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 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 and then installed on 17 June 1725.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 | died 20 April 1759 | |
William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin | died 18 July 1777 | |
John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel | died 27 February 1754 |