List of Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India
This is a list of Knights Grand Commander (Knights 1861-1866) of the Most Exalted Order of the Star of India from 1861 until 1947, when the order ceased to be awarded. The Viceroy of India served as ex-officio Grand Master of the Order, and was automatically appointed as a Knight Grand Commander upon taking office.
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1860s
- 1861-1866: See List of Knights Companion of the Order of the Star of India
- 1867: HH The Maharaja of Mysore,[1] Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Napier[2]
- 1868: HE Sir William Vesey-Fitzgerald, Governor of the Bombay Presidency[3]
- 1869: The Rana of Dholpur[4]
1870s
- 1870: The Maharaja of Patiala; Mir Turab Ali Khan, Salar Jung I, Prime Minister of Hyderabad[5]
- 1871: The Maharana of Udaipur; the Rao of Cutch[6]
- 1872: HH The Nawab Begum of Bhopal; John Strachey; John Cracroft Wilson[7]
- 1873: HE Maharaja Jang Bahadur, Prime Minister of Nepal; General Sir John Low; Lieutenant-General Neville Bowles Chamberlain[8]
- 1875: Jaswant Singh II, the Maharaja of Jodhpur; Kalib Ali Khan, the Nawab of Rampur; Raghubir Singh, the Maharaja of Jind[9]
- 1876: HE The Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Governor of the Madras Presidency; HE Sir Philip Wodehouse, Governor of the Bombay Presidency[10]
- 1877: HRH The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn; HH Ram Singh, Maharao Raja of Bundi; HH Jashwant Singh, the Maharaja of Bharatpur; HH Iswari Presad Narayan Singh, the Maharaja of Benares; HH Zahir-ud-Daula, the Prince of Arcot,[11] HRH The Prince Leopold[12] HRH The Duke of Cambridge[13]
- 1878: HE Sir Richard Temple, Governor of the Bombay Presidency,[14] Sir John Strachey[15]
- 1879: General Sir Frederick Haines; The Raja of Nabha[16]
1880s
- 1880: Viscount Cranbrook, Secretary of State for India,[17] HH the Nawab of Bahawalpur[18]
- 1882: The Maharaja of Travancore; HH the Nawab Iqbal ud-Daula of Awadh[19]
- 1884: Nizam of Hyderabad[20]
- 1885: Sir James Fergusson, Governor of the Bombay Presidency,[21] General Sir Donald Martin Stewart[22]
- 1886: Turki bin Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman; Mangal Singh Prabhakar, Maharao Raja of Alwar; Takhtsinhji, Maharaja of Bhavnagar[23]
- 1887: Sayajirao Gaekwad III, Maharaja of Baroda; Fateh Singh, the Maharana of Udaipur; HH Shamsher Prakash, Raja of Sirmur,[24] Shivajirao Holkar, Maharaja of Indore[25]
- 1888: HH Madho Singh, Maharaja of Jaipur,[26] Maharaja of Travancore[27]
1890s
- 1890: Lord Reay, Governor of the Bombay Presidency[28]
- 1892: Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir,[29] Viscount Cross, Secretary of State for India[30]
- 1893: Lord Roberts of Kandahar[31]
- 1895: Shahu Chhatrapati, Raja of Kolhapur,[32] the Maharaja Scindia of Gwalior, George Canning, Lord Harris,[33] Henry Hartley Fowler[34]
- 1896: Lord Wenlock, Governor of the Madras Presidency[35]
- 1897: HH Venkatesh Raman Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Rewa; HE Maharaja Sir Bir Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal; Sir Antony Patrick MacDonnell, Lieutenant-Governor of the North-Western Provinces; Lieutenant-Colonel Maharajadhiraja Sir Pratap Singh Bahadur of Jodhpur; Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker; Lieutenant-General Richard Strachey[36]
- 1898: The Maharaja of Patiala,[37] General Sir George Stewart White, Commander-in-Chief, India[38]
1900s
- 1900: Lord Sandhurst, Governor of the Bombay Presidency[39]
- 1901: Sir Arthur Havelock, former Governor of the Madras Presidency[40]
- 1903: Lord George Hamilton; The Raja of Cochin[41]
- 1906: HH Pratap Singh, Maharaja of Orchha[42]
- 1907: Krishnaraja Wodiyar, Maharaja of Mysore[43]
- 1909: HH Rasul Khanji Mahabat Khanji, Nawab of Junagadh[44]
1910s
- 1910: Kaikhusrau Jahan, Begum of Bhopal; HH Sardar Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur[45]
- 1911: Sir Steuart Colvin Bayley, former Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal; Sir Dennis Fitzpatrick, former Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab; Sir William Lee-Warner, Member of the Council of India,[46] General Sir Dighton Macnaghton Probyn,[47] Osman Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VII, Nizam of Hyderabad; Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner; Umed Singh II, Maharao of Kota; Jagatjit Singh, Maharaja of Kapurthala; The Aga Khan III; Sir George Sydenham Clarke, Governor of Bombay; Sir Arthur Lawley, former Governor of Madras; Sir John Prescott Hewett; HE Sir Garrett O'Moore Creagh, Commander-in-Chief, India[48]
- 1913: HH Muhammad Ibrahim Khan, Nawab of Tonk[49]
- 1916: HH Sheikh Khaz'al Bin Jabir, Amir of Mohammerah, [50]
- 1916: HE General Sir Beauchamp Duff, Commander-in-Chief, India[51]
- 1917: Khengarji III, Rao of Kutch[52]
- 1918: Lord Pentland, Governor of Madras; Lord Willingdon, Governor of Bombay[53]
- 1919: HH Raghubir Singh, Maharao Raja of Bundi; General Sir Charles Carmichael Monro, Commander-in-Chief, India[54]
1920s
- 1921: The Prince of Wales,[55] HH Prabhu Narayan Singh, Maharaja of Benares; Bhupinder Singh Bahadur, Maharaja of Patiala,[56] Muhammad Hamid Ali Khan Bahadur, Nawab of Rampur[57]
- 1923: Ranjitsinhji, Maharaja of Nawanagar[58]
- 1924: Sir George Ambrose Lloyd, former Governor of Bombay[59]
- 1925: Viscount Lee of Fareham[60]
- 1928: Earl of Birkenhead,[61] Sir Spencer Harcourt Butler, former Governor of Burma[62]
- 1929: Viscount Goschen, Governor of Madras[63]
1930s
- 1930: Field-Marshal Sir William Birdwood, Commander-in-Chief, India,[64] Sir John Simon; Field-Marshal Sir Claud Jacob[65]
- 1931: Bhupal Singh, Maharana of Udaipur; Rajaram Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur[66]
- 1932: Earl Peel,[67] HH Hajji Nawab Hafiz Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal; Sir William Malcolm Hailey, Governor of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh,[68] Sir Francis Stanley Jackson, Governor of Bengal[69]
- 1933: Hari Singh, Maharaja of Jammu and Kashmir[70]
- 1934: Sir Samuel Hoare, Secretary of State for India,[71] Air Vice-Marshal The Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick Sykes[72]
- 1936: Umaid Singh, Maharaja of Jodhpur[73]
- 1937: Bhagvat Singh, Maharaja of Gondal,[74] Ranbir Singh, Maharaja of Jind,[75] Lord Brabourne, Governor of Bengal,[76] Sir John Anderson[77]
1940s
- 1940: John Erskine, Lord Erskine,[78] HE General Sir Robert Cassels, Commander-in-Chief, India[79]
- 1943: Sir Roger Lumley[80]
- 1945: Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Maharaja of Mysore[81]
- 1946: George Jivajirao Scindia, Maharaja of Gwalior; Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma, Maharaja of Travancore[82]
- 1947: Digvijaysinhji, Maharaja of Nawanagar,[83] Shahoji II Chhatrapati, Maharaja of Kolhapur; Sawai Man Singh II, Maharaja of Jaipur; Sadul Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner; Sir Archibald Nye, Governor of Madras; Sir Frederick Burrows, Governor of Bengal[84]
Honorary Knights Grand Commander
- 1868: Isma'il Pasha, Khedive of Egypt[85]
- 1870: Ferdinand de Lesseps[86]
- 1873: Mirza Hosein Khan Moshir od-Dowleh, Grand Vizier of Persia[87]
- 1875: Tewfik Pasha of Egypt[88]
- 1878: Muhammad Sharif Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Egypt,[89] Saffet Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire[90]
- 1879: HH Khudadad Khan, Khan of Kalat[91]
- 1885: Abdur Rahman Khan, Emir of Afghanistan[92]
- 1887: Mass'oud Mirza Zell-e Soltan, Governor-General of Isfahan, Arabistan, Kurdistan, Yazd, etc.[93]
- 1890: Ali bin Said of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar[94]
- 1894: Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar, Sultan of Zanzibar[95]
- 1909: Prince Auguste Louis Alberic d'Arenberg, President of the Suez Canal Company[96]
- 1935: HH Maharaja Juddha Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Prime Minister of Nepal[97]
- 1945: HH Padma Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, Commander-in-Chief, Nepalese Army[98]
References
- ↑ London Gazette, 24 May 1867
- ↑ London Gazette, 17 September 1867
- ↑ London Gazette, 22 December 1868
- ↑ London Gazette, 4 June 1869
- ↑ London Gazette, 31 May 1870
- ↑ London Gazette, 20 May 1871
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 23863. p. 2575. 31 May 1872. Retrieved 22 June 2013.
- ↑ London Gazette, 24 May 1873
- ↑ London Gazette, 31 December 1875
- ↑ London Gazette, 30 June 1876
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1877
- ↑ London Gazette, 30 January 1877
- ↑ London Gazette, 2 June 1877
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1878
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 May 1878
- ↑ London Gazette, 29 July 1879
- ↑ London Gazette, 23 April 1880
- ↑ London Gazette, 16 November 1880
- ↑ London Gazette, 23 May 1882
- ↑ London Gazette, 18 November 1884
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 March 1885
- ↑ London Gazette, 8 December 1885
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1886
- ↑ London Gazette, 15 February 1887
- ↑ London Gazette, 5 July 1887
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 January 1888
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 June 1888
- ↑ London Gazette, 8 April 1890
- ↑ London Gazette, 25 May 1892
- ↑ London Gazette, 2 August 1892
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 June 1893
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1895
- ↑ London Gazette, 25 May 1895
- ↑ London Gazette, 9 July 1895
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1896
- ↑ London Gazette, 22 June 1897
- ↑ London Gazette, 21 May 1898
- ↑ London Gazette, 11 January 1898
- ↑ London Gazette, 9 March 1900
- ↑ London Gazette, 30 April 1901
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1903
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1906
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1907
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1909
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1910
- ↑ London Gazette, 2 January 1911
- ↑ London Gazette, 19 June 1911
- ↑ London Gazette, 12 December 1911
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1913
- ↑ Genealogy of the Sheikhdom of Mohammerah
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1916
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 June 1917
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 June 1918
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 June 1919
- ↑ London Gazette, 14 October 1921
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1921
- ↑ London Gazette, 4 June 1921
- ↑ London Gazette, 2 June 1923
- ↑ London Gazette, 19 February 1924
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1925
- ↑ London Gazette, 23 October 1928
- ↑ London Gazette, 4 June 1928
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 June 1929
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1930
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 June 1930
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1931
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1932
- ↑ London Gazette, 3 June 1932
- ↑ London Gazette, 10 May 1932
- ↑ London Gazette, 2 January 1933
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1934
- ↑ London Gazette, 2 February 1934
- ↑ London Gazette, 23 June 1936
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 February 1937
- ↑ London Gazette, 11 May 1937
- ↑ London Gazette, 5 November 1937
- ↑ London Gazette, 17 December 1937
- ↑ London Gazette, 28 May 1940
- ↑ London Gazette, 11 July 1940
- ↑ London Gazette, 4 June 1943
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1945
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1946
- ↑ London Gazette, 12 June 1947
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1947
- ↑ London Gazette, 28 August 1868
- ↑ London Gazette, 19 August 1870
- ↑ London Gazette, 4 July 1873
- ↑ London Gazette, 4 May 1875
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1878
- ↑ London Gazette, 30 August 1878
- ↑ London Gazette, 29 July 1879
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 May 1885
- ↑ London Gazette, 20 December 1887
- ↑ London Gazette, 11 November 1890
- ↑ London Gazette, 23 February 1894
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1909
- ↑ London Gazette, 1 January 1935
- ↑ London Gazette, 27 November 1945
See also
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