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:
Date | Name | Born | Died | class=unsortable | Notes! | class=unsortable | Ref |
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Queen Mary | |||||||
Annie Allen, Lady Lawley (Baroness Wenlock from 1931) | 1863 | Honorary Secretary, Queen Mary's Needlework Guild | [1] | ||||
Serbian Relief Fund | |||||||
Commandant-in-Chief, Women's Voluntary Aid Detachment | |||||||
(Viscountess Chelmsford from 1921) | For services in connection with the War | ||||||
Queen Alexandra | |||||||
President, Bedfordshire Branch and Member of Council, British Red Cross Society; Head of the Voluntary Aid Detachment Department, Devonshire House | |||||||
President, Berkshire Branch, British Red Cross Society; Commandant, Englefield House Hospital | |||||||
1864 | Joint Honorary Secretary, Queen Mary's Needlework Guild | ||||||
President, Scottish Branch, British Red Cross Society | |||||||
(Lady Hudson from 1923) | Member, Joint Committee of British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem; Donor and Administrator, Lady Northcliffe's Hospital for Officers | ||||||
For services rendered by the Native States of India during the War | |||||||
For services in or for the Oversea Dominions, Colonies and Protectorates, in connection with the War | |||||||
Princess Christian | Member of Council, British Red Cross Society; Member, Joint War Committee of British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem | ||||||
Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll | President, Kensington Branch and Member of Council, British Red Cross Society | ||||||
Princess Helena Victoria | Lady President, Young Men's Christian Association; President, Women's Auxiliary of the Young Men's Christian Association for France | ||||||
1867 | Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service | ||||||
Honorary Secretary, American Women's War Relief Fund | |||||||
Founder, Royal Sailors' Rests | |||||||
President, Hampshire Branch, British Red Cross Society; Member, VAD Advisory Committee and VAD Selection Board | |||||||
Emma Maud McCarthy | Matron-in-Chief, Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service | [2] | |||||
Lady Helen Munro Ferguson (Viscountess Novar from 1920) | 1863 | For services in or for the Oversea Dominions, Colonies and Protectorates, in connection with the War | |||||
Matron-in-Chief, Territorial Nursing Service | |||||||
Princess Beatrice | President, Isle of Wight Branch, British Red Cross Society | ||||||
Princess Marie Louise | Head of Bermondsey Voluntary Hospital | ||||||
Member, Joint War Committee of British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem; President, Ladies' Committee of Order of St John | |||||||
(Countess Buxton from 1920) | |||||||
Matron-in-Chief, British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem | |||||||
(Duchess of St Albans from 1934) | Head of Irish War Hospitals Supply Depots; Member, Joint War Committee for Leinster, Munster and Connaught, British Red Cross Society and Order of St John of Jerusalem | ||||||
President, Queen Alexandra's Army Nursing Board | |||||||
For service in connection with the War | |||||||
(Marchioness of Reading from 1926) | |||||||
1856 | President, British Women's Work Association in China | ||||||
For services rendered during the War to the British Red Cross Society, the Soldiers' and Sailors' Families Association, the Belgian Soldiers' Club, and Queen Alexandra's Nursing Association | |||||||
For services rendered in Australia during the War | |||||||
(Marchioness of Willingdon from 1936) | |||||||
Ellen Alice Carew (Ellen Terry) | |||||||
1868 | For services in Australia during the period of her husband's Governor Generalship | ||||||
For services to the Dominion of New Zealand | |||||||
Princess Victoria Alexandra Alice Mary, Viscountess Lascelles (Princess Royal from 1932) | |||||||
Dame Nellie Melba | In recognition of services to the Commonwealth of Australia | ||||||
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite, Duchess of York (Queen Elizabeth from 1936) | On the occasion of the visit of the Duke and Duchess of York to New Zealand and Australia to inaugurate the new capital of the Commonwealth of Australia at Canberra | ||||||
For public services | |||||||
Dame Helen Charlotte Isabella Gwynne-Vaughan | For public and scientific services |