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:

1910s

*1917: The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, The Lord Cunliffe, dn|John Findlay, Robert Younger, The Viscount Gladstone, Sir Eric Geddes, Arthur Stanley, The Lord Emmott, The Lord Moulton, The Lord Sydenham of Combe, The Lord Strathclyde, The Lord Cunliffe, Eric Campbell Geddes, Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, Mr. Justice Sankey, Alexander McDowell
*1918: John Pentland Mahaffy, Richard Garton, Sir Thomas Dunlop, 1st Baronet, The Earl of Liverpool, The Earl of Plymouth
*1919: Sir Henry Sclater, The Lord Raglan, The Viscount Peel, Walter Durnford, Sir Charles Ellis, Sir Edward Ward, 1st Baronet

1920s

*1920: Sir Alexander Gibb, Sir Percy Bates, 4th Baronet, Herbert Samuel, The Viscount Chilston, Sir Robert Kindersley, Sir Henry Babington Smith, Sir Alexander Baird, 1st Baronet, The Earl of Meath, Sir Edward Cox
*1921: The Earl of Scarbrough
*1922: Evelyn Cecil, Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, The Viscount St Davids, John Lewis
*1923: Sir Reginald Tupper, Sir John Fraser, 1st Baronet, Sir Guy Granet, Sir Francis Chaplin, Sir Harry Lamb, Sir Lee Stack
*1924: Sir Howard Frank, 1st Baronet, Josiah Stamp, Sir Alexander Duff, Mansfeldt Findlay
*1926: The Lord Queenborough, Sir Travers Clarke
*1927: Edward Young, The Earl of Cavan, Samuel Hoare, Jagatjit Singh Bahadur
*1928: The Lord Phillimore, Sir William Horwood
*1929: Sir William McLintock, Sir Harold Bowden, 2nd Baronet, Sir Beilby Alston, Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, Bolton Eyres-Monsell

1930s

*1932: The Lord Baden-Powell, Sir Robert Gibson
*1934: John Reith, Alan Anderson
*1937: Sir Frederic Dreyer, Sir Archibald Cameron, Sir Ernest Strohmenger
*1938: The Earl of Onslow
*1939: Sir Frank Smith

1940s

*1941: Sir Henry Wilson
*1942: The Lord Riverdale
*1944: Sir Cowasji Jehangir, 2nd Baronet
*1945: Sir James Lithgow, 1st Baronet, Salote Tupou III of Tonga
*1946: The Lord Iliffe, William Slim, Sir Harold Howitt, Sir Thomas Barlow
*1947: Sir John Chancellor, Sir Victor Sassoon, 3rd Baronet, The Lord Alness
*1949: Sir Walter Moberly, Sir Brian Robertson, 2nd Baronet

1950s

*1950: Sir Ralph Cochrane, Sir Kenneth Stewart, Sir Malcolm Eve, 1st Baronet, The Earl of Ilchester
*1951: The Earl of Crawford, The Lord Porter
*1953: The Duke of Edinburgh, The Lord Brabazon of Tara, Sir Guy Russell, The Earl of Limerick, Sir Alvary Trench-Gascoigne, The Lord Llewellin
*1954: Sir Noël Bowater, 2nd Baronet, The Lord Aberdare
*1955: Sir William Rootes, The Viscount Esher
*1956: The Earl De La Warr, Sir Christopher Warner
*1957: The Lord Hailes, Simon Ramsay, 16th Earl of Dalhousie
*1958: Sir Walter Citrine, Denis Wyatt, Sir Harold Yarrow, 2nd Baronet, Claude Pelly, Sir Denis Truscott
*1959: The Viscount Kemsley

1960s

*1960: Sir Gerald Gladstone, The Lord Cottesloe, Sir Ellis Hunter
*1961: Ivan Stedeford
*1963: The Earl of Selkirk
*1964: James Harman
*1965: Sir James Miller
*1966: Sir Lionel Denny
*1967: Sir Alexander Bustamante
*1968: The Duke of Norfolk
*1969: David Lee

1970s

*1970: The Lord Thomson of Fleet, Ian Frank Bowater
*1972: Sir Edward Howard, 2nd Baronet
*1973: The Lord Martonmere
*1974: The Lord Shawcross, Jack Marshall, Henry Fox
*1975: The Lord Rothschild, Lindsay Ring
*1976: Sir Murray MacLehose, Robin Gillett, Sir Richard Ward
*1977: Robert Mark, Peter White, Peter Vanneck
*1978: Ronald Davison, Peter Le Cheminant, Kenneth Cork
*1979: Peter Gadsden, Kan Yuet Keung, The Earl St Aldwyn

1980s

*1980: Hugh Beach, Ronald Gardner-Thorpe
*1981: Robert Freer, Christopher Leaver
*1982: Francis Vallat, Anthony Farrar-Hockley, Anthony Morton, Anthony Jolliffe
*1984: Alan Traill, John Gingell
*1985: Allan Davis, Frank Kitson
*1986: David Rowe-Ham
*1987: Faisal Alhegelan, Greville Spratt, Kenneth Newman, The Lord Plowden
*1988: Kenneth Berrill, Christopher Collett, Taher Nashat Masri, Caspar Weinberger
*1989: Hugh Bidwell, Chung Sze Yuen, Thomas Eichelbaum, David Harcourt-Smith, Sandy Woodward, David Alliance

1990s

*1990: Alexander Graham, Tasker Watkins, Richard Vincent
*1991: Jeremy Black, Patrick Hine, Brian Jenkins
*1992: Anthony Skingsley, Francis McWilliams
*1994: Kenneth Eaton
*1997: John Willis, The Lord Keith of Kinkel
*1998: William Wratten, The Lord Rothschild
*1999: Peter Abbott, Stephen Brown, George J. Mitchell

2000s

*2000: Edward George
*2002: Anthony Bagnall, Michael Perry, Ronald Waterhouse
*2004: Cyril Taylor

References

* [http://www.gazette-online.co.uk/ The London Gazette]
* [http://www.burkes-peerage.net/ Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 107th edition]