Shield Title Creation Grantee Reason Monarch 27 April 1801 John Jervis, Earl of St Vincent Military Peerage–Navy [note 1] King George III 27 February 1802 Earl Howe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Assheton Curzon, Baron Curzon — 24 December 1802 Henry Dundas Former Home Secretary 12 January 1805 Henry Addington Former Prime Minister 17 February 1806 Earl of Lichfield in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Thomas Anson Former Member of Parliament for the Whig Party 9 November 1807 Earl Cathcart in the Peerage of the United Kingdom William Cathcart, Lord Cathcart [note 2] Military Peerage Army 4 September 1809 Duke of Wellington in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Arthur Wellesley [note 6] Military Peerage–Army 16 July 1814 Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair in the Peerage of the United Kingdom The Prince Regent on behalf of King George III George Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen [note 2] Former Ambassador to Austria 12 August 1815 Earl Granville in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Lord Granville Leveson-Gower [note 7] Former cabinet minister 10 December 1816 Edward Pellew, Baron Exmouth Military Peerage–Navy 14 July 1821 Richard Hely-Hutchinson, Earl of Donoughmore [note 1] King George IV 8 December 1823 Richard Trench, Earl of Clancarty Incumbent Ambassador to the Netherlands 8 February 1827 Stapleton Cotton, Baron Combermere Military Peerage–Army 27 September 1842 Rowland Hill, Baron Hill Military Peerage–Army [note 1] Queen Victoria 2 May 1846 Henry Hardinge Incumbent Viceroy of India 21 February 1866 Earl of Halifax in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Charles Wood, Bt. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer 6 July 1868 Alexander Hood, Baron Bridport Military Peerage–Army 28 March 1873 Edward Portman, Baron Portman — 4 May 1878 Earl of Cranbrook in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Gathorne Hardy Former Home Secretary 4 March 1884 Henry Brand [note 8] Former Speaker of the House of Commons 11 November 1891 Emily Smith Widow of the First Lord of the Treasury William Henry Smith [note 1] 9 May 1895 Earl Peel in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Arthur Peel Former Speaker of the House of Commons 3 August 1895 Henry Holland, Baron Knutsford Former cabinet minister 11 November 1897 William Brett, Baron Esher Former Master of the Rolls 25 July 1899 Earl of Cromer in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Evelyn Baring, Baron Cromer Incumbent Consul-General of Egypt 18 December 1900 George Goschen Former Chancellor of the Exchequer 19 December 1900 Matthew White Ridley, Bt. Former Home Secretary 12 July 1902 Charles Colville, Lord Colville of Culross [note 2] Former Master of the Buckhounds King Edward VII 6 July 1905 William Gully Former Speaker of the House of Commons 18 December 1905 Earl of Iveagh in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Edward Guinness, Baron Iveagh — 19 December 1905 Earl Spencer in the Peerage of Great Britain . Charles Spencer [note 9] Incumbent Lord Chamberlain of the Household 6 January 1906 Earl St Aldwyn in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Michael Hicks Beach Former Chancellor of the Exchequer 4 July 1911 Francis Knollys, Baron Knollys Incumbent Private Secretary to the Sovereign King George V 5 July 1911 Wentworth Beaumont, Baron Allendale — 6 July 1911 Aretas Akers-Douglas Former Home Secretary 2 November 1911 George Curzon, Baron Curzon of Kedleston Former Viceroy of India [note 1] 22 June 1916 John Bigham, Baron Mersey Judicial Peer 26 June 1916 Marquess of Reading in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Rufus Isaacs, Baron Reading Incumbent Lord Chief Justice of England 2 January 1917 Weetman Pearson, Baron Cowdray Incumbent cabinet minister 23 June 1917 Hudson Kearley, Baron Devonport Former cabinet minister 23 June 1917 William Waldorf Astor, Baron Astor The first man from the United States to be created a Hereditary Peer 15 January 1918 Earl Jellicoe in the Peerage of the United Kingdom John Jellicoe Military Peerage–Navy [note 1] 15 June 1918 Ivor Guest, Baron Wimborne Incumbent Viceroy of Ireland 17 June 1918 John Philipps, Baron St Davids — 17 May 1919 Harold Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere Founder of the Daily Mail 7 October 1919 Edmund Allenby Military Peerage–Army [note 1] 3 June 1921 Frederic Thesiger, Baron Chelmsford Incumbent Viceroy of India 4 June 1921 Walter Long Former Leader of the Irish Unionist Alliance 8 July 1921 James Lowther [note 10] Former Speaker of the House of Commons 20 February 1923 George Younger, Bt. Former Chairman of the Conservative Party 21 January 1924 Earl of Inchcape in the Peerage in the United Kingdom James Mackay, Baron Inchcape Chairman of Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company 16 June 1925 Marcus Samuel, Baron Bearsted Founder of Royal Dutch Shell 20 January 1927 James Craig, Bt. Incumbent Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 18 June 1929 William Bridgeman [note 11] Former Home Secretary 4 July 1929 Douglas Hogg, Baron Hailsham Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 5 July 1929 William Joynson-Hicks, Bt. Former Home Secretary 24 February 1933 Stanley Buckmaster, Baron Buckmaster Former Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 24 June 1935 Charles Bathurst, Baron Bledisloe Former Governor-General of New Zealand 29 November 1935 Earl of Swinton in the Peerage in the United Kingdom Philip Cunliffe-Lister Incumbent cabinet minister 17 January 1936 Ernest Pollock, Baron Hanworth Incumbent Master of the Rolls 31 January 1936 Hugh Trenchard, Baron Trenchard Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police King Edward VIII 8 June 1937 Herbert Samuel Former Home Secretary King George VI 10 June 1937 Walter Runciman [note 12] Former cabinet minister 11 June 1937 J. C. C. Davidson Former Chairman of the Conservative Party 25 June 1938 William Weir, Baron Weir Former cabinet minister 27 June 1938 Held by the Earl of Kintore in the Peerage of Scotland since 1974 . John Baird, Baron Stonehaven Former Governor-General of Australia 6 September 1939 Thomas Inskip Incumbent Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain 20 January 1941 William Berry, Baron Camrose Co-owner of The Daily Telegraph 12 January 1942 William Wedgwood Benn Former cabinet minister 27 April 1942 David Margesson Former cabinet minister 3 May 1943 Muriel FitzRoy Widow of the Speaker of the House of Commons Edward FitzRoy [note 1] 2 July 1945 Christopher Addison, Baron Addison Former cabinet minister 12 September 1945 Gomer Berry, Baron Kemsley Co-owner of The Daily Telegraph 13 September 1945 George Penny, Baron Marchwood — 31 January 1946 Bernard Montgomery Military Peerage–Army 1 March 1946 Earl Alexander of Tunis in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Harold Alexander [note 13] Military Peerage–Army 23 August 1946 Earl Mountbatten of Burma in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Lord Louis Mountbatten [note 14] Military Peerage–Navy [note 1] 28 January 1952 John Anderson Former Chancellor of the Exchequer 10 April 1952 Archibald Sinclair, Bt. Former Leader of the Liberal Party Queen Elizabeth II 1 July 1952 Basil Brooke, Bt. Incumbent Prime Minister of Northern Ireland 5 July 1952 Duff Cooper Former Ambassador to France 2 July 1953 Earl of Woolton in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Frederick Marquis, Baron Woolton Incumbent cabinet minister 18 January 1954 Frederick Leathers, Baron Leathers Former cabinet minister 16 July 1954 Herwald Ramsbotham, Baron Soulbury Incumbent Governor-General of Ceylon 9 September 1954 Oliver Lyttelton [note 15] Former cabinet minister 18 March 1955 Godfrey Huggins Incumbent Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 12 January 1956 William Sidney, Baron De L'Isle and Dudley Former cabinet minister 11 February 1957 Walter Monckton Former cabinet minister