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

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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: Katharine Furse, Lady Paget, Hon. Lady Lawley, Sultan Jahan, Begum of Bhopal
1918: The Countess of Liverpool, Mary Harmsworth, The Lady Chelmsford, The Lady Ampthill, The Marchioness of Winchester, Helen Munro-Ferguson, The Duchess of Montrose, Aimée Dawson, The Viscountess Harcourt, Sidney Browne, Edith Benyon, Mary Harmsworth, Viscountess Northcliffe
1919: The Viscountess Buxton, The Marchioness of Waterford, Princess Beatrice, Princess Marie Louise, The Duchess of Bedford, Sarah Swift, Ethel Becher, Emma McCarthy

1920s

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

1930s

1940s

1944: The Marchioness of Reading
1945: Salote Tupou III of Tonga
1946: Isobel Cripps, Clementine Churchill
1947: The Countess Mountbatten of Burma
1948: Beryl Oliver

1950s

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

1960s

1961: Evelyn Sharp
1964: Lady Dorothy Macmillan

1980s

1983: Mary Donaldson

2000s

2005: Elizabeth Butler-Sloss

References

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