# List of knights and dames commander of the Royal Victorian Order appointed by George VI

The Royal Victorian Order is an order of knighthood awarded by the sovereign of the United Kingdom and several Commonwealth realms. It is granted personally by the monarch and recognises personal service to the monarchy, the Royal Household, royal family members, and the organisation of important royal events. The order was officially created and instituted on 23 April 1896 by letters patent under the Great Seal of the Realm by Queen Victoria. It was instituted with five grades, the two highest of which were Knight Grand Cross (GCVO) and Knight Commander (KCVO), which conferred the status of knighthood on holders (apart from foreigners, who typically received honorary awards not entitling them to the style of a knight). Women were not admitted until Edward VIII altered the statutes of the order in 1936; those receiving the highest two awards were styled dames and those grades, when conferred on women, are Dame Grand Cross and Dame Commander (DCVO).
No limit was placed on the number of appointments which could be made. King George VI (reigned 1937–52) appointed 102 Knights Commander and nine Dames Commander of the order.

## Knights and dames commander appointed by George VI

The list below is ordered by date of appointment. Full names, ranks and titles are given where applicable, as correct at the time of appointment to the order. Branch of service or regiment details are given in parentheses to distinguish them from offices. The names, dates, offices and occasions listed are those given by Peter Galloway in his 1996 history of the order, Royal Service.
| Name | Date | Notes |
| Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton, CMG, CVO, DSO | 1 February 1937 | Comptroller and Treasurer to Queen Mary |
| John Fraser, MC | 1 February 1937 | Surgeon to the King in Scotland |
| Walter Turner Mockton, MC, KC | 1 February 1937 | Attorney-General, Duchy of Cornwall |
| Edward Howard Marsh, CB, CMB, CVO | 11 February 1937 | Private Secretary to the Secretaries of State for Dominions and Colonies |
| Lady Helen Cynthia Colville | 11 May 1937 | Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary |
| Lady Helen Violet Graham | 11 May 1937 | Woman of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary |
| James Ulick Francis Canning Alexander, CMG, CVO, OBE | 11 May 1937 | Keeper of the Privy Purse and Extra Equerry to the King |
| Sir John Atkins, KCMG | 11 May 1937 | Physician to the Duke of Connaught |
| George Nevile Maltby Bland, CMG | 11 May 1937 | Counselor, Foreign Office |
| Bertram Norman Sergison-Brooke, CB, CMG, DSO | 11 May 1937 | General Officer Commanding, London District |
| The Hon. Gerald Henry Crofton Chichester, CVO | 11 May 1937 | Private Secretary to Queen Mary |
| Sir Smith Hill Child, Bt, CB, CMG, CVO, DSO | 11 May 1937 | Master of the Household and Extra Equerry to the King |
| Arthur William Steuart Cochrane, CVO | 11 May 1937 | Clarenceux King of Arms |
| Sir Henry Walford Davies, CVO, OBE | 11 May 1937 | Master of the King's Music |
| Alan John Hunter, CB, CMG, DSO, MC | 11 May 1937 | Director of Personal Service, War Office |
| Robert Uchtred Eyre Knox, CVO, DSO | 11 May 1937 | Private Secretary and Ceremonial Officer, HM Treasury |
| George Frederic Still | 11 May 1937 | Extra Physician to the King |
| Sir Hugh Stephenson Turnbull, KBE | 11 May 1937 | Commissioner of Police for the City of London |
| Sir George Thomas Broadbridge | 19 May 1937 | Lord Mayor of London |
| Gerald Charles Dickens, CB, CMG | 20 May 1937 | On the occasion of the Coronation Review by the King at Spithead |
| Dudley Burton Napier North, CB, CSI, CMG, CVO | 20 May 1937 | Vice Admiral Commanding HM Yachts |
| The Baron Marchwood | 8 June 1937 | Treasurer of the Household |
| Frank Herbert Mitchell, CVO, CBE | 14 June 1937 | Assistant Private Secretary to the King |
| Sir Charles Patrick Duff, KCB, CVO | 23 July 1937 | Secretary of the Office of Works |
| Anne Annette Minna Cochrane | 1 January 1938 | Lady-in-Waiting to Princess Beatrice |
| Alfred Edwin Dunphie, CVO | 1 January 1938 | Director of Coutts and Company; formerly Assistant Treasurer to Queen Alexandra |
| John Berkeley Monck, CMG, CVO | 1 January 1938 | Vice-Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps |
| The Baron Templemore, DSO, OBE | 9 June 1938 | Formerly Captain of the Yeoman of the Guard |
| Lord Esme Charles Gordon-Lennox, CMG, DSO, MVO | 2 January 1939 | Formerly Yeoman-Usher of the Black Rod and Secretary to the Lord Great Chamberlain |
| The Viscount Gage | 10 April 1939 | On relinquishing his appointment as Lord-in-Waiting to the King |
| The Baroness Elphinstone | 8 June 1939 | |
| Alan Frederick Lascelles, CB, CMG, MVO, MC | 8 June 1939 | Private Secretary to the King and Keeper of the King's Archives |
| George Arthur Ponsonby, CVO | 8 June 1939 | Comptroller and Private Secretary to the Queen of Norway |
| Arthur Shuldham Redfern | 15 June 1939 | Secretary to the Governor General of Canada. Appointed on the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to Canada and the United States. |
| George Frederick Basset Edward-Collins, CB, CVO | 17 June 1939 | Appointed on the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to Canada and the United States. |
| Sir Ulick Roland Burke | 5 July 1939 | Vice-President, Royal Agricultural Society |
| Walter Gordon Neale, CIE, CVO | 1 January 1941 | Political Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary of State for India |
| Hon. Piers Walter Legh, CMG, CIE, CVO, OBE | 1 January 1942 | Master of the Household and Extra Equerry to the King |
| Sir Rupert Beswicke Howorth, KCMG, CB | 11 June 1942 | Appointed for services as Clerk to the Privy Council |
| Sir Alfred Edward Webb-Johnson, CBE, DSO, TD | 11 June 1942 | Surgeon to Queen Mary |
| Walter Rangeley Maitland Lamb, CVO | 1 January 1943 | Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts |
| Harold George Campbell, CVO, DSO | 2 June 1943 | Equerry and Groom of the Robes to the King |
| Sir Eric Charles Miéville, KCIE, CSI, CMG | 2 June 1943 | Assistant Private Secretary to the King |
| Henry Hudson Fraser Stockley, CVO, OBE | 2 June 1943 | Secretary, Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood and Serjeant-at-Arms to the King |
| Sir Harold Brewer Hartley, CBE, MC | 1 January 1944 | Vice-President, LMS Railway Company. Appointed in connection with the Royal Train. |
| Sir Ernest Henry Pooley | 1 January 1944 | Honorary Secretary, King Edward VII's Hospital Fund for London |
| Charles Alfred Howard, DSO | 8 June 1944 | Serjeant-at-Arms, House of Commons |
| Owen Frederick Morshead, CVO, DSO, MC | 8 June 1944 | Librarian, Windsor Castle and Assistant Keeper of the King's Archives |
| Algar Henry Stafford Howard, CB, CVO, MC | 9 June 1944 | Garter King of Arms |
| Sir Brian Hubert Robertson, Bt, CB, CBE, DSO, MC | 30 July 1944 | Appointed on the occasion of the King's visit to Italy. |
| Lady Isobel Constance Mary Gathorne-Hardy | 1 January 1945 | Formerly Vice President, Queen Alexandra's Army Nursing Board |
| Clarence Henry Kennett Marten | 1 January 1945 | Provost of Eton College |
| Louis Forbes Fergusson, CVO | 14 June 1945 | Clerk of the Council and Keeper of the Records, Duchy of Lancaster |
| Sir Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan, CBE | 14 June 1945 | Director and Secretary, Victoria and Albert Museum |
| Terence Edmund Gascoigne Nugent, CVO, MC | 14 June 1945 | Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office and Extra Equerry to the King |
| The Countess Granville | 6 July 1945 | |
| The Earl Granville, CB, DSO | 6 July 1945 | Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man |
| Lady Louis Mountbatten, CBE | 1 January 1946 | For war services |
| Sir William Stewart Duke-Elder | 1 January 1946 | Surgeon-Oculist to the King |
| Thomas Innes of Learney | 13 June 1946 | Lord Lyon King of Arms and Secretary to the Order of the Thistle |
| Dermot McMorrough Kavanagh, CVO | 13 June 1946 | Crown Equerry |
| The Earl of Radnor | 13 June 1946 | Lord Warden of the Stannaries in Cornwall and Devon |
| The Hon. Jasper Nicholas Ridley, OBE, TD | 13 June 1946 | Chairman of Messrs Coutts and Company |
| Leighton Seymour Bracegirdle, CMG, DSO | 1 January 1947 | Official Secretary to the Duke of Gloucester when Governor General of Australia |
| Sir Alfred James Munnings | 1 January 1947 | President, Royal Academy |
| Evelyn Campbell Shaw, CVO | 1 January 1947 | Secretary, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 |
| Sir Henry Charles Loyd, KCB, DSO, MC | 30 January 1947 | General Officer Commanding, London District |
| Sir Eubule John Waddington, KCMG, OBE | 12 April 1947 | Governor of Northern Rhodesia. Appointed on the occasion of the King and Queen's visit. |
| Sir John Noble Kennedy, KBE, CB, MC | 14 April 1947 | Governor of Southern Rhodesia. Appointed on the occasion of the King and Queen's visit. |
| The Hon. Sir Evelyn Baring, KCMG | 23 April 1947 | High Commissioner for the United Kingdom in South Africa. Appointed on the occasion of the King and Queen's visit. |
| The Baroness Harlech | 12 June 1947 | Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to the Queen |
| Sir Hugh Lett, Bt, CBE | 12 June 1947 | Honorary Secretary, King Edward VII's Hospital Fund for London |
| Sir Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith, KBE, CB, MVO | 12 June 1947 | Outgoing Chairman and formerly Deputy Chairman, King George's Fund for Sailors. |
| Henry Ellis Yeo White, CVO, CBE | 12 June 1947 | Appointed on the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to South Africa |
| William Gladstone Agnew, CB, CVO, DSO | 12 June 1947 | Captain, HMS Vanguard. Appointed on the occasion of the King and Queen's visit to South Africa. |
| Lewis Anselm da Costa Ritchie, CVO, CBE | 5 November 1947 | Appointed on retirement as Press Secretary to the King. |
| Roland Clive Wallace Burn, CVO | 1 January 1948 | Secretary and Keeper of the Records, Duchy of Lancaster |
| Very Rev. Alan Campbell Don | 1 January 1948 | Dean of Westminster. |
| Sir Bracewell Smith, Bt | 1 January 1948 | For services while Lord Mayor of London to King George VI |
| Denholme de Montalte Stuart Fraser, CSI, CIE | 20 February 1948 | Political Aide-de-Camp to the Secretary of State for India |
| Jameson Boyd Adams, CVO, CBE, DSO | 10 June 1948 | Secretary of King George's Jubilee Trust |
| Walter Leslie Farrer | 10 June 1948 | The Queen's Private Solicitor |
| Louis William Howard Kerr, CMG, CVO, OBE | 10 June 1948 | Comptroller to the Duke of Gloucester |
| Arthur Noel Mobbs, OBE | 10 June 1948 | "In connection with the Royal Albert School". |
| Ernest Dudley Gordon Colles, CVO, OBE | 1 January 1949 | Deputy Treasurer to the King and Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse |
| Sir William Gilliatt, CVO | 1 January 1949 | For personal services to Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh. |
| Prof. James Rögnvald Learmonth, CBE | 25 March 1949 | For professional services as Surgeon to the King. |
| Prof. Horace Evans | 3 May 1949 | For professional services to the King. |
| Prof. James Paterson Ross | 3 May 1949 | For personal services during the illness of the King. |
| Sir John Herbert McCutcheon Craig, CB | 9 June 1949 | Deputy Master and Comptroller, Royal Mint. |
| Arthur Horace Penn, CVO, MC | 9 June 1949 | Groom in Waiting and Extra Equerry to the King. |
| Edward Daymonde Stevenson, CVO, MC | 9 June 1949 | Purse Bearer to the Duke of Gloucester when Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
| Harold Kingston Graham Hodgson, CVO | 2 January 1950 | Middlesex Hospital. For professional services. |
| Very Rev. Charles Laing Warr, CVO | 2 January 1950 | Dean, Chapel Royal in Scotland and the Order of the Thistle |
| Norman Richard Combe Warwick, CVO, OBE | 2 January 1950 | Clerk of the Council, Duchy of Lancaster |
| John Charles Oakes Marriott, CB, CVO, DSO, MC | 21 February 1950 | General Officer Commanding, London District |
| George Camborne Beauclerk Paynter, CMG, CVO, DSO | 8 June 1950 | Groom in Waiting and Extra Equerry to the King; Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland. |
| Henry Abel Smith, DSO | 8 June 1950 | |
| Lady Adelaide Margaret Peel, CVO | 3 September 1950 | Extra Woman of the Bedchamber to the Queen |
| Daniel Thomas Davies, CVO | 1 January 1951 | Extra Physician to the King |
| Norman Wilmshurst Gwatkin, CVO, DSO | 1 January 1951 | Assistant Comptroller, Lord Chamberlain's Office |
| Sir Gerald Robert Stedall Hickson, CB, CBE | 1 January 1951 | General Secretary, King George's Fund for Sailors |
| Francis Hugo Teale, CVO | 1 January 1951 | For professional services to the King. |
| Michael Edward Adeane, CB, MVO | 7 June 1951 | Assistant Private Secretary and Extra Equerry to the King |
| Sir Eric Cyril Egerton Leadbitter, CVO | 7 June 1951 | Clerk of the Privy Council |
| Geoffrey Sidney Todd, CVO, OBE | 7 June 1951 | Medical Superintendent, King Edward VII Sanatorium, Midhurst |
| Geoffrey Marshall, CBE | 13 December 1951 | For professional personal services to the King |
| Clement Price Thomas | 13 December 1951 | For professional personal services to the King |
| North Victor Cecil Dalrymple-Hamilton of Bargany, CB, CVO | 1 January 1952 | Adjutant of the Royal Company of Archers |
| Robert Chaine Alexander McCalmont, CVO, CBE, DSO | 1 January 1952 | Lieutenant of the Yeoman of the Guard |
| Sydney Arthur White, MVO | 1 January 1952 | Grand Secretary, United Grand Lodge of England |