Below is an incomplete list of knights grand cross of the Royal Guelphic Order from the creation of the order in 1815 until 1837. A Hanoverian order, appointments have not been conferred by the British monarch (in their role as King of Hanover) since the death of King William IV in 1837, when the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover ended. After 1837 the order continued to be conferred by the Kingdom of Hanover, until the Kingdom was dissolved by Prussia in 1866. After this it became an order of the Royal House of Hanover.
List of knights grand cross of the Royal Guelphic Order Appointment Name Image Notes28 April 1815George, Prince of Wales (The Prince Regent)Later King George IV28 April 1815Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany28 April 1815Prince William, Duke of Clarence and St AndrewsLater King William IV28 April 1815Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland and TeviotdaleLater King of Hanover28 April 1815Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex28 April 1815Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge28 April 1815Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh22 Mar 1816Prince Leopold of Saxe-CoburgLater King of the Belgians1816Field Marshal Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1816General Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey1816Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh(Civil Division) Later Marquess of Londonderry1816General Charles William Stewart, 1st Baron StewartLater Marquess of Londonderry1816Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton1816General The Honourable Sir Charles Colville1816Lieutenant-General Sir James Kempt1816General Sir George Don1816Lieutenant-General Rowland Hill, 1st Baron HillLater Viscount Hill1816Lieutenant-General The Right Honourable Sir George Murray1816Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Henry MacFarlane1816General Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Harrington1816George James Cholmondeley, 1st Marquess of Cholmondeley(Civil Division)1817Lieutenant-General The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Maitland1817Vice-Admiral Sir Edmund Nagle1817General Sir Harry Calvert, Bart.1817Lieutenant-General Lord William Cavendish Bentinck1817Lieutenant-General Sir James Campbell, Bart.1817Lieutenant-General Sir James Frederick Lyon23 April 1817Colonel John Fane, Lord BurgheshLater Earl of Westmorland1817Lieutenant-General Stapleton Cotton, 1st Baron CombermereLater Viscount Combermere1817Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Tucker Montresor1817Lieutenant-General Sir John Murray, Bart.1818Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Frederick Campbell1818Lieutenant-General William Carr Beresford, 1st Baron BeresfordLater Viscount Beresford1818Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Francis Fremantle1818General Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings1819Francis Charles Seymour-Conway, Earl of Yarmouth(Civil Division) Later Marquess of Hertford1819John Bourke, 4th Earl of Mayo(Civil Division)1819The Right Honourable Sir George Henry Rose(Civil Division)1819General Sir Charles Hastings, Bart.1819Admiral The Right Honourable Sir John Borlase Warren, Bart.1819Alleyne FitzHerbert, 1st Baron St Helens(Civil Division)1819General Samuel Hulse1819Major-General Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield1820Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Halkett1820Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Asgill, Bart.1820Lieutenant-General John Macleod1820Lieutenant-General John Hope1821Richard Le Poer Trench, 2nd Earl of Clancarty(Civil Division)1821Lieutenant-General Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess Conyngham1822Brook Taylor(Civil Division)1823James Duff, 4th Earl Fife(Civil Division)1823Francis Nathaniel Conyngham, Earl of Mount Charles(Civil Division) Later Marquess Conyngham1823Sir William Knighton, Bart.(Civil Division)1824Sir Francis Nathaniel Burton(Civil Division)1825Prince George, Duke of Cambridge1825Lieutenant-General Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin1825Percy Sidney Clinton Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford(Civil Division)1825Major-General Sir James Willoughby Gordon Bart.1826Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Taylor1826Richard Charles Francis Meade, 3rd Earl of Clanwilliam(Civil Division)1826Lieutenant-General Sir John ByngLater Earl of Strafford1827Lieutenant-General Sir Tomkyns Hilgrove Turner1827Lieutenant-General Sir William Houston, Bart.1827The Right Honourable William Henry Fremantle1827Lieutenant-General Lord George Thomas Beresford1827George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham1827Prince George of CumberlandLater Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and King of Hanover1829The Right Honourable Robert Gordon(Civil Division)1830William George Hay, 18th Earl of Erroll(Civil Division)1830Richard William Curzon-Howe, 2nd Viscount Curzon(Civil Division) Later Earl Howe1830Sir Henry Halford, Bart.(Civil Division)1830Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller, Bart.(Civil Division)1830John Delaval Carpenter, 4th Earl of Tyrconnell(Civil Division)1830William Wellesley-Pole, 1st Baron Maryborough(Civil Division) Later Earl of Mornington1830General Sir James Steuart, Bart.1830George Boyle, 4th Earl of Glasgow(Civil Division)1831General The Honourable Sir Henry George Grey1831Lieutenant-General The Right Honourable Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, Bart.1831Admiral Sir William Hargood1831Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk1831Major-General Sir Edward Kerrison, Bart.1831Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, Bart.1831Lieutenant-General Sir John KeaneLater Baron Keane1831Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Bradford1831Lieutenant-General Sir Colquhoun Grant1831George Hamilton Chichester, Earl of Belfast(Civil Division) Later Marquess of Donegall1831Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland(Civil Division)1831Vice-Admiral Lord James O'BrienLater Marquess of Thomond1831Sir Robert John Wilmot-Horton, Bart.(Civil Division)1831Lieutenant-General Sir John Smith1831General George CockburnLater Baronet1831The Right Honourable Sir Gore Ouseley, Bart.1831Sir Philip Charles Sidney(Civil Division) Later Baron de L'Isle and Dudley1831Colonel Lord Frederick FitzClarence(Civil Division)1831Sir Henry Watkin Williams-Wynn(Civil Division)1831Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe(Civil Division)1832General Josiah Champagné1832General Martin Hunter1832General Sir John Fraser1832Captain Lord Adolphus FitzClarence(Civil Division)1832Captain The Honourable Sir Charles Paget1832Constantine Henry Phipps, 2nd Earl of Mulgrave(Civil Division) Later Marquess of Normanby1832Vice-Admiral The Honourable Sir Henry Blackwood, Bart.1832Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin, Bart.1832Vice-Admiral Peter HalkettLater Baronet1832Rear-Admiral Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen1833Lieutenant-General Frederick Augustus Wetherall1833William Basil Percy Feilding, 7th Earl of Denbigh(Civil Division)1833Lieutenant-General The Honourable Alexander Duff1833The Right Honourable Charles Richard Vaughan(Civil Division)1834William Charles Keppel, 4th Earl of Albemarle(Civil Division)1833George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll(Civil Division)1833Major-General Sir Andrew Francis Barnard1834Thomas Cartwright(Civil Division)1834Lieutenant-General Henry Bayly1834Admiral Sir Charles Edmund Nugent1834Major-General Sir Henry Wheatley1834Vice-Admiral Sir William Hall Gage1834John Cust, 1st Earl Brownlow(Civil Division)1834Robert Grant(Civil Division)1834Captain Sir George Francis Seymour1834Major-General Sir Benjamin Charles Stephenson1834George Child Villiers, 5th Earl of Jersey(Civil Division)1834William Pitt Amherst, 1st Earl Amherst(Civil Division)1835Thomas Egerton, 2nd Earl of Wilton(Civil Division)1835Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Marquess of Chandos(Civil Division) Later Duke of Buckingham and Chandos1835Lieutenant-General Sir John Slade1835Vice-Admiral Sir John Gore1835Lieutenant-General Sir William Keir Grant1835John FitzGibbon, 2nd Earl of Clare(Civil Division)1835Major-General Sir James Cockburn, Bart.1835Lieutenant-General Ralph Darling1835Vice-Admiral Sir Charles RowleyLater Baronet1836Vice-Admiral Richard Dacres1836Sir George Hamilton Seymour(Civil Division)1836Admiral Sir John Poer Beresford,Bart.1836John Elphinstone, 13th Lord Elphinstone(Civil Division)1836Sir Astley Paston Cooper, Bart.(Civil Division)1836Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Blakeney1836Captain Lord John Frederick Gordon(Civil Division)1836Major-General Sir Lionel SmithLater Baronet1836Major-General Sir John ColborneLater Baron Seaton1837Mubarak Ali Khan, Nawab Nazim of Murshidabad1837Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Richard Church 10 May 1837 General John Gustavus Crosbie 1837Major-General Alexander George Fraser, 17th Lord Saltoun1837The Right Honourable Sir Charles Edward Grey(Civil Division)1837The Right Honourable Sir Joseph Planta(Civil Division)1837Lieutenant-General Sir Charles William Doyle1837Major-General Sir Charles Wade Thornton
See also Royal Guelphic Order List of knights commander of the Royal Guelphic Order
Sources
Burke's Peerage Dictionary of National Biography Shaw, William Arthur