ANNIS 1836—1837.]

ORDER OF THE BATH.

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Sir Lawrence Halsted were Invested, and their Installations Dispensed withon the same day. On the 10th of March 1837, the Knights Commanders,Lieutenant-General Sir John Doveton, and Major-General Sir John Whit-tington Adams, both of the East India Company’s Service, were nominatedKnights Grand Cross; but the latter had died in India on the day precedingthat of his appointment. Sir John Doveton was Invested at Madras by theGovernor, Lord Elphinstone, on the 11th of January 1839, and was Installedby Dispensation on the 27th of July 1838. It was His Majesty’s intention tohave Invested Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, with the GrandCross of the Order, and afterwards to have entertained the Knights at a StateDinner in Windsor Castle, on the 15th of April; but those Ceremonies werepostponed to the 22nd of that month, thence to the 6th, and then to the 16thof May, and afterwards to the 3rd of June. The illness and death of HerMajesty’s Mother, the Duchess Dowager of Saxe Meiningen, however, causedthe Ceremonial and Banquet to be again deferred; and the fatal indispositionof His Majesty soon following, they never took place.

On the 17th of May, Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane, who was nominatedin February, was Invested; and he was Installed by Dispensation on the sameday. On the 30th of May, the Knight Commander, Lieutenant-General theRight Honourable Sir Richard Hussey Vivian, Baronet, a Knight Grand Crossof the Order of the Guelphs, was appointed a Knight Grand Cross in the placeof Sir Alexander Hope, who died shortly before; and he was both Investedand Installed by Dispensation, on the 17th of June, the Royal Warrant for thatpurpose being the last Instrument relating to the Order, even if it were not thevery last Document of any kind that was signed by King William the Fourth.The Order lost four Knights Grand Cross in 1837, namely, the Earl ofRosslyn, in January; Sir Alexander Hope, in May; Sir Edward Stopford, inSeptember; and the Earl of Clancarty, in November.

In 1837 fourteen Officers were appointed Knights Commanders; namely,one Vice-Admiral (who had distinguished himself in the Battle of the 1st ofJune 1794, but was not a Companion of the Order), and two Rear-Admirals(both Companions), on the 25th of February; and two Major-Generals in theKing’s Army (both of whom were Companions), on the 6th of February and2nd of June; and ten Major-Generals in the Service of the East India Company(all of whom were Companions), on the 10th of March. Investitures of KnightsCommanders were held on the 17th of March, and 19th, and 26th of April,

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