, p. 38
  8. ^ McCreery, 2008, pp. 28–29
  9. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 29 January 1937 (issue 34365), p. 687
  10. ^ a b Supplement to the London Gazette, 29 January 1937 (issue 34365), p. 693
  11. ^ a b c d Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 May 1937 (issue 34396), p. 3074
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i Supplement to the London Gazette, 11 May 1937 (issue 34396), p. 3084
  13. ^ a b c London Gazette, 23 July 1937 (issue 34420), p. 4733
  14. ^ a b c Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1937 (issue 34469), p. 7
  15. London Gazette
    , 29 July 1938 (34536), p. 4877
  16. ^ a b Edinburgh Gazette, 6 January 1939 (issue 15559), p. 15
  17. ^ a b c London Gazette, 13 June 1939 (issue 15605), p. 505
  18. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 30 June 1939 (issue 34641), p. 4435
  19. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1943 (issue 36309), p. 7
  20. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 28 May 1943 (issue 36033), p. 2423
  21. ^ a b c London Gazette, 28 December 1945 (issue 37407), p. 12
  22. ^ a b Supplement to the London Gazette, 4 June 1946 (issue 37598), p. 2764
  23. ^ a b Supplement to the London Gazette, 6 June 1947 (issue 37977), p. 2577
  24. ^ a b c d Supplement to the London Gazette, 30 December 1947 (issue 38161), p. 9
  25. ^ a b London Gazette, 4 June 1948 (issue 38311), p. 3369
  26. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 31 December 1948 (issue 38493), p. 5
  27. ^ a b c London Gazette, 3 May 1949 (issue 38601), p. 2178
  28. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 3 June 1949 (issue 38628), p. 2797
  29. ^ a b Supplement to the London Gazette, 30 December 1949 (issue 38797), p. 5
  30. ^ Supplement to the London Gazette, 8 June 1950 (issue 38929), p. 2779
  31. ^ London Gazette, 28 July 1950 (issue 38979), p. 3874

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