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 590 APPENDIX B CREATIONS OF KNIGHTS (OF GARTER) UNDER VARIOUS MINISTRIES The following table shows the number of Knights of the Garter, exclusive of Princes of the Blood and foreign Kings or their subjects, created during each ministry since the accession of Queen Anne (1702). As a general rule Garters have been conferred upon supporters of the ministry for the time being. Some of the recipients have been accorded this distinction in recognition of conspicuous services other than political, without regard to their party connexion, e.g. Earl Howe, Marquess Wellesley, the great Duke of Wellington, the ist Marquess of Anglesey, Earl Canning, Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, Earl Roberts, and the present Earl of Selborne, though, as a matter of fact, each of these, with the exception of Lords Stratford and Selborne, was a supporter of the Prime Minister in power at the time of his nomination. I have included the Garters of Walpole, Devonshire, Bute, Grafton, North, Liverpool, Grey, Palmerston and Beaconsfield amongst those assigned to the periods of their respective administrations, inasmuch as though, doubtless, due to the Sovereign's initiative in each case, they were conferred during the active existence of these ministries, whereas those of Aberdeen and Derby were bestowed on the recipients upon relinquishing office. Godolphin (1702-10) 6 G. Grenville (1763-65). I Harley [Oxford 171 1] (1710- Rockingham (1765-66) . I 14) 7 Chatham (1766-68)

Townshend * (17 14-17). 4 Grafton (1768-70). 2 Sunderland and Stanhope* North (1770-82). 5 (1717-21) .... 8 Rockingham (1782) 3 Walpole (1721-42) 17 Shelburne (1782-83) I Wilmington and Carteret Portland [North-Fox Coalition] (1742-43) ....

(1783) . . ..

Pelham (1743-54) 7 Pitt (1783-1801). 15 Newcastle (1754-56)

Addington (1801-04) 3 Devonshire (1756-57). 4 Pitt (1804-06) 6 Newcastle and Pitt (1757-62). 2(^) Lord Grenville [All the Talents] Bute (1762-63) le) (1806-07) .... I (*) There was no definite and recognised chief of the administration in the early years of George I, Halifax being the ornamental figure-head till his death in 1 7 15. Townshend may, for practical purposes, be regarded as the most important member of the Cabinet at this period. Over the succeeding Cabinet (that of I 7 17-21) Sunderland and Stanhope exercised a kind of dual control. (*) Earl Waldegrave (1757) is not included under any administration, as his appointment was the personal act of the King during the interval between Devonshire's resignation and the formation of the Newcastle-Pitt Cabinet, when Waldegrave him- self was entrusted with the task of forming a ministry, but was unable to do so. ('') The only Garter conferred during Bute's ministry was that given to himself as the King's personal act.