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

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

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| 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 | 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

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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 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 Sir 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 The Hon. Sir 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

## References

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1. ^ "No. 6382". The London Gazette. 19 June 1725. pp. 1–4.
2. ^ a b "No. 16708". The London Gazette. 6 March 1813. pp. 458–459.
3. ^ "No. 16747". The London Gazette. 3 July 1813. p. 1273.

## Sources

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* William A. Shaw and G. D. Burtchaell, The Knights of England, volume I (London, 1906) pages 167-179