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The order has had a chancellor and a secretary since it was founded; the former office is held ex officio by the Lord Chamberlain of the Royal Household, while the office of secretary has been held ex officio by the Keeper of the Privy Purse (except for the years 1936 to 1943 when the King's Private Secretary was also the order's secretary).
Nathaniel Barnardiston (British Army officer) Frank Beck (British Army officer) W. N. T. Beckett; Matthew Best (Royal Navy officer) Richard Bevan (Royal Navy officer) George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning; Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood; Dermot Blundell; Alan Bourne; Algernon Boyle; Rodney Brazier; Reginald Bridgeman
Member of the Royal Victorian Order John Grant Malcolmson , VC , MVO (9 February 1835 – 14 August 1902) was a Bengal Army officer and a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross , the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Seymour was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1934 New Year Honours. He then served as an Extra Equerry to Edward VIII in 1936 and to George VI from 1937 to his death in 1948. In 1905 Seymour married Lady Blanche Frances Conyngham, daughter of Henry Conyngham, 4th Marquess Conyngham, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
List of knights and dames commander of the Royal Victorian Order appointed by Elizabeth II (2003–2022) List of knights and dames commander of the Royal Victorian Order appointed by Elizabeth II (1952–1977) List of officers of the Royal Victorian Order; List of knights and dames commander of the Royal Victorian Order appointed by George VI
Queen Victoria in 1897, the year after she founded the Royal Victorian Order. Prior to the close of the 19th century, most general honours within the British Empire were bestowed by the sovereign on the advice of her British ministers, who sometimes forwarded advice from ministers of the Crown in the Dominions and colonies (appointments to the then most senior orders of chivalry, the Order of ...
Field Marshal Herbert Charles Onslow Plumer, 1st Viscount Plumer (13 March 1857 – 16 July 1932) was a senior British Army officer who fought in the First World War, being perhaps most notable for commanding the Second Army of the British Expeditionary Force on the Western Front from 1915 to 1918.
At this time the two lowest classes of the Royal Victorian Order were "Member (fourth class)" and "Member (fifth class)", both with post-nominal letters MVO. "Member (fourth class)" was renamed "Lieutenant" (LVO) from the 1985 New Year Honours onwards. Fourth Class. Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Lester Binns.