List of Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire

Below is a List of Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire from the Order's creation in 1917 until the present day:

1910s

• 1917: Queen Mary, The Begum of Bhopal, Katharine Furse, The Baroness Wenlock, Louise Paget, Flora Reid
• 1918: The Countess of Liverpool, The Viscountess Chelmsford, The Lady Ampthill, The Marchioness of Winchester, The Viscountess Novar, The Duchess of Montrose, Lady Aimée Evelyn Dawson, The Viscountess Harcourt, Sidney Jane Browne, Edith Benyon, The Viscountess Northcliff
• 1919: The Countess of Buxton, The Marchioness of Waterford, Princess Henry of Battenberg, Princess Marie Louise, The Duchess of Bedford, Sarah Swift, Ethel Becher, Maud McCarthy

1920s

• 1920: Margaret Lloyd George, The Marchioness of Reading, The Countess of Airlie
• 1924: The Marchioness of Willingdon
• 1925: Ivy Chamberlain, Ellen Terry
• 1926: The Baroness Forster, Christina Massey
• 1927: Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles, Nellie Melba
• 1929: Helen Gwynne-Vaughan

1930s

• 1932: The Baroness Baden-Powell, The Viscountess Cowdray
• 1937: Enid Lyons, The Countess Baldwin of Bewdley, Princess Henry, Duchess of Gloucester, Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone
• 1938: The Marchioness of Carisbrooke

1940s

• 1944: The Marchioness of Reading
• 1946: Isobel Cripps, Clementine Churchill
• 1947: The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
• 1948: Beryl Oliver

1950s

• 1951: The Baroness Denman
• 1953: The Baroness Freyberg
• 1954: The Countess Alexander of Tunis, The Countess of Limerick, Pattie Menzies
• 1957: Dehra Parker

1960s

• 1961: The Baroness Sharp
• 1964: Lady Dorothy Macmillan

1980s

• 1983: The Baroness Donaldson of Lymington

2000s

• 2005: The Baroness Butler-Sloss
• 2012: The Baroness Hayman

See also

• List of Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• List of Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire

References

• The London Gazette
• Burke's Peerage & Gentry, 107th edition