List of titles and honours of Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
This is a list of the titles and honours held by Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, a senior officer of the British Army, Governor General of Canada, and member of the British Royal Family as third son of Queen Victoria.
Name
On 22 June 1850 Prince Arthur was baptised in the Chapel at Buckingham Palace with the Christian names Arthur William Patrick Albert.[1] As a member of the Royal Family, he had no surname[2] until 17 July 1917, when a Royal Proclamation of King George V declared that all British descendants in the male line of Queen Victoria would bear the name of Windsor.[3]
Titles, styles and honours
Titles and styles
- 1 May 1850 – 24 May 1874: His Royal Highness The Prince Arthur
- 24 May 1874 – 16 January 1942: His Royal Highness The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
As a son of the sovereign, Arthur had the title of Prince and the style of Royal Highness from birth. The princely title had been used for sons of the sovereign since Tudor times[4] and was formalised by letters patent of 30 November 1917,[5] while the style of Royal Highness had been used since the Restoration[4] and was confirmed by letters patent of 3 February 1864.[6] Through his father, Prince Albert, he also bore the titles Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duke of Saxony until 17 July 1917, when King George V discontinued the use of German titles.[3]
On 24 May 1874, Prince Arthur was created Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex,[7] in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.[8] As a duke of the Blood Royal, he had the formal style of Most High, Most Mighty, and Illustrious Prince Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn and Earl of Sussex.[9]
Orders, decorations and medals
(ribbon bar, as it would look today; British decorations only)
British
KG: Royal Knight of the Garter, 31 May 1867[10] KT: Extra Knight of the Thistle, 24 May 1869[11] KP: Knight of St. Patrick, 30 March 1869[12] GCMG: Knight Grand Cross of St Michael and St George, 16 April 1870[13] GCSI: Extra Knight Grand Commander of the Star of India, 1 January 1877[14] CB: Companion of the Bath (military), 17 November 1882 – 7 July 1890[15] GCIE: Extra Knight Grand Commander of the Indian Empire, 21 June 1887[19] GCVO: Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, 6 May 1896[20] KStJ: Knight of Justice of St John, 1896 – 11 June 1926[21] Royal Victorian Chain, 11 August 1902[25] GBE: Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire, 4 June 1917[26]
The Duke was Bailiff of Egle from 1894[27]
Canadian General Service Medal with clasp for Fenian Raid 1870[25] Egypt Medal with clasp for Battle of Tel el-Kebir 1882[25] British War Medal, 26 July 1919 Victory Medal, 1 September 1919
Volunteer Officers' Decoration (VD), 27 May 1892[25] Territorial Decoration (TD), 19 June 1934[25]
Foreign
Anhalt: Grand Cross of Albert the Bear, 1890[28] Austria-Hungary: Grand Cross of St. Stephen, 1873[25][29] Baden: Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 7 September 1906[25] Bavaria: Knight of St. Hubert[30] Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (military), 1873[25] Brunswick: Grand Cross of Henry the Lion, 1890[31] Denmark: Knight of the Elephant, 2 August 1873[25][32] Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, May 1868[33] Ethiopia: Grand Cross of the Star of Ethiopia, 20 August 1917[25] France: Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, 20 December 1898[34] Greece: Grand Cross of the Redeemer, 5 May 1879[25] Hesse and by Rhine:[35] - Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 4 February 1872
- Grand Cross of Philip the Magnanimous, 18 February 1878
Italy:[25] - Knight of the Annunziata, 18 November 1903[36]
- Grand Cross of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, 18 November 1903
- Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy, 20 August 1917
Japan: Grand Cordon of the Order of the Chrysanthemum, 8 May 1890[37] Mecklenburg: Grand Cross of the Wendish Crown, with Crown in Ore, 27 July 1879[38] Monaco: Grand Cross of St. Charles, 20 August 1917[25] Montenegro: Grand Cross of the Order of Prince Danilo I, 26 March 1897[25][39] Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion, 23 August 1878[25] Norway: Grand Cross of St. Olav, with Collar, 13 November 1906[25] Ottoman Empire:[25] - Order of Osmanieh, 1st Class in Diamonds, 17 July 1867
- Order of the Medjidie, 2nd Class, November 1882[40]
Tunisia: Grand Cordon of the Order of Glory, 1 June 1865 Portugal: Grand Cross of the Tower and Sword, 3 April 1879[41] Prussia:[25] - Knight of the Black Eagle, 1872
- Grand Cross of the Red Eagle, 1873
- Pour le Mérite, 17 November 1882[42]
Romania: Grand Cross of the Crown of Romania, 20 August 1917[25] Spain:[25] - Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, with Collar, 16 April 1876
- Grand Cross of Military Merit, November 1882
- Knight of the Golden Fleece, 15 May 1902 (during his attendance of the enthronement ceremonies for King Alfonso XIII)[43]
Sweden:[25] - Knight of the Seraphim, 18 July 1873[44]
- Commander Grand Cross of the Sword, 15 December 1902
- Knight of the Order of Charles XIII, 1905[45]
Military
Ranks
- 1866: Cadet, RMA Woolwich[25]
- 19 June 1868: Lieutenant, Royal Engineers[46]
- 2 November 1868: Lieutenant, Royal Regiment of Artillery[47]
- 3 August 1869: Lieutenant, Rifle Brigade[48]
- 1 May 1871: Captain, Rifle Brigade[49]
- 14 April 1874: Captain, 7th Hussars[50]
- 7 August 1875: Major, 7th Hussars[51]
- 27 September 1876: Lieutenant-Colonel, Rifle Brigade[52]
- 29 May 1880: Brevet Colonel, British Army[53]
- 29 May 1880: Major-General, British Army[53]
- 14 December 1886: Lieutenant-General, British Army (local rank while commanding the troops in Bombay)[54]
- 1 April 1889: Lieutenant-General, British Army (supernumerary)[55]
- 1 April 1893: General, British Army (supernumerary)[56]
- 26 June 1902: Field Marshal, British Army[57]
- 18 October 1920: Honorary Captain, Royal Naval Reserve[25]
Personal Aide-de-Camp
- 26 May 1876: to Queen Victoria[25]
- 1901: to King Edward VII
- 3 June 1910: to King George V[58]
- 1936: to Edward VIII[59]
Colonel of the Regiment
- 24 June 1883: Scots Guards[60] (until 1 May 1904)[61]
- 2 September 1902: Army Service Corps[62]
- 1 May 1904: Grenadier Guards[61]
- 13 October 1911 – 11 November 1916: Colonel of the Governor General's Horse Guards
- 13 October 1911 – 11 November 1916: Colonel of the Governor General's Foot Guards
- 13 October 1911 – 11 November 1916: Colonel of the Canadian Grenadier Guards
Honorary Colonel
- 30 June 1871: 28th Middlesex Rifle Volunteer Corps[63]
- 26 April 1873: Royal East Kent Yeomanry[64] (until 16 January 1878)[65]
- 24 July 1875: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Artillery[66]
- 1 September 1883: 7th Bengal Native Infantry[67] (until 13 May 1904)[68]
- 1 September 1883: 29th Bombay Native Infantry (2nd Biluch Regiment)[67] (until 13 May 1904)[69]
- 27 February 1886: Royal East Kent Yeomanry[70]
- 12 February 1896: 3rd and 4th Battalions, Highland Light Infantry[71]
- 1 May 1900: The British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own)
- 19 March 1904: South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry[72]
- 6th Regiment, Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles
Colonel-in-Chief
- 29 May 1880: Rifle Brigade[53]
- 22 June 1897: 6th Dragoons[73]
- 4 September 1901: Highland Light Infantry[74]
- 13 May 1904: 13th Duke of Connaught's Lancers (Watson's Horse)[68]
- 13 May 1904: 31st Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers[68]
- 13 May 1904: 7th (Duke of Connaught's Own) Rajputs[68]
- 13 May 1904: 129th Duke of Connaught's Own Baluchis[68]
- 1929: The Royal Canadian Regiment
Foreign military appointments
- 1890s: Colonel à la suite 27th (Kiev) Regiment of Dragoons, Russian Army[25]
- June 1905: Honorary General, Swedish Army[25]
- 12 September 1906: Field Marshal, Prussian Army[25]
- 1908: Honorary Lieutenant-Colonel, 9th (Arapiles) Battalion of Light Infantry, Spanish Army[25]
- 24 May 1910: Honorary Admiral, Royal Danish Navy[25]
Civil
Privy Counsellor
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, 16 May 1871[75]
- Member of the Privy Council of Ireland, 10 January 1900[76]
Others
- Ranger of Epping Forest, 1879[77]
- Bencher of Gray's Inn, 4 July 1881
- Elder Brother of the Corporation of Trinity House, 1898;[77] Master, 1910–1942[8]
- High Steward of Wokingham[8]
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