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deaths of Knights Grand Cross; the rule that noofficer below the rank of General or Admiral should beinvested or permitted to wear the Star, disregarded infavour of Captains Sir Robert Barlow and Sir GeorgeGrey, 152-3; Warrant issued 6th July 1821, authoriz-ing sixty-three Knights Grand Cross Elect to wear theCollar and other ornaments, to sit in the Stalls as-signed to them in King Henry the Seventh’s Chapel,and to enjoy the rights and privileges of the Order asfully as if they had been installed, 153—156 ; enume-ration of the Military and Civil Knights Grand Crossat that time, 155 n. ; habits assigned to the KnightsCommanders, as well as the Knights Grand Cross, toattend the coronation, 156; position of the KnightsGrand Cross, &c. in the procession at the coronationof King George the Fourth, 19th July 1821, Ixxxiv.;no Knight Commander made, and only one invested(onthe 20th July) in 1821, 156; death of fiveKnightsGrand Cross; appointment, 8th March 1822, of SirEdward Thornton, and on the 1st April 1822, of SirBenjamin Bloomfield, as Civil, and on the 14th Sep-tember, of Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Boulden Thomp-son and Sir Harry Neale, as Military, Knights GrandCross; deaths in 1822, and appointment of KnightsCommanders and Companions in that year, 157 ;deaths of four members of the First Class in 1823 ;a Major-General of the East India Company’s armyappointed a Knight Commander, and fourteen Lieut.-Colonels and four Majors of the same service nomi-nated Companions, 157-8; a Companion removedfrom the lists of the Order 31st March, being thefirst and only instance of the kind since the crea-tion of the third Class; measures taken by theGovernment in August 1823, for fixing the num-ber of the different Classes of the Order, and theregulations then made, 158 ; Sir John Oswald ap-pointed a Knight Grand Cross ; death of Sir ThomasMaitland; no Knight Commander, and only oneCompanion, made in 1824, 158 ; nominations, in-vestitures, and deaths, between January 1825 and De-cember 1827,158,159 ; death of the Duke of York,who had officiated as Great Master at four installations,5th January 1827, 159; his vacancy supplied 14thNovember, by the appointment of theDuke ofClarenceas Acting Great Master of the Order; appointmentsmade 13th November 1827, in consequence of thedestruction of the Turkish fleet at Navarino, andother nominations during that year; appointmentsand deaths in 1828, 160; nominations and investi-tures of Sir Stratford Canning and Sir Robert Gor-don, and deaths of four Knights Grand Cross in1829, 160 ; appointment of Sir Thomas ByamMartin, 3rd March 1830; death of King Georgethe Fourth, and accession of King William theFourth ; importance attached by him to the Orderof the Bath as the highest reward of military merit,161; state of the Order on his accession, 26thJune 1830,161 n. 162 n ; appointments, investitures,and deaths, between November 1830 and 3rd August1831; State Banquet given to the Knights GrandCross and Officers of the Order, 12th April 1831,162-3; the appointment of Knights usually madeat coronations did not take place until after thatevent, 163; the Knights of the Order not sum-moned to attend the ceremony; intimation given tothe Knights Grand Cross who had not been installedthat they might wear the Collar upon that occasion ;appointment on the 13th September 1831, of eight

Extra Knights Grand Cross, 164; of twenty KnightsCommanders, and on the 26th September, of fifty-nine officers in His Majesty’s service as Companions,of six Major-Generals of the East India Company’sservice as Commanders, and of twenty other officersin that service as Companions, 165; summary ofthe appointments to the Order at the coronation ; thefirst creation of Knights of the Bath from whichCivilians were entirely excluded ; investitures, nomi-nations, and deaths, in 1831, 165; State dinnergiven to the Knights Grand Cross and Officers of theOrder, 12th April 1832,166 ; list of the Knights whohad not been installed to whom warrants were issued26th May 1832, authorizing them to wear the Collar,to sit in the Stalls assigned to them in Henry theSeventh’s Chapel, and to enjoy the same rights andprivileges as if they had been installed; other ap-pointments, investitures, and deaths in 1832 and1833, 166, 167 ; the attention of the Governmentdirected in 1834 to the anomalous and irregularstate of the Order when His Majesty’s consentwas obtained for extensive and highly necessaryalterations; statement of the proposed changes;message from the King to the House of Commonsupon the subject, and debate thereon, the speakersbeing Mr. Stanley, 168—170, 171, 173, 176, 178 ;Mr. Hume, 170, 180; Sir Samuel Whalley, 172;Sir Edward Codrington, 174, 180; Colonel Daviesand Mr. O’Connell, 176; Sir Robert Peel and Mr.Warburton, 177; Sir Henry Hardinge, 178; MajorHandley, Mr. Cutlar Fergusson, and Mr. Jervis,179; Bill ordered to be brought in, but subsequentproceedings abandoned, 181; State dinner to theKnights Grand Cross and Officers of the Order, 16thApril 1834; nominations of Lord Ponsonby andSir Herbert Taylor in 1834; the latter, instead ofbeing nominated a Military Knight Grand Cross,ought to have been appointed to the Civil Class; no-mination in May 1834, of the Archduke of Austriaas an Honorary Knight Grand Cross, 181; deaths,promotions, and investitures of Knights Grand Crossbetween August and December 1834, 182; KnightsCommanders and Companions appointed in 1834,182; promotions, deaths, nominations, and inves-titures between March 1835 and June 1837, 182—186; death of King William,the Fourth, and ac-cession of Queen Victoria; appointments made byHer Majesty in 1837 and 1838, 186, 187; ExtraKnights Grand Cross appointed at Her Majesty’sCoronation in 1838, 187; and subsequent nomi-nations, investitures, and deaths, in the same year,188 ; nominations of Knights Commanders andCompanions at the Coronation of her present Ma-jesty, 189; nominations and deaths in 1839, 189,190; Investiture of Prince Albert, 190; promotionsand deaths in 1840, 190, 191 ; nominations andpromotions in 1841, 191 ; state of the Order 6thApril 1841, 192; the Order is under the su-perintendence of the Colonial Secretary, as Se-cretary for the War Department, 276; Chronolo-gical iist of Knights created with the ceremoniesof the Bath from the reign of King John to thatof King Charles the Second, iii—xvii.; list ofthe Knights Companions from the revival of theOrder in 1725 until its Extension to three Classes in1815, xviii—xxix.; list of the Knights GrandCross, Knights Commanders and Companions ofthe Bath, from the Extension of the Order until 1840,