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List of British Field Marshals

This is a list of Field Marshals of the Kingdom of Great Britain and 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 Earl 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 Duke 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 Henry, 2nd 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 Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, The Prince Consort (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, 7th 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 William Frederick Charles, 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 Earl 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 Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1909)
  80. HM King George V (1910)
  81. Paul Stafford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen (1911)
  82. William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson (1911)
  83. John Denton Pinkstone French, 1st Earl of Ypres (1913)
  84. HIM Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias (1916)
  85. Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig (1917)
  86. Sir Charles Comyn Egerton (1917)
  87. HIM the Emperor Taisho (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 of Megiddo (1919)
  91. Sir Henry Hugh 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 of Anzac (1925)
  96. Sir Claude William Jacob (1926)
  97. George Francis Milne (1928)
  98. HM Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (1928)
  99. HIM the Emperor Showa (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 (1941)
  109. Sir John Greer Dill (1941)
  110. John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1943)
  111. Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1943)
  112. Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke (1944)
  113. Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (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. William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla (1949)
  118. Sir Albert Thomas Blamey (1950)
  119. HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1953)
  120. Allan Francis 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. Sir 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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