# List of Royal Navy admirals (1707–current)

Admiral is a senior rank of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, which equates to the NATO rank code OF-9, formally outranked only by the rank admiral of the fleet. The rank of admiral is currently the highest rank to which an officer in the Royal Navy can be promoted, admiral of the fleet being used nowadays only for honorary promotions.
This list aims to include all who have been promoted to the rank of admiral in the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom following the Acts of Union 1707, or to historical variations of that rank (the main article on the rank includes a history of the rank, including the pre-1864 use of colour for admirals of the various squadrons).
Royal Navy officers holding the ranks of rear admiral, vice admiral and admiral of the fleet are sometimes considered generically to be admirals. These are not listed here unless they gained the rank of full admiral.
For a very long time promotion to the ranks above captain was an entitlement of everyone who had become a captain and occurred in strict order of seniority as captain; this was enacted in 1718 and is still evident in Navy Lists of the 1940s. Various stratagems were developed to move those who had seniority over captains who it was actually desired to promote out of the way of the functional promotions, including promotion "without distinction of squadron", "dormant commissions", "superannuation", a variety of pension schemes, a "reserved list", and a "retired list"; these were frequently enacted by Order in Council. Despite being moved off the active list vice-admirals could still be promoted to admiral after all previously promoted vice admirals of their category had been promoted or died, whether on an honorific basis or as a means of granting them a pension increase.
Persons listed are shown with the titles they held at the time of their deaths whether or not these were held at the time of their promotion to the rank of full admiral. Those who only held the rank of full admiral on an acting basis are not shown.

## List of admirals

| Promoted | Name | Born | Died | Notes |
| 26 January 1708 | George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington KB | 1663 | 1733 | Senior Naval Lord 1710–1712, 1714–1717, 1718–1721; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1718 |
| 17 December 1708 | John Jennings | 1664 | 1743 | Senior Naval Lord 1721–1727 |
| 21 December 1709 | Sir John Norris | 1670 | 1749 | Senior Naval Lord 1727–1730; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1734 |
| 20 December 1708 | Sir James Wishart | 1659 | 1723 | Dictionary of National Biography Volume 62 page 253 has an extended discussion of the disputed relative seniority of these 5 promotions; Threedecks.org indicates Wishart was dismissed from the Navy in 1715. |
| 10 July 1731 | Sir Charles Wager | 1666 | 1743 | Senior Naval Lord 1730–1733; First Lord of the Admiralty 1733–1742 |
| 26 February 1734 | Sir George Walton | 1665 | 1739 | retired on pension 1736 |
| 2 March 1736 | Philip Cavendish | 1695 | 1743 | |
| 11 August 1743 | Sir John Balchen | 1670 | 1744 | lost at sea with HMS Victory (1737) Was promoted Admiral of the White in August 1743 from Vice-Admiral of the Red |
| 11 August 1743 | Thomas Mathews | 1676 | 1751 | dismissed from the navy after court-martial |
| 23 June 1744 | Nicholas Haddock | 1686 | 1746 | |
| 23 June 1744 | Sir Chaloner Ogle KB | 1681 | 1750 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1749 |
| 23 April 1745 | Edward Vernon | 1684 | 1757 | dismissed 1746 |
| 7 June 1746 | Richard Lestock | 1679 | 1746 | |
| 15 July 1747 | James Steuart | 1678 | 1757 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1750 |
| 15 January 1747 | George Clinton | 1686? | 1761 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1757 |
| 15 July 1747 | Sir William Rowley KB | 1690? | 1768 | Senior Naval Lord 1751–1756, 1757; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1762 |
| 15 July 1747 | William Martin | 1696? | 1756 | retired shortly after promotion |
| 15 July 1747 | Isaac Townsend | 1685? | 1765 | Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1754 |
| 12 May 1748 | George Anson, 1st Baron Anson | 1697 | 1762 | Senior Naval Lord 1749–1751; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1761 |
| May 1748 | Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere | 1699 | 1781 | Senior Naval Lord 1746–1749; retired 1749 |
| 4 June 1756 | John Byng | 1704 | 1757 | executed after court-martial |
| February 1757 | Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke | 1705 | 1781 | First Lord of the Admiralty 1766–1771; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1768 |
| February 1757 | Thomas Griffin | 1692 | 1771 | |
| February 1757 | Henry Osborn | 1694 | 1771 | |
| February 1757 | Thomas Smith | 1707 | 1762 | "retired from active service" October 1758 |
| February 1758 | John Forbes | 1714 | 1796 | Senior Naval Lord 1761–1763; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1781 |
| February 1758 | Edward Boscawen PC | 1711 | 1761 | Senior Naval Lord 1756–1757, 1757–1761 |
| December 1760 | Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet | 1704? | 1777 | |
| February 1761 | Sir George Pocock KB | 1706 | 1792 | resigned commission 1766 |
| December 1765 | George Townshend | 1716 | 1769 | |
| August 1767 | Francis Holburne | 1704 | 1771 | Senior Naval Lord 1770–1771 |
| October 1770 | George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk | 1716 | 1792 | |
| October 1770 | Sir Charles Saunders, KB | 1715? | 1775 | Senior Naval Lord 1765–1766; First Lord of the Admiralty 1766 |
| October 1770 | Charles Hardy | 1716? | 1780 | |
| October 1770 | Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet | 1718 | 1784? | |
| October 1770 | Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton | 1720 | 1794 | |
| June 1773 | Sir Thomas Pye | 1709? | 1785 | some sources say born 1713 |
| March 1775 | Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet | 1709 | 1796 | |
| January 1778 | George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney KB | 1718 | 1792 | |
| January 1778 | James Young | 1717 | 1789 | Rodney and Young were promoted directly to Admiral of the White (London Gazette 11844) |
| January 1778 | Sir Peircy Brett | 1709 | 1781 | Senior Naval Lord 1766–1770 |
| January 1778 | Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet | 1718 | 1779 | |
| January 1778 | Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet | 1703 | 1787 | |
| January 1778 | George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe | 1720 | 1795 | |
| January 1778 | Samuel Graves | 1713 | 1787 | |
| January 1778 | William Parry | 1705 | 1779 | |
| January 1778 | Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel | 1725 | 1786 | Senior Naval Lord 1766; First Lord of the Admiralty 1782–1783 |
| January 1778 | John Amherst | 1718 | 1778 | died 16 days after promotion |
| September 1780 | Matthew Buckle | 1716 | 1784 | |
| September 1780 | Robert Man | | 1783 | First Naval Lord 1779–1780 |
| April 1782 | Clark Gayton | 1712 | 1785 | |
| April 1782 | Sir Robert Harland, 1st Baronet | 1715 | 1784 | First Naval Lord 1782–1783 |
| April 1782 | Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe KG | 1724 | 1799 | Senior Naval Lord 1763–1765; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1796 |
| April 1782 | John Montagu | 1719 | 1795 | |
| April 1782 | Hugh Pigot | 1722 | 1792 | |
| September 1787 | Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham | 1717? | 1798 | |
| September 1787 | John Vaughan | | 1789 | |
| September 1787 | John Reynolds | 1713? | 1788 | |
| September 1787 | Sir Hugh Palliser, 1st Baronet | 1723 | 1796 | |
| September 1787 | Matthew Barton | 1715? | 1795 | |
| September 1787 | Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet | 1721 | 1811 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1799 |
| September 1787 | Samuel Barrington | 1729 | 1800 | |
| February 1793 | Mariot Arbuthnot | 1711 | 1794 | |
| February 1793 | Robert Roddam | 1719 | 1808 | headed the list when rank Admiral of the Red was created in November 1805 (London Gazette 15859 page 1373) |
| February 1793 | William Lloyd | 1725 | 1796 | |
| February 1793 | Sir Edward Hughes | 1720? | 1794 | |
| February 1793 | John Evans | 1717 | 1794 | |
| February 1793 | Mark Milbanke | 1724 | 1805 | |
| 12 April 1794 | Nicholas Vincent | 1723? | 1809 | Threedecks.org: "He accepted no commission after his promotion to flag rank"; but was second on 1805 list of Admirals of the Red |
| 12 April 1794 | Sir Edward Vernon | 1723 | 1794 | |
| April 1794 | Richard Edwards | 1715 | 1795 | |
| April 1794 | Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves KB | 1725 | 1802 | |
| April 1794 | Robert Digby | 1732 | 1815 | |
| April 1794 | Benjamin Marlow | 1715? | 1795 |
| April 1794 | Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport KB | 1726 | 1814 | |
| April 1794 | Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet | 1726 | 1816 | |
| April 1794 | Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood | 1724 | 1816 | First Naval Lord 1789–1795 |
| September 1794 | Sir Richard Hughes, 2nd Baronet | 1729? | 1812 | |
| April 1795 | John Elliot | 1732 | 1808 | |
| April 1795 | William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham | 1736 | 1813 | |
| June 1795 | Joseph Peyton | 1725 | 1804 | |
| June 1795 | John Carter Allen | 1724 | 1800 | |
| June 1795 | Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham | 1726 | 1813 | First Naval Lord 1795; First Lord of the Admiralty 1805–1806 |
| June 1795 | John Laforey | 1729? | 1796 | |
| June 1795 | John Dalrymple | 1722? | 1798 | |
| June 1795 | Herbert Sawyer | 1730? | 1798 | |
| June 1795 | Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet | 1730 | 1806 | |
| June 1795 | Jonathan Faulknor the elder | | 1795 | died in the month of his promotion |
| June 1795 | Philip Affleck | 1726 | 1799 | |
| June 1795 | John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, GCB | 1735 | 1823 | First Lord of the Admiralty 1801–1804; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1821 |
| June 1795 | Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan | 1731 | 1804 | |
| February 1799 | Samuel Granston Goodall | ???? | 1801 | |
| February 1799 | Richard Brathwaite | 1728? | 1805 | name as spelled in 1799 Gazette but linked references use a variant |
| February 1799 | Phillips Cosby | 1729? | 1808 | |
| February 1799 | Samuel Pitchford Cornish | 1739 | 1816 | |
| February 1799 | John Brisbane | ???? | 1807 | not active when at flag rank |
| February 1799 | Charles Wolseley | 1741 | 1808 | not active when at flag rank |
| February 1799 | William IV of the United Kingdom | 1765 | 1837 | later Admiral of the Fleet (1811) and Lord High Admiral (1827) before becoming King |
| February 1799 | Sir Richard Onslow, 1st Baronet | 1741 | 1817 | |
| February 1799 | Sir Robert Kingsmill, 1st Baronet | 1730 | 1805 | |
| February 1799 | Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet | 1740 | 1800 | |
| February 1799 | Sir Hyde Parker | 1739 | 1807 | |
| February 1799 | Sir Benjamin Caldwell GCB | 1739 | 1820 | |
| February 1799 | Sir William Cornwallis, GCB | 1744 | 1819 | |
| February 1799 | William Allen | 1728 | 1804 | |
| February 1799 | John Macbride | 1735? | 1800 | |
| February 1799 | George Vandeput | ?? | 1800 | |
| February 1799 | Charles Buckner | 1735? | 1811 | |
| February 1799 | John Gell | 1740 | 1806 | |
| February 1799 | William Dickson | ?? | 1803 | |
| February 1799 | Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner | 1742 | 1809 | |
| February 1799 | Robert Linzee | 1739 | 1804 | |
| February 1799 | James Wallace | 1731 | 1803 | |
| February 1799 | William Peere Williams-Freeman | 1742 | 1832 | on retired list; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in June 1830 |
| February 1799 | Sir Thomas Pasley, 1st Baronet | 1734 | 1808 | |
| January 1801 | Sir Thomas Rich, 5th Baronet | 1733? | 1803 | |
| January 1801 | James Cumming | 1738 | 1808 | |
| January 1801 | Sir John Colpoys GCB | 1742? | 1821 | |
| January 1801 | Skeffington Lutwidge | 1737 | 1814 | |
| January 1801 | Sir Archibald Dickson, 1st Baronet | ?? | 1803 | |
| January 1801 | Sir George Montagu GCB | 1750 | 1829 | |
| January 1801 | Thomas Dumaresq | 1729 | 1802 | |
| January 1801 | George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith GCB | 1746 | 1823 | |
| April 1802 | James Pigott | ?? | 1822 | |
| April 1802 | William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock | 1753 | 1825 | |
| April 1804 | Thomas Mackenzie | 1753 | 1813 | |
| April 1804 | Sir Roger Curtis, 1st Baronet GCB | 1746 | 1816 | |
| April 1804 | Sir Henry Harvey KB | 1743 | 1810 | on retired list |
| April 1804 | Robert Mann | 1748? | 1813 | surname spelled "Man" in 1808 gazette |
| April 1804 | Charles Holmes Everitt Calmady | 1754 | 1807 | |
| April 1804 | John Bourmaster | 1736 | 1807 | |
| April 1804 | Sir George Young | 1732 | 1810 | |
| April 1804 | John Henry | 1737 | 1829 | |
| April 1804 | Sir Richard Rodney Bligh GCB | 1737 | 1821 | |
| April 1804 | Alexander Graeme | 1741 | 1818 | |
| April 1804 | George Keppel | ? | 1804 | |
| November 1805 | Isaac Prescott | 1737 | 1830 | |
| November 1805 | John Bazely | 1740 | 1809 | |
| November 1805 | Sir Thomas Davy Spry | 1754 | 1828 | |
| November 1805 | Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet | 1751 | 1824 | |
| November 1805 | Sir William Young, GCB | 1751 | 1821 | |
| November 1805 | James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier GCB | 1756 | 1833 | First Naval Lord 1795–1801, 1804–1806, 1807–1808; promoted Admiral of the Fleet July 1830 |
| November 1805 | Sir Andrew Mitchell KB | 1757 | 1806 | |
| November 1805 | Charles Chamberlayne | 1750 | 1810 | |
| November 1805 | Peter Rainier | 1741 | 1808 | |
| November 1805 | Philip Patton | 1739 | 1815 | |
| November 1805 | Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet | 1757 | 1830 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in July 1830 |
| April 1808 | John Brown | 1751 | 1808 | died four days after promotion |
| April 1808 | John Leigh Douglas | 1741 | 1810 | Rear Admiral of the White, he had been promoted Commander - 1777, Captain - 1779, Rear Admiral - 1797 and Vice Admiral - 1801 |
| April 1808 | William Swiney | 1747 | 1829 | |
| April 1808 | Sir Charles Edmund Nugent | 1759? | 1844 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1833 |
| April 1808 | Charles Powell Hamilton | 1747 | 1825 | |
| April 1808 | Edmund Dod | 1734 | 1815 | |
| April 1808 | Sir Charles Cotton, 5th Baronet | 1753 | 1812 | |
| October 1809 | John Thomas | 1751 | 1810 | |
| October 1809 | James Brine | 1738 | 1814 | |
| October 1809 | Sir Erasmus Gower | 1742 | 1814 | |
| October 1809 | John Holloway | 1747? | 1826 | |
| October 1809 | George Wilson | 1756 | 1826 | |
| July 1810 | Sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2nd Baronet, GCB | 1754 | 1831 | |
| July 1810 | Sir Thomas Pakenham GCB | 1757 | 1836 | not active in Navy after 1795 |
| July 1810 | Robert Deans | 1740 | 1815 | |
| July 1810 | Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed, 1st Baronet, GCB | 1762 | 1849 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1844 |
| July 1810 | Arthur Kempe | 1743 | 1823 | |
| July 1810 | Smith Child | 1730 | 1813 | |
| July 1810 | Thomas Taylor | | 1812 | |
| July 1810 | Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet | 1748 | 1817 | |
| July 1810 | Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, KCB | 1745 | 1818 | |
| July 1810 | Sir George Cranfield Berkeley GCB | 1753 | 1818 | |
| July 1810 | Thomas West | | 1821 | immediately preceded Douglas on 1814 Navy List |
| July 1810 | James Douglas | 1755? | 1839 | ranked after Whitshed on 1832 Navy List and after Whitshed and Arthur Kempe on earlier Royal Naval Biography list Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 14 Feb 1799, Rear-Admiral of the White, 1 Jan 1801; Rear-Admiral of the Red, 23 Apr 1804; Vice-Admiral of the White, 9 Nov 1805; Vice-Admiral of the Red, 29 Apr 1808; Admiral of the Blue, 31 Jul 1810; Admiral of the White, 4 Jun 1814; Admiral of the Red, 27 May 1825 |
| July 1810 | Peter Aplin | 1753 | 1817 | said by DNB never to have actively served as admiral; ranked immediately after Douglas on 1814 Navy List |
| July 1810 | Henry Savage | 1737? | 1823 | |
| July 1810 | Bartholomew Samuel Rowley | 1764 | 1811 | |
| July 1810 | Sir Richard Hussey Bickerton, 2nd Baronet, KCB | 1759 | 1832 | First Naval Lord 1808–1812 |
| July 1810 | George Bowen | | 1823? | will proved 1823 per National Archives |
| July 1810 | Robert Montagu | 1763 | 1830 | Name spelled "Montagu" in most sources but "Montague" is also seen; promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White |
| 31 July 1810 | John Fergusson | 1731 | 1818 | promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White |
| 31 July 1810 | Edward Edwards | 1742 | 1815 | promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White |
| 31 July 1810 | Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet, GCB | 1753 | 1822 | promoted directly from Vice Admiral of the White |
| August 1812 | Edward Tyrrell Smith | 1752? | 1824 | "Tyrrell" spelled with one L in Gazette |
| August 1812 | Sir Thomas Graves, KB | 1747 | 1814 | |
| August 1812 | Thomas Macnamara Russell | 1743? | 1824 | |
| August 1812 | Sir Henry Trollope GCB | 1756 | 1839 | |
| August 1812 | Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope, 1st Baronet | 1754 | 1814 | |
| December 1813 | Robert McDouall | | 1816 | |
| December 1813 | Billy Douglas | 1749 | 1817 | Admiral William (Billy) Douglas, 1749-1817 was Admiral of the Blue Squadron, Port Admiral at Yarmouth and subsequently Chatham, Kent, England. He commanded the Stately 64 in expeditions against the Cape of Good Hope in 1795 and 1796. |
| December 1813 | John Wickey | 1750 | 1833 | |
| December 1813 | John Fish | 1758 | 1834 | |
| December 1813 | Sir John Knight KCB | 1747 | 1831 | |
| December 1813 | Sir Edward Thornbrough GCB | 1754 | 1834 | |
| June 1814 | Sampson Edwards | 1745 | 1840 | |
| 4 June 1814 | Sir George Campbell KCB | 1759 | 1821 | |
| June 1814 | Arthur Phillip | 1738 | 1814 | |
| 4 June 1814 | James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez GCB | 1757 | 1836 | |
| 4 June 1814 | Thomas Drury | 1750 | 1832 | |
| 4 June 1814 | Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet KCB | 1755 | 1824 | |
| 4 June 1814 | William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk | 1756 | 1831 | |
| 4 June 1814 | James Vashon | 1742 | 1827 | |
| 4 June 1814 | Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth GCB | 1757 | 1833 | |
| 4 June 1814 | Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet | 1759 | 1839 | |
| 4 June 1814 | John Aylmer | 1759 | 1841 | |
| 4 June 1814 | Samuel Osborne | 1754? | 1816 | name also spelled Osborn |
| 4 June 1814 | Richard Boger | 1739 | 1822 | Prisoner in 1997 mutinies, promoted to Admiral of the Blue in 1814 |
| 12 August 1819 | John Child Purvis | 1747 | 1825 | |
| 12 August 1819 | Theophilus Jones | 1760 | 1835 | |
| 12 August 1819 | Sir William Domett, GCB | 1752 | 1828 | First Naval Lord 1812–1813 |
| 12 August 1819 | William Wolseley | 1756 | 1842 | |
| 12 August 1819 | Sir John Sutton KCB | 1758? | 1825 | |
| August 1819 | Robert Murray | 1763? | 1834 | |
| 12 August 1819 | Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane, GCB | 1758 | 1832 | |
| 12 August 1819 | John Markham | 1761 | 1827 | |
| 12 August 1819 | Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby KCB | 1750 | 1823 | |
| August 1819 | Edward Bowater | 1753 | 1829 | |
| August 1819 | George Palmer | 1755 | 1834 | |
| August 1819 | Sir Eliab Harvey GCB | 1758 | 1830 | |
| August 1819 | Sir Edmund Nagle KCB | 1757 | 1830 |
| July 1821 | Sir John Wells GCB | 1763? | 1841 | |
| July 1821 | Sir George Martin GCB | 1764 | 1847 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1846 |
| July 1821 | Sir Richard John Strachan, 6th Baronet, GCB | 1760 | 1828 | |
| July 1821 | Sir William Sidney Smith GCB | 1764 | 1840 | |
| July 1821 | Thomas Sotheby | 1759 | 1831 | |
| July 1821 | John Schank | 1740? | 1823 | Name is spelled "Schanck" in Gazettes |
| July 1821 | Michael DeCourcy | 17?? | 1824 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Henry Nicholls KCB | 1758? | 1830 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Herbert Sawyer KCB | 17?? | 1833 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Davidge Gould KCB | 1758 | 1847 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Richard Goodwin Keats GCB | 1757 | 1834 | |
| May 1825 | Robert Devereux Fancourt | 1742 | 1826 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Robert Stopford, GCB, GCMG | 1768 | 1847 | |
| May 1825 | Mark Robinson | 1754? | 1834 | |
| May 1825 | Thomas Revell Shivers | 1751 | 1827 | |
| May 1825 | John Dilkes | 1745? | 1827 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Thomas Foley GCB | 1757 | 1833 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Charles Tyler GCB | 1760 | 1835 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Manley Dixon KCB | 1760? | 1837 | |
| May 1825 | George Losack | ?? | 1829 | |
| May 1825 | Sir Thomas Bertie | 1758 | 1825 | died weeks after promotion |
| July 1830 | Isaac George Manley | 1755 | 1837 | last survivor of James Cook's circumnavigating crew on Endeavour; did not serve actively in Navy after 1796 |
| July 1830 | Edmund Crawley | 1755/6 | 1835 | Manley and Crawley were promoted directly to Admiral of the White |
| 22 July 1830 | Sir Thomas Williams GCB | 1762? | 1841 | |
| 22 July 1830 | Sir William Hargood GCH KCB | 1762 | 1839 | |
| 22 July 1830 | John Ferrier | 1759? | 1836 | |
| 22 July 1830 | Sir Robert Moorsom KCB | 1760 | 1835 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Trebinshun House | 1767 | 1849 | |
| July 1830 | Henry Curzon | 1765 | 1846 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Lawrence William Halsted GCB | 1764 | 1841 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Robert Barlow GCB | 1757 | 1843 | per Royal Naval Biography "superannuated" as a rear admiral 1823 but per London Gazette transferred to active list November 1840 as Admiral of the White ranked immediately after Halsted |
| July 1830 | Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, 2nd Baronet GCB GCMG | 1765 | 1840 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, KCB | 1768 | 1831 | First Naval Lord 1813–1816 |
| July 1830 | Sir Arthur Kaye Legge KCB | 1766 | 1835 | |
| July 1830 | George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway | 1768 | 1834 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Francis Laforey, 2nd Baronet, KCB | 1767 | 1835 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Philip Charles Calderwood Henderson Durham GCB | 1763 | 1845 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Israel Pellew KCB | 1758 | 1832 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew GCB | 1760 | 1834 | |
| July 1830 | Lord Amelius Beauclerk GCB | 1771 | 1846 | |
| July 1830 | William Taylor | 1760 | 1842 | |
| July 1830 | Sir Thomas Byam Martin, GCB | 1773 | 1854 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1849 |
| July 1830 | Sir John Lawford KCB | 1756? | 1842 | |
| July 1830 | Frank Sotheron | 1765 | 1839 | Lawford and Sotheron were promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White |
| January 1837 | Charles William Paterson | 1756 | 1841 | |
| January 1837 | Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet | 1772 | 1853 | First Naval Lord 1828–1830, 1834–1835, 1841–1846; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1851 |
| January 1837 | James Carpenter | 1760 | 1845 | |
| January 1837 | Sir Graham Moore GCB GCMG | 1764 | 1843 | |
| January 1837 | Joseph Hanwell | 1759 | 1839 | |
| January 1837 | Sir Henry William Bayntun GCB | 1766 | 1840 | |
| January 1837 | Sir Richard Lee KCB | 1765? | 1837 | died months after promotion |
| January 1837 | Sir Peter Halkett, 6th Baronet | 1765 | 1839 | |
| January 1837 | Philip Stephens | ?? | 1846 | |
| | William Shield | | 1842 | "retired captain" in Royal Naval Biography; ranked immediately after Stephens when returned to active list in November 1840 |
| January 1837 | Charles Elphinstone Fleeming | 1774 | 1840 | |
| January 1837 | Sir William Hotham, GCB | 1772 | 1848 | |
| January 1837 | Sir Pulteney Malcolm GCB GCMG | 1768 | 1838 | |
| January 1837 | Sir John Harvey KCB | 1772 | 1837 | |
| January 1837 | Sir Josias Rowley, 1st Baronet | 1765 | 1842 | |
| January 1837 | Sir Edward Codrington GCB | 1770 | 1851 | |
| January 1837 | Sir George Parker KCB | 1767 | 1847 | |
| | Frederick Watkins | 1770 | 1856 | ranked immediately after Parker when returned to active list in November 1840; pensioned to Reserve List 1851 |
| 28 June 1838 | John Erskine Douglas | 1758? | 1847 | |
| June 1838 | Sir Ross Donnelly KCB | 1761? | 1840 | |
| 28 June 1838 | Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet | 1768 | 1844 | |
| 23 November 1841 | Thomas Le Marchant Gosselin | 1765 | 1857 | |
| 23 November 1841 | Sir Charles Rowley, 1st Baronet GCB | 1770 | 1845 | |
| 23 November 1841 | Sir David Milne, GCB | 1763 | 1845 | C-in-C Plymouth 1842–1845 |
| 23 November 1841 | Sir Robert Waller Otway, 1st Baronet KCB | 1770 | 1846 | |
| 23 November 1841 | Sir Willoughby Thomas Lake KCB | 1773 | 1847 | |
| November 1841 | Sir Charles Ogle, 2nd Baronet | 1775 | 1858 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1857 |
| 23 November 1841 | Henry Raper | 1767 | 1845 | |
| November 1841 | Robert Dudley Oliver | 1766 | 1850 | |
| November 1841 | D'Arcy Preston | 1764 | 1847 | per Royal Naval Biography "superannuated" as a rear admiral in 1819 but per London Gazette transferred to active list November 1840 ranking after R D Oliver and promoted with him thereafter |
| November 1841 | Man Dobson | 1755 | 1847 | |
| November 1841 | Sir John Talbot GCB | 1769? | 1851 | |
| November 1841 | John Giffard | 1766 | 1855 | on retired list from 1851 |
| November 1841 | Sir John West, GCB | 1774 | 1862 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1858 |
| November 1841 | Joseph Bullen | 1761 | 1857 | per Royal Naval Biography "superannuated" as a rear admiral in 1819 but per London Gazette transferred to active list November 1840 ranking after West and promoted with him thereafter |
| November 1841 | Stephen Poyntz | 1771 | 1847 | |
| November 1841 | John Colville, 9th Lord Colville of Culross | 1768 | 1849 | |
| November 1841 | John Cochet | 1760 | 1851 | |
| 23 November 1841 | Sir Henry Digby GCB | 1770 | 1842 | last four (Digby to Alexander) were promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White |
| 23 November 1841 | Sir Charles Ekins GCB | 1768 | 1855 | |
| 23 November 1841 | Benjamin William Page | 1765 | 1845 | DNB (first edition) claims promoted in August |
| 23 November 1841 | Thomas Alexander | 1768? | 1843 | |
| 9 November 1846 | Henry Richard Glynn | 1768 | 1856 | |
| 9 November 1846 | Sir Edward Hamilton, 1st Baronet | 1771 | 1851 | |
| November 1846 | Sir Robert Laurie, 6th Baronet KCB | 1764 | 1848 | |
| November 1846 | Sir William Hall Gage GCB | 1777 | 1864 | Second Naval Lord 1841–1846; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1862 |
| November 1846 | Sir Henry Heathcote | 1777 | 1851 | |
| December 1846 | Sir Edward Campbell Rich Owen GCB | 1771 | 1849 | |
| January 1847 | Sir Graham Eden Hamond, 2nd Baronet, GCB | 1779 | 1862 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1862 |
| February 1847 | Robert Honyman | 1765? | 1848 | |
| April 1847 | Hugh Downman | 1765? | 1858 | |
| April 1847 | Sir Thomas Bladen Capel GCB | 1776 | 1853 | |
| 13 May 1847 | James O'Brien, 3rd Marquess of Thomond | 1769 | 1855 | |
| June 1847 | Richard Matson | 1770? | 1848 | per Gentleman's Magazine died aged 77 in mid-March; per ADNB had been on half-pay since Feb 1810 |
| 26 July 1847 | John MacKellar | 1768? | 1854 | per Gentleman's Magazine obituary "in the receipt of a full-service pension" at his death |
| 27 December 1847 | George Barker | | | on retired list |
| 8 January 1848 | Sir Charles Adam, KCB | 1780 | 1853 | First Naval Lord 1834, 1835–1841, 1846–1847 |
| March 1848 | Sir Adam Drummond | 1770 | 1849 | |
| 1 June 1848 | Sir Thomas Livingstone,7th Baronet | 1769 | 1853 | per 1850 Navy List |
| 1 August 1848 | Sir Francis William Austen, GCB | 1774 | 1865 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1863 |
| 4 May 1849 | Sir John Acworth Ommanney, KCB | 1773 | 1855 | |
| 15 September 1849 | Zachary Mudge | 1770 | 1852 | on reserved half pay list from January 1852 |
| 9 October 1849 | Alexander Wilmot Schomberg | 1774 | 1850 | |
| 30 October 1849 | Edward Durnford King | 1771 | 1862 | |
| 24 December 1849 | Sir George Mundy KCB | 1777 | 1861 | |
| 14 January 1850 | James Carthew | | 1856 | on Reserved Half Pay list from January 1854 |
| 1 September 1850 | Sir Thomas Briggs GCMG | 1780 | 1852 | |
| 21 March 1851 | Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, GCB | 1775 | 1860 | |
| 29 April 1851 | Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Shenstone, GCB | 1781 | 1866 | First Naval Lord 1846; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1863 |
| 11 June 1851 | George McKinley | 1766 | 1852 | was pensioned at death (Mudge took his place on reserved half pay list) |
| 8 July 1851 | Richard Curry CB | | 1856? | on reserved half pay list since before promotion |
| 8 July 1851 | Sir John Wentworth Loring KCB | 1775 | 1852 | |
| 17 August 1851 | Sir Robert Howe Bromley, 3rd Baronet | 1778 | 1857 | Noticed in Gentleman's Magazine obituary as Admiral of the White at death, on half-pay since 1809 |
| 19 January 1852 | John Dick | 1778? | 1854 | per Gentleman's Magazine obituary died in September aged 76 but if ANBD is right this would mean he joined the RN at the age of 7 |
| 30 July 1852 | Sir Charles Bullen GCB | 1769 | 1853 | |
| 30 July 1852 | Christopher John Williams Nesham | 1771 | 1853 | retired upon promotion |
| 17 December 1852 | John Wight | | 1860 | on Reserved Half-Pay List since before promotion |
| 17 December 1852 | William Henry Brown Tremlett | 1777 | 1866 | on Reserved Half-Pay List since before promotion |
| 17 December 1852 | Sir Samuel Pym KCB | 1778 | 1855 | |
| 5 March 1853 | Sir George Elliot KCB | 1784 | 1863 | |
| 2 April 1853 | Lord William FitzRoy KCB | 1782 | 1857 | |
| 4 July 1853 | Sir Hugh Pigot | 1775 | 1857 | |
| 17 September 1853 | Edward Hawker | 1782 | 1860 | |
| 21 January 1854 | Sir James Alexander Gordon GCB | 1782 | 1869 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1868 |
| 21 January 1854 | Francis Temple | | | on Reserved Half Pay List since before promotion |
| 21 January 1854 | Henry Gordon | | | on Reserved Half Pay List since before promotion |
| 11 September 1854 | Richard Darton Thomas | 1777 | 1857 | |
| 11 September 1854 | Frederick Whitworth Aylmer, 6th Baron Aylmer | 1777 | 1858 | On Reserved Half-pay List |
| 3 July 1855 | John Surman Carden | 1771 | 1858 | on Reserved Half-pay List before promotion |
| July 1855 | John Sykes | 1774 | 1858 | some sources say born 1773; Admiral of the White 1857 |
| July 1855 | John Impey | 1772 | 1858 | on Reserved Half-pay List before promotion |
| July 1855 | Henry Manaton Ommanney | 1778 | 1857 | On Reserved Half-pay List before promotion |
| July 1855 | Archibald Duff | 1773 | 1858 | On Reserved Half-pay List before promotion |
| July 1855 | Thomas Brown | | | |
| 9 July 1855 | Sir Lucius Curtis, 2nd Baronet KCB | 1786 | 1869 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1864 |
| 27 September 1855 | Sir John Louis, 2nd Baronet | 1785 | 1863 | |
| 3 October 1855 | John Ayscough | 1780 | 1863 | rank date from Navy Lists; died Admiral of the Red 1863 |
| 31 January 1856 | Sir Thomas John Cochrane GCB | 1789 | 1872 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1865 |
| May 1857 | Sir George Francis Seymour GCB GCH | 1787 | 1870 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1866 |
| 18 June 1857 | Anthony Maitland, 10th Earl of Lauderdale KCB KCMG | 1785 | 1863 | per 1859 Navy List (had not yet succeeded to peerage) |
| 18 June 1857 | Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 3rd Baronet | 1781 | 1861 | promoted on reserved list |
| 18 June 1857 | Edward Ratsey | 1775? | 1867 | promoted on reserved list |
| 9 July 1857 | George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan CB | 1783 | 1864 | |
| 9 July 1857 | Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort | 1782 | 1868 | on reserved half-pay list prior to promotion |
| 30 July 1857 | Sir Edward Tucker GCB | 1778 | 1864 | pensioned under Order in Council of 1851 in January 1858 |
| 22 August 1857 | Sir Edward Chetham Strode KCB | 1775 | 1862 | |
| 28 November 1857 | Sir William Bowles KCB | 1780 | 1869 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1869 |
| 28 November 1857 | William Croft | 1782 | 1872 | promoted on Reserved List |
| 8 December 1857 | Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas, GCB | 1785 | 1862 | First Naval Lord 1847–1850 |
| January 1858 | Charles Gordon CB | | | on Reserved Half Pay List since before promotion |
| 20 January 1858 | Sir Henry Hope KCB | 1787 | 1863 | |
| 13 February 1858 | Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew CB | 1789 | 1861 | |
| 6 March 1858 | Sir Charles Napier KCB | 1786 | 1860 | |
| 7 May 1858 | Bertie Cornelius Cator | 1787 | 1864 | On Retired List since 1846 |
| 7 May 1858 | George Ourry Lempriere | 1787 | 1864 | On Retired List |
| 7 May 1858 | Frederick Edward Vernon-Harcourt | 1790 | 1883 | On Retired List (1869 Navy List page 77 says he did not reach admiral on retired list until 20 May 1862) |
| 7 May 1858 | Kenelm Somerville, 17th Lord Somerville | 1787 | 1864 | On Retired List |
| 25 June 1858 | Sir Phipps Hornby GCB | 1785 | 1867 | |
| 11 May 1860 | Sir Henry Prescott GCB | 1783 | 1874 | retired from June 1860 |
| 9 June 1860 | Sir Edward Harvey GCB | 1783 | 1865 | |
| June 1860 | Edward Wallis Hoare | 1778 | 1870 | promoted on reserved list |
| June 1860 | John Thompson | 1776 | 1864 | on retired list since 1846 |
| November 1860 | Sir Barrington Reynolds GCB | 1786 | 1861 | |
| 1 November 1860 | Manley Hall Dixon | 1786 | 1864 | on retired list since 1855 |
| November 1860 | Alexander Jones | | | promoted on reserved list |
| 7 November 1860 | Sir Augustus William James Clifford, 1st Baronet CB | 1788 | 1877 | Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (and no longer actively employed by RN) from 1832; Retired list on 31 March 1866. |
| 11 February 1861 | Sir George Rose Sartorius, GCB | 1790 | 1885 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1869 |
| February 1861 | Sir Watkin Owen Pell | 1788 | 1869 | on Reserved List |
| February 1861 | William Bowen Mends | 1781 | 1864 | promoted on Reserved List (Edinburgh Gazette 7095 page 260); had been pensioned in 1856 |
| February 1861 | George Ferguson | 1788 | 1867 | promoted on Reserved List |
| February 1861 | George Le Geyt CB | 1777 | 1861 | on retired list before promotion |
| February 1861 | Robert Mitford | 1781 | 1870 | on retired list before promotion |
| February 1861 | Henderson Bain | 1776 | 1862 | on retired list before promotion |
| February 1861 | Joseph Needham Tayler CB | 1785 | 1864 | on retired list before promotion |
| February 1861 | Thomas Edward Symonds | 1781 | 1868 | on retired list before promotion |
| February 1861 | Lewis Hole | 1779 | 1870 | on retired list before promotion |
| February 1861 | Henry Thomas Davies | | | on retired list since 1846 |
| 11 February 1861 | George Gustavus Lennock | 1775 | 1866 | on retired list since 1846 |
| 29 July 1861 | Robert Wauchope | 1788 | 1862 | |
| 5 August 1861 | Sir John Gordon Sinclair, 8th Baronet | 1790 | 1863 | |
| January 1862 | Hayes O'Grady | | 1864 | on Reserved Half-pay List before promotion |
| 15 January 1862 | Maurice FitzHardinge Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge GCB PC | 1788 | 1867 | First Naval Lord 1852, 1854–1857 |
| January 1862 | Robert Gambier | 1791 | 1872 | on Retired list before promotion |
| January 1862 | Hercules Robinson | 1789 | 1864 | on Retired list since 1846 |
| January 1862 | Thomas Dick | | | on Retired list before promotion |
| 12 April 1862 | Sir Fairfax Moresby GCB | 1786 | 1877 | Promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1870 |
| 7 May 1862 | George William Hughes D'Aeth | 1786 | 1873 | On retired list since May, 1846 (1869 Navy List page 77 dates this promotion to 4 October following) |
| 7 May 1862 | William Ffarington | 1777 | | On retired list since May, 1846 (December 1864 Navy List page 74 dates this promotion to 4 October following) |
| 7 May 1862 | John Charles Gawen Roberts-Gawen | 1787 | 1874 | On retired list since May, 1846 (1869 Navy List page 77 dates this promotion to 4 October following) |
| 7 May 1862 | Arthur Philip Hamilton | 1787 | 1877 | On retired list since May, 1846 (1869 Navy List dates this promotion to 4 October following) |
| 7 May 1862 | James Rattray | 1790 | | On retired list since May, 1846 |
| 7 May 1862 | Charles Warde KH | 1786 | | On retired list since May, 1846 |
| 20 May 1862 | George Byron, 7th Baron Byron | 1789 | 1868 | On Reserved List |
| 20 May 1862 | Sir Charles Sullivan, 3rd Baronet | 1789 | 1862 | |
| 16 June 1862 | Francis Erskine Loch | 1788 | 1868 | |
| June 1862 | Edward Saurin | | | on retired list |
| 4 October 1862 | Sir Arthur Fanshawe KCB | 1794 | 1864 | |
| 4 October 1862 | Edward Collier CB | 1782 | 1873 | On Reserved List since 1857 |
| 4 October 1862 | Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, KG | 1792 | 1865 | On Reserved List |
| 4 October 1862 | John Carter | 1785 | 1863 | On Reserved List |
| 4 October 1862 | Henry Meynell | 1789 | 1865 | On Reserved List |
| 10 November 1862 | Sir Houston Stewart, GCB | 1791 | 1875 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1872 |
| November 1862 | Augustus Baldwin | | | on retired list before promotion |
| November 1862 | Henry Colins Deacon | | | on retired list before promotion |
| 22 November 1862 | Sir James Stirling, Kt | 1791 | 1865 | |
| November 1862 | William Bateman Dashwood | | | on retired list before promotion |
| November 1862 | Martin White | | | on retired list before promotion |
| 2 March 1863 | Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, GCB | 1791 | 1892 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1875 |
| March 1863 | George James Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont | 1794 | 1874 | on reserved half-pay list by 1869 |
| 23 March 1863 | Sir George Augustus Alexander Westphal | 1785 | 1875 | on retired list |
| March 1863 | John Gordon | | | on retired list before promotion |
| 7 April 1863 | John William Montagu | 1790 | 1882 | on retired list since before promotion (1869 Navy List page 77 dates this promotion to the 27th following) |
| April 1863 | George Cornish Gambier | | | on retired list |
| April 1863 | Sir Charles Burrard, 2nd Baronet | 1793 | 1870 | on retired list |
| April 1863 | Thomas Ladd Peake | | | on retired list since before promotion |
| 27 April 1863 | Sir Henry William Bruce KCB | 1792 | 1863 | |
| 27 April 1863 | Benedictus Marwood Kelly | 1795 | 1867 | On Reserved List |
| 27 April 1863 | Sir Charles Parker, 5th Baronet | 1792 | 1869 | On Reserved List |
| 27 April 1863 | Sir James Hanway Plumridge KCB | 1788? | 1863 | |
| 27 April 1863 | John Edward Walcott CBE | 1790 | 1868 | On Reserved List |
| April 1863 | William Walpole | | | pensioned under 1851 Order in Council since 1858 |
| April 1863 | William James Mingaye | 1784 | 1865 | pensioned under 1851 Order in Council since 1858 |
| 7 May 1863 | Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott | 1789 | 1871 | On Retired List (1869 Navy List page 77 dates this promotion to 30 November following) |
| 7 May 1863 | William Hotham, KH | 1794 | 1873 | On Retired List (1869 Navy List page 77 dates this promotion to 30 November following) |
| 7 May 1863 | James Montagu | 1791 | 1872? | On Retired List since 1846; DNB says died 1868 |
| 6 June 1863 | Honourable Henry John Rous | 1795 | 1877 | Retired List on 31 March 1866. |
| June 1863 | Henry Theodosius Browne Collier | | | on retired list before promotion |
| June 1863 | Henry Stanhope | | | on retired list before promotion |
| June 1863 | John Townsend Coffin | | | on retired list before promotion |
| 24 September 1863 | Thomas Ball Clowes | 1787 | 1864 | on Retired List since 1846 |
| 24 September 1863 | George Frederick Rich | 1787 | 1863 | on Reserved List |
| 24 September 1863 | Sir William James Hope-Johnstone KCB | 1798 | 1878 | put on retired list April 1870 |
| 14 November 1863 | Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet, GCB | 1801 | 1895 | First Naval Lord 1858–1859; on retired list from April 1870 |
| 14 November 1863 | James Ryder Burton | 1795 | 1876 | on Reserved List |
| November 1863 | William Henry Smyth | 1788 | 1865 | on retired list since 1846 |
| November 1863 | Richard Saumarez | 1791 | 1864 | on retired list |
| 30 November 1863 | Sir Montagu Stopford, KCB | 1798 | 1864 | Retired February 1864 |
| 3 December 1863 | Sir Henry Ducie Chads GCB | 1788 | 1868 | |
| 3 December 1863 | Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke | 1799 | 1873 | on the Retired List |
| December 1863 | Sir George Robert Lambert GCB | 1795 | 1869 | pensioned from March 1864 |
| December 1863 | James Gore | | | retired before promotion (1869 Navy List page 77 shows a retired list Admiral JOHN Gore with this date of promotion) |
| 11 January 1864 | Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester, PC | 1798 | 1867 | on Reserved List |
| 11 January 1864 | William Abraham Keats | 1794 | 1874 | on Reserved List |
| 11 January 1864 | Sir Henry John Leeke KCB KH | 1794 | 1870 | Third Naval Lord 1859 |
| 9 February 1864 | Thomas Martin | 1787 | 1868 | on reserved list |
| February 1864 | Henry Edwards | | | on reserved list |
| 9 February 1864 | Sir Charles Howe Fremantle GCB | 1800 | 1869 | |
| 5 March 1864 | Sir Michael Seymour GCB | 1802 | 1887 | on retired list from April 1870 |
| June 1864 | Richard Augustus Yates | | | promoted on the Reserved List |
| June 1864 | Charles Grenville Randolph | | | promoted on the Reserved List |
| June 1864 | Edward Richard Williams | | | promoted on the Reserved List |
| 15 June 1864 | Sir Henry Byam Martin KCB | 1803 | 1865 | |
| 15 June 1864 | John Pakenham | 1790 | 1876 | promoted on Retired List "to have the rank and title expressed against their names, but without increase of pay" |
| 15 June 1864 | Henry Litchfield | 1786 | 1864 | see note on John Pakenham |
| 15 June 1864 | William Webb | 1796 | 1866 | see note on John Pakenham |
| 16 September 1864 | Henry Eden | 1798 | 1888 | on retired list from April 1870 |
| September 1864 | Robert Patton | | | on retired list |
| 20 February 1865 | Sir James Scott KCB | 1790 | 1872 | Retired list on 31 March 1866. |
| 24 April 1865 | Sir Frederick William Grey GCB | 1805 | 1878 | First Naval Lord 1861–1866 |
| 24 April 1865 | Charles Gordon | | | on retired list |
| 5 May 1865 | Sir Robert Lambert Baynes KCB | 1796 | 1869 | |
| 12 September 1865 | Thomas Bennett | 1785 | 1870 | pensioned November 1863 under 1851 Order in Council |
| 12 September 1865 | Sir Henry Smith KCB | 1803 | 1887 | pensioned November 1865 under 1851 Order in Council |
| 12 September 1865 | Follett Walrond Pennell | 1804 | 1876 | on reserved half-pay list |
| 12 September 1865 | William Alexander Baillie-Hamilton | 1803 | 1881 | retired since 1855 |
| 12 September 1865 | Sir Charles Elliot KCB | 1801 | 1875 | on reserved list; received flag rank promotions while diplomat and colonial administrator |
| 12 September 1865 | Henry Gosset | 1795 | 1877 | on reserved list |
| 12 September 1865 | Edward Purcell | 1795? | 1870 | on Reserved List |
| 12 September 1865 | Sir Peter Richards, KCB | 1787 | 1869 | on Reserved List |
| 12 September 1865 | Joseph O'Brien | 1790 | 1865 | on Reserved List |
| 12 September 1865 | Russell Henry Manners | 1800 | 1870 | on retired list |
| 12 September 1865 | James Thorne | | | on retired list |
| 12 September 1865 | Theobald Jones,FLS | 1790 | 1868 | on retired list |
| 2 December 1865 | John Alexander Duntze | 1806 | 1882 | on retired list from April 1870 |
| December 1865 | Sir Stephen Lushington GCB | 1803 | 1877 | |
| 2 April 1866 | Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune CB | 1802 | 1884 | Retired list from April 1870 |
| 2 April 1866 | Sir Thomas Hastings KCB | 1790 | 1870 | on the Retired list since March 1866. |
| 2 April 1866 | John Lyons | 1787 | 1872 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list |
| 2 April 1866 | Sir Frederick Thomas Michell KCB | 1788 | 1873 | on the Retired list since March 1866. |
| 2 April 1866 | George Scott | 1783 | | Promoted admiral on Reserved list |
| 2 April 1866 | Edward Sparshott KH | 1788 | 1873 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list; pensioned since 1846 |
| 2 April 1866 | Sir Charles Talbot KCB | 1801 | 1876 | |
| 2 April 1866 | John Wyatt Watling | 1786 | 1867 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list |
| 2 April 1866 | Philip Westphal | 1782 | 1880 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list; retired from 1847 |
| 2 April 1866 | James Wigston | | | Promoted admiral on Reserved list |
| 2 April 1866 | John Wilson | | | Promoted admiral on Reserved list |
| 20 November 1866 | Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, 2nd Baronet | 1804 | 1884 | on retired list from April 1870 |
| March 1867 | Lord George Paulet | 1803 | 1879 | on retired list |
| 20 March 1867 | Lord Edward Russell CB | 1805 | 1887 | on retired list from April 1870 |
| March 1867 | Sir Burton Macnamara | 1794 | 1876 | on reserved half-pay list |
| 18 October 1867 | Henry Wolsey Bayfield | 1795 | 1885 | retired list since March 1866 |
| 18 October 1867 | George Grey | 1809 | 1891 | on Retired List since 1866; Bath King of Arms |
| October 1867 | Arthur Duncombe | 1806 | 1889 | promoted on Reserved List |
| October 1867 | Charles Henry Swinburne | 1797 | 1877 | promoted on Reserved List |
| October 1867 | Sir Joseph Nias KCB | 1793 | 1879 | promoted on Retired List |
| October 1867 | Sir George Back | 1796 | 1878 | promoted on Retired List |
| 18 October 1867 | Sir Henry John Codrington KCB | 1808 | 1877 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1877 |
| October 1867 | Henry Shovell Jones Marsham | 1794 | 1875 | Gazette: "to have the rank of Retired Admirals, under the provisions of Her Majesty's Order in Council of 7th May, 1858." |
| October 1867 | Charles Crowdy | 1786 | 1870 | Gazette note as with Marsham above |
| October 1867 | Thomas Mansel | 1783 | 1869 | Gazette note as with Marsham above |
| October 1867 | James Burney | 1794 | 1884 | Gazette note as with Marsham above |
| 8 April 1868 | Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale GCB | 1803 | 1878 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1877 |
| 8 April 1868 | John Rivett-Carnac | 1796 | 1869 | Promoted on Reserved List |
| April 1868 | Michael Quin | | | pensioned since March 1864 under 1851 Order in Council |
| April 1868 | Lord John Frederick Gordon Hallyburton | 1799 | 1878 | on reserved half-pay list |
| April 1868 | Robert Contart M'Crae | | | on reserved half-pay list |
| April 1868 | John Balfour Maxwell | 1799 | 1874 | on reserved half-pay list |
| April 1868 | William Slaughter | | | on retired list |
| April 1868 | Thomas Gill | | | on retired list |
| 15 January 1869 | Sir Robert Smart KCB | 1796 | 1874 | C-in-C, Mediterranean Fleet 1863–66. On Retired List from April 1870 |
| January 1869 | William Hargood | 1801 | 1888 | promoted on Reserved List |
| 26 May 1869 | Sir George Rodney Mundy GCB | 1805 | 1884 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1877; retired |
| July 1869 | Henry Ommanney Love | | | on retired list |
| July 1869 | William Sydney Smith | | | on reserved list by 1873; on Navy List as William Sydney Smith & on ANBD as William Sidney Smith but is NOT the earlier namesake above |
| 12 July 1869 | Sir Henry Keppel, GCB, OM | 1809 | 1904 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1877; retired 1879 |
| September 1869 | John Elphinstone Erskine | 1806 | 1887 | on retired list from July 1871 |
| September 1869 | George Augustus Eliott | 1799 | 1872 | promoted on Reserved List |
| September 1869 | Brunswick Popham | 1805 | 1878 | promoted on Reserved List |
| September 1869 | Thomas Ogle | | | promoted on Reserved List |
| September 1869 | George Evans | | | promoted on Reserved List |
| September 1869 | Frederick Bullock | 1788 | 1874 | promoted on Reserved List; pensioned since November 1864 under 1851 Order in Council |
| 10 September 1869 | Russell Eliott | 1802 | 1881 | promoted on Reserved List |
| 10 September 1869 | John Frederick Appleby | 1795 | 1878 | On Retired List |
| 10 September 1869 | George Charles Blake | | | On Retired List |
| 10 September 1869 | Sir John Kingcome KCB | 1793 | 1871 | On Retired List since 1866 |
| 10 September 1869 | Alfred Luckraft | 1792 | 1871 | On Retired List |
| 10 September 1869 | John Jervis Tucker | 1802 | 1886 | On Reserved List. Had been pensioned under 1851 Order in Council since October 1864 |
| 21 January 1870 | Sir James Hope GCB | 1808 | 1881 | on retired list from 1878; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1879 |
| 27 February 1870 | Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet, KCB, CMG | 1802 | 1876 | on retired list from April 1870 |
| February 1870 | Edward Stanley | 1798 | 1878 | on reserved half-pay list |
| 1 April 1870 | Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet GCB | 1806 | 1896 | First Naval Lord 1866–1868, 1872–1876; retired list 1876; Admiral of the Fleet 1881 |
| 1 April 1870 | Lord Clarence Edward Paget GCB | 1811 | 1895 | on retired list from 1876 |
| 1 April 1870 | Richard Laird Warren | 1806 | 1875 | |
| 1 April 1870 | Sir George Augustus Elliot KCB | 1813 | 1901 | |
| 1 April 1870 | Sir Sydney Colpoys Dacres, GCB | 1805 | 1884 | First Naval Lord 1868–1872; retired list from 1874 |
| 1 April 1870 | Plantagenet Pierrepoint Cary, 11th Viscount Falkland | 1806 | 1886 | On Reserved List |
| 1 April 1870 | Robert Craigie | 1800 | 1873 | On Reserved List |
| 1 April 1870 | Richard Crozier | 1803 | 1880 | On Reserved List |
| 1 April 1870 | Edward Howard, 1st Baron Lanerton | 1809 | 1880 | On Reserved List |
| 1 April 1870 | John Bunch Bonnemaison M'Hardy | 1801 | 1882 | On Reserved List |
| 14 July 1871 | George Hathorn | 1803 | 1876 | on Reserved List in 1871 and apparently retired by 1859 |
| 14 July 1871 | Sir Lewis Tobias Jones GCB | 1797? | 1895 | on retired list since 1870; may have been born 1799 |
| 14 July 1871 | Robert Fanshawe Stopford | 1811 | 1891 | on retired list since 1870 |
| July 1871 | Sir Robert Spencer Robinson | 1809 | 1889 | on retired list since 1870 |
| July 1871 | Sir Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds GCB | 1813 | 1894 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1879; retired from 1883 |
| October 1872 | Thomas Leeke Massie | 1802 | 1898 | on Retired List since 1866 |
| October 1872 | Sir Edward Belcher KCB | 1799 | 1878 | |
| October 1872 | Woodford John Williams | 1809 | 1892 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| October 1872 | Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper GCB | 1809 | 1885 | retired by 1883 |
| October 1872 | Patrick John Blake | | | promoted on Reserved List |
| 20 October 1872 | Talavera Vernon Anson | 1809 | 1895 | promoted on Reserved List |
| 8 February 1873 | Sir Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot KCB | 1818 | 1895 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1881; retired 1888 |
| February 1873 | Sir Charles Eden KCB | 1808 | 1878 | on retired list since 1870 |
| 20 April 1875 | Sir George St. Vincent Duckworth-King, 4th Baronet KCB | 1804 | 1891 | retired from 1877 |
| 30 July 1875 | Sir Hastings Yelverton GCB | 1808 | 1878 | First Naval Lord 1876–1877 |
| 30 July 1875 | Joseph Sherer | | | on reserved half-pay list |
| July 1875 | James Beckford Lewis Hay | 1797 | 1892 | retired from 1862; promoted on Reserved List |
| July 1875 | Sir Edward Alfred John Harris KCB | 1808 | 1888 | on reserved list from 1877 (Navy List dates rank as above but DNB says promoted on reserved list 1877) |
| July 1875 | William Ward Percival Johnson | | 1880 | on reserved half-pay list; retired since 1862 |
| July 1875 | Keith Stewart CB | 1814 | 1879 | on reserved half-pay list; retired since 1862 |
| July 1875 | John Hallowes | | | on reserved half-pay list |
| July 1875 | Andrew Drew | 1792 | 1878 | on reserved half-pay list |
| July 1875 | Henry Stroud | 1797? | 1892 | retired by 1862 (implied 1850 in obituary) |
| July 1875 | John Baker Porter Hay | | | retired |
| July 1875 | George Goldsmith CB | 1806 | 1888 | on retired list |
| July 1875 | Charles Frederick | 1797 | 1875 | on retired list since 1869 |
| July 1875 | William Henry Anderson Morshead CB | 1811 | 1886 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| July 1875 | Sir Richard Collinson KCB | 1811 | 1883 | on retired list |
| July 1875 | George Ramsay, 12th Earl of Dalhousie | 1806 | 1880 | promoted on retired list |
| December 1875 | Sir William Hutcheon Hall KCB | 1797? | 1878 | on retired list |
| December 18758 | Sir George Greville Wellesley GCB | 1814 | 1901 | First Naval Lord 1877–1879 |
| 18 June 1876 | Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe, GCB | 1814 | 1906 | retired 1879 |
| 18 June 1876 | Swynfen Thomas Carnegie | 1813 | 1879 | on retired list since 1873 |
| June 1876 | Arthur Lowe | 1814 | 1882 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| June 1876 | Richard Henry Stopford | 1803 | 1895 | on reserved list; retired since 1863 |
| June 1876 | James Paterson Bower | 1806 | 1889 | on reserved list; retired 1863 |
| 22 January 1877 | Sir Claude Henry Mason Buckle KCB | 1803 | 1894 | on retired list since 1870 and pensioned 1885 |
| 22 January 1877 | Thomas Baillie | 1811 | 1889 | |
| 22 January 1877 | Sir George Giffard KCB | 1815 | 1895 | On retired list since 1 April 1870 |
| 22 January 1877 | Sir Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, 10th Baronet, CB | 1815 | 1899 | |
| 22 January 1877 | Sir James Robert Drummond, GCB | 1812 | 1895 | retired from September 1877; later Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod |
| January 1877 | Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, KCB | 1810 | 1890 | on reserved list; retired from 1863 |
| January 1877 | Sir George Nathaniel Broke-Middleton, 3rd Baronet CB | 1812 | 1887 | on reserved list |
| 1 August 1877 | Sir James Crawford Caffin | 1812 | 1883 | on retired list since before promotion |
| August 1877 | Sir William Loring KCB | 1811 | 1895 | on retired list from November 1881 |
| August 1877 | John Lort Stokes | 1811 | 1885 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| August 1877 | Sir Henry Mangles Denham | 1800 | 1887 | on retired list since 1871 |
| August 1877 | Arthur Forbes | 1807 | 1891 | on retired list |
| August 1877 | Frederick Henry Hastings Glasse | | | on retired list |
| August 1877 | George Thomas Gordon | | | on retired list |
| August 1877 | Sir Alexander Leslie Montgomery, 3rd Baronet | 1807 | 1888 | on reserved list |
| August 1877 | Edward Plunkett, 16th Baron of Dunsany | 1808 | 1889 | on reserved list |
| August 1877 | Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton | 1817 | 1892 | on reserved list; retired from 1865 |
| August 1877 | Robert Tryon | 1811? | 1890 | on reserved list; retired from 1865 |
| August 1877 | Erasmus Ommanney | 1814 | 1904 | on retired list since 1875 |
| August 1877 | George William Douglas O'Callaghan CB | 1811 | 1900 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| August 1877 | Thomas Pickering Thompson | 1811 | 1892 | on retired list |
| August 1877 | Wallace Houstoun | 1811 | 1891 | on retired list since April 1870; surname variantly spelled Houston but "Houstoun" is on Navy List |
| August 1877 | Sir William John Cavendish Clifford, 2nd Baronet | 1814 | 1882 | on retired list |
| August 1877 | Thomas Fisher | | 1891 | on retired list since 1866 |
| August 1877 | Robert Fitzgerald Gambier | 1803 | 1885 | retired since 1864 |
| August 1877 | Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, 2nd Baronet | 1803 | 1885 | had retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| August 1877 | William Louis | 1810 | 1887 | had retired as Captain before later promotions |
| August 1877 | Courtenay Osborne Hayes | 1812 | 1892 | had retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| August 1877 | William Knighton Stephens | 1814 | 1897 | had retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| August 1877 | William Windham Hornby | 1812 | 1899 | had retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| August 1877 | Charles George Edward Patey | 1811? | 1881 | on retired list since 1864 |
| August 1877 | Sir Alfred Philipps Ryder KCB | 1820 | 1888 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1885 |
| August 1877 | John Fulford | 1809 | 1888 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| September 1877 | Sir Henry Chads KCB | 1819 | 1906 | on retired list from 1884 |
| March 1878 | Sir Arthur Farquhar KCB | 1815 | 1908 | on retired list from 1880 |
| March 1878 | John Hay | | | retired since 1866; it is not clear which of the three John Hays in A Naval Biographical Dictionary apart from a Lord John Hay who died a rear-admiral in 1851 and was uncle of the Lord John Hay below is the John Hay found as a retired admiral of this date on later Navy Lists |
| March 1878 | Robert Kerr | | 1886 | retired since 1866 |
| March 1878 | Sir Astley Cooper Key, GCB, PC | 1821 | 1888 | First Naval Lord 1879–1885; Retired list on 18 January 1886 |
| March 1878 | Edwin Clayton Tennyson D'Eyncourt CB | 1813 | 1903 | on retired list since 1870 |
| March 1878 | Thomas Henry Mason CB | 1811 | 1900 | |
| March 1878 | Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet, GCB | 1821 | 1912 | on retired list since 1870 |
| March 1878 | Hugh Dunlop CB | 1806 | 1887 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| September 1878 | Frederick Montresor | 1811 | 1887 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| September 1878 | Edward Codd | 1804 | 1887 | on retired list since 1867 |
| September 1878 | Sir Charles Farrell Hillyar KCB | 1817 | 1888 | retired list from 1882 |
| September 1878 | Arthur William Jerningham | 1807 | 1889 | on retired list since 1864 |
| June 1879 | Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby GCB | 1825 | 1895 | Admiral of the Fleet 1888 |
| June 1879 | Sir Edward Southwell Sotheby | 1813 | 1902 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| June 1879 | Lord Frederick Herbert Kerr | 1818 | 1896 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| June 1879 | Sir William Robert Mends, GCB | 1812 | 1897 |
| June 1879 | Henry Harvey | 1812 | 1887 | retired as a Captain in 1866 before later promotions |
| August 1879 | Sir Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell KCB | 1814 | 1886 | on retired list |
| August 1879 | Sir William King Hall KCB | 1816 | 1886 | |
| August 1879 | Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne CB | 1811 | 1887 | retired as Captain before later promotions |
| August 1879 | Thomas Chaloner CB | 1815 | 1884 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| November 1879 | Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield KCB | 1820 | 1894 | retired list from 1885 |
| November 1879 | Thomas Wilson CB | 1811 | 1894 | on retired list since 1870 |
| November 1879 | Colin Yorke Campbell | | 1893 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| January 1880 | Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet, CB | 1810 | 1888 | |
| January 1880 | James Newburgh Strange | 1812 | 1894 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| January 1880 | James Charles Prevost | 1810 | 1891 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| January 1880 | Sir Arthur Cumming KCB | 1817 | 1893 | on retired list from 1882 |
| January 1880 | Nicholas Lefebvre | 1793 | 1881 | retired as a Captain 1864 and later promoted on retired list |
| January 1880 | William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton KG | 1818 | 1897 | retired as Captain 1856 and subsequently promoted on retired list |
| January 1880 | Henry Richard Foote | 1817 | 1885 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| January 1880 | James Stoddart | 1813 | 1892 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| January 1881 | Robert Coote CB | 1820 | 1898 | on retired list since before promotion |
| November 1881 | Sir William Houston Stewart GCB | 1822 | 1901 | on retired list from 1885 |
| December 1881 | Sir Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane, KCB | 1824 | 1905 | Retired list 22 June 1886 |
| May 1882 | Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, GCB | 1821 | 1895 | Second Naval Lord 1883–1885 |
| June 1882 | John Welbore Sunderland Spencer | 1816 | 1888 | on retired list since 1871 |
| June 1882 | Sir Reginald John James George Macdonald, KCB, KCSI | 1820 | 1899 | Retired list on 7 July 1884 |
| July 1884 | Sir George Henry Richards KCB | 1820 | 1896 | on retired list since 1877 (possibly 1874) |
| 7 July 1884 | Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, KCB | 1819 | 1907 | Retired list on 8 July 1884, the day after promotion |
| 8 July 1884 | Lord John Hay, GCB | 1827 | 1916 | First Naval Lord 1886; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1888; retired 1892 |
| 8 July 1884 | Henry Schank Hillyar, CB | 1819 | 1893 | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| 8 July 1884 | George Granville Randolph, CB | 1818 | 1907 | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| July 1884 | Sir Leopold George Heath, KCB | 1817 | 1907 | on retired list since 1873 |
| October 1884 | Francis Egerton | 1824 | 1895 | on retired list since 1875 |
| October 1884 | Sir Edward Bridges Rice KCB | 1819 | 1902 | on retired list from three days after promotion |
| October 1884 | Richard Aldworth Oliver | 1811 | 1889 | retired as a Captain in 1864 before later promotions |
| October 1884 | George Parker | | | retired as a Captain by 1872 before later promotions |
| October 1884 | Edward Philips Charlewood | 1813 | 1894 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| October 1884 | Arthur Mellersh CB | 1812 | 1894 | retired as a Captain in 1864 before later promotions |
| October 1884 | Sir Augustus Phillimore, KCB | 1822 | 1897 | on retired list from 1887 |
| October 1884 | Thomas Miller | 1819 | 1899 | on retired list |
| October 1884 | George Disney Keane CB | 1817 | 1891 | on retired list since 1877 |
| October 1884 | Vincent Amcotts Massingberd | 1807? | 1889 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| October 1884 | Charles Luxmoore Hockin | 1817 | 1902 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| October 1884 | Thomas Etheridge | | | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| March 1885 | Sir George Ommanney Willes KCB | 1823 | 1901 | on retired list from 1888 |
| March 1885 | Henry Gage Morris | 1811 | | retired as a Captain before later promotions; died before 1892 |
| March 1885 | George Henry Douglas | 1821 | 1905 | retired as a Captain before later promotions; Rear Admiral of the White |
| March 1885 | Henry Croft | 1815? | 1892 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| March 1885 | Sir William Garnham Luard KCB | 1820 | 1910 | on retired list from one week after promotion |
| March 1885 | Augustus Henry Ingram | | 1888 | on retired list since 1867 (then a Captain) |
| March 1885 | William Ellis | | | on retired list since at least 1875 |
| March 1885 | Augustus Sinclair Booth | | | on retired list since at least 1875 |
| March 1885 | Wiliam Heriot Maitland-Dougall | 1819 | 1890 | on retired list since at least 1875 |
| April 1885 | Sir John Corbett KCB | 1822 | 1893 | on retired list from July 1887 |
| April 1885 | Arthur Trevor Macgregor | 1799 | | on retired list since 1857 (then a Captain) |
| 29 April 1885 | Sir Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey, KCB | 1827 | 1922 | Retired list on 25 July 1892 |
| April 1885 | Edward Winterton Turnour | 1821 | 1901 | on retired list since 1880 |
| June 1885 | Henry Boys | 1820 | 1904 | on retired list from one month after promotion |
| July 1885 | Sir William Montagu Dowell, GCB | 1825 | 1912 | Retired list on 2 August 1890 |
| July 1885 | Robert Jenkins CB | | | on retired list before promotion |
| July 1885 | Frederick Augustus Maxse | 1833 | 1900 | on retired list before promotion |
| July 1885 | David Robertson-Macdonald | 1817 | 1910 | on retired list before promotion |
| July 1885 | William Norton Taylor | 1798 | 1888 | on retired list before promotion |
| July 1885 | Jonas Archer Abbott | | | on retired list before promotion |
| July 1885 | John Ross Ward | | | on retired list before promotion |
| July 1885 | George Johnson | 1809 | 1903 | on retired list before promotion |
| July 1885 | Robert Robertson | 1813 | 1885 | on retired list before promotion |
| July 1885 | Jasper Henry Selwyn | 1820 | 1901 | on retired list before promotion |
| 18 January 1886 | Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon, GCB | 1824 | 1901 | First Naval Lord 1885–1886, 1886–1889; on retired list July 1889 |
| April 1886 | Sir John Edmund Commerell VC GCB | 1829 | 1901 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1892; on retired list from January 1899 |
| April 1886 | Victor Grant Hickley | 1823? | 1888 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| April 1886 | Julian Foulston Slight CB | | 1890 | retired as a Captain in 1866 before later promotions |
| April 1886 | Thomas Saumarez CB | 1827 | 1903 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| April 1886 | Samuel Hoskins Derriman CB | 1813 | 1897 | retired as a Captain on 1866 before later promotions |
| April 1886 | Charles Wake | 1824 | 1890 | on retired list since 1881 |
| 22 June 1886 | Richard James Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam, GCB, KCMG | 1832 | 1907 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1895 |
| 24 May 1887 | Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley | 1823 | 1903 | on Retired List since 1870 according to Dreadnought Project;in any event retired on promotion |
| May 1887 | Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg GCB | 1833 | 1891 | retired as a Captain in 1866 before later promotions |
| May 1887 | William Everard Alphonso Gordon | 1817 | 1906 | retired as a Captain in 1868 before later promotions |
| July 1887 | Ernest Leopold Victor Charles Auguste Joseph Emich, Prince of Leiningen, GCB | 1830 | 1904 | Retired list on 9 November 1895 |
| July 1887 | William Gore Jones CB | 1826 | 1888 | On retired list from October 1887 (London Gazette 25749) |
| July 1887 | John Orlebar | 1810 | 1891 | on retired list since 1864 |
| July 1887 | John William Dorville | 1814 | 1894 | on retired list since 1867 |
| July 1887 | William Cornish-Bowden | 1826 | 1896 | promoted on retired list |
| July 1887 | Henry Samuel Hawker | 1816/7 | 1889 | on retired list since 1868 |
| July 1887 | Francis Arden Close | 1828 | 1918 | promoted on retired list |
| July 1887 | William Wood | 1824? | 1889 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| October 1887 | Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, GCB | 1829 | 1912 | Retired list on 28 May 1894 |
| October 1887 | Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha KG KT KP GCB GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO | 1843 | 1900 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1893 |
| October 1887 | Henry John Blomfield | 1827 | 1901 | on retired list since April 1870 |
| October 1887 | John Francis Campbell Mackenzie | 1821 | 1892 | on retired list since 1866 |
| October 1887 | James Beautine Willoughby | 1814 | 1888 | promoted on retired list |
| May 1888 | Charles Ludovic Darley Waddilove | 1828 | 1896 | Retired list on 13 May 1893 |
| May 1888 | John Rashleigh Rodd | 1816 | | retired as a Captain in 1866 before later promotions |
| May 1888 | Frederick Thomas Chetham Strode | | 1895 | retired as a Captain in 1868 before later promotions |
| May 1888 | John Wallace Douglas McDonald | | | retired as a Captain in 1865 before later promotions |
| June 1888 | Leveson Eliot Henry Somerset | 1829 | 1900 | on retired list June 1891 |
| June 1888 | Richard Bulkeley Pearse | 1830 | 1895 | retired as a Captain in 1870 before later promotions |
| June 1888 | Herbert Philip de Kantzow | 1829 | 1915 | retired as a Captain in 1870 before later promotions |
| 15 December 1888 | Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons, GCB | 1833 | 1908 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1897 |
| December 1888 | James Richard Veitch | 1827 | 1909 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| July 1889 | Sir Thomas Brandreth, KCB | 1825 | 1894 | Retired list on 6 August 1890 |
| July 1889 | Frederick William Pleydell Bouverie | 1816 | 1898 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| July 1889 | Henry Christian | 1828 | 1916 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| July 1889 | Charles Wright Bonham | 1817 | 1910 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| July 1889 | John Halliday Cave CB | 1827 | 1913 | retired as a Captain before later promotions |
| 2 August 1890 | Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge | 1828 | 1892 | Retired list on 5 August 1890, three days after promotion |
| 5 August 1890 | Sir Francis Sullivan, 6th Baronet, KCB, CMG | 1834 | 1906 | |
| 6 August 1890 | Edward Hardinge CB | 1830 | 1894 | on the Retired list since 1888 |
| 6 August 1890 | Sir William Graham, GCB | 1826 | 1907 | Retired list 10 September 1891 |
| 20 June 1891 | Sir Anthony Hiley Hoskins, GCB | 1828 | 1901 | First Naval Lord 1891–1893 Retired list 1 September 1893 |
| 10 September 1891 | Sir Nowell Salmon, VC, GCB | 1835 | 1912 | C-in-C Portsmouth 1894–1897 Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1899 |
| 14 February 1892 | Sir John Kennedy Erskine Baird KCB | 1832 | 1908 | Retired list on 16 September 1897 |
| 14 February 1892 | Frederick William Gough, CB | 1824 | 1908 | on retired list since before promotion |
| 14 February 1892 | Mark Robert Pechell | 1830 | 1902 | on retired list since before promotion |
| 25 February 1892 | Sir George Willes Watson KCB | 1827 | 1897 | Retired list on 5 April 1892 |
| 5 April 1892 | William John Ward | 1829 | 1900 | Retired list on 9 December 1894 |
| 5 April 1892 | Henry Dennis Hickley | 1826 | 1903 | on the retired list since December 1886 |
| 5 April 1892 | Frederick Anstruther Herbert | 1827 | 1911 | on retired list since 1887 |
| 5 April 1892 | Henry Bouchier Phillimore, CB | 1833 | 1893 | on retired list since before promotion |
| 5 April 1892 | Frederick Harrison Smith | 1827 | 1897 | on retired list since 1871 |
| 25 July 1892 | William Henry Whyte | 1829 | 1912 | Retired list from August 1892 |
| July 1892 | Henry Rushworth Wratislaw CB | 1832 | 1913 | on retired list since 1891 |
| August 1892 | Henry Duncan Grant CB | 1834 | 1896 | |
| 13 May 1893 | Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet, GCB, GCVO | 1836 | 1920 | Retired list on 13 March 1901 |
| 13 May 1893 | John Moresby | 1830 | 1922 | on Retired list since before promotion |
| 13 May 1893 | Sholto Douglas | 1833 | 1913 | on Retired list since before promotion |
| 13 May 1893 | William Henry Edye | 1830 | 1910 | on Retired list since 1890 |
| 1 September 1893 | Sir Frederick William Richards, GCB | 1833 | 1912 | First Naval Lord 1893–1899 Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1898 |
| 1 September 1893 | Thomas Hutchinson Mangles Martin | 1829 | 1895 | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 1 September 1893 | William FitzHerbert Ruxton | 1830 | 1895 | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 1 September 1893 | Charles Bailey Calmady Dent | 1832 | 1894 | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 1 September 1893 | George Teal Sebor Winthrop | | | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 28 May 1894 | Walter Cecil Carpenter | 1834 | 1904 | on Retired list from March 1896 |
| 28 May 1894 | Ralph Peter Cator | 1829 | 1903 | on retired list since 1886 |
| 28 May 1894 | William Henry Fenwick | | | on retired list since before promotion |
| 9 December 1894 | Sir Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage GCB | 1833 | 1915 | Retired list on 19 March 1898 |
| 9 December 1894 | Armar Lowry-Corry | 1836 | 1919 | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 9 December 1894 | Theodore Morton Jones | 1832? | 1895 | on the retired list since 1883 |
| 9 December 1894 | Robert Gordon Douglas | 1829 | 1910 | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 9 December 1894 | Alexander Philips | | | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 20 February 1895 | Sir Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, GCB | 1832 | 1922 | Retired list on 23 February 1897 |
| 9 November 1895 | Charles John Rowley | 1832 | 1919 | |
| 11 March 1896 | Sir Richard Wells, KCB | 1833 | 1896 | C-in-C the Nore 1894–1896; died on active duty |
| 10 October 1896 | Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle GCB, GCVO, CMG | 1836 | 1929 | C-in-C Plymouth 1896–1899; Retired list on 15 June 1901 |
| 9 November 1896 | Sir John Ommanney Hopkins, GCB | 1834 | 1916 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1896–1899; Retired list on 13 July 1899 |
| 9 November 1896 | Thomas Le Hunte Ward, CB | 1830 | 1907 | on retired list since August 1890 |
| November 1896 | Frederick William Sidney | | | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| 23 February 1897 | Sir St. George Caulfield D'Arcy Irvine, KCB | 1833 | 1916 | Retired list on 10 May 1897 |
| 10 May 1897 | Sir Henry Fairfax, KCB | 1837 | 1900 | C-in-C Plymouth 1899–1900; died on active duty |
| 23 August 1897 | Sir James Elphinstone Erskine, KCB | 1838 | 1911 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1902 |
| 23 August 1897 | Alfred John Chatfield CB | 1831 | 1910 | on retired list since 1891 |
| 23 August 1897 | Thomas Barnardiston | 1833 | 1907 | on retired list since 1891 |
| 23 August 1897 | Lindesay Brine | 1834 | 1906 | on retired list since 1894 |
| 16 September 1897 | Sir Henry Frederick Nicholson, KCB | 1835 | 1914 | Retired list on 11 December 1897 |
| 16 September 1897 | Edward Field, CB | 1828 | 1912 | on the Retired list before promotion |
| 16 September 1897 | George Lydiard Sulivan | 1832 | 1904 | on the Retired list since 1892 |
| 11 December 1897 | Sir Alexander Buller, GCB | 1834 | 1903 | Retired list on 30 June 1899 |
| 26 December 1897 | Loftus Francis Jones | 1836 | 1912 | Retired list on 26 October 1899 |
| 19 March 1898 | Edward Stanley Adeane, CMG | 1836 | 1902 | Retired list on 7 December 1901 |
| 19 March 1898 | George Stanley Bosanquet | 1835 | 1914 | on the retired list since 1894 |
| 29 November 1898 | Sir Richard Edward Tracey, KCB | 1837 | 1907 | Retired list 22 January 1902 |
| 13 January 1899 | Sir Charles Frederick Hotham, GCB, GCVO | 1843 | 1925 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1903; on retired list from 1913 |
| 30 June 1899 | Lord Charles Thomas Montagu Douglas Scott, GCB | 1839 | 1911 | C-in-C Plymouth 1900–1902; Retired list on 20 October 1904 |
| 13 July 1899 | Sir Robert Henry More Molyneux GCB | 1838 | 1904 | Retired list on 6 August 1903 |
| 26 October 1899 | Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, KCB | 1838 | 1921 | Retired list on 21 January 1903 |
| 21 March 1900 | Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, GCB | 1839 | 1927 | First Naval Lord 1899–1904; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1904 |
| 21 March 1900 | James George Mead | 1834 | 1913 | on the retired list since 1894 |
| 21 March 1900 | William Henry Maxwell | 1840 | 1920 | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 13 March 1901 | Sir George Digby Morant, KCB | 1837 | 1921 | Retired list on 24 May 1901 |
| 24 May 1901 | Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1840 | 1929 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1905; on retired list from 1910 |
| 15 June 1901 | Henry Craven St. John | 1837 | 1909 | on the retired list from 16 June 1901, day after promotion |
| 16 June 1901 | Sir William Robert Kennedy, GCB | 1838 | 1916 | Retired list on 2 November 1901 |
| 5 November 1901 | John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1841 | 1920 | First Sea Lord 1904–1910, 1914–1915; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1905 |
| 7 December 1901 | Sir Henry Frederick Stephenson, GCVO, KCB | 1842 | 1919 | Retired list on 1 September 1904 |
| 24 January 1902 | Sir Charles George Fane, KCB | 1837 | 1909 | Retired list on 25 January 1902 |
| 25 January 1902 | Sir Compton Edward Domvile, GCB, GCVO | 1842 | 1924 | Retired list on 10 October 1907 |
| 25 January 1902 | John Frederick George Grant | 1835 | 1916 | on the Retired list since 1894 |
| 25 January 1902 | Henry Forster Cleveland | 1834 | 1924 | on the Retired list since 1894 |
| 3 October 1902 | Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford, GCB, GCVO | 1838 | 1913 | Retired list on 30 May 1903 |
| 21 January 1903 | Sir Albert Hastings Markham KCB | 1841 | 1918 | on retired list from 1906 |
| 21 January 1903 | John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear | 1838 | 1907 | on retired list since 1891 |
| 30 May 1903 | Alfred Taylor Dale | 1840 | 1925 | Retired list on 24 May 1905 |
| 6 August 1903 | Claude Edward Buckle | 1839 | 1930 | Retired list on 12 August 1903, six days after promotion |
| 12 August 1903 | Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG | 1843 | 1910 | Retired list on 5 November 1908 |
| 30 August 1903 | Sir Cyprian Arthur George Bridge, GCB | 1839 | 1924 | Retired list on 15 March 1904 |
| 1 October 1903 | Edmund Charles Drummond | 1841 | 1911 | Retired list on 26 November 1904 |
| 15 March 1904 | Sir Ernest Rice, KCB | 1840 | 1927 | Retired list on 24 February 1905 |
| 15 March 1904 | Charles Searle Cardale | 1841 | 1904 | on retired list since 1900 |
| 15 March 1904 | Edmund John Church | 1842 | 1904 | on retired list since 1899 |
| 15 March 1904 | Sir John Reginald Thomas Fullerton, GCVO, CB | 1840 | 1918 | on retired list since before promotion |
| 15 March 1904 | Charles Barstow Theobald | 1843 | 1905 | on retired list since 1893 |
| 15 March 1904 | Henry St Leger Bury Palliser | 1839 | 1907 | on retired list since 1899 |
| 16 June 1904 | Charles Lister Oxley | 1841 | 1920 | Retired List on 17 October 1906 |
| 16 June 1904 | Frederick Samuel Vander Meulen | 1839 | 1913 | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| 16 June 1904 | Sir Hilary Gustavus Andoe, KCB | 1841 | 1905 | on the Retired list since 1901 |
| 16 June 1904 | Armand Temple Powlett | 1841 | 1925 | on the Retired list since 1901 |
| 16 June 1904 | Alexander Plantagenet Hastings, CB | 1843 | 1928 | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| 16 June 1904 | Rodney Maclaine Lloyd, CB | 1841 | 1911 | on the Retired list since 1902 |
| 16 June 1904 | Francis Starkey Clayton | 1838 | 1913 | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| 16 June 1904 | Arthur Hildebrand Alington | 1839 | 1925 | on the Retired list since 1899 |
| 16 June 1904 | Henry John Carr | 1839 | 1914 | on the Retired list since 1899 |
| 1 September 1904 | Sir Robert Hastings Penruddock Harris KCB KCMG | 1843 | 1926 | Retired list on 12 October 1908 |
| 20 October 1904 | Sir Hugo Lewis Pearson, KCB | 1843 | 1912 | Retired list on 30 June 1908 |
| 26 November 1904 | Sir John Fellowes KCB | 1843 | 1913 | Retired list on 8 June 1905 |
| 16 February 1905 | Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald | 1841 | 1921 | Retired list on 2 March 1905 |
| 24 February 1905 | Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, 3rd Baronet, VC, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1842 | 1921 | First Sea Lord 1910–1911; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1907; on retired list from 1912 |
| 2 March 1905 | Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas, GCB, GCVO | 1842 | 1913 | C-in-C Portsmouth 1902–1907; Retired list 8 February 1907 |
| 24 May 1905 | Sir Gerard Henry Uctred Noel GCB KCMG | 1845 | 1918 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1908; on retired list from 1915 |
| 24 May 1905 | William Home Chisholm St Clair | 1841 | 1905 | on retired list since 1901 |
| 24 May 1905 | Atwell Peregrine MacLeod Lake | 1842 | 1915 | on retired list since July 1902 |
| 8 June 1905 | John William Brackenbury CB CMG | 1842 | 1918 | Retired list on 5 July 1905 |
| 5 July 1905 | Sir Thomas Sturges Jackson, KCVO | 1842 | 1934 | Retired list on 22 July 1905, 17 days after promotion |
| 22 July 1905 | Sir Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe, GCB, GCVO | 1847 | 1936 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1910; on retired list from 1917 |
| 22 July 1905 | Richard Horace Hamond | 1843 | 1906 | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| 4 December 1905 | Sir Day Hort Bosanquet, GCMG, GCVO, KCB | 1843 | 1923 | Retired list on 22 March 1908 |
| 17 October 1906 | Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont, GCB, KCMG | 1847 | 1922 | C-in-C Plymouth 1902–1908; Retired list on 19 May 1912 |
| 11 November 1906 | Charles William Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, GCB, GCVO | 1846 | 1919 | C-in-C Channel Fleet 1903–1905, 1907–1909; Retired list on 10 February 1911 |
| 1 January 1907 | Albert Baldwin Jenkings | 1846 | 1942 | Retired list on 1 June 1907 |
| 8 February 1907 | Sir James Andrew Thomas Bruce, KCMG | 1846 | 1921 | Retired list on 2 January 1909 |
| 8 February 1907 | Sir Henry Coey Kane, KCB | 1843 | 1917 | on the Retired list since 1899 |
| 8 February 1907 | Frederick Ross Boardman, CB | 1843 | 1927 | on the Retired list since 1899 |
| 1 March 1907 | King George V | 1865 | 1936 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet on accession to the Throne in 1910 |
| 1 March 1907 | Pelham Aldrich, CVO | 1844 | 1930 | Retired list on 22 March 1908 |
| 1 March 1907 | Henry Rose | 1844 | 1928 | on the Retired list since 1904 |
| 1 June 1907 | Swinton Colthurst Holland | 1844 | 1922 | Retired list on 11 April 1908 |
| 10 October 1907 | Sir Arthur William Moore, GCB, GCVO, CMG | 1847 | 1934 | Retired list on 30 July 1912 |
| 10 October 1907 | Ernest Neville Rolfe, CB | 1847 | 1909 | on retired list since 1903 |
| 22 March 1908 | Andrew Kennedy Bickford, CMG | 1844 | 1927 | Retired list on 12 May 1908 |
| 22 March 1908 | Sir William Alison Dyke Acland, 2nd Baronet CVO | 1847 | 1924 | Retired list on 17 July 1911 |
| 14 April 1908 | Sir Charles Carter Drury, GCB, GCVO, KCSI | 1846 | 1914 | C-in-C The Nore 1908–1911; Retired list on 27 August 1911 |
| 14 April 1908 | William Frederick Stanley Mann | 1846 | 1924 | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 12 May 1908 | Edmund Frederick Jeffreys, CVO | 1846 | 1925 | Retired list on 18 May 1908, six days after promotion |
| 18 May 1908 | Sir Reginald Neville Custance, GCB, KCMG, CVO | 1847 | 1935 | Retired list on 20 September 1912 |
| 30 June 1908 | Sir William Hannam Henderson, KBE | 1845 | 1931 | Retired list on 2 July 1908 |
| 30 June 1908 | John Robert Ebenezer Pattisson | 1844 | 1928 | on the retired list since November 1904 |
| 2 July 1908 | Robert William Craigie | 1849 | 1911 | Retired list on 5 November 1908 |
| 12 October 1908 | Sir Wilmot Hawkesworth Fawkes, GCB, KCVO | 1846 | 1926 | Retired list on 12 April 1911 |
| 5 November 1908 | Sir George Lambart Atkinson-Willes, KCB | 1847 | 1921 | Retired list on 13 July 1912 |
| 5 November 1908 | Sir William Henry May, GCB, GCVO | 1849 | 1930 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1909–1911, C-in-C Plymouth 1911–13; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1913 |
| 5 November 1908 | Edward Henry Meggs Davis | 1846 | 1929 | On Retired list since 1905 |
| 5 November 1908 | John Harvey Rainier | 1847 | 1915 | on retired list since 1905 |
| 2 December 1908 | Sir Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson GCB | 1846 | 1932 | Retired list on 1 January 1910 |
| 2 December 1908 | Alfred Arthur Chase Parr | 1849 | 1914 | on the Retired list since 1906 |
| 2 January 1909 | Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa | 1847 | 1910 | on the Retired list since 1905 |
| 2 January 1909 | Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe, GCVO, KCB, CMG | 1850 | 1911 | died on active duty |
| 1 January 1910 | Angus MacLeod, CVO | 1847 | 1920 | Retired list on 22 July 1910 |
| 30 April 1910 | Sir Edmund Samuel Poe, GCVO, KCB | 1848 | 1921 | Retired list on 11 September 1914 |
| 22 July 1910 | Sir Charles Campbell, KCMG, CB, DSO | 1847 | 1911 | on retired list since 1906 |
| 22 July 1910 | Sir John Durnford, GCB, DSO | 1849 | 1914 | Retired list on 10 May 1913 |
| 10 February 1911 | Charles James Barlow, DSO | 1848 | 1921 | Retired list on 19 July 1911 |
| 10 February 1911 | William Marrack | 1847 | 1926 | on the retired list since 1906 |
| 10 February 1911 | Gerald Charles Langley | 1848 | 1914 | on the retired list since 1906 |
| 1 March 1911 | Sir Hedworth Meux, GCB, KCVO | 1856 | 1929 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1915; on retired list from July 1921 |
| 12 April 1911 | Sir Francis Charles Bridgeman, GCB, GCVO | 1848 | 1929 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1911; First Sea Lord 1911–1912; Retired list on 7 December 1913 |
| 12 April 1911 | Sir Francis Powell, KCMG, CB | 1849 | 1927 | on the retired list since 1907 |
| 12 April 1911 | Arthur Barrow | 1853 | 1914 | on the retired list since 1906 |
| 17 July 1911 | Sir Richard Poore, 4th Baronet, KCB, CVO | 1853 | 1930 | Retired list on 3 April 1917 |
| 19 July 1911 | George Augustus Giffard, CMG | 1849 | 1925 | Retired list on 16 May 1913 |
| 19 July 1911 | Robert Leonard Groome, CVO | 1848 | 1917 | on the Retired list since 1907 |
| 27 August 1911 | Charles Grey Robinson, CVO | 1850 | 1934 | Retired list on 18 September 1911 |
| 18 September 1911 | Edward Harpur Gamble, CB | 1849 | 1925 | Retired list on 18 September 1911, the same day |
| 18 September 1911 | Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, 2nd Baronet, GCVO, KCB | 1855 | 1938 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1912–1914; Retired list on 12 February 1919 |
| 18 September 1911 | Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot | 1850 | 1913 | on the Retired list since July 1907 |
| 18 September 1911 | Walter Hodgson Bevan Graham | 1849 | 1931 | on the Retired list since January 1911 |
| 18 September 1911 | Sir Randolph Frank Ollive Foote, KCB, CMG | 1853 | 1931 | on the Retired list since March 1911 |
| 19 May 1912 | Sir George Fowler King-Hall KCB CVO | 1850 | 1939 | Retired list on 10 February 1914 |
| 13 July 1912 | Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, GCB, GCVO, KCMG | 1854 | 1921 | First Sea Lord 1912–1914; Retired list on 1 January 1919, promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1921 |
| 13 July 1912 | Michael Pelham O′Callaghan, CB, CVO | 1850 | 1937 | on the retired list since 1907 |
| 30 July 1912 | Sir George Neville, KCB, CVO | 1850 | 1923 | Retired list on 3 June 1913 |
| 30 July 1912 | Gerald Walter Russell | 1850 | 1928 | on the retired list since 1908 |
| 20 September 1912 | Sir Alfred Leigh Winsloe, KCB, CMG, CVO | 1852 | 1921 | Retired list on 13 December 1913 |
| 20 March 1913 | Sir Percy Moreton Scott, 1st Baronet, KCB, KCVO | 1853 | 1924 | Retired list on 21 March 1913, the following day |
| 20 March 1913 | Thomas MacGill, CB | 1850 | 1926 | on retired list since 1906 |
| 20 March 1913 | Henry Seawell Frank Niblett, CVO | 1852 | 1939 | on retired list since 1910 |
| 20 March 1913 | Frank Finnis, CVO | 1851 | 1918 | on retired list since 1909 |
| 20 March 1913 | Arthur William Edward Prothero | 1850 | 1931 | on retired list since 1905 |
| 21 March 1913 | Sir George Le Clerc Egerton, KCB | 1852 | 1940 | Retired list on 9 June 1916 |
| 10 May 1913 | Charles Henry Adair | 1851 | 1920 | Retired list on 15 May 1913, 5 days after promotion |
| 15 May 1913 | Sir Frederic William Fisher, KCVO | 1851 | 1943 | Retired list on 24 October 1914 |
| 15 May 1913 | Alexander William Chisholm Batten, DSO, MVO | 1851 | 1925 | on the Retired list since 1907 |
| 16 May 1913 | Charles Henry Cross | 1852 | 1915 | Retired list on 17 May 1913, the day after promotion |
| 17 May 1913 | Sir George Astley Callaghan GCB GCVO | 1852 | 1920 | Acting Admiral from 1911; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1917 |
| 3 June 1913 | Sir James Edward Clifford Goodrich | 1851 | 1925 | Retired list on 4 June 1913, the day after promotion |
| 3 June 1913 | Charles Gauntlett Dicken | 1854 | 1937 | on the Retired list since 1908 |
| 3 June 1913 | Archibald James Pocklington | 1851 | 1922 | on the Retired list since 1906 |
| 3 June 1913 | George Morris Henderson, MVO | 1851 | 1915 | on the Retired list since 1908 |
| 3 June 1913 | Francis George Kirby | 1854 | 1951 | on the Retired list since January 1908 |
| 4 June 1913 | Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield, KCB | 1854 | 1921 | Retired list on 9 June 1916 |
| 4 June 1913 | Charles Windham, CVO | 1851 | 1916 | on the Retired list since 1909 |
| 4 June 1913 | Philip Francis Tillard | 1852 | 1933 | on the Retired list since 1909 |
| 4 June 1913 | John Edward Bearcroft, CB, MVO | 1851 | 1931 | on the Retired list since 1906 |
| 4 June 1913 | John Locke Marx, CB, MVO, DSO | 1852 | 1939 | on the Retired list since 1909 |
| 4 June 1913 | Sir Arthur Mostyn Field, KCB | 1855 | 1950 | on the Retired list since August 1910 |
| 7 December 1913 | John Denison, DSO | 1853 | 1939 | Retired list 7 December 1913, the same day |
| 7 December 1913 | Sir Alfred Wyndham Paget, KCB, KCMG, DSO | 1852 | 1918 | on retired list from September 1914 |
| 7 December 1913 | Henry Morton Tudor Tudor | 1855 | 1926 | on retired list since 1909 |
| 13 December 1913 | Sir Robert Swinburne Lowry, KCB | 1854 | 1920 | on retired list from 1917 |
| 10 February 1914 | Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, GCB, KCVO | 1855 | 1929 | First Sea Lord 1915–1916; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1919 |
| 4 August 1914 | John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1859 | 1935 | C-in-C Grand Fleet 1914–1916; First Sea Lord 1916–1917; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1919, retired list in 1924 |
| September 1914 | Sir Stanley Cecil James Colville, GCB, GCMG, GCVO | 1861 | 1939 | on retired list from April 1922 |
| September 1914 | Sir Arthur Murray Farquhar KCB CVO | 1855 | 1937 | Retired list on 9 June 1916 |
| October 1914 | William Blake Fisher CB | 1853 | 1926 | on retired list since August 1914 |
| October 1914 | Ernest Alfred Simons | 1856 | 1928 | on retired list from October 1915 |
| 5 March 1915 | Robert Stevenson Dalton Cuming, CBE, DSO | 1852 | 1940 | on retired list since 1907 |
| October 1915 | Sir Paul Warner Bush, KCB, MVO | 1855 | 1930 | on retired list from January 1916 |
| 24 October 1915 | Sir James Startin KCB AM | 1855 | 1948 | on retired list since September 1914 |
| October 1915 | Harry Campbell Reynolds | 1853 | 1949 | on retired list since December 1908 |
| 10 January 1916 | Sir Charles John Briggs, KCB | 1858 | 1951 | on retired list from July 1917 |
| 9 June 1916 | Sir Frederick Tower Hamilton, GCVO, KCB | 1856 | 1917 | Second Sea Lord 1914–1916; Died of heart attack on active duty; listed in 1918 Navy List as killed in action |
| 9 June 1916 | Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG | 1858 | 1929 | Admiral of the Fleet 1920; on retired list November 1925 |
| 9 June 1916 | Alban Giffard Tate | 1853 | 1930 | on the Retired list since 1912 |
| 9 June 1916 | Thomas Young Greet | 1854 | 1947 | on the Retired list since 1908 |
| 9 June 1916 | Arthur John Horsley | 1853 | 1937 | on the Retired list since 1907 |
| 9 June 1916 | Herbert Augustus Warren, MVO | 1855 | 1926 | on the Retired list since 1911 |
| 9 June 1916 | Frederick Sidney Pelham, CBE | 1854 | 1931 | Retired list on 10 June 1916, the day after promotion |
| 10 June 1916 | Sir Alexander Edward Bethell, GCMG, KCB | 1855 | 1931 | C-in-C Plymouth 1916–1918; on retired list from September 1918 |
| April 1917 | Sir Frederic Edward Errington Brock, GBE, KCMG, CB | 1854 | 1929 | on retired list from August 1918 |
| 3 April 1917 | Sir Charles Henry Coke, KCVO | 1854 | 1945 | Retired list on 10 April 1917, seven days after promotion |
| 3 April 1917 | Hugh Pigot Williams | 1858 | 1934 | on Retired list since 1915 |
| 3 April 1917 | Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill | 1855 | 1935 | on Retired list since 1908 |
| 10 April 1917 | Sir Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram, GCMG, KCB | 1858 | 1933 | on Retired list in 1917 |
| April 1917 | Sir Douglas Austin Gamble, KCVO | 1856 | 1934 | on retired list May 1917 |
| April 1917 | Sir Colin Richard Keppel GCVO KCIE CB DSO | 1862 | 1947 | on retired list since December 1913 |
| May 1917 | Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet, GCB KCMG CVO | 1859 | 1925 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1921 |
| July 1917 | Sir Edward Eden Bradford GBE KCB CVO | 1858 | 1935 | on retired list from March 1918 |
| July 1917 | Sir Robert Nelson Ommanney KBE CB | 1854 | 1938 | on retired list since 1915 |
| July 1917 | Charles Hope Robertson CMG MVO | 1856 | 1942 | on retired list since 1909 |
| July 1917 | Henry Coare Kingsford | 1858 | 1941 | on retired list since 1912 |
| August 1917 | Sir Edmond John Warre Slade KCIE KCVO | 1859 | 1928 | on retired list from September 1917 (13 days after promotion) |
| September 1917 | Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden, KCMG | 1857 | 1930 | on retired list from October 1917 |
| October 1917 | Richard Bowles Farquhar, CB | 1859 | 1948 | on retired list from January 1918 |
| October 1917 | Sir Lewis Bayly, KCB, KCMG, CVO | 1857 | 1938 | on retired list from 1919 |
| January 1918 | Sir George Edwin Patey, KCMG, KCVO | 1859 | 1935 | on retired list from start of 1919 |
| January 1918 | Sir Arthur Henry Limpus KCMG CB | 1863 | 1931 | on retired list 1 January 1919 |
| 11 March 1918 | Sir Richard Henry Peirse, KCB, KBE, MVO | 1860 | 1940 | Retired list on 17 January 1919 |
| August 1918 | Sir Herbert Goodenough King-Hall KCB CVO DSO | 1862 | 1936 | On retired list from May 1922 |
| September 1918 | Arthur Yerbury Moggridge | 1858 | 1946 | on retired list since July 1915 |
| September 1918 | Sir William Lowther Grant KCB | 1864 | 1929 | on retired list from 1920 |
| September 1918 | Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon KCB KCVO DSO | 1863 | 1947 | on retired list since 1909 but recalled to active duty 1914–1919 |
| September 1918 | Robert Hathorn Johnston Stewart CB MVO | 1858 | 1940 | on retired list since 1912 |
| 1 January 1919 | David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO | 1871 | 1936 | C-in-C Grand Fleet 1916–1919; First Sea Lord 1919–1927; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in May 1919, retired list in 1927 |
| January 1919 | Henry Loftus Tottenham, CB | 1860 | 1950 | on retired list since October 1918 |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper, GBE, KCB, CVO | 1859 | 1945 | Retired list on 16 May 1921 |
| 1 January 1919 | Spencer Victor Yorke de Horsey | 1863 | 1937 | on retired list since before promotion |
| 1 January 1919 | Robert Grant Fraser | 1858 | 1920 | on retired list since 1910 |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Herbert Edward Purey-Cust, KBE, CB | 1857 | 1938 | on retired list since 1912 |
| 1 January 1919 | Herbert Lyon, CB | 1856 | 1919 | on retired list since 1913 |
| 1 January 1919 | Charles Henry Hodgson Moore | 1858 | 1920 | on retired list since 1913 |
| January 1919 | Lionel Grant Tufnell CMG | 1857 | 1930 | on retired list since 1911 |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir William Fane de Salis, KBE, MVO | 1858 | 1939 | on retired list since 1913 |
| 1 January 1919 | Sir Charles Hope Dundas, KCMG | 1859 | 1924 | on retired list since 1916 |
| January 1919 | Bernard Currey | 1862 | 1936 | on retired list from 8 days after promotion |
| January 1919 | Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge, KCMG, CB, MVO | 1862 | 1926 | on retired list |
| 17 January 1919 | Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore, KCB, CVO | 1862 | 1934 | Retired list on 21 February 1919 |
| 17 January 1919 | Arthur Wartensleben Ewart | 1862 | 1922 | on the retired list since 1911 |
| 12 February 1919 | Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet | 1862 | 1935 | First Sea Lord 1927–1930; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1924; retired list 1930 |
| 21 February 1919 | Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss, GCB, CMG, MVO | 1864 | 1933 | First Sea Lord 1917–1919; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1919; retired list 1929 |
| April 1919 | Charles Eustace Anson CB MVO | 1859 | 1940 | on retired list since April 1917 |
| April 1919 | Sir Cecil Fiennes Thursby, KCB, KCMG | 1861 | 1936 | Retired list on 7 October 1920 |
| July 1919 | Arthur Henry Christian, CB, MVO | 1863 | 1926 | Retired list on 3 October 1919 |
| July 1919 | Sir Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe GCB GCMG CVO | 1864 | 1937 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1925; retired list from 1930 |
| 3 October 1919 | Sir Herbert Leopold Heath, KCB, MVO | 1861 | 1954 | Second Sea Lord 1917–1919; on retired list from June 1922 |
| 3 October 1919 | William Oswald Story, CBE | 1859 | 1938 | on Retired list since 1912 |
| November 1919 | Sir Montague Edward Browning GCB GCMG GCVO | 1863 | 1947 | on retired list from October 1926 |
| March 1920 | Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Baronet, GCB GCMG GCVO | 1862 | 1928 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1925 |
| 7 October 1920 | Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, GCB, KCMG, MVO | 1862 | 1928 | Retired list on 30 June 1924 |
| 7 October 1920 | Richard Purefoy FitzGerald Purefoy, CBE, MVO | 1862 | 1943 | on retired list since 1916 |
| 7 October 1920 | Arthur William Waymouth, CB | 1863 | 1936 | on retired list since 1917 |
| 7 October 1920 | Godfrey Harry Brydges Mundy, CB, DSO, MVO | 1860 | 1928 | on retired list since 1917 |
| 7 October 1920 | Archibald Peile Stoddart, CB | 1860 | 1939 | on retired list since 1918 |
| November 1920 | Stuart Nicholson CB MVO | 1865 | 1936 | on retired list the day after promotion |
| November 1920 | Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair KCB KCMG MVO | 1864 | 1958 | on retired list from November 1923 |
| 16 May 1921 | Sir Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor, KCB, KCMG | 1863 | 1946 | on the retired list November 1922 |
| 16 May 1921 | Sir Henry Hervey Campbell, KCVO, CB | 1865 | 1933 | on the retired list since 1917 |
| 16 May 1921 | Evelyn Robert Le Marchant, DSO | 1858 | 1949 | on the retired list since 1913 |
| July 1921 | Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff GCB GBE KCVO | 1862 | 1933 | on retired list July 1925 |
| 5 July 1921 | Sir Edward Francis Benedict Charlton, KCB, KCMG | 1865 | 1937 | on retired list from March 1924 |
| 5 July 1921 | Reginald Arthur Allenby, DSO, MVO | 1861 | 1936 | on the Retired list since 1915 |
| 5 July 1921 | Seymour Elphinstone Erskine, CB | 1863 | 1945 | on the Retired list since 1915 |
| 5 July 1921 | John de Mestre Hutchison, CMG, CVO | 1862 | 1932 | on the Retired list since 1916 |
| April 1922 | Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby CMG | 1866 | 1956 | Retired list on 6 April 1922, two days after promotion |
| 6 April 1922 | Sir William Christopher Pakenham, GCB, KCMG, KCVO | 1861 | 1933 | Retired list on 1 March 1926 |
| 6 April 1922 | Mark Edward Frederic Kerr, CB, CVO | 1864 | 1944 | on the Retired list since 1918 |
| 6 April 1922 | John Bridges Eustace | 1861 | 1947 | on the Retired list since 1918 |
| June 1922 | Cresswell John Eyres DSO OBE | 1862 | 1949 | on retired list since December 1914 |
| June 1922 | Francis Spurstow Miller CB | 1863 | 1954 | on retired list since January 1920 |
| June 1922 | Francis George Eyre | 1864 | 1941 | on retired list since February 1919 |
| June 1922 | Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson GCB | 1868 | 1929 | on retired list from February 1928 |
| November 1922 | Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, GCB, MVO | 1867 | 1958 | Retired list on 5 April 1928 |
| November 1923 | Sir Henry Francis Oliver GCB KCMG MVO | 1865 | 1965 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1928; retired list 1933–1940 |
| March 1924 | George Alexander Ballard CB | 1862 | 1948 | on retired list since June 1921 |
| March 1924 | Sir Morgan Singer KCB KCVO | 1864 | 1938 | Retired list on 1 August 1924 |
| March 1924 | Sir Edmund Radcliffe Pears KBE CB | 1862 | 1941 | on retired list since January 1920 |
| March 1924 | Arthur David Ricardo CB | 1861 | 1931 | on retired list since 1920 |
| 30 July 1924 | Sir Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt, KCB, KBE, CMG | 1865 | 1940 | on retired list from March 1925 |
| July 1924 | Cecil Frederick Dampier CMG | 1868 | 1950 | on retired list since July 1922 |
| 31 July 1924 | Sir Osmond de Beauvoir Brock, GCB, KCMG, KCVO | 1869 | 1947 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1929 |
| 31 July 1924 | Sir Robert John Prendergast, KCB | 1864 | 1946 | on the Retired list since 1919 |
| 31 July 1924 | Norman Craig Palmer, CVO | 1866 | 1926 | on the Retired list since 1919 |
| 31 July 1924 | Cecil Frederick Dampier, CMG | 1868 | 1950 | on the Retired list since 1922 |
| 1 August 1924 | Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore, GCB, KCMG, MVO | 1864 | 1940 | on retired list from October 1929 |
| 1 August 1924 | Hubert Grant-Dalton, CB | 1862 | 1934 | on retired list since 1915 |
| 1 August 1924 | Alfred Ernest Albert Grant | 1861 | 1933 | on retired list since 1919 |
| 1 August 1924 | Cyril Everard Tower, DSO | 1861 | 1929 | on retired list since 1915 |
| 1 August 1924 | Joseph Ridgway Bridson | 1861 | 1933 | on retired list since 1919 |
| 1 August 1924 | Edmund Hyde Smith, CB | 1865 | 1939 | on retired list since 1919 |
| 1 August 1924 | Ernest Gillbe Barton | 1861 | 1938 | on retired list since 1915 |
| 1 August 1924 | Robert Hamilton Anstruther, CMG | 1862 | 1938 | on retired list since 1915 |
| 1 August 1924 | Bentinck John Davies Yelverton, CB | 1862 | 1959 | on retired list since 1915 |
| 1 August 1924 | Henry James Langford Clarke, CBE | 1866 | 1944 | on retired list since 1915 |
| 1 August 1924 | Arthur Hayes-Sadler, CSI | 1865 | 1952 | on retired list since 1920 |
| March 1925 | Sir Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee KBE CB | 1867 | 1928 | on the retired list since 1920 |
| March 1925 | Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson KCMG KCVO | 1867 | 1946 | Retired list on 1 March 1926 |
| March 1925 | Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, 13th Baron Stafford, KCB | 1865 | 1941 | on retired list since March 1923 |
| 8 May 1925 | Sir William Edmund Goodenough GCB MVO | 1867 | 1945 | on retired list from 1930 |
| 8 May 1925 | Cecil Spencer Hickley, CB, MVO | 1865 | 1941 | on retired list since 1920 |
| 8 May 1925 | Sir Arthur John Henniker-Hughan, 6th Baronet, CB | 1866 | 1925 | on retired list since 1920 |
| 8 May 1925 | Sir Thomas Dawson Lees Sheppard, KBE, CB, MVO | 1866 | 1953 | on retired list since 1922 |
| 8 May 1925 | Francis William Kennedy, CB | 1862 | 1939 | on retired list since 1920 |
| 8 May 1925 | Rowland Nugent | 1861 | 1948 | on retired list since 1916 |
| 8 May 1925 | Hugh Thomas Hibbert, CBE, DSO | 1863 | 1951 | on retired list since 1916 |
| 8 May 1925 | Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler, CB, DSO | 1864 | 1934 | on retired list since 1916 |
| 8 May 1925 | Sir Heathcoat Salusbury Grant, KCMG, CB | 1864 | 1938 | on retired list since 1920 |
| 8 May 1925 | Sir Thomas Jackson, KBE, CB, MVO | 1868 | 1945 | on retired list since 1923 |
| 8 May 1925 | Frank Edward Cavendish Ryan, CBE | 1865 | 1945 | on retired list since 1916 |
| 8 May 1925 | Philip Nelson-Ward, CVO | 1866 | 1937 | on retired list since 1916 |
| July 1925 | Sir William Coldingham Masters Nicholson KCB | 1863 | 1932 | on retired list from October 1925 |
| 24 November 1925 | Sir George Price Webley Hope KCB KCMG | 1869 | 1959 | Retired list on 2 March 1926 |
| 24 November 1925 | John Scott Luard CB | 1865 | 1936 | on retired list since 1917 |
| 24 November 1925 | Herbert Charles Campbell Da Costa | 1865 | 1940 | on retired list since 1920 |
| 24 November 1925 | Cuthbert Edward Hunter | 1866 | 1952 | on retired list since 1917 |
| 24 November 1925 | Sir Laurence Eliot Power, KCB, CVO | 1864 | 1927 | on retired list since 1920 |
| 24 November 1925 | Sir John Franklin Parry, KCB | 1863 | 1926 | on retired list since 1920 |
| 1 March 1926 | Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO | 1872 | 1945 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1925–1929; C-in-C Portsmouth 1929–1931; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1930 |
| 1 March 1926 | Cecil Foley Lambert KCB | 1864 | 1928 | On Retired List |
| 1 March 1926 | Sir Hugh Henry Darby Tothill, KCB, KCMG, KCVO | 1865 | 1927 | on retired list from October 1926 |
| 2 March 1926 | Sir Victor Albert Stanley, KCB, MVO | 1867 | 1934 | on retired list from November 1926 |
| October 1926 | Sir Lionel Halsey GCMG GCVO KCIE CB | 1872 | 1949 | on retired list since November 1922 |
| October 1926 | Sir Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair GCB MVO | 1865 | 1945 | on retired list from 1930 |
| October 1926 | Stuart St. John Farquhar | 1865 | 1941 | on retired list since 1917 |
| October 1926 | Sir James Andrew Fergusson, KCB, KCMG | 1871 | 1942 | |
| 8 November 1926 | Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker KCB KCVO CBE | 1866 | 1939 | on retired list from August 1927 |
| November 1926 | Thomas Webster Kemp CB CMG CIE | 1866 | 1928 | on retired list since 1917 |
| November 1926 | Bertram Mordaunt Chambers CB | 1866 | 1945 | on retired list since 1917 |
| November 1926 | Sir William Reginald Hall KCMG CB | 1870 | 1943 | on retired list since 1919 |
| November 1926 | Sir Henry Harvey Bruce KCB MVO | 1862 | 1948 | on retired list since 1922 |
| November 1926 | Clement Greatorex CB MVO | 1869 | 1937 | on retired list since 1922 |
| November 1926 | George Cuthbert Cayley CB | 1866 | 1944 | on retired list since 1919 |
| November 1926 | Sir Allan Frederic Everett KCMG KCVO CB | 1868 | 1938 | on retired list since 1925 |
| November 1926 | Sir Henry Bertram Pelly KCVO CB | 1867 | 1942 | on retired list since 1925 |
| November 1926 | John Nicholas | 1865 | 1942 | on retired list since 1917 |
| November 1926 | Sir Allen Thomas Hunt KCB CSI | 1866 | 1943 | on retired list since 1924 |
| 1 August 1927 | Sir Walter Henry Cowan Bt, KCB DSO MVO ADC | 1871 | 1956 | Retired October 1931 |
| 1 August 1927 | Brian Herbert Fairbairn Barttelot, KBE CB CVO | 1867 | 1942 | on Retired List since 1923 |
| 1 August 1927 | Sir John Frederick Ernest Green, KCMG CB | 1866 | 1948 | on Retired List since January 1925 |
| 1 August 1927 | Richard Morden Harbord-Hamond, 10th Baron Suffield | 1865 | 1951 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Vivian Henry Gerald Bernard, CB | 1868 | 1934 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Charles Frederick Thorp CBE | 1869 | 1954 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Edward Francis Bruen, CB | 1866 | 1952 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | James Clement Ley, CB CVO | 1869 | 1946 | on Retired List since 1923 |
| 1 August 1927 | Edmond Hyde Parker CB | 1868 | 1951 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | William George Elmhirst Ruck-Keene, MVO | 1867 | 1935 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Edward Montgomery Phillpotts, CB | 1871 | 1952 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Cunningham Robert de Clare Foot, CBE | 1864 | 1940 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Algernon Walker-Heneage-Vivian, CB MVO | 1871 | 1952 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Sir Frederick Charles Learmonth, KBE, CB | 1866 | 1941 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Philip Howard Colomb, CB | 1867 | 1958 | on Retired List since 1923 |
| 1 August 1927 | George Holmes Borrett, CB | 1868 | 1952 | on Retired List |
| 1 August 1927 | Charles Ferdinand Henderson | 1866 | 1935 | on Retired List |
| January 1928 | Philip Wylie Dumas CB CVO | 1868 | 1948 | on retired list since 1918 |
| January 1928 | Sir Richard Webb KCMG CB | 1870 | 1950 | on retired list from February 1929 |
| 22 February 1928 | Sir Rudolph Walter Bentinck, KCB KCMG | 1869 | 1947 | on retired list from October 1929 |
| February 1928 | Charles Frederick Corbett CB MVO | 1867 | 1955 | on retired list since 1922 |
| 5 April 1928 | Sir Frederick Laurence Field, GCB, KCMG | 1871 | 1945 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1928–1930; First Sea Lord 1930–1933; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1933 |
| 5 April 1928 | Sir Algernon Douglas Edward Harry Boyle, KCB, CMG, MVO | 1871 | 1949 | on the retired list since 1924 |
| 5 April 1928 | Sir Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant, KCVO, CB | 1867 | 1952 | on the retired list since 14 January 1928 |
| 5 April 1928 | Edwin Veale Underhill, CB | 1868 | 1928 | on the retired list since before promotion |
| 5 April 1928 | Henry Lancelot Mawbey, CB, CVO | 1870 | 1933 | on the retired list since 1924 |
| 11 June 1928 | Sir Hubert George Brand, GCB KCMG KCVO | 1870 | 1955 | Put on Retired List October 1932 |
| February 1929 | Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, GCB, DSO | 1870 | 1951 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1934 |
| 31 July 1929 | Sir Michael Henry Hodges KCB CMG MVO | 1874 | 1951 | Second Sea Lord 1927–1930; on retired list from 1932 |
| October 1929 | Sir Hugh Dudley Richards Watson, KCB, CVO, CBE | 1872 | 1954 | on retired list from April 1930 |
| 1 April 1930 | Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield GCB OM | 1873 | 1967 | First Sea Lord 1933–1938; Admiral of the Fleet 1935 |
| 1 April 1930 | Crawford Maclachlan CB | 1867 | 1952 | on Retired List |
| 1 April 1930 | John Luce CB | 1870 | 1932 | on Retired List |
| 1 April 1930 | Wilmot Stuart Nicholson, CB | 1872 | 1947 | on Retired List since 1927 |
| 8 May 1930 | Sir Arthur Allan Morison Duff, KCB | 1874 | 1952 | Retired list on 15 May 1930 |
| 8 May 1930 | Charles Duncan Johnson, CB, DSO, MVO | 1869 | 1930 | on the Retired list since 1926 |
| 15 May 1930 | Sir Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, KCB, CMG, DSO | 1874 | 1942 | Second Sea Lord 1930–1932; retired in 1935 |
| 15 May 1930 | Sir Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair, KCB | 1873 | 1939 | Director of British Naval Intelligence 1919. On the retired list since 1926 |
| 15 May 1930 | Sir Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith, KCVO, KBE, CB | 1872 | 1957 | on the retired list since 1926 |
| 15 May 1930 | Hugh Lindsay Patrick Heard, CB, DSO | 1869 | 1934 | on the retired list since 1926 |
| 12 December 1930 | Sir John Donald Kelly, GCB GCVO | 1871 | 1936 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1936 |
| 1 April 1931 | Sir Henry Tritton Buller, GCVO KCB | 1873 | 1960 | |
| 6 October 1931 | Thomas Drummond Gilbert, CB | 1870 | 1962 | On Retired List |
| 6 October 1931 | William Archibald Howard Kelly, GBE, KCB, CMG, MVO | 1873 | 1952 | Retired list in June 1936 |
| September 1932 | Bertram Sackville Thesiger, KBE CB CMG | 1875 | 1966 | Retired list on 31 December 1932 |
| 12 October 1932 | Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard, KCB CMG | 1874 | 1960 | Retired list the following day 13 October 1932 |
| 13 October 1932 | Percival Henry Hall-Thompson CB CMG | 1874 | 1950 | Retired 1932 |
| 12 October 1932 | Robert Nesham Bax, CB | 1875 | 1969 | On Retired List from 1928 to 1940 and after 1945 |
| 13 October 1932 | Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall, CMG | 1872 | 1938 | On Retired List |
| 13 October 1932 | Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, CB CBE MVO | 1873 | 1953 | On Retired List |
| 1 November 1932 | William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery, GCB GCVO | 1873 | 1967 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1938 |
| 31 December 1932 | Sir Albert Percy Addison, KBE CB CMG | 1875 | 1952 | on the Retired list since 1929 |
| 31 December 1932 | Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, GBE KCB | 1878 | 1956 | Retired list in 1939 |
| 31 December 1932 | Sir Alan Geoffrey Hotham, KCMG CB | 1876 | 1965 | On the Retired list since 1929 |
| 21 January 1933 | Sir Francis Herbert Mitchell, CB, DSO | 1876 | 1946 | Retired list on 1 September 1933 |
| 1 September 1933 | Sir Frank Larken, KCB, CMG | 1875 | 1953 | Retired list on 20 September 1933 |
| 1 September 1933 | John Ewen Cameron, CB MVO | 1874 | 1939 | on Retired List since 1929 |
| 1 September 1933 | Cyril Samuel Townsend, CB | 1875 | 1949 | on the Retired List since 1929. |
| 1 September 1933 | Cecil Minet Staveley, CB, CMG | 1874 | 1934 | on the Retired List since 1929. |
| 30 September 1933 | Sir Rudolf Miles Burmester, KBE, CB, CMG | 1875 | 1956 | |
| 30 September 1933 | William Rawdon Napier, CB, CMG, DSO | 1877 | 1951 | on the Retired list since 1929 |
| 30 September 1933 | Humphrey Wykeham Bowring, CB, DSO | 1874 | 1952 | on the Retired list since 1929 |
| 10 October 1933 | David Thomas Norris, CB CMG | 1875 | 1937 | on retired list since 1929 |
| 11 February 1934 | Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse GCB GCVO CMG | 1878 | 1939 | First Sea Lord 1938–1939; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1939 |
| 28 February 1934 | Sir Lionel George Preston KCB | 1875 | 1971 | on retired list from 1935 |
| 31 July 1934 | Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, GCVO CB DSO | 1875 | 1964 | On Retired List July 1936 |
| January 1935 | King Edward VIII | 1894 | 1972 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on accession to the Throne in 1936 |
| January 1935 | Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1877 | 1943 | First Sea Lord 1939–1943; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1939 |
| 8 May 1935 | Sir Hugh Justin Tweedie, KCB | 1877 | 1951 | Retired list on 1 January 1936 |
| 8 May 1935 | Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson, CB, CMG | 1875 | 1956 | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| 1935 | Sir Eric John Arthur Fullerton, KCB, DSO | 1878 | 1962 | Retired list on 1 January 1936 |
| 1 January 1936 | Sir William Munro Kerr, KBE, CB | 1876 | 1959 | Retired list on 2 January 1936, the day after promotion |
| 1 January 1936 | Sir Barry Edward Domvile, KBE, CB, CMG | 1878 | 1971 | Retired list on 2 January 1936, the day after promotion |
| 1 January 1936 | Herbert Willes Webley Hope, CB, CVO, DSO | 1878 | 1968 | on retired list since 1931 |
| 1 January 1936 | Anselan John Buchanan Stirling, CB | 1875 | 1936 | on retired list since 1931 |
| 1 January 1936 | John Moore Casement, CB | 1877 | 1952 | on retired list since 1931 |
| 1 January 1936 | Sir Arthur John Davies, KBE, CB | 1877 | 1954 | on retired list since before promotion |
| 2 January 1936 | Sir Reginald Aylmer Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, KCB, DSO | 1880 | 1967 | C-in-C Plymouth 1935–1938; C-in-C the Nore 1939–1941 |
| 2 January 1936 | Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, VC, KCB, KCMG | 1883 | 1965 | C-in-C Plymouth 1938–1941 |
| January 1936 | King George VI | 1895 | 1952 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet upon accession to the Throne in December 1936 |
| 12 July 1936 | Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, KCB, DSO | 1880 | 1957 | |
| 19 June 1936 | Matthew Robert Best, KCB DSO MVO | 1879 | 1940 | C-in-C, America and West Indies Station 1934. Retired Jan 1936 |
| 19 July 1936 | Sir George Knightley Chetwode, KCB CBE | 1877 | 1957 | on retired list from August 1936 |
| 19 August 1936 | Sir Charles Morton Forbes, GCB DSOCinC Home Fleet 1938-1940, CinC Plymouth 1941-1943 | 1880 | 1960 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1940 |
| June 1937 | Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little GCB GBE | 1882 | 1973 | on retired list from April 1945 |
| January 1938 | Sir William Milbourne James GCB | 1881 | 1973 | |
| May 1939 | Sir Ragnar Musgrave Colvin, KBE, CB | 1882 | 1954 | |
| May 1939 | Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble GBE KCB CVO | 1880 | 1955 | |
| June 1939 | Sir Francis William Loftus Tottenham KCB CBE | 1880 | 1967 | |
| July 1939 | Sir Sidney Robert Bailey, KBE, CB, DSO | 1882 | 1942 | |
| December 1939 | Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay GCVO KCB DSO | 1881 | 1972 | |
| January 1940 | Sir Sidney Julius Meyrick KCB | 1879 | 1973 | on retired list from 1941 |
| 8 May 1940 | Sir Dudley Burton Napier North, GCVO, CB, CSI, CMG | 1881 | 1961 | |
| 1 August 1940 | Noel Frank Laurence, KCB DSO | 1882 | 1970 | |
| 3 January 1941 | Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, OM, DSO | 1883 | 1963 | First Sea Lord 1943–1946; promoted Admiral of the Fleet January 1943 |
| January 1941 | Sir Max Kennedy Horton GCB DSO | 1883 | 1951 | |
| January 1941 | Sir Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Ford KCB KBE | 1880 | 1964 | |
| October 1941 | Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips KCB | 1888 | 1941 | his full Admiral rank promotion announced on 1 December 1941; C-in-C Eastern Fleet October 1941 – 10 December 1941; killed in action when Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by Japanese air attack on 10 December 1941 |
| February 1942 | Sir Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis GBE KCB | 1884 | 1946 | |
| April 1942 | Sir Charles Gordon Ramsey KCB | 1882 | 1966 | retired 1942 |
| April 1942 | Sir Thomas Hugh Binney KCB KCMG DSO | 1883 | 1953 | retired 1945 |
| April 1942 | Sir James Fownes Somerville GCB GBE DSO | 1882 | 1949 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet May 1945 |
| June 1942 | Sir George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon GCB | 1883 | 1947 | |
| September 1942 | Sir Geoffrey Layton GBE KCB KCMG DSO | 1884 | 1964 | |
| October 1942 | Sir Guy Charles Cecil Royle KCB CMG | 1885 | 1954 | |
| October 1942 | John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey GCB, KBE, DSO | 1885 | 1971 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet October 1943 |
| January 1943 | Sir George Frederick Basset Edward-Collins KCB KCVO | 1883 | 1958 | |
| 4 August 1943 | Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, GCB, MVO | 1885 | 1962 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1943–1946; First Sea Lord 1946–1948; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1948 |
| December 1943 | Sir Ralph Leatham KCB | 1886 | 1954 | |
| December 1943 | Sir William Jock Whitworth KCB DSO | 1884 | 1973 | |
| 7 February 1944 | Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape GCB, KBE | 1888 | 1981 | First Sea Lord 1948–1951; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1948 |
| April 1944 | Sir Bertram Home Ramsay KCB KBE MVO | 1883 | 1945 | killed in air accident on active duty |
| June 1944 | Sir Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell KCB CVO | 1885 | 1952 | Retired list on 14 February 1948 |
| April 1945 | Sir Henry Ruthven Moore, GCB, CVO, DSO | 1886 | 1978 | C-in-C The Nore 1948–1950; retired list on 15 January 1951 |
| May 1945 | Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker KCB CBE | 1888 | 1945 | died on active duty months after promotion |
| September 1945 | John Henry Godfrey CB | 1888 | 1970 | on retired list from date of promotion |
| September 1945 | Sir Harold Martin Burrough GCB KBE DSO | 1889 | 1977 | retired 1949 |
| October 1945 | Sir Henry Harwood Harwood KCB OBE | 1888 | 1950 | on retired list since August 1945 |
| October 1945 | Sir Marshal Llewelyn Clarke KBE CB DSC | 1887 | 1959 | on retired list upon promotion |
| October 1945 | Sir Algernon Usborne Willis GCB DSO | 1889 | 1976 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1949 |
| 1946 | Sir Edward Neville Syfret GCB KBE | 1889 | 1972 | retired 1948 |
| 6 May 1946 | Sir Arthur John Power, GCB, GBE, CVO | 1889 | 1960 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1948–1950; C-in-C Portsmouth 1950–1952; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in April 1952 |
| 1946 | Sir Arthur Malcolm Peters KCB DSC | 1888 | 1979 | retired list since 1945 |
| 16 May 1947 | Sir Arthur Francis Eric Palliser, KCB, DSC | 1890 | 1956 | Retired list on 2 September 1948 |
| 16 May 1947 | Sir Louis Henry Keppel Hamilton, KCB, DSO | 1890 | 1957 | Retired list on 26 September 1948 |
| 16 May 1947 | Sir Irvine Gordon Glennie, KCB | 1892 | 1980 | on retired list since earlier that year |
| 4 January 1948 | Sir Geoffrey John Audley Miles KCB KCSI | 1890 | 1986 | retired list from April 1948 |
| 4 January 1948 | Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton KCB | 1890 | 1974 | |
| 21 January 1948 | Sir Denis William Boyd, KCB, CBE, DSC | 1891 | 1965 | Retired list on 22 June 1949 |
| 2 September 1948 | Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor GCB | 1893 | 1959 | First Sea Lord 1951–1955; Admiral of the Fleet 1953 |
| September 1948 | Sir Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker KCB | 1891 | 1975 | on retired list since September 1947 |
| 26 September 1948 | Sir Philip Louis Vian GCB KBE DSO | 1894 | 1968 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1952 |
| 22 October 1948 | Sir William Tennant KCB CBE MVO | 1890 | 1963 | |
| 22 October 1948 | Sir Charles Eric Morgan KCB DSO | 1889 | 1951 | On the Retired list. |
| 3 February 1949 | Sir Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley VC KCB DSC | 1893 | 1986 | on the Retired list since 1947 |
| 22 June 1949 | Sir Cecil Halliday Jepson Harcourt, GBE, KCB | 1892 | 1959 | Retired list on 27 January 1953 |
| 22 June 1949 | Sir Douglas Blake Fisher, KCB, KBE | 1890 | 1963 | on the Retired list since 1948 |
| 3 August 1949 | Sir Wilfrid Rupert Patterson, KCB, CBE, CVO | 1893 | 1954 | Retired list on 1 December 1950 |
| 4 October 1950 | Sir Reginald Henry Portal KCB DSC | 1894 | 1983 | retired list from May 1951 |
| 1 December 1950 | Sir Harold Richard George Kinahan, KBE, CB | 1893 | 1980 | |
| 1 December 1950 | Sir Ernest Russell Archer, KCB, CBE | 1891 | 1958 | Retired list on 1 December 1950, the same day |
| 15 January 1951 | Sir George Elvey Creasy, GCB, CBE, DSO, MVO | 1895 | 1972 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1955 |
| 15 January 1951 | Sir Randolph Stewart Gresham Nicholson, KBE, CB, DSO, DSC | 1892 | 1975 | on the Retired list since 1950 |
| 1 May 1951 | Sir William Edward Parry, KCB | 1893 | 1972 | Retired in January 1952 |
| 26 January 1952 | Sir Charles Henry Lawrence Woodhouse, KCB | 1893 | 1978 | on the Retired list since 1950 |
| 15 March 1952 | Angus Cunninghame Graham | 1893 | 1981 | |
| 10 April 1952 | Sir Guy Herbrand Edward Russell, GBE, KCB, DSO | 1898 | 1977 | C-in-C Far East Fleet 1952–1953; Second Sea Lord 1953–1955; Retired list on 7 January 1958 |
| 10 April 1952 | Sir Arthur Robin Moore Bridge, KBE, CB | 1894 | 1971 | on the retired list since 1951 |
| 22 April 1952 | Sir Michael Maynard Denny, GCB, CBE, DSO | 1896 | 1972 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1954–1955 |
| May 1952 | Sir Geoffrey Nigel Oliver, GBE, KCB, DSO | 1898 | 1980 | C-in-C East Indies 1950–52; C-in-C The Nore 1953–55; Retired list on 1 December 1955 |
| 1952? | Sir Alexander Cumming Gordon Madden, KCB, CBE | 1895 | 1964 | Second Sea Lord 1950–53; C-in-C Plymouth 1953–55; Retired in 1956 |
| 27 January 1953 | Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO | 1900 | 1979 | First Sea Lord 1955–1959; Chief of Defence Staff 1959–1965; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1956; |
| 27 January 1953 | Sir Richard Victor Symonds-Tayler, KBE, CB, DSC | 1897 | 1971 | on the Retired list since before promotion |
| 18 March 1953 | Sir Maurice James Mansergh, KCB, CBE | 1896 | 1966 | Retired list on 30 March 1954 |
| 15 September 1953 | Sir William Rudolph Slayter, KCB, DSO, DSC | 1896 | 1971 | Retired list on 16 December 1954 |
| 15 September 1953 | Sir Henry William Urquhart McCall, KCVO, KBE, CB, DSO | 1895 | 1980 | C-in-C Reserve Fleet 1951-53; Retired list on the same day 15 September 1953 |
| 15 September 1953 | Sir Philip King Enright, KBE, CB | 1894 | 1960 | Retired list on the same day 15 September 1953 |
| October 1953 | Sir Guy Grantham GCB CBE DSO | 1900 | 1992 | |
| 22 October 1953 | Sir Geoffrey Alan Brooke Hawkins, KBE, CB, MVO, DSC | 1895 | 1980 | on the Retired list since 1952 |
| 30 March 1954 | Sir Charles Edward Lambe GCB CVO | 1900 | 1960 | First Sea Lord 1959–1960; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1960 |
| November 1954 | Sir William Gerrard Andrewes KBE CB DSO | 1899 | 1974 | |
| 16 December 1954 | Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey GBE CB DSO | 1899 | 1993 | Retired list on 15 June 1958 |
| 1955? | Sir Ralph Alan Bevan Edwards, KCB, CBE | 1901 | 1963 | Controller of the Navy 1953–56; C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1957–58; Retired in 1958 |
| 1956? | Sir John Arthur Symons Eccles, GCB, KCVO, CBE | 1898 | 1966 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1955–1958; Retired list on 28 February 1958 |
| 30 June 1956 | Sir Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, KCB, CBE, DSO | 1900 | 1980 | Retired list on 31 January 1958 |
| 22 October 1956 | Sir William Wellclose Davis, GCB, DSO | 1901 | 1987 | Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff 1954–1957; C-in-C Home Fleet 1958–1960; Retired list on 17 August 1960 |
| January 1957 | Sir Caspar John GCB | 1903 | 1984 | First Sea Lord 1960–1963; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1962 |
| 7 January 1958 | Sir John Peter Lorne Reid, GCB, CVO | 1903 | 1973 | Controller of the Navy 1956–1961 |
| 31 January 1958 | Sir Gerald Vaughan Gladstone, GBE, KCB | 1901 | 1978 | C-in-C Far East Fleet 1957–1960; Retired list on 22 July 1960 |
| 22 July 1960 | Sir Manley Laurence Power, KCB, CBE, DSC | 1904 | 1981 | C-in-C Portsmouth 1959–1961; Retired list on 25 October 1961 |
| 1960 | Sir Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods, GBE, KCB | 1906 | 1975 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1960–1963; C-in-C Portsmouth 1963–1965; Retired list on 29 September 1965 |
| 17 August 1960 | Sir Alexander Noel Campbell Bingley, GCB, OBE | 1905 | 1972 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1959–1961; C-in-C Portsmouth 1961–1963 |
| 22 August 1960 | Sir John David Luce, KCB | 1906 | 1971 | First Sea Lord 1963–1966; Retired list on 15 March 1966 |
| 10 March 1961 | Sir Douglas Eric Holland-Martin, GCB, DSO, DSC | 1906 | 1977 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1961–64; Retired list on 9 February 1966 |
| April 1961 | Sir Laurence Durlacher KCB OBE DSC | 1904 | 1986 | Fifth Sea Lord 1959–1962 |
| 11 September 1961 | Sir St John Reginald Joseph Tyrwhitt, 2nd Bt, KCB, DSO, DSC | 1905 | 1961 | |
| November 1961 | Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet | 1906 | 2001 | Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet 1963–1965; Retired list on 11 August 1965 |
| March 1963 | Sir Varyl Cargill Begg, GCB, DSO, DSC | 1908 | 1995 | First Sea Lord 1966–1968; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1968 |
| 14 August 1963 | Sir Nigel Stuart Henderson, GBE, KCB | 1909 | 1993 | C-in-C Plymouth 1962-65, Chairman NATO Mil Cttee 1968-71; Retired in 1971 |
| 5 June 1965 | Sir Desmond Parry Dreyer, GCB, DSC | 1910 | 2003 | Retired in 1968 |
| 11 August 1965 | Sir John Graham Hamilton, GBE, CB | 1910 | 1994 | C-in-C Mediterranean 1964–1967 |
| 29 September 1965 | Sir Michael Le Fanu GCB DSC | 1913 | 1970 | First Sea Lord 1968–1970; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1970 |
| 9 February 1966 | Sir John Byng Frewen, GCB | 1911 | 1975 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1969–1970; Retired list on 21 April 1970 |
| 15 March 1966 | Sir Frank Henry Edward Hopkins, KCB, DSO | 1910 | 1990 | C-in-C Portsmouth 1966–1967 |
| 26 December 1967 | Sir Frank Roddam Twiss, KCB, KCVO, DSC | 1910 | 1994 | Second Sea Lord 1967–1970; Retired list on 21 April 1970 |
| 20 August 1968 | Sir John Fitzroy Duyland Bush, GCB, DSC | 1914 | 2013 | C-in-C Western Fleet 1967–1970; Retired list on 4 April 1970. |
| 17 September 1968 | Sir Horace Rochfort Law, GCB, OBE, DSC | 1911 | 2005 | Controller of the Navy 1965–1970; C-in-C Naval Home Command 1970–1972 |
| 1 October 1968 | Peter John Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, GCB | 1915 | 2004 | First Sea Lord 1970–1971; Chief of the Defence Staff 1971–1974; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1971 |
| 4 April 1970 | Sir William Donough O'Brien, KCB, DSC | 1916 | 2016 | C-in-C Western Fleet 1970–1971; Retired list on 29 November 1971 |
| 21 April 1970 | Sir Michael Patrick Pollock, GCB, LVO, DSC | 1916 | 2006 | First Sea Lord 1971–1974; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1974 |
| 21 April 1970 | Sir Arthur Francis Turner, KCB, DSC | 1912 | 1991 | Chief of Fleet Support 1967–1971; Retired list on 21 August 1971. |
| 4 November 1970 | Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore, GCB, DSC | 1919 | 2016 | First Sea Lord 1974–1977; Chief of Defence Staff 1977; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1977 |
| 21 August 1971 | Sir Andrew MacKenzie Lewis, KCB | 1918 | 1993 | C-in-C Naval Home Cd 1972-1974 |
| 29 November 1971 | Sir Anthony Templer Frederick Griffith Griffin, GCB | 1920 | 1996 | Controller of the Navy 1971–75; Retired list on 15 December 1975 |
| 1 August 1972 | Sir Leslie Derek Empson, GBE, KCB | 1918 | 1997 | Second Sea Lord 1971–74; C-in-C Home Command 1974–75; Retired in 1976 |
| 1 December 1973 | Terence Thornton Lewin, Baron Lewin, KG, GCB, LVO, DSC | 1920 | 1999 | C-in-C Fleet 1973–1975; C-in-C Naval Home Command 1975–1977; First Sea Lord 1977–1979; Chief of the Defence Staff 1979–1982; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1979 |
| May 1974 | Sir John Rae McKaig, KCB, CBE | 1922 | 1996 | Retired list on 28 June 1976 |
| 8 September 1974 | Sir David Williams, GCB | 1921 | 2012 | Second Sea Lord 1974–1976; C-in-C Naval Home Command 1976–1979; Retired list on 4 May 1979. |
| 15 December 1975 | Sir John Devereux Treacher, KCB | 1924 | 2018 | C-in-C Fleet 1975–1977; Retired list on 31 March 1977 |
| | Sir Ian Easton, KCB, DSC | 1917 | 1989 | Retired list on 14 March 1978. |
| 28 June 1976 | Sir Peter White GBE | 1919 | 2010 | Chief of Fleet Support 1974–1977; Retired list on 2 July 1977. |
| 9 February 1977 | Sir Raymond Derek Lygo, KCB | 1924 | 2012 | Vice Chief of Naval Staff 1975–1978; Retired list on 28 March 1978. |
| 30 March 1977 | Sir Henry Conyers Leach GCB | 1923 | 2011 | First Sea Lord 1979–1982; Admiral of the Fleet 1982 |
| 14 March 1978 | Sir Allen Gordon Tait, KCB, DSC | 1921 | 2005 | Second Sea Lord 1977–1979; Retired list on 27 September 1979. |
| 28 March 1978 | Sir Richard Pilkington Clayton, GCB | 1925 | 1984 | Controller of the Navy 1975–1979; C-in-C Naval Home Command 1979–1981; Retired list on 23 July 1981. |
| | Sir Anthony Storrs Morton, GBE, KCB | 1923 | 2006 | |
| 4 May 1979 | Sir James Henry Fuller Eberle, GCB | 1927 | 2018 | C-in-C Fleet 1979–1981; C-in-C Naval Home Command 1981–1982; Retired list on 4 February 1983. |
| 27 September 1979 | Sir (Arthur) Desmond Cassidi, GCB | 1925 | 2019 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1982–1985; Retired list on 12 April 1985. |
| 23 July 1981 | John David Elliott Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, GCB, GBE | 1928 | 1992 | First Sea Lord 1982–1985; Chief of Defence Staff 1985–1988 promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1985 |
| 5 January 1982 | Sir William Thomas Pillar GBE, KCB | 1924 | 1999 | Commandant RCDS 1982–1984; Retired list on 6 March 1984 |
| | Sir Lindsay Sutherland Bryson, KCB | 1925 | 2005 | Controller of the Navy 1981–1984; Retired list on 11 Jan 1985. |
| 29 October 1982 | Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley GCB | 1928 | 1997 | First Sea Lord 1985–1989; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1989 |
| 10 June 1983 | Sir Peter Herbert KCB OBE | 1929 | 2019 | Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff 1983-1984; Retired list on 30 January 1985 |
| 15 November 1984 | Sir Simon Alistair Cassilis Cassels, KCB, CBE | 1928 | 2019 | Second Sea Lord 1982–1986; Retired list on 4 March 1986 |
| 14 February 1985 | Sir Peter Stanford GCB, LVO | 1929 | 1991 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1985–1987; Retired list on 16 September 1987 |
| 20 June 1985 | Sir Nicholas John Streysham Hunt GCB, LVO | 1930 | 2013 | C-in-C Fleet 1985–1987; Retired list on 26 July 1987 |
| January 1986 | Sir Richard George Alison Fitch KCB | 1929 | 1994 | Second Sea Lord 1986–1988; Retired list on 23 November 1988. |
| January 1986 | Sir David Hallifax KCB, KCVO, KBE | 1927 | 1992 | DSACLANT 1982–1984; Commandant RCDS 1986–1987; Retired list on 1 March 1988. |
| 29 May 1987 | Sir Julian Oswald GCB | 1933 | 2001 | First Sea Lord 1989–1993; Admiral of the Fleet 1993 |
| 21 July 1987 | Sir John Forster Woodward, GBE, KCB | 1932 | 2013 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1987–1989 |
| 31 July 1987 | Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona | 1913 | 1993 | Honorary Admiral of the Royal Navy |
| 28 September 1988 | Sir Derek Roy Reffell, KCB | 1928 | | Controller of the Navy 1984–1989; Retired list on 21 October 1989 |
| 26 August 1989 | Sir Brian Thomas Brown KCB CBE | 1934 | 2020 | Second Sea Lord 1988–1991; Retired list on 26 June 1991 |
| 21 April 1989 | Sir David Benjamin Bathurst, GCB | 1936 | | First Sea Lord 1993–1995; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1995 |
| 1989 | Sir Jeremy Black GBE, KCB, DSO | 1932 | 2015 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1989–1991 |
| 1989 | Sir Richard Thomas KCB, KCVO, OBE | 1932 | 1998 | DSACLANT 1987–89; Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in retirement |
| 1990 | Sir Kenneth John Eaton, GBE, KCB | 1934 | 2022 | Controller of the Navy 1989–1994; Retired list on 3 August 1994 |
| January 1991 | Sir John Cunningham Kirkwood Slater, GCB, LVO | 1938 | | First Sea Lord 1995–1998; Retired list 14 December 1998 |
| 1991 | Sir Michael Howard Livesay KCB | 1936 | 2003 | Second Sea Lord 1991–1993; Retired list 26 June 1993 |
| 1991 | Sir John Beverley Kerr GCB, DL | 1937 | 2019 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1991–1993; Retired list 31 May 1994 |
| 1992 | Sir Hugo Moresby White, GCB, CBE | 1939 | 2014 | C-in-C Fleet 1992–1995; Retired list 2 May 1997 |
| 1993 | Sir Michael Henry Gordon Layard KCB, CBE | 1936 | | C-in-C Home Command & Second Sea Lord 1993–1995; Retired list 7 August 1995 |
| 1995 | Sir Peter Charles Abbott, GBE, KCB | 1942 | 2015 | DSACLANT 1993–1995, C-in-C Fleet 1995–1997; VCDS 1997-2001 |
| 25 May 1995 | Michael Cecil Boyce, Baron Boyce, KG, GCB, OBE | 1943 | 2022 | First Sea Lord 1998–2001; Chief of the Defence Staff 2001–2003; promoted honorary Admiral of the Fleet in 2014 |
| 1997 | Sir John Richard Brigstocke, KCB | 1945 | 2020 | Second Sea Lord 1997–2000 |
| September 1998 | Sir Nigel Richard Essenhigh, GCB | 1944 | | First Sea Lord 2001–2002; Retired list 3 December 2002 |
| 1998(?) | Sir James Francis Perowne, KBE, KCVO | 1947 | | DSACLANT 1998–2002; Retired list 2002 |
| November 2000 | Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead, GCB, DSC | 1948 | | First Sea Lord 2002–2006 |
| September 2001 | Sir Ian David Graham Garnett, KCB | 1944 | | DSACLANT 1995–1998 |
| December, 2001 | Sir Ian Andrew Forbes, KCB, CBE | 1946 | | DSACLANT Jan–Oct 2002 |
| August 2002 | Sir Jonathon Band, GCB, DL | 1950 | | First Sea Lord 2006–2009 |
| 10 July 2004 | Sir Mark Stanhope, GCB, OBE | 1952 | | First Sea Lord 2009–2013 |
| 15 November 2005 | Sir James Michael Burnell-Nugent, KCB, CBE | 1949 | | C-in-C Fleet 2005-2007 Retired list 11 April 2008 |
| 14 November 2006 | King Charles III | 1948 | | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 2012 Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom since 2022 |
| 9 June 2009 | Sir Trevor Alan Soar, KCB, OBE | 1957 | | C-in-C Fleet 2009–2012 |
| 6 January 2012 | Sir George Michael Zambellas, GCB, DSC | 1958 | | First Sea Lord 2013–2016 |
| 15 August 2012 | The Princess Anne, Princess Royal, KG, KT, GCVO | 1950 | | Chief Commandant for Women in the Royal Navy |
| 2016 | Sir Philip Andrew Jones, GCB | 1960 | | First Sea Lord 2016–2019 Retired list 3 January 2020 |
| May 2019 | Sir Timothy Peter Fraser, KCB | 1960? | | Vice Chief of the Defence Staff 2019–2022; Retired list on 1 December 2022 |
| June 2019 | Sir Antony David Radakin, KCB | 1965 | | First Sea Lord 2019–2021; Chief of the Defence Staff since November 2021 |
| 8 November 2021 | Sir Benjamin John Key, KCB, CBE | 1965 | | First Sea Lord since November 2021 |
| 17 July 2023 | Sir Keith Edward Blount, KCB, OBE | 1966 | | DSACEUR since July 2023. |