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East India Company’s Forces, were made Companions for their gallant conductin India.

On the 21st of January 1840, the Knight Commander, Major-General SirWilloughby Cotton, who was second in command of the Army that hadrecently distinguished itself in India, was promoted to be a Knight GrandCross; and-he was Invested at Jellalabad, by Sir William Hay Macnaghten,Baronet, Envoy and Minister at the Court of Shah Shooja-ool-Moolk, Kingof AfFghanistan, in the presence of that Prince, on the 19th of Decemberfollowing;.

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On the 6th of March, Her Majesty was pleased to Invest her AugustConsort, Field Marshal Sir Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emanuel, Dukeof Saxony, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Knight of the Garter, with theEnsigns of a Military Knight Grand Cross ; and on the 25th of the same month,the Installation of His Royal Highness was dispensed with in the accustomedmanner.

Three Knights Commanders, namely, Lieutenant - Generals the RightHonourable Sir Frederick Adam, Knight Grand Cross of the Order of SaintMichael and Saint George; Sir Benjamin D’Urban, Knight Commander ofthe Order of the Guelphs; and Sir Andrew Francis Barnard, Knight GrandCross of the Order of the Guelphs, were promoted to the rank of KnightsGrand Cross on the 20th of June; and on the 4th of July, that Dignitywas conferred upon the Knights Commanders Admiral Sir William Hotham(who was Invested on the 14th of July); Admiral Sir Josias Rowley, Baronet,Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Rowley, Baronet, Knight Grand Cross of the Order ofthe Guelphs (whose Investiture was dispensed with by Royal Warrant, on the12th of February 1841); and Vice-Admiral Sir David Milne. Early in July,the Queen appointed General Baldomero Espartero, Count of Luchano, andDuke de la Victoria y de Morelia, in the service of the Queen of Spain,an Honorary Knight Grand Cross; and on the 20th of that month, hisInvestiture and Installation were dispensed with by the usual Warrant.

On the 30th of June the Installation of.the nine following Knights GrandCross was dispensed with by a Royal Warrant, in the accustomed form; SirHenry Worsley, Sir John Lambert, the Earl of Gosford, Lord George WilliamRussell (who had not been Invested), Lord Howard de Walden, Sir James Law