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and Minister Plenipotentiary to His Majesty the King of Prussia; CharlesAugustus Lord Howard de Walden, Her Majesty’s Envoy Extraordinary andMinister Plenipotentiary to Her Most Faithful Majesty, shall be Extra KnightsGrand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath; and shall hold andenjoy all titles, privileges, immunities, rights, and advantages, which the KnightsGrand Cross of the said Order may lawfully hold and enjoy: and Her Majestyis further pleased to declare, that the said Extra Knights Grand Cross shall,in all Chapters of the Order and other Solemnities, rank after the regularKnights Grand Cross now existing, and before any regular Knights GrandCross hereafter to be made, and shall among themselves rank in the order inwhich their names are hereinbefore enumerated, and that on the death of anyone of the said Extra Knights Grand Cross, the vacancy thereby created shallnot be filled up.” On the 20th of July, the two Knights Commanders, Major-Generals Sir Alexander Caldwell and Sir James Law Lushington, of theEast India Company’s Army, and Richard Jenkins, Esquire, formerly of theEast India Company’s Civil Service, were appointed Extra Knights GrandCross, in the same terms as have just been stated. On the 23rd of July, theKnight Commander, Major-General Sir Alexander Dickson, was nominated anExtra Knight Grand Cross in a similar manner; and he was Invested on the5th of June 1839. On the 15th of August 1838, Sir John Lambert, Sir RobertWilliam O’Callaghan, Sir Alexander Caldwell, and Sir James Law Lushingtonwere Invested as Military, and the Earl of Gosford, Lord Howard de Walden,and Sir Richard Jenkins as Civil Knights Grand Cross. In 1838, five KnightsGrand Cross died; namely, Lord Farnborough in January, Sir Edward Barnesand the Earl of Dalhousie in March, Sir Pulteney Malcolm in July, andPrince Wrede in December.

In February 1838, Lieutenant-Colonel De Lacy Evans, who had distinguishedhimself as a Lieutenant-General in the Service of the Queen of Spain, but whowas not a Companion, a Major-General in the Royal, and a Major-General inthe East India Company’s Service (both of whom were Companions) were nomi-nated Knights Commanders. On the 20th of April the same Honour wasconferred upon two other Major-Generals of the Queen’s Army, both of whomwere Companions of the Order. At the Coronation, one Admiral, one Rear-Admiral, and nineteen Major-Generals of the Queen’s Army, and sevenMajor-Generals of the East India Company’s Service (all of whom, except the