List of British Field Marshals

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This is a list of Field Marshals of the United Kingdom, with their respective years of appointment.

  1. George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1736)
  2. John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1736)
  3. Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (1739)
  4. François de la Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandré (1739)
  5. John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (1742)
  6. Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1742)
  7. George Wade (1743)
  8. Sir Robert Rich (1757)
  9. Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth (1757)
  10. John Ligonier, 1st Viscount Ligonier (1757)
  11. James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine (1763)
  12. Henry Seymour Conway (1793)
  13. HRH Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1793)
  14. Sir George Howard (1793)
  15. HRH The Prince Frederick Augustus, 1st Duke of York and Albany (1795)
  16. John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (1796)
  17. Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal (1796)
  18. John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden (1796)
  19. Studholme Hodgson (1796)
  20. George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (1796)
  21. Lord Frederick Cavendish (1796)
  22. Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1796)
  23. HRH The Prince Edward Augustus, 1st Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1805)
  24. Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquis of Wellington (1813)
  25. HRH The Prince Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1813)
  26. HRH The Prince Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge (1813)
  27. HRH Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1816)
  28. HRH Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1816)
  29. Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda (1821)
  30. William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt (1821)
  31. Sir Alured Clarke (1830)
  32. Sir Samuel Hulse (1830)
  33. HRH Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1840)
  34. HM Willem II, King of the Netherlands (1845)
  35. Sir George Nugent (1846)
  36. Thomas Grosvenor (1846)
  37. Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1846)
  38. Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1854)
  39. Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (1855)
  40. John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1855)
  41. Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1855)
  42. John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton (1860)
  43. Sir Edward Blakeney (1862)
  44. Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough of Goojerat (1862)
  45. HRH Prince George, 2nd Duke of Cambridge (1862)
  46. Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1862)
  47. Sir Alexander George Woodford (1868)
  48. Sir William Maynard Gomm (1868)
  49. Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross (1868)
  50. Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1868)
  51. Sir George Pollock (1870)
  52. Sir John Foster Fitzgerald (1875)
  53. George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale (1875)
  54. HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1875)
  55. Sir William Rowan (1877)
  56. Sir Charles Yorke (1877)
  57. Hugh Henry Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn (1877)
  58. Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1883)
  59. Sir Patrick Grant (1883)
  60. Sir John Michel (1886)
  61. Sir Richard James Dacres (1886)
  62. Lord William Paulet (1886)
  63. George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1887)
  64. Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons (1890)
  65. Sir Frederick Paul Haines (1890)
  66. Sir Donald Martin Stewart (1894)
  67. Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley of Cairo (1894)
  68. Frederick Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar (1895)
  69. HH Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar (1897)
  70. Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain (1900)
  71. HIM Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia (1901)
  72. Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1902)
  73. HRH The Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1902)
  74. Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (1903)
  75. Sir George Stewart White (1903)
  76. HIM Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary (1903)
  77. Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell (1908)
  78. Sir Charles Henry Brownlow (1908)
  79. Horatio Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum (1909)
  80. HM King George V (1910)
  81. Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen (1911)
  82. William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson (1911)
  83. Sir John French (1913)
  84. HIM Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias (1916)
  85. Sir Douglas Haig (1917)
  86. Sir Charles Comyn Egerton (1917)
  87. HIM the Emperor Taishō (Yoshihito) of Japan (1918)
  88. Marshal of France HE Ferdinand Foch (1919)
  89. Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer of Messines (1919)
  90. Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1919)
  91. Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1919)
  92. Sir William Robert Robertson (1920)
  93. Sir Arthur Arnold Barret (1921)
  94. HM Albert I, King of the Belgians (1921)
  95. William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1925)
  96. Sir Claude William Jacob (1926)
  97. George Francis Milne (1928)
  98. HM Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (1928)
  99. HIM the Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) of Japan (1930)
  100. Julian Hedworth Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1932)
  101. Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1932)
  102. Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode (1933)
  103. Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd (1935)
  104. HM King Edward VIII (1936)
  105. Sir Cyril John Deverell (1936)
  106. HM King George VI (1936)
  107. William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1940)
  108. Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa (1941)
  109. Sir John Greer Dill (1941)
  110. John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1943)
  111. Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell (1943)
  112. Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1944)
  113. Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander (1944)
  114. Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1944)
  115. Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson of Libya (1944)
  116. Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck (1946)
  117. Sir William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston (1949)
  118. Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief, Australian Military Forces (1950)
  119. Philip Mountbatten, 1st Duke of Edinburgh (1953)
  120. John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1953)
  121. HRH The Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester (1955)
  122. Sir Gerald Francis Templer (1956)
  123. Francis Wogan Festing (1960)
  124. HM Mahendra, King of Nepal (1960)
  125. HIM Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1965)
  126. Sir Richard Amyatt Hull (1965)
  127. Sir Charles Archibald James Halkett Cassels (1968)
  128. Sir Geoffrey Harding Baker (1971)
  129. Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver of Shackleford (1973)
  130. Sir Roland Christopher Gibbs (1979)
  131. HM Birendra, King of Nepal (1980)
  132. Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall (1982)
  133. Sir John Wilfrid Stanier (1985)
  134. Sir Nigel Thomas Bagnall (1988)
  135. Richard Frederick Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill (1991)
  136. Sir John Lyon Chapple (1992)
  137. HRH Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, 2nd Duke of Kent (1993)
  138. Sir Peter Anthony Inge, Baron Inge (1994)

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