List of British Field Marshals

This is a list of Field Marshals of the United Kingdom, with their respective years of appointment.

#George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney (1736)#John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll (1736)#Richard Boyle, 2nd Viscount Shannon (1739)#François de la Rochefoucauld, Marquis de Montandré (1739)#John Dalrymple, 2nd Earl of Stair (1742)#Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham (1742)#George Wade (1743)#Sir Robert Rich (1757)#Richard Molesworth, 3rd Viscount Molesworth (1757)#John Ligonier, 1st Viscount Ligonier (1757)#James O'Hara, 2nd Baron Tyrawley and Kilmaine (1763)#Henry Seymour Conway (1793)#HRH Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1793)#Sir George Howard (1793)#HRH The Prince Frederick Augustus, 1st Duke of York and Albany (1795)#John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll (1796)#Jeffrey Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst of Montreal (1796)#John Griffin Griffin, 4th Baron Howard de Walden (1796)#Studholme Hodgson (1796)#George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend (1796)#Lord Frederick Cavendish (1796)#Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1796)#HRH The Prince Edward Augustus, 1st Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1805)#Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquis of Wellington (1813)#HRH The Prince Ernest Augustus, 1st Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1813)#HRH The Prince Adolphus Frederick, 1st Duke of Cambridge (1813)#HRH Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1816)#HRH Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1816)#Charles Moore, 1st Marquess of Drogheda (1821)#William Harcourt, 3rd Earl Harcourt (1821)#Sir Alured Clarke (1830)#Sir Samuel Hulse (1830)#HRH Prince Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1840)#HM Willem II, King of the Netherlands (1845)#Sir George Nugent (1846)#Thomas Grosvenor (1846)#Henry William Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (1846)#Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan (1854)#Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere (1855)#John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford (1855)#Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge of Lahore (1855)#John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton (1860)#Sir Edward Blakeney (1862)#Hugh Gough, 1st Viscount Gough of Goojerat (1862)#HRH Prince George William Frederick Charles, 2nd Duke of Cambridge (1862)#Colin Campbell, 1st Baron Clyde (1862)#Sir Alexander George Woodford (1868)#Sir William Maynard Gomm (1868)#Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross (1868)#Sir John Fox Burgoyne (1868)#Sir George Pollock (1870)#Sir John Foster Fitzgerald (1875)#George Hay, 8th Marquess of Tweeddale (1875)#HRH Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (1875)#Sir William Rowan (1877)#Sir Charles Yorke (1877)#Hugh Henry Rose, 1st Baron Strathnairn (1877)#Robert Napier, 1st Baron Napier of Magdala (1883)#Sir Patrick Grant (1883)#Sir John Michel (1886)#Sir Richard James Dacres (1886)#Lord William Paulet (1886)#George Charles Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan (1887)#Sir John Lintorn Arabin Simmons (1890)#Sir Frederick Paul Haines (1890)#Sir Donald Martin Stewart (1894)#Garnet Joseph Wolseley, 1st Viscount Wolseley of Cairo (1894)#Frederick Roberts, 1st Baron Roberts of Kandahar (1895)#HH Prince William Augustus Edward of Saxe-Weimar (1897)#Sir Neville Bowles Chamberlain (1900)#HIM Wilhelm II, German Emperor and King of Prussia (1901)#Sir Henry Wylie Norman (1902)#HRH The Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, 1st Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1902)#Sir Henry Evelyn Wood (1903)#Sir George Stewart White (1903)#HIM Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary (1903)#Francis Wallace Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell (1908)#Sir Charles Henry Brownlow (1908)#Horatio Kitchener, 1st Viscount Kitchener of Khartoum (1909)#HM King George V (1910)#Paul Sanford Methuen, 3rd Baron Methuen (1911)#William Gustavus Nicholson, 1st Baron Nicholson (1911)#Sir John French (1913)#HIM Nicholas II, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias (1916)#Sir Douglas Haig (1917)#Sir Charles Comyn Egerton (1917)#HIM the Emperor Taisho (Yoshihito) of Japan (1918)#Marshal of France HE Ferdinand Foch (1919)#Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer of Messines (1919)#Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby (1919)#Sir Henry Hughes Wilson (1919)#Sir William Robert Robertson (1920)#Sir Arthur Arnold Barret (1921)#HM Albert I, King of the Belgians (1921)#William Riddell Birdwood, 1st Baron Birdwood (1925)#Sir Claude William Jacob (1926)#George Francis Milne (1928)#HM Alfonso XIII, King of Spain (1928)#HIM the Emperor Showa (Hirohito) of Japan (1930)#Julian Hedworth Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy (1932)#Frederick Rudolph Lambart, 10th Earl of Cavan (1932)#Philip Walhouse Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode (1933)#Sir Archibald Armar Montgomery-Massingberd (1935)#HM King Edward VIII (1936)#Sir Cyril John Deverell (1936)#HM King George VI (1936)#William Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1940)#Jan Christiaan Smuts of South Africa (1941)#Sir John Greer Dill (1941)#John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1943)#Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Viscount Wavell (1943)#Sir Alan Francis Brooke (1944)#Sir Harold Rupert Leofric George Alexander (1944)#Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (1944)#Henry Maitland Wilson, 1st Baron Wilson of Libya (1944)#Sir Claude John Eyre Auchinleck (1946)#Sir William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston (1949)#Sir Thomas Blamey, Commander-in-Chief, Australian Military Forces (1950)#Philip Mountbatten, 1st Duke of Edinburgh (1953)#Allan Francis John Harding, 1st Baron Harding of Petherton (1953)#HRH The Prince Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester (1955)#Sir Gerald Francis Templer (1956)#Francis Wogan Festing (1960)#HM Mahendra, King of Nepal (1960)#HIM Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia (1965)#Sir Richard Amyatt Hull (1965)#Sir Charles Archibald James Halkett Cassels (1968)#Sir Geoffrey Harding Baker (1971)#Richard Michael Power Carver, Baron Carver of Shackleford (1973)#Sir Roland Christopher Gibbs (1979)#HM Birendra, King of Nepal (1980)#Edwin Noel Westby Bramall, Baron Bramall (1982)#Sir John Wilfrid Stanier (1985)#Sir Nigel Thomas Bagnall (1988)#Richard Frederick Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill (1991)#Sir John Lyon Chapple (1992)#HRH Prince Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick, 2nd Duke of Kent (1993)#Sir Peter Anthony Inge, Baron Inge (1994)

External links

* British Field Marshals list by Professor Clifton R. Fox (warning, large page)
*List of British Field Marshals
*Royal Engineers Museum - Royal Engineers Field Marshal Biographies