List of British Army full generals explained

This is a list of full generals in the British Army since the Acts of Union 1707. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the highest rank currently achievable by serving officers in the British Army. It ranks above lieutenant-general and below field marshal which is now only awarded as an honorary rank. The annotation "Held rank in the East Indies." indicates that the officer served in India in the East India Company's army.

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1777–1783

Promoted <-- have date on one line -->NameBornDiedNotes
[1] 16411719Promoted in the English Army before the Act of Union. Full general rank was general of horse. Note that while Haydn's Book of Dignities gives Schomberg's promotion date as 16 August 1703,[2] this is disputed on the grounds of its inaccuracy.[3]
16481720Served in the French Army until the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes when he was granted an English commission. Promoted to full general before the Act of Union.
[4] 16581735Promoted before the Act of Union.
16561714Promoted a few days before the Act of Union.
1712Served as Constable of the Tower.
1732Pursued a political career as a general. In 1707 he was elected Member of Parliament for Clitheroe,
[5] 16661737Full general rank was general of foot. Promoted to field marshal in 1736.[6]
16431726Full general rank was general of foot. Published in the London Gazette on 6 February.
16501720Served as Lieutenant-General of the Ordnance and Governor of Portsmouth.
1730Served under the Duke of Ormonde in Flanders.
[7] 1722Lumley's full general rank was general of horse.[8]
16671724
16781743Full general rank was general of foot. Promoted to field marshal in 1736.
16401724The promotion was gazetted on 19 November 1714.
16751726
16661733Full general rank was general of horse. His promotion was gazetted on 15 April 1727.
16671732Ross's full general rank was general of horse. Haydn's Book of Dignities gives Ross's promotion date as 1 April 1712.
16661741Full general rank was general of foot. His promotion was not gazetted until 17 July 1739.
1741Full general rank was general of foot. His promotion was not gazetted until 17 July 1739.
[9] 16611739Full general rank was general of foot. His promotion was not gazetted until 17 July 1739.
1740Full general rank was general of horse. His promotion was not gazetted until 17 July 1739.
16751749Promoted to field marshal in 1742.
16731747
16721739Full general rank was general of foot. Promoted to field marshal in 1739.
16751740Full general rank was general of horse. Promoted to field marshal in 1739[10]
16731748Full general rank was general of horse. Promoted to field marshal on 17 December 1743.
[11] Sir Philip Honywood1752Full general rank was general of horse. Haydn's Book of Dignities gives Honywood's promotion date as 1 February 1743.
Lord Mark Kerr16761752Kerr's full general rank was general of foot. Haydn's Book of Dignities gives Kerr's promotion date as 1 February 1743.
16851752Full general rank was general of foot.
Sir John Ligonier16801770Full general rank was general of horse. Promoted to field marshal in 1757; later Viscount then Earl Ligonier.
16801758Full general rank was general of horse. Promoted to field marshal in 1757.
16621758Full general rank was general of foot.
16951750Full general rank was general of foot.
16841750Styled Earl of Hertford until 1748.
16901749Full general rank was general of horse.
[12] Sir Robert Rich, 4th Baronet16851768Full general rank was general of horse. Promoted to field marshal on 28 November 1757.
William Stanhope, 1st Earl of Harrington1756Full general rank was general of foot.
16691761Huguenot officer in British service. The London Gazette gives the notice of his promotion on 14 March 1761.
17061758
The Hon James St Clair16881762
16821774Promoted to field marshal on 10 June 1763.
17281774Baron Burghersh and Earl of Westmorland from November 1771.
16841763
16941764
16851776
1765The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his promotion date as 1762.[13]
17441773Full general rank was general of foot. Promotion gazetted on 26 March 1765.
16861767Full general rank was general of foot. Promotion gazetted on 26 March 1765.
16961765Full general rank was general of horse. Promotion gazetted on 26 March 1765.
16931770Full general rank was general of horse. Promotion gazetted on 26 March 1765.
16961785Full general rank was general of foot. Promotion gazetted on 26 March 1765.
16931766Full general rank was general of horse. Promotion gazetted on 26 March 1765. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that De La Warr was promoted to full general in March 1755.[14]
Sir John Mordaunt16971780
The Honourable James Cholmondeley17081775
16851772
17111787
17051782
17001782
17101775
17191779
16951771
16981785
17141778
17111773
17071782
17141777
17031772
16981775
17181792
17211795promoted to field marshal in 1793
1706 1781
1724 1772
16961773
Lord Robert Manners1782
1779
17181784
17431805Promoted to field marshal in 1793
Sir George Howard17181796Promoted to field marshal in 1793
17241792
17091780
Lord Robert Bertie17211782
1785
17231806Promotion to general dated 24 March 1778 in the London Gazette. Promoted to field marshal in 1796.
17141789Promotion to general dated 24 March 1778 in the London Gazette.
17081781Promotion to general dated 24 March 1778 in the London Gazette.
17171797Promotion to general dated 24 March 1778 in the London Gazette. Promoted to field marshal in 1796.
Sir John Griffin Griffin17191797Promotion to general dated 14 April 1778 in the London Gazette. Later Baron Howard de Walden and then Baron Braybrooke. Promoted to field marshal on 30 July 1796.
17081798Promotion to general dated 14 April 1778 in the London Gazette. Promoted to field marshal on 30 July 1796.
17171790Promotion to general dated 14 April 1778 in the London Gazette. Later Baron Heathfield.
17071778
Sir Guy Carleton17241808Later Baron Dorchester.
17101794
John Parslowunknown1786
The Honourable Thomas Gage17191787
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend17241807Promoted to field marshal on 30 July 1796.
Lord Frederick Cavendish17291803Promoted to field marshal on 30 July 1796.
17351806Promoted to field marshal in 1796.
17341794
1787Surname also given as Severne.
17251794
17121792
17211794
17151801
17211787
1788
17171794
17371805First Marquess of Lansdowne from 1784.
17181784The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives Haviland's promotion date as 17 February 1783.[15]
1727 or 17281788
17191810
17161798
17631827Promoted to field marshal in 1795.
17231809The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
unknown1801The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17181794The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
James Johnston1797The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793. Often known as 'Irish' Johnston to distinguish him from another general of the same name and much the same age.
James Johnston17211795The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793. Often known as "Johnston of the Blues" to distinguish him from another general of the same name and much the same age.
17301822The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793. Promoted to field marshal in 1821.
1809The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
Lord Adam Gordon1801The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17281820The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17261796The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17201795The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17241808The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17291794The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
1797The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17261801The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793. Lord Rossmore from 1796 onwards.
17291814The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793. Lord Howe from 1799 onwards.
Lord George Henry Lennox17371805The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
unknown1803The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17281806The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
Sir Robert Boyd1794The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
Sir Henry Clinton17301795The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17371797The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
1798The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
unknown1811The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
17421817The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
unknown1793The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis17381805The London Gazette records his promotion date as 18 October 1793.
Sir David Lindsayunknown1797The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Edward Maxwell Brownunknown1803The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
unknownunknown
Eyre Massey, 1st Baron Clarina17191804The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
17251803The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
1801The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Sir Robert Sloper17291802The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
17281800The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Ralph Gore, 1st Earl of Ross17251802The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Sir John Dalling, 1st Baronet17311798The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Russell Manners17361800The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Thomas Hallunknown1809The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
James Grant17201806The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Sir William Fawcett17271804The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
William Kerr, 5th Marquess of Lothian17371815The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Charles Grey, 1st Earl Grey17291807The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Sir Thomas Spencer Wilson17271798The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
George Morrison17031799The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Thomas Clarkeunknown1799The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
17281809The London Gazette records his promotion date as 14 May 1796.
Sir Robert Pigot, 2nd Baronet17201796
17291805
17231805
17381818
unknown1807
17421818
Sir Thomas Shirley, 1st Baronet17271800
Patrick Tonyn17251804
Gabriel Christie17221799
John Reid17211807
[16] Sir William Green17251811
George Scottunknown1811
Charles O'Hara17401802
Loftus Anthony Tottenhamunknown1810
William Rowleyunknown1807
Peter Bathurst17231801
William Gordon17361815
Robert Prescott1815
William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt17431830Promoted to field marshal on 19 July 1821.
Henry Luttrell, 2nd Earl of Carhampton17431821
William Dalrymple17361807
William Picton1811
Sir Hector Munro17261805
The Honourable William Hervey17321815
J Fletcher Campbell17271806
Francis Lascelles17441799
Sir William Medows17381813
17671820Promoted to field marshal in 1805.

1801–1821

Promoted <-- have date on one line -->NameBornDiedNotes
unknown1808
unknown1816
17241823
unknown1804
unknown1803
17401802
Henry Watson Powell17331814
17331808
17331819
17421823
unknown 1808Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
James Inglis Hamilton1803Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
unknown 1803Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
17421805Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
unknown1807Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk17391820Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
17461818Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
17411806Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
17351820Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
17401827Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
Gerard Lake, 1st Viscount Lake17441808Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
17371812Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
17401822Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
unknown1814Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
unknown1807Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802.
Sir Alured Clarke17441832Promotion gazetted on 11 May 1802. Promoted to field marshal on 22 July 1830.
unknown1804
Sir Samuel Hulse17461837Promoted to field marshal on 22 July 1830.
17441818Earl of Lindsey from 1809.
17311812
17441808
17441839
1817
unknown1804
1803Died on 9 November 1803 of yellow fever.
unknown1823
unknown1815
1813
1804
unknown1804
17321809
1808
1813
17521825
17411819Sir Cornelius Cuyler from 1814 when created a baronet.
17531829
17481813
17431823
unknown1825
1814
17541826Marquess of Hastings from 1816.
unknown1810
Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale17711851Promoted to field marshal in 1813; became King of Hanover in 1837.
17741850Promoted to field marshal in 1813.
17391818
17481835Created baronet on 1 December 1818.
17551811
17481826
17451818Later Baron Muncaster.
17481821
1818
17501813
unknown1815
1811
17761834Promoted to field marshal in 1816.
17431823
17271821
17521839
17551831Created Earl of Mulgrave in 1812.
unknown1816
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington17691852Local rank in Spain and Portugal. Promoted field marshal in 1813. Later Duke of Wellington.
17511828
17461829Later created Baron Harris.
17461825
17551843Later created Earl Cathcart.
17541833
17501830
17381828
17481818
1822
17481812Died 11 days after being promoted.
17421823Created a baronet in 1818.
17411815
unknownunknown
17581814Recognized as de jure 7th Viscount Strathallan after his death.
17531823
unknownunknown
17541837
17591827
17561835
17511832
17481822
1824
17421827
17481832Viscount Kilmorey from 1818, Earl of Kilmorey from 1822.
17501840
unknown1820
17571849Promoted to field marshal in 1846.
17411823Royal Marines officer holding rank in the Army.
1815
17441834
17521834
17571832Viscount Hutchinson and Earl of Donoughmore from 1825.
unknown1835
17581838
unknown1815Not to be confused with General James Stuart, promoted to full general in 1812 and died 1815.
17521823
17581823
17521831
1829
unknown1816
17501840
unknown1821
17621823Stripped of his rank and title in 1816.
17641819
1827
17501828
17561832
17591839Created Baron Howden in 1819.
Lord Charles FitzRoy17641829
17581835
1822
1843
Sir Charles Asgill, 2nd Baronet17621823
Thomas Garth17441829
1817
17621837
1821
1823
1815
1816
1817
Sir George Beckwith17531823
unknown1816
1824
17581842
17631837
Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet1757 1829
17651844
17671831
17451829
17601822
His Royal Highness The Hereditary Prince of Orange17921849Promoted to field marshal on 28 July 1845.
Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg17901865Promoted to field marshal later in 1816; elected King of the Belgians in 1831.
The Honourable Robert Taylor17601839
17601836
George Gordon, styled Marquess of Huntly17701836Became Duke of Gordon in 1827.
17561843
17631841
17601839
17591824
17611838
17631837
17641851Promoted to field marshal on 9 November 1846.
unknown1829
17651823
17651843
17681854Promoted to field marshal in 1846.
17561834
Sir Robert Brownrigg17591833
1834
17601837
1827
17661831Count Hompesch
17471828
1838
1824
1831
unknown1820
Sir Thomas Blomefield17441822
1830
unknown1825
17751840
17631826
17631847
1844
1831
17601828
1853
ca.17601830
unknown1830
17481843
17681824
17621831
17501836

1825–1849

Promoted <-- have date on one line -->NameBornDiedNotes
unknown1836
17631841
17591833
17521832
17601830
17631839
17641830
Sir Gordon Drummond17721854
unknown1841
17591831Later Sir William Payne-Gallwey
17691840
17741839
17671856
17661845
17751849
17601828
17731865Viscount Combermere from 1827. Promoted to field marshal on 2 October 1855.
17601832
unknown1826
17701838
1827
17451827
17681828
17661841
17721842
17631848
17571846
17681856
17701838
unknown1849
1845
17661832
17691837
17601843
17701848
17681845
17691847
17611847
17731841
17711843
unknown1843
17501843
17651842
17661834
17541840
1838
17671843
17451842
17641843
17711834
17641841
1772 1835
17721842
17501834
17601837
17681861
17731854
17691846
Sir Edward Barnes17761838Local rank in the East Indies.
unknown1850
unknown1850
The Honorable Robert Meade17721852
Sir William Houstoun, 1st Baronet17661842
1846
Sir Thomas Hislop, 1st Baronet17641843
17661841
David Hunterunknown1846
Sir John Slade, 1st Baronet17621859
Sir Frederick Augustus Wetherall17541842
unknown1838
Sir William Lumley17691850
Sir Moore Disney17661846
John Mackenzie1860
unknown1849
John Michel17651844
Sir William Wilkinsonunknown1840
Sir Henry Tucker Montresor17671837
John Hodgson17571846
unknown1842
Sir James Hayunknown1837
James Robertson1845
17641843
Sir Fitzroy Jeffreys Grafton Maclean, 8th Baronet1847
Sir Henry Frederick Campbell17691856
William Burnetunknown1839
17781854
Sir John Smith17541837
17751848
17661851
Sir Charles Colville17701843
unknown1859
unknown1843
Sir Henry Fane17781840
Sir George Anson17691849
17671845
unknown1849
unknown1841
Sir John Oswald17711840
17621855
Sir William Anson, 1st Baronet17721847
Charles Terrotunknown1839
1837Local rank in East Indies.
Robert Phillipslocal rank in East Indies
Sir Robert Blair17551837Local rank in East Indies.
Robert Belllocal rank in East Indies
[17] John MackcleanRoyal Engineers
17601845
1845
17751839
unknown1846
1841Royal Artillery
1849
unknown1839
17651845
17631849
17671844
1845
1848
17631851
17771851
17721841
William Hassall Eden1851
17641842
17711853Earl of Stair from 1840.
[18] 17631838
Local rank in East Indies
Samuel Bradshaw1840 Local rank in East Indies
Sir Hector M'LeanLocal rank in East Indies
Sir George Murray17721846
Sir James Kempt17651854
unknown1846
17731845
17701859
unknown1846
17701845
17691859
Sir Frederick Robinson17631852
1845
1847
17751850
1843
17671841Died 26 November 1841, three days after his promotion.
John Vincent17641848
unknown1848
unknown1845
17721860Created Earl of Strafford in 1847. Promoted to field marshal on 2 October 1855.
17731860
17731851
17721852
17761842
17741849
1853
17771853
17661846
unknown1854
17781851Baron de Blaquiere from 1844.
1843
17721847
17721851
17741853
17721858Joined the Army as a private soldier.
Sir Robert Wilson17771849
17751850
1847local rank in East Indies
17641845local rank in East Indies
17641858local rank in East Indies
17671853
17631855
17691850
unknown1850
17741857
17721856
17731847
17801855
17771854
17701855
1848
17741856
17811853
Sir Charles Napier17821853Granted the local rank of general in the Army in the East Indies.

1851–1869

Promoted <-- have date on one line -->NameBornDiedNotes
[19] 17781852
17741852
17751857
1852
17791856
17751854
17761853
17701853
17771865
17671851
17731855
17741868
17721862
1766 1853
17771855
17771855
17771853
17761861
17771855
1854
17801854
17781852
unknown1855The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference.
1861The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference.
17801855The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference.
Alexander Armstrong1861
17781868The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference. Blakeney was promoted to field marshal on 9 November 1862.
17771858The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference.
17801856The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference.
17781863The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference. Seaton was promoted to field marshal on 1 April 1860.
17791860The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference.
17821870The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference. Woodford was promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1868.
17841859The 1890 edition of Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 11 November 1851, which is at variance with the contemporaneous London Gazette reference.
17881855Temporary promotion 21 February 1854; substantive 20 June 1854. Raglan was promoted to field marshal on 5 November 1854.
17801855
17841856
1867
17791869Promoted to field marshal on 9 November 1862.
17811857
17751865
17801856
17801854
1877Promoted to field marshal on 29 May 1875.
17711869
17831855
17831859
17741859
1856
17801868
James Dawes Douglas17851862
1855
1785 1856Promoted to field marshal on 2 October 1855.
17831860
17821863
17841863
17861860
17751862
1866
17781855
unknown1864
17851857
17801863
1865
1854
17841855
17741861
17881864
17871876Promoted to field marshal on 29 May 1875.
17751859
17901860
17751860
1856
17791860
1859
17741856
1857
unknown1857
17871861
17761863
17841875Promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1868.
1855Rank held in the East Indies.
James Lillyman Caldwell17701863Rank held in the East Indies.
1855Rank held in the East Indies.
17741860Rank held in the East Indies.
17751861Rank held in the East Indies.
17811859Rank held in the East Indies.
1856Rank held in the East Indies.
1870Rank held in the East Indies.
17801862Rank held in the East Indies.
17811856Rank held in the East Indies.
17801861Rank held in the East Indies.
17781858Rank held in the East Indies.
17801868Rank held in the East Indies.
17691856Rank held in the East Indies.
1861Rank held in the East Indies.
17801859Rank held in the East Indies.
[20] 17831855Rank held in the East Indies.
17791861Rank held in the East Indies.
17831857Rank held in the East Indies.
1861Rank held in the East Indies.
17791859Rank held in the East Indies.
unknown1859Rank held in the East Indies.
unknown1867Rank held in the East Indies.
17791868Promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1868.
17811864
1855
17841860
1856
1858Rank held in the East Indies.
17761863
1861
1870
17821871Promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1868.
Sir George Brown17901865Brevet promotion to general on 7 September 1855. On 4 April 1856 Brown was granted a regular promotion to general, backdated to 7 September 1855. Haydn's Book of Dignities gives Brown's promotion date as 7 September 1856.[21]
17921868
unknown1861Held rank by brevet in the East Indies.
17701857Held rank by brevet in the East Indies. Assassinated during the Indian Mutiny.
17851861
[22] 1865
John M'Innesunknown1858Held rank in the East Indies.
[23] 18191904promoted to field marshal in 1862
unknown1857Held rank in the East Indies.
1858
unknown1867
1865
1859
unknownunknown
17811863
1876Held rank in the East Indies.
unknown1861
1873Held rank in the East Indies.
17851859Held rank in the East Indies.
17781865
1869Held rank in the East Indies.
17921863Local rank in Turkey, 28 December 1855, and in the East Indies, 11 July 1857. Promoted supernumerary general for distinguished service, 14 May 1858, and placed on the fixed establishment of generals, 20 July 1858. Promoted to field marshal, 9 November 1862.
1871Held rank in the East Indies.
unknown1868
unknown1860Held rank in the East Indies.
1866Held rank in the East Indies.
17791861
17861868Held rank in the East Indies.
Sir George Pollock, 1st Baronet17861872Held rank in the East Indies. Promoted to Field Marshal on 24 May 1870.
1860Held rank in the East Indies.
[24] Sir James Archibald Hope17851871
17851860
Sir Frederick Stovin17831865
17851872Held rank in the East Indies.
Frederick Campbell17801866
Robert Douglas
Sir William Napier17851860
John Reeve
1868
17881864
Sir James Fergusson17871865
Sir Thomas William Brotherton17851868
Sir Adolphus Dalrymple17841866
Sir James Reynett17861864
James Stuart Fraser1783 1869 Held rank in the East Indies.
Sir John Bell17821876
Peter Delamotte1782 1861 Held rank in the East Indies. Surname also given as de la Motte.
Sir Samuel Benjamin Auchmuty17801868
Edward Frederick
Sir John Aitchison17791875
William Jervois17821862
George Benjamin Brooks1862 Held rank in the East Indies.
Sir Charles William Pasley17801861FRS
Sir Francis Cockburn17801868
Sir Richard Lluellyn1781 1867
Peter LodwickBombay Infantry. Surname also given as Lodevick.
Suetonius Henry Todd17801861Bengal Infantry
John Briggs17851875Madras Infantry, FRS
Harry Thomson17801878Bengal Cavalry
17881866
Sir De Lacy Evans17871870
William Henry Scott1789 1868
Sir Charles Grene Ellicombe17831871
[25] Sir Thomas Willshire, Bt17891862
Sir Philip Bainbrigge17861862
Charles William Hamilton17841866Bengal Infantry
Edmund Frederick Waters17851866
Sir Thomas Erskine Napier17901863
17851865Bengal Infantry
William Henry Sewell1862
1863
Sir John McDonald1790 1866
Sir George William Paty17881868
William Douglas
John Oldfield17891863
17811863Bengal Cavalry
Lord James Hay1862
[26] Sir William Rowan17891879Promoted to field marshal on 2 June 1877.
Sir James Shaw Kennedy17881865
unknown1862Died one month and 16 days after promotion. Served in the Bombay Infantry.
Sir George Leigh Goldie1791 1863 Name also given as George Lee Goldie.
1788 1866
Sir George Bowles17871876
17891873
1864
Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales18411910promoted to field marshal in 1875; succeeded as King Edward VII in 1901
1785 1866 Bengal Infantry.
Roderick Macneil1863Wrongly listed in Haydn's Book of Dignities as promoted on 21 December 1863, two months after his death.[27]
17871872Bombay Infantry.
Sir George Turner1780 1864 Royal Artillery
Sir Charles Gore17931869
William Lovelace Walton17881865
[28] Peter Margetson Wallace17801864
Charles Richard Fox17961873
Charles Augustus Shawe17921876
Mildmay Fane17951868
17851867
Samuel Swinhoe17871866
Sir Richard England1793 1883Retired 1 October 1877.
18041884Sir William Codrington from 1865. Retired 1 October 1877.
17901874
George Petre Wymer17891868
17831875
17881864
[29] Sir George Wetherall17881868
unknown1866Bengal Infantry.
Sir John Michell17811866Royal Artillery
Sir Frederick Love17891866
17841873Held rank in the East Indies. Sir Abraham Roberts from 1865.
17871881Retired 1 October 1877.
18011870
Sir Edward Charles Whinyates17821865Royal Artillery
George Cobbe17821865Royal Artillery
Alexander Fisher Macintosh17951868
William Robert Clayton17861866
Beaumont Hotham, 3rd Baron Hotham17941870
John Spink17831877
[30] Sir James Jackson17901871
Cavalié Mercer17831868
17901875
Sir James Freeth17861867
17861874Held rank in the East Indies.
17941870
17871868Held rank in the East Indies.
Robert Bartlett Coles17851869
17781866Held rank in the East Indies.
Edward Pery Buckley17961873
18001888Promoted to Field Marshal on 21 June 1887.
Sir Charles Yorke17901880Promoted to Field Marshal on 2 June 1877.
Sir William MacBean George Colebrooke17871870
[31] unknown1867
Sir Edward Cust, 1st Baronet17941878Retired 1 October 1877.
unknown1869
Francis John Davies17911874
18001876
17941874
1866 Died 11 May 1866, just over a month after his promotion.
James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn18021866
unknown1867Madras Infantry.
17861875Bengal Infantry.
1868
1869Madras Infantry.
17851867Bengal Infantry.
William Thomas Knollys17971883Retired 1 October 1877.
17891872Bengal Infantry.
Henry Robert Ferguson Davie17971885
17891874Bengal Infantry.
William Wylde17881877
17921872
17841870Bombay Infantry. Haydn's Book of Dignities gives a promotion date of 6 December 1866.
17881880Held rank in the East Indies.
17971876
1801 1885Promoted to field marshal on 2 June 1877.
St John Augustus Clerke17961870
Sir Henry John William Bentinck17961878Retired 1 October 1877.
Sir Thomas Reed17961883Retired 1 October 1877.
18011876
17891874
1791 1874
1792 1872
1869
17891872
17941873
17991886Promoted to field marshal on 27 March 1886.
1883Madras Infantry.
unknownunknownBombay Infantry.
17881878Madras Infantry.
17921871
1875
17891871
18161872
17971873
17981872
Edward Wells Bell17891870
17831869
[32] Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Kars18001883
17931869
17891874
Sir Charles Grey18041870
1869Bombay Infantry.
17971874
17991880
unknown1874
1869
17981883
17981872Bengal Cavalry.
17961870Madras Cavalry.
1884Bengal Infantry.
unknown1871
17951871
17991889

1870–1881

Promoted <-- have date on one line -->NameBornDiedNotes
17911881
17901870
17881883
17871879
1871Bengal Cavalry.
18101890Promoted to the local rank of full general in the East Indies on 9 February 1870. Promoted to the substantive rank of full general on 1 April 1874. Promoted to field marshal in 1883.
17941872Madras Infantry.
[33] 18021874
1883
1876Bengal Cavalry.
unknown1887Madras Infantry.
17951879Bengal Infantry.
[34] 18031885Madras Infantry.
1879Madras Infantry.
18031880Madras Infantry.
18011874Madras Infantry.
18051895Madras Infantry.
unknown1873Bengal Infantry.
18021896Bombay Infantry.
17931882Madras Cavalry.
1872Bengal Infantry.
18031879Madras Infantry.
1877Madras Infantry.
17931875
17991872
18041884
[35] 18041895Promoted to field marshal on 24 June 1883.
18021887
18021891Haydn's Book of Dignities gives Wyllie's promotion date as 24 February 1870.
[36] 18031881
17961872Brevet promotion.
17901871
1879Haydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 8 July 1871.[37]
unknownunknownHaydn's Book of Dignities gives the promotion date as 8 July 1871.
unknown1886Bengal Engineers.
17921874Madras Army.
Sir James Yorke Scarlett17991871
Sir George Buller18021884
Sir John Bloomfield Gough18041891
Hon. Arthur Upton18071883
17911879
1782 1873
Sir Abraham Josias Cloëté17941886
17841883
18041888
Richard Greaves1793 1872
[38] Sir William Henry Elliott17921874
17971873
1796 1884
1874Haydn's Book of Dignities gives Edwards's promotion date as 19 November 1871.
17941891
James Arthur Butler18001881
Thomas Henry Johnston1891
1805 1886
17891876Held rank in the East Indies.
17961882
Thomas Wood1872
17971887
17881873
1881Bengal Infantry.
William Hassall Eden18001882
18021877Madras Infantry.
17961872
1878Madras Infantry.
18081875Grant's promotion date was originally gazetted as 6 May 1872 but was amended in accordance with the provisions of the 27th Clause of the Royal Warrant of 27 December 1870.
18031874Le Marchant's promotion date was originally gazetted as 10 May 1872 but was amended in accordance with the provisions of the 27th Clause of the Royal Warrant of 27 December 1870.
18011889Bengal Infantry.
18061881Gascoyne's promotion date was originally gazetted as 23 May 1872 but was amended in accordance with the provisions of the 27th Clause of the Royal Warrant of 27 December 1870.
William Mansfield, 1st Baron Sandhurst18191876
17961879
unknown1888Bengal Artillery.
[39] 17951876
John Theophilus Lane18031895
18101898
1888Madras Infantry.
18061899
unknown1880Bombay Cavalry.
17871884
unknown1876
17881878
18021890
17991875
[40] Sir Thomas Pratt17971879
1803 1895
17991881Bombay Infantry.
1885Bengal Cavalry.
Arthur Simcoe Baynes17971875
18041874
17981879
George Thomas Colomb17871874
[41] 1799 1891
17971876
17951875
18041886Promoted to field marshal on 27 March 1886.
1886Bombay Infantry.
1876Madras Infantry.
18041891
18101888
1887Bengal Infantry.
1885Madras Infantry.
18031882Served in the East India Company.
18051889
18041893Promoted to field marshal on 10 July 1886.
unknownunknownRetired 1 October 1877.
18021890Retired 1 October 1877.
18081888
Sir George Bell17941877
[42] unknown1876Bombay Engineers
18091883
unknownunknownCeylon Rifle Regiment
17921885Bengal Infantry
18121892
18121881
1877
18101892
[43] 1901
18021888Bengal Infantry
Sir Augustus Almeric Spencer18071893
1881
18021883
[44] Sir John Bloomfield1880
unknown1877Bombay Infantry
18051890
18121884
18021883Bombay Infantry
[45] 18021890
18061897
[46] 18031899Held rank in the East Indies.
18081904
18011881
Prince George, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale18191878Former King George V of Hanover (kingdom annexed by Prussia).
18111902
[47] 18051889
18011878Bengal Army
18151890
17971885Bengal Infantry
18051889Bengal Cavalry
Jayajirao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior18351886
Ranbir Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir18301885
1878Madras Infantry.
Charles Hastings Doyle18041883
17901879
1885Bombay Infantry.
18051894
Edward Green18101891Bombay staff Corps
18161887Bombay staff Corps
unknown1879Promoted on the retired list. Late of the Bombay Staff Corps.
John ffolliott Crofton18001885
Sir William Ingilby17911879Late Royal Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
Robert Burn1878Royal Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
18031882Indian Army. Royal (Bengal) Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
1798 1879honorary
1799 1885 Royal Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
1795 1877 Royal (Bengal) Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
18051887
17941891
1805 1878
Morden Carthew18051888Commanding Officer 21st Madras Native Infantry, Divisional Commander, Pegu Province, Burma
18001883
1878Late Madras Army.
18041884
18051882
Sir Francis Wheler, 10th Baronet18011878
18031879
18121884
1879Late 14th Light Dragoons. Promoted while on the retired list.
Richard Parker18041885Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir Charles Trollope18091888
Lord George Paget18181880
18101881Retired 29 April 1880.
17951878Promoted while on the retired list.
18031887
1808 1891
18121883
David Simpson
1800 1886 honorary
Edward Pole1879Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir Arthur Johnstone Lawrence18101892
Sir George Cadogan18141880
18101884
18081889
18031885Promoted while on the retired list.
Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport18141904
18091884
18051879Promoted while on the retired list.
18161889
18111884Promoted while on the retired list.
18071886Promoted from the retired list.
Sir Edward Cooper Hodge18101894
Thomas CrombiePromoted while on the retired list.
1817 1885
Sir Charles Shepherd Stuart1805 1879
18161897
1806 1879
1881Promoted while on the retired list.
18171878
Sir William Jones18081890
Sir Alexander Hamilton-Gordon18171890
1809 1885
1801 1885honorary
18101895
William Couperus McLeod1806 1880
Henry Bates18131893
Sir Frederick Edmund Chapman
1806 1889Promoted while on the retired list.
George Staunton1809 1880
1810 1898
Sir Neville Chamberlain18201902Promoted to field marshal on 25 April 1900.
1804 1884 Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir Trevor Chute18161886
1808 1883
1803 1880 Royal Engineers. Promoted while on the retired list.
Andrew Rowland1801 1878 Royal (Bombay) Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir Lintorn Simmons18211903Promoted to field marshal on 21 May 1890.
Sir William Marcus Coghlan1803 1885 Royal (Bombay) Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
Henry JervisPromoted while on the retired list.
1803 1885
1810 1891
James Travers18201884
18141900
1794 1878
1812 1891
Sir Philip Melmoth Nelson Guy18041878Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir Francis Seymour, 1st Baronet18131890
Indian Army
1810 1889
Sir Frederick Haines18191909Local rank in the East Indies from 22 March 1876. Promoted to field marshal on 21 May 1890.
1817 1887
Sir William O'Grady Haly18111878
1808 1897
Lord Henry Percy18171877
18181903
Sir Charles Ellice18231888
1809 1888
18081880
1804 1891 Bengal staff Corps. Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir Thomas Myddelton Biddulph18091878
18141879
Sir Thomas Steele18201890
1801 1881 Promoted while on the retired list.
1806 1885 Bengal staff Corps. Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir Richard Wilbraham18111900
18071892Bengal staff Corps. Promoted while on the retired list.
18081881Bengal Engineers.
1804 1889 Royal Engineers. Promoted while on the retired list.
William Irwin
1810 1887
1807 1879 Royal (Madras) Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
James Webber Smith
1808 1888
Sir George Balfour18091894
John Yorke1814 1890
18311917
1806 1880Bombay staff corps. Promoted while on the retired list.
1820 1887
1820 1891
18191888
1821 1889
1818 1891
1821 1914
18191905
1820 1888
18151900
18101890
1819 1894
18181901Indian Army
Sir Edward Alan Holdich18221909
Sir Charles Staveley18171896
1889
1814 1902
Sir George Malcolm18181897
Sir Alfred Hastings Horsford18181885
Sir Edward Lechmere Russell18181904
1822 1901
Sir Edward Charles Warde1811 1884
1807 1882
George WynneRoyal Engineers. Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir Collingwood Dickson18171904
Sir David Edward Wood18121894
James Abbott18071896Indian Army. Royal (Bengal) Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir James William Fitzmayer1813 1895
Frank Turner
Sir Henry Drury Harness18041883Royal Engineer. Promoted while on the retired list.
Sir James Brind18081888
1812 1880
1805 1885Royal (Madras) Artillery. Promoted while on the retired list.
1812 1884
George Ramsay
17911881
unknownunknown
1883
The Honourable 1800 1890
18011887
17961878
1883
1804188478th Highlanders
Sir Arthur Borton18141893
1808
David Elliot Mackirdy1894
John Studholme Brownrigg18151889
Sir William McMurdo18191894
[48] William Munro18181880
Arnold Charles Errington18061890
William Mark Wood18171883
Henry Smyth18161891
[49] 18271892
Lord Mark Ralph George Kerr18171900
18291880
William Sherbrooke Ramsay Norcott18041886
[50] Sir Henry de Bathe, 4th Baronet18231907
18141881
Thomas Brooke18161880
Henry Dalrymple White18211886
1823 1902
1825 1891
1898
18111897
18141900
Sir Daniel Lysons18161898
18151908
18231902promoted to field marshal in 1897
18211902
Sir John Douglas18171888
1808 1902
Sir Arnold Burrowes Kemball18201908
Sir Henry Charles Barnston Daubeney18101903
18221900
Sir Thomas Westropp McMahon, Bt18141892
Alexander Maxwell1816
Sir Richard Thomas Farren18171909
Robert Wardlow18171885
John Thornton Grant18111886
Alexander Low18171904
Edward Harris Greathed18121881
William Neville Custance18111886
Sir Richard Denis Kelly18151897
18221886
Sir Robert Rollo18141907
Sir Henry James Warre18191898
18131897
Sir Michael Kavanagh Kennedy18241898
George Vaughan Maxwell18191892
1809 1889
18271909
1815 1900
18191890
18161904
1810 1885
Lord Alfred Paget18161888
18161887
1899
1813 1902
18191890
18181892
Sir James Talbot Airey18121898
18151914
1814 1891
1817 1895
18191902
18101882
1814 1895
18141900
1820 1887
18191892
1807 1892
Sir Edward Stanton18271907
1809 1887
Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby18251895
George Erskine1897
1818 1889
1812 1881
1823 1888
18161888
Sir John Summerfield Hawkins1817 1895
18231916
Charles Douglas
Robert Pratt
1817 1894
Charles Fanshawe1816 1901
Sir John Josiah Hort18241882
18201892
Sir Donald Stewart, 1st Baronet18241900Promoted to field marshal on 26 May 1894.
1813 1887
Ralph Budd
1811 1890
1819 1898
18131900
18211890
Edmund Roche1897
William Inglis1823 1888
1823 1887
Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier18351906
1820 1895
Robert Bruce
1821 1886
George Selby
Thomas Addison1890Honorary General
18201904
1816 1884
William Sankey
Edmund Wodehouse18181898
18221904
William Gordon
18211918
Edward Price
Robert Warden
Michael Bruce
1896
18171899
Sir William Hope, 14th Baronet18191898
18201898
Augustus Francis Ansell18031887Honorary general
Thomas Hooke Pearson18061892Honorary general
Sir James Edward Alexander18031885Honorary general.
William Clarke1881Honorary general
Samuel WellsHonorary general
Colin McIntyre18061887Honorary general
John RocheHonorary general
Sir St George Gerald Foley18141897
1822 1888
William Frederick Curtis18101882Honorary general
1817 1890
Henry Meade Hamilton18191895Honorary general
1818

1882–1899

Promoted <-- have date on one line -->NameBornDiedNotes
18211910
[51] 18281896
Edward Selby Smyth18191896
Sir Alexander Macdonell18201891Honorary general
Sir William Parke18221897Honorary general
Hon. Sir Francis Colborne18171895
[52] Sir Henry Norman18261904Promoted to Field Marshal on 26 June 1902.
John Bayly18211905
[53] 18241914
[54] 18201897
18241883
Garnet Wolseley, 1st Baron Wolseley18331913Granted local (in South Africa) and temporary promotion to full general from 4 June 1879. Promoted to the substantive rank of general on 18 November 1882. Promoted to field marshal on 26 May 1894; later Viscount Wolseley.
Sir William Olpherts18221902
18241892
1897
18221904
1885
18201895
Sir Robert Cadell18251897
Sir Richard Chambré Hayes Taylor18191904
[55] Arthur Edward Hardinge18281892
18281902
[56]
James Thomas Walker18261896
Sir John Alexander Ewart18211904
Sir Charles Laurence D'Aguilar18211912
18231900 Bombay Infantry
Sir William Templer Hughes18221897
[57] Charles Pyndar Beauchamp Walker18171894
[58] 1819 1900
Charles Lennox Brownlow Maitland18231891
Sir William Henry Seymour18291921
[59] Sir Arthur Herbert18201897
1896
[60] 18251906
[61] 18281917
18231905
Sir Frederick Francis Maude18211897
George Warren Walker
18231908
18241890
18291888
Sir Frederick Arthur Charles Stephenson18211911
18211891
Sir John Forbes18171906
18201898
18241905
Lord Alexander Russell18211907
Sir Frederick Alexander Campbell
[62] Sir 18221897
Alexander Fraser18241898
Sir Julius Richard Glyn18241910
18231904
18281913
18281916
18311906
18341913
Sir Robert Onesiphorus Bright18231896
18211897
Sir William Pollexfen Radcliffe18221897
[63] Charles M'Arthur
Sir George Willis18231900
[64] 18251914
18231910
[65] 18271905London Gazette says made General 16 December 1888
1824 1911
[66] 1893
David Anderson18211909
Sir William Payn1823 1893
Sir Henry Dominick Daly
Sir John Luther Vaughan18201911
Sir Sam Browne18241901
18261891
Sir Dighton Macnaghten Probyn18331924
1817 1890
1815 1892
18211898
1822 1891
1822 1895
18161900
18241903
18181892
David Brown
18211912
18141898
Sir John Field18211899
18221917
John Gordon
William Thomas Williams
1821 1904
1825 1892
18241904
James Buchanan
1825 1904
[67] 18131909
Sir Henry Ramsay18161893
18171896
Henry Nicoll18161907
John Wilson
18171908
18151899
1816 1890
Henry Man
1816
1819 1899
Robert Woolley
1819 1894
Thomas Thompson
1820 1893
1821 1894
1816 1892
1819 1890
Solomon Richards
1820 1894
Sir Robert Phayre18201897
Charles Campbell M'Callum
Daniel Boyd
Sir Alfred William Lucas1822 1896
1827 1891
Henry Hopkinson
1902
Sir Richard John Meade18211894
John Robert M'Mullin
1820 1894
Alfred Cooper
Sir Charles Brownlow18311916Promoted to field marshal on 20 June 1908.
Sir Archibald Alison, 2nd Baronet18261907
Sir Charles George Arbuthnot18241899
Sir George Wentworth Alexander Higginson18261927
Sir Robert White18271902
Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts18321914Promoted supernumerary general in 1890 and substantive general in 1891. Promoted to field marshal 25 May 1895.
18301897
Sir John Watson18291919
1822 1900
1823 1893
1822 1894
1823 1892
1822 1907
George Baldock
18231905
1823 1900
John Loudon
1823 1898
1823 1899
1826 1902
1822 1896
Sir John Ross18291905
Sir Percy Robert Basil Feilding18271904
Sir Henry Smyth18251906
Sir Edward Gascoigne Bulwer18291910
Sir Martin Andrew Dillon18261913
Sir Robert Biddulph18351918
Sir William Gordon Cameron18271913
Sir Mark Walker18271902
18171896Honorary general
18501942Promoted to field marshal 26 June 1902.
Sir John Hart Dunne18351924
18291897
Sir Wilbraham Oates Lennox18301897
18261906
William Gordon
1825 1901
1902
Frederick Schneider
George Pringle
18251904
18241903
Hugh Rose
1824 1902
Charles Thompson
1829 1900
George Smart
1829 1905
1834 1912
Lewis William Buck1824 1912
1825 1898
1826 1921
James Blair18281905
1824 1900
1825 1903
1823 1905
1827 1915
1822 1904
1825 1904
1827 1895
Sir Charles Cooper Johnson1827 1905
18261902
1832 1896
Sir Mowbray Thomson18321917
Sir Charles John Stanley Gough18321912
1828 1907
1832 1896 Bunjab Frontier Force
1829 1912
1828 1903
James Michael
Indian staff Corps
Charles Henry Hall
1827 1902
1827 1898
John Miles
1827 1910
1827 1904
1826 1904
1825 1915
1827 1901
1837 1910
1828 1903
1828 1895
1827 1901
1829 1911
Sir Thomas Edward Gordon18321914
William Bannerman
1827 1901
Sir John James Hood Gordon18321908
Sir Hugh Henry Gough18331909
Sir Reginald Gipps18311908
Sir Hugh Rowlands18281909
Sir Evelyn Wood18381919 Promoted to field marshal on 8 April 1903.
1834 1901
Sir Richard Harrison18371931
1827 1905
1829 1901
1828 1899
1834 1908
Duncan John McGrigor1834 1909
18301913
Harry McLeod
Sir Arthur Lyon Fremantle18351901
18401926
Sir George Richards Greaves18311922
Sir Redvers Buller18391908
18331919
Sir William Lockhart18411900
18331907
Sir Charles Nairne18361899Promoted to local rank of general (East Indies) on 20 March 1898.
Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale18451923Removed in 1915,[68] and deprived of his British titles in 1919.
1899Sir Arthur Palmer18401904
189918431905

1900–2024

Promoted <-- have date on one line -->NameBornDiedNotes
1900Sir George Barker18331914
Sir George Stuart White18351912Promoted Field Marshal, 8 April 1903
Sir Henry Brackenbury18371914Temporary rank 6 February 1899 while serving as Inspector-General of Ordnance; substantive rank 26 September 1901. Colonel Commandant Royal Artillery
Sir Horace Moule Evans18411923Indian staff Corps
Sir William Stirling18351906Lieutenant of the Tower, Governor of the Royal Military Academy.
Herbert Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener18501916Promoted to local rank of general (in South Africa) before 12 December 1900. Promoted to substantive general on 1 June 1902. Promoted to field marshal on 10 September 1909; later Earl Kitchener
Prince George, Prince of Wales18661936In the 1902 Coronation Honours list; Assumed the rank of field marshal on 7 May 1910 the day after his accession as King George V.
Sir Frederick Forestier-Walker18441910later Governor of Gibraltar
Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke, 3rd Baronet18391932Quartermaster-General to the Forces, later Governor of Malta
Sir Cecil James East18371908
Lord William Frederick Ernest Seymour18381915Lieutenant of the Tower of London
1903King Christian IX of Denmark18181906
1903Sir Baker Russell18371911
Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell18411925Promoted to field marshal on 11 April 1908.
18451932Promoted to field marshal on 19 June 1911.
1904Sir Charles Warren18401927
King Alfonso XIII of Spain18861941promoted to field marshal on 3 June 1928.
Sir Archibald Hunter18561936
Sir George Luck18401916
Sir William Nicholson18451918Promoted to field marshal on 19 June 1911; later Baron Nicholson.
Sir Charles Egerton18481921Indian Army. Promoted to field marshal on 16 March 1917.
1906Sir Bindon Blood18421940
1906Sir Alfred Gaselee18441918Indian Army.
1906Sir Neville Lyttelton18451931
Sir John French18521925Promoted to field marshal 3 June 1913; later Earl of Ypres.
Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton18531947
Sir O'Moore Creagh18481923
Sir Edmund Barrow18521934
1909Sir Charles Burnett18421915
Sir Leslie Rundle18561934
Sir Charles Douglas18501914Died while serving as the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
Sir Beauchamp Duff18551918Indian Army.
Arthur Singleton Wynne18461936
18621919honorary
Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien18581930
Sir Henry Grant18481919
Sir Arthur Paget18511928
Sir Bruce Hamilton18571936
Sir Henry Mackinnon18521929
Sir Reginald Wingate18611953
1914Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig18611928Promoted to field marshal in 1917.
Sir James Willcocks18571926
Herbert Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer18571932Promoted to field marshal on 31 July 1919.
1915Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet18601929
King Vajiravudh of Siam18801925honorary
1916Sir William Robertson18601933Promoted to field marshal in 1920.
1917Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet18641922Temporary promotion to full general in 1917, substantive promotion to full general in 1918. Promoted to field marshal in 1919.
1917Sir Edmund Allenby18611936Promoted to field marshal in 1919; later Viscount Allenby.
1917Sir Arthur Barrett1857 1926Indian Army. Promoted to field marshal in 1921.
William Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood18651951Promoted to field marshal on 20 March 1925.
1917Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy18621935Later promoted to field marshal.
1917Henry Horne, 1st Baron Horne18611929
1917Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson18641925
1918Sir Nevil Macready18621946
1919 Sir John Grenfell Maxwell18591929
1 January 1919 Sir John Cowans18621921
1919Sir Archibald Murray18601945
Sir Chandra Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana18631929honorary
Sir Havelock Hudson18621944
1920Sir Herbert Cox18601923
Sir George Milne18661948Promoted to field marshal on 30 January 1928; later Baron Milne.
Sir Claud Jacob18631948Promoted to field marshal on 30 November 1926.
1920Sir Thomas Morland18651925Temporary promotion 1920. November 1922, substantive promotion to full general.
Emperor Hirohito of Japan19011989honorary; promoted to field marshal on 26 June 1930.
Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan18651946Promoted to field marshal on 31 October 1932.
Sir Bryan Mahon18621930
Sir Francis Davies18641948
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet18651951
Sir Hubert Gough18701963Granted the honorary rank of general on retirement.
Sir Walter Congreve18621927
Sir Alexander Godley18671957
1923Sir Ivor Maxse18621958
1924Sir Alexander Cobbe18701931
1924Sir Joseph John Asser18671949
Sir Edward Bulfin18621939
Sir Richard Haking18621945
1926Sir Noel Birch18651939
Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode18691950Promoted to field marshal on 13 February 1933.
1926Sir Walter Braithwaite18651945
Sir John Du Cane18651947
1927Sir Charles Harington18721940
Sir William Peyton18661931
Sir George Kirkpatrick18661950
Sir Robert Whigham18651950
Sir Andrew Skeen18731935Indian Army.
Sir Robert Cassels18761959
1930Sir David Campbell18691936
Cyril Norman MacMullen18771944
Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd18711947Promoted to field marshal on 7 June 1935.
Sir William Heneker18671939
Sir Cameron Shute18661936
Sir Peter Strickland18691951
Sir William Thwaites18681947
Sir Webb Gillman18701933
1932Sir Kenneth Wigram18751949
1932Sir Cecil Romer18691962
Sir Cyril Deverell18741947Promoted to field marshal on 15 May 1936.
1933Sir Alexander Wardrop18721961
Sir Torquhil Matheson18711963
Sir Felix Ready18721940
1934Sir John Burnett-Stuart18751958
Edward, Prince of Wales18941972Field marshal 21 January 1936 as King Edward VIII; later Duke of Windsor
1935George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys18781960
Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside18801959Promoted to field marshal in 1940.
1936Sir Archibald Rice Cameron18701944
1936Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope18741947
Prince Albert, Duke of York18951952Assumed the rank of field marshal on accession as King George VI, 11 December 1936.
Sir Henry ap Rhys Pryce18741950Indian Army.
Sir Walter Kirke18771949
Sir Harry Knox18731971
Sir John Coleridge18781951
Sir William Bartholomew18771962
1937Sir Robert Gordon-Finlayson18811956
1937Sir George Weir18761951
Sir Douglas Baird18771963
Sir Charles Bonham-Carter18761955
Sir Ivo Vesey18761975
Sir Walter Pitt-Taylor18781950
Sir Reginald Hildyard18761965
Sir Reginald May18791958
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort18861946Promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1943.
Sir Sydney Muspratt18781972
Sir Archibald Wavell18831950Promoted to the local rank of full general (in the Middle East) on 28 July 1939. Promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1943. Became Viscount Wavell in 1942 and Earl Wavell in 1947.
Sir John Dill18811944Promoted to full general on 1 October 1939 with seniority backdated to 5 December 1937. Promoted to field marshal on 18 November 1941.
1940Sir Roger Wilson18821966Indian Army
Sir Walter Venning18821964
1940Sir Clement Armitage18811973
Sir Claude Auchinleck18841981Indian Army, promoted to field marshal in 1946
Sir Alan Brooke18831963Promoted to acting general on 20 July 1940. Substantive promotion to general on 7 May 1941. Promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1944. Later Viscount Alanbrooke.
Sir Alan Hartley18821954Indian Army.
Sir Henry Wilson18811964Promoted to full general on 31 May 1941, with seniority backdated to 6 May 1941. Promoted to field marshal on 29 December 1944. later Baron Wilson.
Sir Mir Usman Ali Khan, Nizam of Hyderabad and Berar18861967honorary
Sir George Giffard18861964
Sir Ronald Forbes Adam, 2nd Baronet18851982
1942Sir Harold Alexander18911969Promoted to field marshal in 1944; later Viscount then Earl Alexander of Tunis
1942Sir Bernard Montgomery18871976promoted to field marshal in 1944; later Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
Sir Edward Quinan18851960Indian Army
Sir Thomas Riddell-Webster18861974
1943Sir William Platt18851975
Sir Bernard Paget18871961Acting rank from December 1941. Substantive general from July 1943.
[69] 18851963
Hastings Ismay, 1st Baron Ismay18871965 Indian Army officer.
Sir Mosley Mayne18891955Indian Army
Sir Henry Finnis18901945Indian Army
19001974promoted to field marshal in 1955
Sir Andrew Thorne18851970
Sir Richard O'Connor18891981
Sir Colville Wemyss18911959
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim18911970Indian Army. Retired in 1948. Recalled to service and promoted to field marshal in 1949.
Sir Alan Cunningham18871983
Sir Charles Loyd18911973
Sir Daril Watson18881967
1946Sir William Morgan18911977
1946Sir John Crocker1896 1963promoted 6 March 1947 with seniority 2 October 1946
1946Sir Evelyn Barker18941983promoted 15 November 1948 with seniority 3 October 1946
Sir Neil Ritchie18971983Seniority backdated to 9 October 1946.
Sir Philip Christison18931993Promoted to full general on 19 August 1947 with seniority backdated to 29 September 1946.
1947Sir Sidney Kirkman18951982
1947Sir James Steele18941975
1947Sir Rob Lockhart18931981Indian Army
1947Brian Robertson, 1st Baron Robertson of Oakridge18961974
1947Sir Frank Messervy18931974Indian Army.
Sir Ivor Thomas18931972
1949Sir Richard McCreery18981967
194918961989Promoted to field marshal in 1953.
1949Sir Roy Bucher18951980honorary (ex-Indian Army)
1949Sir Kenneth Anderson18911959
King Farouk of Egypt19201965honorary
1950Sir Gerald Templer18981979promoted to field marshal in 1956
Sir Ouvry Roberts18981986
Sir Douglas Gracey18941964Promoted to honorary full general on retirement.
1951Sir Charles Keightley19011974
Sir Kenneth Crawford18951961
1952Sir Cameron Nicholson1898 1979
Sir Richard Gale18961982
King Tribhuvan of Nepal19061955honorary
1953Sir Robert Mansergh19001970temporary rank, 1 April 1953; substantive, 29 September 1953
1953Sir Nevil Brownjohn18971973
Sir Gordon Holmes Alexander MacMillan18971986
Sir Charles Loewen19001986
1955Sir Lashmer Whistler18981963
King Mahendra of Nepal19201972honorary; promoted to field marshal on 17 October 1960.
1956Princess Mary, Princess Royal18971965
1956Sir Francis Festing19021976Promoted to field marshal in 1960.
1957Sir Dudley Ward19051991
195719021982
1957Sir Hugh Stockwell19031986
1957Sir John Whiteley18961970
Sir Cecil Sugden19031963
Sir James Cassels19071996Later promoted to field marshal.
1959Sir Richard Hull19071989Promoted to field marshal in 1965.
Sir Horatius Murray19031989
Sir Gerald Lathbury19061978
Sir Richard Goodbody19031981
1963Sir William Stirling19071973local rank 1 April and substantive rank 29 June 1963
Sir Reginald Hewetson19081993Promoted to the local rank (Ministry of Defence) of full general on 26 October 1964.
1965Sir John D'Arcy Anderson19081988
1965Sir Charles Richardson19081994
1965Sir Robert Bray19081983
1965Sir John Hackett19101997
Sir Alan Jolly19101977
1967Sir Kenneth Darling19091998
1967Sir Geoffrey Baker19121980promoted to field marshal in 1971
1968Sir Geoffrey Musson19102008local rank, 30 October 1967; substantive, 9 March 1968
Sir Michael Carver19152001Promoted to field marshal on 18 July 1973.
1968Sir Charles Harington19102007
1968 Sir Desmond Fitzpatrick19122002
1969Sir Walter Walker19122001
Sir Antony Read19132000Promoted to general (local rank) on 29 September 1969. Substantive rank 11 November 1969.
Sir John Mogg1913 2001
1970Sir Peter Hunt19161988
Sir Basil Eugster19141984Appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command with the local rank of general on 22 February 1971. Then promoted to general on 6 April 1971 with seniority backdated to 22 February 1971.
Sir Noel Thomas19151983Promoted to the local rank of general (at the Ministry of Defence) 9 March 1971.
1972Sir Thomas Pearson19142019
Sir Mervyn Butler19131976
Sir William Jackson19171999Promoted to general (local rank at the Ministry of Defence) on 19 January 1973.
1973Sir Cecil Blacker19162002local rank, 18 June 1973; substantive, 19 June, with seniority 18 April 1973
1973Sir Harry Tuzo19171998Local general (details unknown) before promotion to substantive general on 31 July 1973.
King Birendra of Nepal19452001honorary; promoted to honorary field marshal on 18 November 1980.
1973Sir John Sharp19171977promoted 18 September 1974 with seniority 24 April 1973
Sir John Gibbon19171997Seniority backdated to 10 August 1973.
Sir Roland Gibbs19212004Promoted to field marshal on 13 July 1979.
Sir David Fraser19202012
1976Sir Frank King19191998
1976Sir Jack Harman19202009
Sir Edwin Bramall19232019Substantive promotion to general on 25 June 1976 with seniority backdated to 15 May 1976. Promoted to field marshal on 1 January 1982. Later Baron Bramall.
Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson19212009Promoted to full general on 31 January 1977 with seniority backdated to 1 April 1976.
1977Sir Hugh Beach19232019
1978Sir John Archer1924 1999
1978 Sir William Scotter19221981
Sir Robert Ford19232015Promoted to the local rank of general (Ministry of Defence) on 1 September 1978. Promoted to the substantive rank of general on 2 November 1978 with seniority backdated to 1 May 1978.
Sir Richard Worsley19232013Promoted to full general (local rank at the Ministry of Defence) on 1 March 1979. Permanent promotion on 13 July 1979 with seniority backdated to 1 March 1979.
1979Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley19242006
1980Sir Timothy Creasey1923 1986
1981Sir Michael Gow19242013local rank, 25 October 1980; substantive 6 February 1981
Sir John Stanier19252007Promoted to field marshal on 10 July 1985.
1981Sir Peter Leng19252009promoted 21 March 1981 with seniority 1 February 1981
1981Sir George Cooper19252020
1982Sir Richard Lawson19272023
1982Sir Frank Kitson19262024
1982Sir Nigel Bagnall19272002promoted to field marshal in 1988
Sir Richard Trant19282007Promoted to the local rank of general (at the Ministry of Defence) on 5 September 1983.
1983Sir Thomas Morony19271989
Sir Roland Guy19282005Seniority backdated to 1 September 1983.
1983Sir Edward Burgess19272015promoted 16 July 1984 with seniority 15 September 1983
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei1946honorary
Sir James Glover19292000Granted local rank (United Kingdom) of full general on 1 June 1985. Substantive promotion on 29 June 1985.
Sir Martin Farndale19292000
Sir Geoffrey Howlett19302022
Sir Richard Vincent19312018Promoted to field marshal on 2 April 1991. Later Baron Vincent of Coleshill.
1986Sir David Mostyn19282007local rank, 13 December 1986; substantive rank 10 January 1987, with seniority 8 February 1986
1987Sir John Akehurst19302007
Sir John Chapple19312022Promoted to field marshal on 14 February 1992.
Sir Charles Huxtable19312018
Sir Brian Kenny19342017
1988Sir Robert Pascoe1932
Sir John Stibbon19352014
Sir Patrick Palmer19331999Promotion to full general on 24 April 1989 with seniority backdated to 15 August 1988.
Sir Peter Inge19352022Promoted to the local rank of full general (in Germany) on 27 November 1989. Promoted to substantive full general on 3 January 1990. Promoted to field marshal on 15 March 1994. Later Baron Inge.
Sir John Waters1935
1990 David Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham19342022Local rank awarded in 1990. Substantively promoted 1991 with seniority backdated to 1990.
1991Sir Peter de la Billière1934
1992Sir John Learmont1934local rank 2 December 1991; substantive rank 14 January with seniority 13 January 1992
1992Charles Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank1938promoted to field marshal in 2012
1992Sir Garry Johnson1937acting rank 14 April 1992; substantive rank 27 July with seniority 1 June 1992
1992Sir Edward Jones19362007
Sir John Finlay Willasey Wilsey, 19392019active rank, 1 March 1993, substantive 11 July 1993 with seniority from the earlier date
Sir Michael John Wilkes19402013active rank, 17 May 1993, substantive 13 July 1993 with seniority from the earlier date
1994Sir Jeremy Blacker19392005local rank, 18 April 1994; substantive, 13 June 1994
King Harald V of Norway1937honorary
1994Sir Jeremy Mackenzie1941acting rank, 8 December 1994; substantive 22 March 1995 with seniority 8 December 1994
Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg19212019honorary
9 September 1995Sir Michael Rose1940
1996Sir Roger Wheeler1941
19971944
Sir Alexander Harley1941Acting promotion on 2 June 1997. Substantive promotion on 1 September 1997 with seniority of the same date.
1 September 1998Sir Samuel Cowan1941
30 November 1998Sir Rupert Smith1943Acting general from 1998. Substantive general from 1 January 1999.
2000Sir Mike Jackson1944
Sir Timothy Granville-Chapman1947
2004Sir John Reith1948Substantive promotion to general on 1 October 2004.
Sir Kevin O'Donoghue1947Previously local general (date unknown)
2005Richard Dannatt, Baron Dannatt1950
2006Prince Charles, Prince of Wales1948promoted to field marshal in 2012
Sir Redmond Watt1950
2008Sir David Richards1952
2009Sir Nick Houghton1954
20091955
Sir Nick Parker1954
Sir Richard Shirreff1955
1958
1959
1960
1962
Sir Mark Carleton-Smith1964
6 May 2019Sir Patrick Sanders1966
1963
15 August 2020Princess Anne, Princess Royal1950
23 May 2022Sir James Hockenhull1964
10 June 2024Dame Sharon Nesmith1970First female to be promoted to general
16 June 2024Sir Roland Walker1970

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