List of Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath

This is a list of those men who were made Knights Companion of the Order of the Bath from the date of the Order's revival by King George I of Great Britain, 18 May 1725, to its reorganisation on 2 January 1815. During this period the Order was limited to the Sovereign (the King), the Great Master and thirty-six Knights Companions. Knights Companion bore the post-nominal KB. Those Knights living at the time of the remodelling of the Order automatically became Knights Grand Cross, with the post-nominal GCB.

Founder Knights

All the founder knights were invested on 27 May 1725 (except Lords Inchiquin and Tyrconnell, who were invested on the 28 May, and the Duke of Richmond, who was not invested at all) and then installed on the 17 June 1725.[1]

Image Name Notes
Prince William Augustus died 31 October 1765
John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu died 5 July 1749
William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester died 21 October 1739
Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford died 27 July 1751
John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester died 27 September 1737
Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle died 22 December 1754
Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine died 25 December 1750
George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax died 9 May 1739
Talbot Yelverton, 1st Earl of Sussex died 27 October 1731
Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret died 8 July 1753
Lord Nassau Powlett died 24 August 1741
Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington died 17 January 1733
George Cholmondeley, Viscount Malpas died 10 June 1770
John Campbell, Viscount Glenorchy died 26 January 1782
John West, 7th Baron De La Warr died 16 March 1766
Hugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton died 2 May 1751
Robert Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole died 31 March 1751
Spencer Compton resigned on receiving the Garter 12 June 1733
William Stanhope died May 1772
Conyers Darcy died 1 December 1758
Thomas Lumley-Saunderson died 15 March 1752
Paul Methuen died 11 April 1757
Robert Walpole resigned on receiving the Garter 26 May 1726
Robert Sutton died 13 August 1746
Lieutenant General Charles Wills died 25 December 1741
Sir John Hobart, 5th Baronet died 22 September 1756
Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet died 23 April 1744
Robert Clifton died 7 December 1762
Michael Newton died 6 April 1743
William Yonge died 10 August 1755
Thomas Watson-Wentworth died 14 December 1750
John Monson died 18 July 1748
William Morgan died 24 April 1731
Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester died 20 April 1759
William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin died 18 July 1777
John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel died 27 February 1754

Subsequent appointments

Date Image Name Notes
12 January 1732 Henry Brydges, Marquess of Carnarvon died 28 November 1771
William Bateman, 1st Viscount Bateman died December 1744
Sir George Downing, 3rd Baronet died 10 June 1749
17 January 1732 Charles Gunter Nicoll died 24 November 1733
26 June 1742 Thomas Robinson died 20 September 1770
12 July 1743 Lieutenant-General Philip Honywood died 1752
Lieutenant-General James Campbell died 1745
Lieutenant-General John Cope died 1760
Field Marshal Sir John Ligonier died 28 April 1770
28 May 1744 Richard FitzWilliam, 6th Viscount FitzWilliam died 25 April 1776
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams died 2 November 1759
Henry Calthorpe
Thomas Whitmore
Sir William Morden Harbord, 1st Baronet died 17 February 1770
29 May 1747 Rear-Admiral Sir Peter Warren died 29 July 1752
14 November 1747 Vice-Admiral Edward Hawke died 17 October 1781
2 May 1749 Lieutenant-General Charles Howard died 26 August 1765
General Sir John Mordaunt died 23 October 1780
Major-General Charles Armand Powlett died 14 November 1751
John Savile died 17 February 1778
12 March 1752 Richard Onslow, 3rd Baron Onslow died 8 October 1776
27 August 1753 Edward Walpole died 1784
Lieutenant-General Charles Powlett died 5 July 1765
Edward Hussey-Montagu died 25 November 1802
Lieutenant-General Richard Lyttelton died 1 October 1770
12 December 1753 Admiral Sir William Rowley died 1768
23 September 1754 Benjamin Keene died 1757
27 November 1756 Lieutenant-General William Blakeney died 20 September 1761
23 March 1761 John Proby, 1st Baron Carysfort died 18 October 1772
Lieutenant-General Joseph Yorke died 2 December 1792
Sir James Gray, 2nd Baronet died 9 January 1773
Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 1st Baronet died 13 September 1773
Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Baronet died 9 July 1776
Admiral George Pocock died 1792
Major-General Sir Jeffery Amherst died 3 August 1797
Major-General John Griffin Griffin died 25 May 1797
Francis Blake Delaval| died 1771
Charles Frederick died 18 December 1785
26 March 1761 George Warren died 31 August 1801
16 May 1761 Vice-Admiral Charles Saunders died 7 December 1775
16 January 1764 Charles Coote died 20 October 1800
24 April 1764 Major-General Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive died 22 November 1774
13 December 1765 Andrew Mitchell died 28 January 1771
27 December 1765 Lieutenant-General William Draper died 1787
30 December 1767 Prince Frederick, Bishop of Osnabrück made GCB 2 January 1815
25 October 1768 Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet died 6 November 1786
18 May 1770 Robert Knight, 1st Earl of Catherlough died 30 March 1772
Vice-Admiral Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet died 2 February 1779
28 June 1770 Rear-Admiral Sir John Lindsay died 1778
Major-General Eyre Coote died 28 April 1783
18 February 1771 Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Montagu died 1777
Ralph Payne died 1 August 1807
William Lynch died 25 August 1785
15 January 1772 Major-General Sir Charles Hotham, 8th Baronet died 25 January 1794
William Hamilton died 6 April 1803
29 February 1772 Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Murray Keith died 1795
29 May 1772 George Macartney died 31 May 1806
22 February 1773 Lieutenant-General James Adolphus Oughton died 2 May 1780
2 June 1773 Robert Gunning made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
3 August 1774 Lieutenant-General Sir George Howard died 16 July 1796
Lieutenant-Colonel John de Blaquiere died 27 August 1812
3 February 1775 William Gordon died 26 January 1798
15 December 1775 Lieutenant-General John Irwin died May 1788
6 July 1776 General Guy Carleton died 10 November 1808
13 October 1776 Major-General William Howe died 12 July 1814
9 November 1776 Lieutenant-General John Clavering died 1778
11 April 1777 Major-General Sir Henry Clinton died 1795
9 December 1778 Rear-Admiral Edward Hughes died 1795
24 February 1779 James Harris made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
23 March 1779 Major-General Hector Munro died 1806
5 May 1779 Randal William Macdonnell, 6th Earl of Antrim died 29 July 1791
13 November 1780 Lieutenant-General Richard Pierson died 1781
Thomas Wroughton
14 November 1780 Admiral Sir George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baronet died 24 May 1792
17 December 1781 Lieutenant-General Edward Ligonier, 1st Earl Ligonier died 14 June 1782
29 May 1782 Captain John Jervis made GCB 2 January 1815
8 January 1783 General George Augustus Eliott died 6 July 1790
General Charles Grey died 14 November 1807
28 January 1785 Lieutenant-General Robert Boyd died 1794
30 September 1785 Lieutenant-General Frederick Haldimand died 5 June 1791
Major-General Archibald Campbell died 31 March 1791
20 December 1786 Lieutenant-General William Fawcett died 1809
Robert Monckton-Arundell, 4th Viscount Galway died 23 July 1810
7 May 1788 Sir George Yonge, 5th Baronet died 25 September 1812
Vice-Admiral Alexander Hood died 2 May 1814
6 June 1788 Lieutenant-General Robert Sloper died 1802
16 December 1788 Morton Eden made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
15 August 1792 Lieutenant-General William Augustus Pitt died 1809
Lieutenant-General John Vaughan died 8 June 1795
Major-General William Medows died 1813
Major-General Robert Abercromby made GCB 2 January 1815
27 September 1793 Charles Whitworth made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
30 May 1794 Rear-Admiral George Keith Elphinstone made GCB 2 January 1815
Captain Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet made GCB 2 January 1815
18 November 1794 Major-General Adam Williamson
1 July 1795 Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
22 July 1795 Major-General Ralph Abercromby died 28 March 1801
17 February 1796 Rear-Admiral Hugh Cloberry Christian died 1799
14 January 1797 Major-General Alured Clarke made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General James Henry Craig died 12 January 1812
27 May 1797 Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson died 21 October 1805
14 February 1798 Vice-Admiral John Colpoys made GCB 2 January 1815
1799 Lieutenant-General Charles Stuart died 25 May 1801
8 January 1800 Vice-Admiral Henry Harvey died 1811
Vice-Admiral Sir Andrew Mitchell died 1806
14 May 1801 Rear-Admiral Thomas Graves died 1814
28 May 1801 Major-General John Hely-Hutchinson made GCB 2 January 1815
6 June 1801 Lieutenant-General Thomas Trigge died 1814
Rear-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth made GCB 2 January 1815
5 September 1801 Rear-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, 1st Baronet made GCB 2 January 1815
19 May 1802 Major-General Eyre Coote made GCB 2 January 1815
16 February 1803 Major-General John Francis Cradock made GCB 2 January 1815
28 April 1803 Lieutenant-General Sir David Dundas made GCB 2 January 1815
21 May 1804 Arthur Paget made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
28 August 1804 Major-General Arthur Wellesley made GCB 2 January 1815
26 September 1804 Major-General George James Ludlow made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General John Moore died 16 January 1809
Commodore Samuel Hood died 24 December 1814
26 September 1806 Rear-Admiral William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk made GCB 2 January 1815
Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, 6th Baronet made GCB 2 January 1815
29 March 1806 Rear-Admiral Alexander Cochrane made GCB 2 January 1815
13 September 1806 Major-General Sir John Stuart made GCB 2 January 1815
29 October 1806 Philip Francis made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
Sir George Barlow, 1st Baronet made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
March 1808 Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
15 October 1808 Rear-Admiral Richard Goodwin Keats made GCB 2 January 1815
21 April 1809 Lieutenant-General Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet made GCB 2 January 1815
Lieutenant-General George Beckwith made GCB 2 January 1815
Lieutenant-General John Hope made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General Brent Spencer made GCB 2 January 1815
Captain Thomas Cochrane, Lord Cochrane expelled 15 July 1814
16 September 1809 Major-General John Coape Sherbrooke made GCB 2 January 1815
16 October 1810 Lieutenant-General William Carr Beresford made GCB 2 January 1815
22 February 1812 Lieutenant-General Thomas Graham made GCB 2 January 1815
Lieutenant-General Rowland Hill made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty made GCB 2 January 1815
10 March 1812 Henry Wellesley made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
12 June 1812 Lieutenant-General Edward Paget made GCB 2 January 1815
21 August 1812 Lieutenant-General Sir Stapleton Cotton, 6th Baronet made GCB 2 January 1815
26 September 1812 Charles Stuart made GCB (civil) 2 January 1815
10 October 1812 Major-General Isaac Brock died 13 October 1812
1 February 1813 Admiral George Cranfield Berkeley[2] made GCB 2 January 1815
Lieutenant-General Sir George Nugent, 1st Baronet made GCB 2 January 1815
Lieutenant-General William Keppel made GCB 2 January 1815
Lieutenant-General John Doyle made GCB 2 January 1815
Lieutenant-General Lord William Bentinck made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General James Leith[2] made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General Thomas Picton made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General Lowry Cole made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General Charles Stewart made GCB 2 January 1815
29 June 1813 Lieutenant-General the Hon. Alexander Hope[3] made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General Henry Clinton made GCB 2 January 1815
11 September 1813 Lieutenant-General George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie made GCB 2 January 1815
Lieutenant-General William Stewart made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General George Murray made GCB 2 January 1815
Major-General Edward Pakenham made GCB 2 January 1815
12 July 1814 Admiral William Young made GCB 2 January 1815
16 August 1814 Colonel William Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange made GCB 2 January 1815
  1. ^ London Gazette: no. 6382. pp. 1–4. 19 June 1725.
  2. ^ a b London Gazette: no. 16708. pp. 458–459. 6 March 1813.
  3. ^ London Gazette: no. 16747. p. 1273. 3 July 1813.