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Brookfield Ancestor Project - Knights of the Garter

     

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George VI (1936–1952)
George Herbert Hyde Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon 1877–1955 1937
Bernard Marmaduke Howard, 16th Duke of Norfolk 1908–1975 1937
William Cecil, 5th Marquess of Exeter 1876–1956 1937
Claude George Bowes-Lyon, 14th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne 1855–1944 1937
Henry Hugh Arthur Fitzroy Somerset, 10th Duke of Beaufort 1900–1984 1937
Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl Baldwin of Bewdley 1867–1947 1937
HM George II, King of the Hellenes 1890–1947 1938
HM Carol II, King of Romania 1893–1953 1938
HRH Prince Paul of Yugoslavia 1893–1976 1939
Edward William Spencer Cavendish, 10th Duke of Devonshire 1895–1950 1942
Lawrence Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland 1876–1971 1942
Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow 1887–1952 1943
Christopher Addison, 1st Viscount Addison 1869–1951 1946
Robert Arthur Gascoyne-Cecil, 5th Marquess of Salisbury 1893–1972 1946
Louis Mountbatten, 1st Viscount Mountbatten of Burma 1900–1979 1946 Later Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Alan Francis Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke 1883–1963 1946
Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford 1893–1971 1946
Harold Alexander, 1st Viscount Alexander of Tunis 1891–1969 1946 Later Earl Alexander of Tunis
Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein 1887–1976 1946
HRH Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh b. 1921 1947 later The Prince Philip
William Arthur Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland 1893–1977 1948
William George Arthur Ormsby-Gore, 4th Baron Harlech 1885–1964 1948
Lawrence Roger Lumley, 11th Earl of Scarbrough 1896–1969 1948
Bertram Francis Gurdon, 2nd Baron Cranworth 1877–1964 1948
Gerald Wellesley, 7th Duke of Wellington 1885–1972 1951
Hugh William Fortescue, 5th Earl Fortescue 1888–1958 1951
Wentworth Henry Canning Beaumont, 2nd Viscount Allendale 1890–1956 1951
HM Frederick IX, King of Denmark 1899–1972 1951

Ladies of the Garter:

HM Queen Elizabeth 1900–2002 1936 Later HM Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother
HM Wilhelmina, Queen of the Netherlands 1880–1962 1944
HRH The Princess Elizabeth b. 1926 1947 Later Duchess of Edinburgh; HM Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom
       

  Elizabeth, Duchess of York, Queen Consort of King George VI, later Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (1936)

 

 

 

 

 

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The Most Noble Order of the Garter was founded by King Edward III of England in 1348 as "a society, fellowship and college of knights." It is now the oldest and highest order of chivalry in the British honours system. No women were added to the order after 1488 until Queen Alexandra was named by King Edward VII in 1901. They are listed separately as Ladies of the Garter until the 1987 Statute which allowed Lady Knights.

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