ANNO 1840.]

ORDER OF THE BATH.

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Lushington, Sir Richard Jenkins, Sir John M'Neill, and Sir Henry WilliamBayntun.

In 1840, the Order sustained the loss of the unprecedented number oftwelve Knights Grand Cross; namely, Admiral Sir Harry Neale in February;Generals Sir George Hewett and Sir Henry Fane in March; Count Alten andMajor-General Sir Alexander Dickson (who had not been Installed) in April;Admiral Sir William Sidney Smith (who had not been either Invested orInstalled) in May; General Sir John Oswald in June; and Lieutenant-Generalthe Honourable Sir Robert William O’Callaghan (who had not been Installed),Sir Arthur Paget, the oldest Knight of the Order, and the Earl of Durham inJuly; and Admiral Sir Henry William Bayntun, and Lieutenant-General SirWilliam Henry Pringle, in December.

In July 1840, six Admirals (four of whom were Companions) and twoLieutenant-Generals (who were both Companions) were appointed KnightsCommanders ; and in December, one Post Captain (holding the temporaryrank of Commodore), a Companion of the Order, was promoted to the samedignity, for his services on the coast of Syria. During that year, twenty-seven Companions were nominated; namely, twenty-one Captains in theNavy; one Colonel, and three Lieutenant-Colonels of the Queen's Army; andtwo Majors in the service of the East India Company.

In January 1841, Major-General Sir Henry Worsley, a Knight GrandCross, having died, the vacancy was supplied, on the 12th of February, by theappointment of the Knight Commander, Major-General Sir Joseph O’Halloran,of the East India Company’s Army. Her Majesty was pleased, on the 26thof March 1841, to hold an Investiture of the Order, when Sir Frederick Adam,Sir Andrew Francis Barnard, and Sir Joseph O’Halloran, and two KnightsCommanders received the Ribband, Badge, and Star of their respective ranks.

On the 12th of January, four Honorary Members of the Order were ap-pointed, in the persons of Rear-Admiral the Baron Francis de Bandiera,Commander of the Austrian Naval Force, and of Rear-Admiral Baldwin WakeWalker, of the Turkish Navy (a Post-Captain in Her Majesty’s Navy), asKnights Commanders, for their services before Acre, in conjunction withthe British Fleet; and of Captain His Imperial Highness the ArchdukeFrederick of Austria, and Captain John de Buratovich, both of His ImperialMajesty’s Navy, as Companions, for their conduct on the same occasion.