Appointment |
Grade |
Name |
Birth |
Death |
Notes
|
12 June 1926 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
The King |
3 June 1865 |
20 January 1936 |
Sovereign Head of the Order 1910–1936
|
Colonel The Prince of Wales KG KT PC GCSI GCMG &c |
23 June 1894 |
28 May 1972 |
Sovereign Head of the Order January–December 1936
|
Colonel The Duke of York KG KT GCVO &c |
14 December 1895 |
6 February 1952 |
Sovereign Head of the Order 1936–1952
|
Field Marshal The Duke of Connaught KG KT KP PC GCB &c |
1 May 1850 |
16 January 1942 |
Grand Prior of the Order 1910–1939
|
Major-General Prince Arthur of Connaught KG KT PC GCMG GCVO &c |
13 January 1883 |
12 September 1938 |
|
Associate Bailiff Grand Cross |
The King of Norway KG GCB GCVO &c |
3 August 1872 |
21 September 1957 |
|
The King of the Belgians |
8 April 1875 |
17 February 1934 |
|
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Major-General The Earl of Scarbrough GBE KCB TD |
16 November 1857 |
4 March 1945 |
Sub-Prior of the Order 1923–1943
|
The Archbishop of York |
31 October 1864 |
5 December 1945 |
Prelate of the Order
|
Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston KCB DSO RE MP |
23 September 1854 |
18 March 1940 |
Chancellor of the Order 1924–1938
|
Sir John Prescott Hewett GCSI KBE CIE |
25 August 1854 |
27 September 1941 |
Bailiff of Egle 1925–
|
Major-General James Cecil Dalton RA |
31 August 1848 |
12 May 1931 |
|
Colonel The Lord William Cecil CVO |
2 November 1854 |
16 April 1943 |
|
Colonel Sir Charles Wyndham Murray KCB |
22 February 1844 |
1 November 1928 |
|
The Earl of Ranfurly PC(I) GCMG |
14 August 1856 |
1 October 1933 |
|
Edmund Fraser |
|
23 July 1937 |
|
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur Campbell Yate |
28 February 1853 |
12 June 1929 |
|
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Carnac Temple Bt CB CIE |
15 October 1850 |
3 March 1931 |
|
Colonel Sir Herbert Jekyll KCMG |
22 November 1846 |
30 September 1932 |
|
Dame Grand Cross |
The QUEEN |
26 May 1867 |
24 March 1953 |
|
The Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles |
25 April 1897 |
28 March 1965 |
|
The Duchess of York |
4 August 1900 |
30 March 2002 |
|
The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll GBE VA CI RRC |
18 March 1848 |
3 December 1939 |
|
The Princess Beatrice GBE VA CI RRC |
14 April 1857 |
26 October 1944 |
|
Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone VA |
25 February 1883 |
3 January 1981 |
|
Princess Arthur of Connaught, Duchess of Fife RRC |
17 May 1891 |
26 February 1959 |
|
Lady Furley RRC |
|
11 February 1940 |
|
The Marchioness of Lansdowne GBE CH VA CI |
17 December 1850 |
21 October 1932 |
|
20 June 1928 |
Dame Grand Cross |
The Princess Royal VA CI |
20 February 1867 |
4 January 1931 |
|
The Princess Victoria VA CI |
6 July 1868 |
3 December 1935 |
|
The Queen of Norway VA CI |
26 November 1869 |
20 November 1938 |
|
Princess Helena Victoria GBE VA CI RRC |
3 May 1870 |
13 March 1948 |
|
Princess Marie Louise GBE VA CI RRC |
12 August 1872 |
8 December 1956 |
|
Lady Perrott RRC |
|
4 July 1939 |
|
Lady Cecil CBE |
30 July 1865 |
14 September 1941 |
|
Susan, Duchess of Somerset |
11 January 1853 |
30 January 1936 |
|
19 December 1928 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Colonel Sir James Richardson Andrew Clark Bt CB CMG FRCSEd |
24 August 1852 |
18 January 1948 |
|
23 December 1929 |
Major-General The Earl of Athlone KG GCB GCVO DSO ADC |
14 April 1874 |
16 January 1957 |
|
23 December 1930 |
The Duke of Gloucester KG GCVO PC |
31 March 1900 |
10 June 1974 |
Grand Prior of the Order 1939–1974
|
The Prince George KG GCVO |
20 December 1902 |
25 August 1942 |
|
23 December 1931 |
Associate Bailiff Grand Cross |
Ex-King George II of Greece |
19 July 1890 |
1 April 1947 |
|
22 June 1934 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Colonel The Earl of Onslow OBE PC |
23 August 1876 |
9 June 1945 |
|
Brigader-General The Earl of Shaftesbury KP GCVO CBE PC |
31 August 1869 |
25 March 1961 |
|
Dame Grand Cross |
Lady Victoria Patricia Helena Elizabeth Ramsay CI |
17 March 1886 |
12 January 1974 |
|
Robinia Marion, Viscountess Mountgarret OBE |
|
13 December 1944 |
|
21 June 1935 |
Associate Bailiff Grand Cross |
The King of Sweden |
16 June 1858 |
29 October 1950 |
|
Dame Grand Cross |
The Duchess of Kent |
13 December 1906 |
27 August 1968 |
|
18 December 1935 |
Associate Bailiff Grand Cross |
The King of Denmark |
26 September 1870 |
20 April 1947 |
|
22 December 1936 |
Dame Grand Cross |
The Duchess of Gloucester |
25 December 1901 |
29 October 2004 |
|
22 December 1938 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
The Earl of Plymouth PC |
4 February 1889 |
1 October 1943 |
Prior of the Order 1943
|
Dame Grand Cross |
The Countess of Onslow CBE ARRC |
7 November 1883 |
23 October 1954 |
|
18 June 1940 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
The Earl of Clarendon KG GCVO GCMG PC |
7 June 1877 |
13 December 1955 |
Prior of the Order 1943–1946
|
Dame Grand Cross |
The Marchioness of Bute DBE |
19 August 1880 |
16 May 1947 |
|
19 June 1941 |
Associate Dame Grand Cross |
The Queen of the Netherlands |
31 August 1880 |
28 November 1962 |
|
24 December 1941 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Colonel Charles Joseph Trimble CB CMG VD TD LRCPEd |
16 March 1856 |
8 October 1944 |
|
21 June 1943 |
Associate Bailiff Grand Cross |
The King of Yugoslavia |
6 September 1923 |
3 November 1970 |
|
Dame Grand Cross |
Edith Marione, Mrs Perowne |
1874 |
|
|
December 1945 |
Knight Grand Cross |
The Earl of Lytton KG GCSI GCIE PC |
9 August 1876 |
25 October 1947 |
|
Sir Edwin James King KCB CMG TD ADC |
1877 |
11 July 1952 |
Chancellor of the Order 1945–1951
|
Dame Grand Cross |
The Lady Louis Mountbatten CBE |
28 November 1901 |
21 February 1960 |
|
2 July 1947 |
The Princess Elizabeth CI |
21 April 1926 |
8 September 2022 |
Sovereign Head of the Order 1952–2022
|
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Colonel Sir Robert Heaton Rhodes |
27 February 1861 |
30 July 1956 |
|
23 June 1948 |
Associate Bailiff Grand Cross |
The King of Denmark |
11 March 1899 |
14 January 1972 |
|
The King of the Hellenes |
14 December 1901 |
6 March 1964 |
|
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Colonel The Earl of Powis |
24 June 1862 |
9 November 1952 |
|
1 July 1955 |
Colonel The Lord Webb-Johnson GCVO CBE DSO TD MB FRCS |
4 September 1880 |
28 May 1958 |
|
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James Sands Elliott VD LLD MD FRACS |
28 May 1880 |
26 October 1959 |
|
Vincent Massey PC CH LLD FRSC |
20 February 1887 |
30 December 1967 |
|
Group Captain Sir Hugh Raymond Guy Poate MVO |
16 January 1884 |
26 January 1961 |
|
20 June 1956 |
Dame Grand Cross |
The Princess Margaret CI GCVO |
21 August 1930 |
9 February 2002 |
|
18 December 1980 |
Olivera Rowena, Lady Traherne OBE |
3 September 1910 |
22 October 1986 |
|
11 January 1983 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Sir Alan Thomas Gandell CBE |
8 October 1904 |
10 July 1988 |
|
Dame Grand Cross |
Yvette, Mlle Loiselle |
|
|
|
19 March 1984 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Sir Neville Drake Pixley MBE VRD |
21 September 1905 |
12 August 1993 |
|
Thomas Hippisley Coulter OBE |
|
|
|
Associate Bailiff Grand Cross |
Qaboos bin Said, Sultan of Oman |
18 November 1940 |
|
|
Dame Grand Cross |
The Lady Moyra Browne DBE SEN |
2 March 1918 |
4 December 2016 |
|
9 July 1987 |
Baliff Grand Cross |
Colonel The Lord Mais GBE |
7 July 1911 |
28 November 1993 |
|
Sir Stephen James Hamilton Miller KCVO MD FRCS |
19 July 1915 |
12 April 1996 |
|
Sir Randal Forbes Elliott KBE |
12 October 1922 |
20 July 2010 |
|
Dame Grand Cross |
The Countess Beauchamp MBE |
1895 |
1989 |
|
The Lady Serena Mary Barbara James |
30 March 1901 |
26 October 2000 |
|
11 March 1988 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
The Lord Westbury MC DL |
16 July 1922 |
12 October 2001 |
Bailiff of Egle 1988–1993
|
16 June 1989 |
Dame Grand Cross |
Queen Noor of Jordan |
23 August 1951 |
|
|
22 August 1995 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Brigadier-General George E. Beament OBE CM CD QC |
12 April 1908 |
8 September 2005 |
|
Dame Grand Cross |
June, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair CBE |
29 December 1913 |
22 June 2009 |
|
22 January 1998 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Professor Villis Marshall |
|
|
|
John Alexander Strachan |
|
|
|
19 January 2004 |
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela OM |
18 July 1918 |
5 December 2013 |
|
24 August 2004 |
Colonel James Stirling of Garden CBE TD |
8 September 1930 |
|
|
Dame Grand Cross |
Audrey Caroline, Baroness Emerton DBE DL |
10 September 1935 |
|
|
June Daphne, Lady Blundell |
19 June 1922 |
31 October 2012 |
|
27 July 2005 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Neville Byron Darrow |
1 March 1938 |
|
|
5 May 2009 |
Fra Robert Matthew Festing OBE TD DL |
30 November 1949 |
12 November 2021 |
|
Brigadier John Hemsley OBE |
27 January 1935 |
|
|
Dame Grand Cross |
The Princess Royal KG KT GCVO |
15 August 1950 |
|
|
22 April 2013 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Professor Jonathan Simon Christopher Riley-Smith |
27 June 1938 |
13 September 2016 |
|
Dame Grand Cross |
Judith Ann, Mrs Hoban |
|
|
|
26 June 2014 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
David Patrick Henry Burgess MBE |
|
|
|
30 July 2014 |
Major General (Retired) Professor John Hemsley Pearn AO RFD |
|
|
|
19 September 2014 |
Alfred Marshall Acuff Jr |
|
|
|
Low Bin Tick OBE |
|
|
|
21 October 2016 |
Lieutenant Colonel Sir Walter Hugh Malcolm Ross GCVO, OBE |
27 October 1943 |
27 October 2019 |
|
The Right Reverend Timothy John Stevens CBE |
|
|
Prelate of the Order 2016 - 2025
|
15 May 2017 |
Dame Grand Cross |
Mary Angela Fiona, Lady Barttelot MBE DL |
26 February 1944 |
|
Bailiff of Egle 2017–
|
21 September 2017 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu |
7 October 1931 |
26 December 2021 |
|
29 January 2020 |
Hon Major (rtd) Marsden Madoka |
15 March 1943 |
|
|
20 April 2020 |
Dame Grand Cross |
Dr Gillian Elisabeth Willmore |
December 1949 |
|
Chancellor of the Order 2022 - 2023
|
15 February 2021 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Professor Deon François Schõnland Fourie |
17 November 1932 |
|
|
Dr Steven Alan Evans |
|
|
Subprior of the Order 2022 - 2025
|
14 April 2022 |
Dame Grand Cross |
The Duchess of Edinburgh GCVO CD |
20 January 1965 |
|
|
30 April 2022 |
Bailiff Grand Cross |
Robert Hector White |
|
|
|
7 February 2023 |
Dame Grand Cross |
Ann Elizabeth Cable MBE DL |
|
|
|
26 June 2023
|
Bailiff Grand Cross
|
Thomas Matthew Budd
|
|
|
Chancellor of the Order 2023 -
|
31 January 2024
|
Cameron John Oxley
|
|
|
|