List of British Field Marshals

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

#The Earl of Orkney (1736)
#The Duke of Argyll and Greenwich (1736)
#The Viscount Shannon (1739)
#The Marquis de Montandré (1739)
#The Earl of Stair (1742)
#The Viscount Cobham (1742)
#George Wade (1743)
#Sir Robert Rich (1757)
#The Viscount Molesworth (1757)
#The Viscount Ligonier (1757) (later Earl Ligonier)
#The Lord Tyrawley and Kilmaine (1763)
#Henry Seymour Conway (1793)
#HRH The Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1793)
#Sir George Howard (1793)
#HRH The Duke of York and Albany (1795)
#The Duke of Argyll (1796)
#The Lord Amherst (1796)
#The Lord Howard de Walden (1796)
#Studholme Hodgson (1796)
#The Marquess Townshend (1796)
#Lord Frederick Cavendish (1796)
#The Duke of Richmond (1796)
#HRH The Duke of Kent and Strathearn (1805)
#The Marquess of Wellington (1813) (later Duke of Wellington)
#HRH The Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale (1813) (later King Ernest Augustus I of Hanover)
#HRH The Duke of Cambridge (1813)
#HRH The Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1816)
#HRH Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1816)
#The Marquess of Drogheda (1821)
#The Earl Harcourt (1821)
#Sir Alured Clarke (1830)
#Sir Samuel Hulse (1830)
#HRH Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (1840) (later Prince Consort)
#HM King Willem II of the Netherlands (1845)
#Sir George Nugent (1846)
#Thomas Grosvenor (1846)
#The Marquess of Anglesey (1846)
#The Lord Raglan (1854)
#The Viscount Combermere (1855)
#The Earl of Strafford (1855)
#The Viscount Hardinge (1855)
#The Lord Seaton (1860)
#Sir Edward Blakeney (1862)
#The Viscount Gough (1862)
#HRH The Duke of Cambridge (1862)
#The Lord Clyde (1862)
#Sir Alexander Woodford (1868)
#Sir William Gomm (1868)
#Sir Hew Ross (1868)
#Sir John Burgoyne (1868)
#Sir George Pollock (1870)
#Sir John FitzGerald (1875)
#The Marquess of Twedddale (1875)
#HRH The Prince of Wales (1875) (later King Edward VII)
#Sir William Rowan (1877)
#Sir Charles Yorke (1877)
#The Lord Strathnairn (1877)
#The Lord Napier of Magdala (1883)
#Sir Patrick Grant (1883)
#Sir John Michel (1886)
#Sir Richard Dacres (1886)
#Lord William Paulet (1886)
#The Earl of Lucan (1887)
#Sir John Simmons (1890)
#Sir Frederick Haines (1890)
#Sir Donald Stewart (1894)
#The Viscount Wolseley (1894)
#The Lord Roberts (1895) (later Earl Roberts)
#HH Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar (1897)
#Sir Neville Chamberlain (1900)
#HIM Emperor Wilhelm II (1901)
#Sir Henry Norman (1902)
#HRH The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1902)
#Sir Evelyn Wood (1903)
#Sir George White (1903)
#HIM Emperor Franz Josef of Austria (1903)
#The Lord Grenfell (1908)
#Sir Charles Brownlow (1908)
#The Viscount Kitchener (1909) (later Earl Kitchener)
#HM King George V (1910)
#The Lord Methuen (1911)
#Sir William Nicholson (1911) (later Lord Nicholson)
#Sir John French (1913) (later Earl of Ypres)
#HIM Tsar Nicholas II (1916)
#Sir Douglas Haig (1917) (later Earl Haig)
#Sir Charles Egerton (1917)
#HIM Emperor Yoshihito of Japan (1918)
#Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch (1919)
#Sir Herbert Plumer (1919) (later Viscount Plumer)
#Sir Edmund Allenby (1919) (later Viscount Allenby)
#Sir Henry Wilson (1919)
#Sir William Robertson (1920)
#Sir Arthur Barrett (1921)
#HM King Albert I of Belgium (1921)
#Sir William Birdwood (1925) (later Lord Birdwood)
#Sir Claud Jacob (1926)
#Sir Thomas Farr (1927)
#Sir George Milne (1928) (later Lord Milne)
#HM King Alfonso XIII of Spain (1928)
#HIM Emperor Hirohito of Japan (1930)
#The Viscount Byng of Vimy (1932)
#The Earl of Cavan (1932)
#Philip Chetwode, 1st Baron Chetwode (1933)
#Sir Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd (1935)
#HM King Edward VIII (1936)
#Sir Cyril Deverell (1936)
#HM King George VI (1936)
#Sir Edmund Ironside (1940) (later Lord Ironside)
#Jan Smuts (1941)
#Sir John Dill (1941)
#The Viscount Gort (1943)
#Sir Archbald Wavell (1943) (later Earl Wavell)
#Sir Alan Brooke (1944) (later Viscount Alanbrooke)
#Sir Harold Alexander (1944) (later Earl Alexander of Tunis)
#Sir Bernard Montgomery (1944) (later Viscount Montgomery of Alamein)
#Sir Henry Wilson (1944) (later Lord Wilson)
#Sir Claude Auchinleck (1946)
#Sir William Slim (1949) (later Viscount Slim)
#Sir Thomas Blamey (1950)
#HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (1953)
#Sir John Harding (1953) (later Lord Harding of Petherton)
#HRH The Duke of Gloucester (1955)
#Sir Gerald Templer (1956)
#Francis Festing (1960)
#HM King Mahendra of Nepal (1960)
#HIM Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (1965)
#Sir Richard Hull (1965)
#Sir James Cassels (1968)
#Sir Geoffrey Baker (1971)
#Sir Michael Carver (1973) (later Lord Carver)
#Sir Roland Gibbs (1979)
#HM King Birendra of Nepal (1980)
#Sir Edwin Bramall (1982) (later Lord Bramall)
#Sir John Stanier (1985)
#Sir Nigel Bagnall (1988)
#Sir Richard Vincent (1991) (later Lord Vincent of Coleshill)
#Sir John Chapple (1992)
#HRH The Duke of Kent (1993)
#Sir Peter Inge (1994) (later Lord Inge)

External links

* [http://web.archive.org/web/20041209224317/http://wwwtc.nhmccd.edu/people/crf01/history/fieldmarshals.htm British Field Marshals list by Professor Clifton R. Fox] (warning, large pagem from Internet Archive)
* [http://regiments.org/biography/fieldmarshals/ukFMlist.htm List of British Field Marshals]
* [http://www.remuseum.org.uk/rem_his_bio.htm Royal Engineers Museum] - Royal Engineers Field Marshal Biographies (Burgoyne, Napier, Simmons, Nicholson and Kitchener)