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.

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• George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1736)
• John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1736)
• Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (1739)
• François de la Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandré (1739)
• John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (1742)
• Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1742)
• George Wade (1743)
• Sir Robert Rich (1757)
• Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth (1757)
• John Ligonier, 1st Viscount Ligonier (1757)
• James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine (1763)
• Henry Seymour Conway (1793)
• HRH Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1793)
• Sir George Howard (1793)
• HRH The Prince Frederick Augustus, 1st Duke of York and Albany (1795)
• John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (1796)
• Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal (1796)
• John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden (1796)
• Studholme Hodgson (1796)
• George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (1796)
• Lord Frederick Cavendish (1796)
• Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1796)
• HRH The Prince Edward Augustus, 1st Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1805)
• Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquis of Wellington (1813)
• HRH The Prince Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1813)
• HRH The Prince Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge (1813)
• HRH Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1816)
• HRH Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1816)
• Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda (1821)
• William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt (1821)
• Sir Alured Clarke (1830)
• Sir Samuel Hulse (1830)
• HRH Prince Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1840)
• HM Willem II, King of the Netherlands (1845)
• Sir George Nugent (1846)
• Thomas Grosvenor (1846)
• Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1846)
• Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1854)
• Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (1855)
• John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1855)
• Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1855)
• John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton (1860)
• Sir Edward Blakeney (1862)
• Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough of Goojerat (1862)
• HRH Prince George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge (1862)
• Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1862)
• Sir Alexander George Woodford (1868)
• Sir William Maynard Gomm (1868)
• Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross (1868)
• Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1868)
• Sir George Pollock (1870)
• Sir John Foster Fitzgerald (1875)
• George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale (1875)
• HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1875)
• Sir William Rowan (1877)
• Sir Charles Yorke (1877)
• Hugh Henry Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn (1877)
• Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1883)
• Sir Patrick Grant (1883)
• Sir John Michel (1886)
• Sir Richard James Dacres (1886)
• Lord William Paulet (1886)
• George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1887)
• Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons (1890)
• Sir Frederick Paul Haines (1890)
• Sir Donald Martin Stewart (1894)
• Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley of Cairo (1894)
• Frederick Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar (1895)
• HH Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar (1897)
• Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain (1900)
• HIM Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia (1901)
• Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1902)
• HRH The Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1902)
• Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (1903)
• Sir George Stewart White (1903)
• HIM Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary (1903)
• Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell (1908)
• Sir Charles Henry Brownlow (1908)
• Horatio Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum (1909)
• HM King George V (1910)
• Paul Stafford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen (1911)
• William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson (1911)
• Sir John French (1913)
• HIM Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias (1916)
• Sir Douglas Haig (1917)
• Sir Charles Comyn Egerton (1917)
• HIM the Emperor Taisho (Yoshihito) of Japan (1918)
• Marshal of France HE Ferdinand Foch (1919)
• Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer of Messines (1919)
• Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1919)
• Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1919)
• Sir William Robert Robertson (1920)
• Sir Arthur Arnold Barret (1921)
• HM Albert I, King of the Belgians (1921)
• William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1925)
• Sir Claude William Jacob (1926)
• George Francis Milne (1928)
• HM Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (1928)
• HIM the Emperor Showa (Hirohito) of Japan (1930)
• Julian Hedworth Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1932)
• Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1932)
• Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode (1933)
• Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd (1935)
• HM King Edward VIII (1936)
• Sir Cyril John Deverell (1936)
• HM King George VI (1936)
• William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1940)
• Jan Christiaan Smuts (1941)
• Sir John Greer Dill (1941)
• John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1943)
• Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell (1943)
• Sir Alan Francis Brooke (1944)
• Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander (1944)
• Sir Bernard Law Montgomery (1944)
• Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson of Libya (1944)
• Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck (1946)
• Sir William Joseph Slim (1949)
• Philip Mountbatten, 1st Duke of Edinburgh (1953)
• Allan Francis John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1953)
• HRH The Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester (1955)
• Sir Gerald Francis Templer (1956)
• Sir Francis Wogan Festing (1960)
• HM Mahendra, King of Nepal (1960)
• HIM Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1965)
• Sir Richard Amyatt Hull (1965)
• Sir Charles Archibald James Halkett Cassels (1968)
• Sir Geoffrey Harding Baker (1971)
• Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver of Shackleford (1973)
• Sir Roland Christopher Gibbs (1979)
• HM Birendra, King of Nepal (1980)
• Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall (1982)
• Sir John Wilfrid Stanier (1985)
• Sir Nigel Thomas Bagnall (1988)
• Richard Frederick Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill (1991)
• Sir John Lyon Chapple (1992)
• HRH Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, 2nd Duke of Kent (1993)
• Sir Peter Anthony Inge, Baron Inge (1994)
 
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