List of Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire

Below is a List of Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire from the Order's creation in 1917 until the present day:

1910s

*1917: Katharine Furse, Lady Paget, Hon. Lady Lawley, Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal
*1918: The Countess of Liverpool, Mary Harmsworth, The Lady Chelmsford, The Lady Ampthill, The Marchioness of Winchester, Helen Munro-Ferguson, The Duchess of Montrose, Aimée Dawson, The Viscountess Harcourt, Sidney Browne, Edith Benyon, Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe
*1919: The Viscountess Buxton, The Marchioness of Waterford, Princess Beatrice, Princess Marie Louise, The Duchess of Bedford, Sarah Swift, Ethel Becher, Maud McCarthy

1920s

*1920: Margaret Lloyd George, The Countess of Reading, The Countess of Airlie
*1924: The Lady Willingdon
*1925: Ivy Chamberlain, Ellen Terry
*1926: The Lady Forster, Christina Massey
*1927: Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, Dame Nellie Melba
*1929: Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

1930s

*1932: The Lady Baden-Powell, The Viscountess Cowdray
*1937: Enid Lyons, Lucy Baldwin, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
*1938: The Marchioness of Carisbrooke

1940s

*1944: The Marchioness of Reading
*1945: Salote Tupou III of Tonga
*1946: Isobel Cripps, Clementine Churchill
*1947: The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
*1948: Beryl Oliver

1950s

*1951: The Lady Denman
*1953: The Lady Freyberg
*1954: The Countess Alexander of Tunis, The Countess of Limerick, Pattie Menzies
*1957: Dame Dehra Parker

1960s

*1961: Evelyn Sharp
*1964: Lady Dorothy Macmillan

1980s

*1983: Mary Donaldson

2000s

*2005: Elizabeth Butler-Sloss

ee also

*List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire

References

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