List of Royal Navy admirals (1707–current)
is a senior rank of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, which equates to the NATO rank code OF-9, formally outranked only by the rank admiral of the fleet. The rank of admiral is currently the highest rank to which an officer in the Royal Navy can be promoted, admiral of the fleet being used nowadays only for honorary promotions.
This list aims to include all who have been promoted to the rank of admiral in the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom following the Acts of Union 1707, or to historical variations of that rank.
Royal Navy officers holding the ranks of rear admiral, vice admiral and admiral of the fleet are sometimes considered generically to be admirals. These are not listed here unless they gained the rank of full admiral.
For a very long time promotion to the ranks above captain was an entitlement of everyone who had become a captain and occurred in strict order of seniority as captain; this was enacted in 1718 and is still evident in Navy Lists of the 1940s. Various stratagems were developed to move those who had seniority over captains who it was actually desired to promote out of the way of the functional promotions, including promotion "without distinction of squadron", "dormant commissions", "superannuation", a variety of pension schemes, a "reserved list", and a "retired list";
these were frequently enacted by Order in Council. Despite being moved off the active list vice-admirals could still be promoted to admiral after all previously promoted vice admirals of their category had been promoted or died, whether on an honorific basis or as a means of granting them a pension increase.
Persons listed are shown with the titles they held at the time of their deaths whether or not these were held at the time of their promotion to the rank of full admiral.
Those who only held the rank of full admiral on an acting basis are not shown.
List of admirals
| Promoted | Name | Born | Died | Notes |
| George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington KB | 1663 | 1733 | Senior Naval Lord 1710–1712, 1714–1717, 1718–1721; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1718 | |
| John Jennings | 1664 | 1743 | Senior Naval Lord 1721–1727 | |
| Sir John Norris | 1670 | 1749 | Senior Naval Lord 1727–1730; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1734 | |
| Sir James Wishart | 1659 | 1723 | Dictionary of National Biography Volume 62 page 253 has an extended discussion of the disputed relative seniority of these 5 promotions; Threedecks.org indicates Wishart was dismissed from the Navy in 1715 | |
| John Baker | 1661? | 1716 | see note at Wishart | |
| Sir Edward Whitaker | 1660 | 1735 | see note at Wishart | |
| Sir Charles Wager | 1666 | 1743 | Senior Naval Lord 1730–1733; First Lord of the Admiralty 1733–1742 | |
| Sir George Walton | 1665 | 1739 | retired on pension 1736 | |
| Philip Cavendish | 1695 | 1743 | ||
| Sir John Balchen | 1670 | 1744 | lost at sea with HMS Victory Was promoted Admiral of the White in August 1743 from Vice-Admiral of the Red | |
| Thomas Mathews | 1676 | 1751 | dismissed from the navy after court-martial | |
| Nicholas Haddock | 1686 | 1746 | ||
| Sir Chaloner Ogle KB | 1681 | 1750 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1749 | |
| Edward Vernon | 1684 | 1757 | dismissed 1746 | |
| Richard Lestock | 1679 | 1746 | ||
| James Steuart | 1678 | 1757 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1750 | |
| George Clinton | 1686? | 1761 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1757 | |
| Sir William Rowley KB | 1690? | 1768 | Senior Naval Lord 1751–1756, 1757; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1762 | |
| William Martin | 1696? | 1756 | retired shortly after promotion | |
| Isaac Townsend | 1685? | 1765 | Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1754 | |
| George Anson, 1st Baron Anson | 1697 | 1762 | Senior Naval Lord 1749–1751; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1761 | |
| Vere Beauclerk, 1st Baron Vere | 1699 | 1781 | Senior Naval Lord 1746–1749; retired 1749 | |
| John Byng | 1704 | 1757 | executed after court-martial | |
| Edward Hawke, 1st Baron Hawke | 1705 | 1781 | First Lord of the Admiralty 1766–1771; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1768 | |
| Thomas Griffin | 1692 | 1771 | ||
| Henry Osborn | 1694 | 1771 | ||
| Thomas Smith | 1707 | 1762 | "retired from active service" October 1758 | |
| John Forbes | 1714 | 1796 | Senior Naval Lord 1761–1763; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1781 | |
| Edward Boscawen PC | 1711 | 1761 | Senior Naval Lord 1756–1757, 1757–1761 | |
| Sir Charles Knowles, 1st Baronet | 1704? | 1777 | ||
| Sir George Pocock KB | 1706 | 1792 | resigned commission 1766 | |
| George Townshend | 1716 | 1769 | ||
| Francis Holburne | 1704 | 1771 | Senior Naval Lord 1770–1771 | |
| George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk | 1716 | 1792 | ||
| Sir Charles Saunders, KB | 1715? | 1775 | Senior Naval Lord 1765–1766; First Lord of the Admiralty 1766 | |
| Charles Hardy | 1716? | 1780 | ||
| Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Baronet | 1718 | 1784? | ||
| Harry Powlett, 6th Duke of Bolton | 1720 | 1794 | ||
| Sir Thomas Pye | 1709? | 1785 | some sources say born 1713 | |
| Sir Francis Geary, 1st Baronet | 1709 | 1796 | ||
| George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney KB | 1718 | 1792 | ||
| James Young | 1717 | 1789 | Rodney and Young were promoted directly to Admiral of the White | |
| Sir Peircy Brett | 1709 | 1781 | Senior Naval Lord 1766–1770 | |
| Sir John Moore, 1st Baronet | 1718 | 1779 | ||
| Sir James Douglas, 1st Baronet | 1703 | 1787 | ||
| George Edgcumbe, 1st Earl of Mount Edgcumbe | 1720 | 1795 | ||
| Samuel Graves | 1713 | 1787 | ||
| William Parry | 1705 | 1779 | ||
| Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel | 1725 | 1786 | Senior Naval Lord 1766; First Lord of the Admiralty 1782–1783 | |
| John Amherst | 1718 | 1778 | died 16 days after promotion | |
| Matthew Buckle | 1716 | 1784 | ||
| Robert Man | 1783 | First Naval Lord 1779–1780 | ||
| Clark Gayton | 1712 | 1785 | ||
| Sir Robert Harland, 1st Baronet | 1715 | 1784 | First Naval Lord 1782–1783 | |
| Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe KG | 1724 | 1799 | Senior Naval Lord 1763–1765; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1796 | |
| John Montagu | 1719 | 1795 | ||
| Hugh Pigot | 1722 | 1792 | ||
| Molyneux Shuldham, 1st Baron Shuldham | 1717? | 1798 | ||
| John Vaughan | 1789 | |||
| John Reynolds | 1713? | 1788 | ||
| Sir Hugh Palliser, 1st Baronet | 1723 | 1796 | ||
| Matthew Barton | 1715? | 1795 | ||
| Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet | 1721 | 1811 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1799 | |
| Samuel Barrington | 1729 | 1800 | ||
| Mariot Arbuthnot | 1711 | 1794 | ||
| Robert Roddam | 1719 | 1808 | headed the list when rank Admiral of the Red was created in November 1805 | |
| William Lloyd | 1725 | 1796 | ||
| Sir Edward Hughes | 1720? | 1794 | ||
| John Evans | 1717 | 1794 | ||
| Mark Milbanke | 1724 | 1805 | ||
| Nicholas Vincent | 1723? | 1809 | Threedecks.org: "He accepted no commission after his promotion to flag rank"; but was second on 1805 list of Admirals of the Red | |
| Sir Edward Vernon | 1723 | 1794 | ||
| Richard Edwards | 1715 | 1795 | ||
| Thomas Graves, 1st Baron Graves KB | 1725 | 1802 | ||
| Robert Digby | 1732 | 1815 | ||
| Benjamin Marlow | 1715? | 1795 | - | |
| Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport KB | 1726 | 1814 | ||
| Sir Chaloner Ogle, 1st Baronet | 1726 | 1816 | ||
| Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood | 1724 | 1816 | First Naval Lord 1789–1795 | |
| Sir Richard Hughes, 2nd Baronet | 1729? | 1812 | ||
| John Elliot | 1732 | 1808 | ||
| William Hotham, 1st Baron Hotham | 1736 | 1813 | ||
| Joseph Peyton | 1725 | 1804 | ||
| John Carter Allen | 1724 | 1800 | ||
| Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham | 1726 | 1813 | First Naval Lord 1795; First Lord of the Admiralty 1805–1806 | |
| John Laforey | 1729? | 1796 | ||
| John Dalrymple | 1722? | 1798 | ||
| Herbert Sawyer | 1730? | 1798 | ||
| Sir Richard King, 1st Baronet | 1730 | 1806 | ||
| Jonathan Faulknor the elder | 1795 | died in the month of his promotion | ||
| Philip Affleck | 1726 | 1799 | ||
| John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, GCB | 1735 | 1823 | First Lord of the Admiralty 1801–1804; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1821 | |
| Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan | 1731 | 1804 | ||
| Samuel Granston Goodall | ???? | 1801 | ||
| Richard Brathwaite | 1728? | 1805 | name as spelled in 1799 Gazette but linked references use a variant | |
| Phillips Cosby | 1729? | 1808 | ||
| Samuel Pitchford Cornish | 1739 | 1816 | ||
| John Brisbane | ???? | 1807 | not active when at flag rank | |
| Charles Wolseley | 1741 | 1808 | not active when at flag rank | |
| William IV of the United Kingdom | 1765 | 1837 | later Admiral of the Fleet and Lord High Admiral before becoming King | |
| Sir Richard Onslow, 1st Baronet | 1741 | 1817 | ||
| Sir Robert Kingsmill, 1st Baronet | 1730 | 1805 | ||
| Sir George Bowyer, 5th Baronet | 1740 | 1800 | ||
| Sir Hyde Parker | 1739 | 1807 | ||
| Sir Benjamin Caldwell GCB | 1739 | 1820 | ||
| Sir William Cornwallis, GCB | 1744 | 1819 | ||
| William Allen | 1728 | 1804 | ||
| John Macbride | 1735? | 1800 | ||
| George Vandeput | ?? | 1800 | ||
| Charles Buckner | 1735? | 1811 | ||
| John Gell | 1740 | 1806 | ||
| William Dickson | ?? | 1803 | ||
| Alan Gardner, 1st Baron Gardner | 1742 | 1809 | ||
| Robert Linzee | 1739 | 1804 | ||
| James Wallace | 1731 | 1803 | ||
| William Peere Williams-Freeman | 1742 | 1832 | on retired list; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in June 1830 | |
| Sir Thomas Pasley, 1st Baronet | 1734 | 1808 | ||
| Sir Thomas Rich, 5th Baronet | 1733? | 1803 | ||
| James Cumming | 1738 | 1808 | ||
| Sir John Colpoys GCB | 1742? | 1821 | ||
| Skeffington Lutwidge | 1737 | 1814 | ||
| Sir Archibald Dickson, 1st Baronet | ?? | 1803 | ||
| Sir George Montagu GCB | 1750 | 1829 | ||
| Thomas Dumaresq | 1729 | 1802 | ||
| George Keith Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith GCB | 1746 | 1823 | ||
| James Pigott | ?? | 1822 | ||
| William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock | 1753 | 1825 | ||
| Thomas Mackenzie | 1753 | 1813 | ||
| Sir Roger Curtis, 1st Baronet GCB | 1746 | 1816 | ||
| Sir Henry Harvey KB | 1743 | 1810 | on retired list | |
| Robert Mann | 1748? | 1813 | surname spelled "Man" in 1808 gazette | |
| Charles Holmes Everitt Calmady | 1754 | 1807 | ||
| John Bourmaster | 1736 | 1807 | ||
| Sir George Young | 1732 | 1810 | ||
| John Henry | 1737 | 1829 | ||
| Sir Richard Rodney Bligh GCB | 1737 | 1821 | ||
| Alexander Graeme | 1741 | 1818 | ||
| George Keppel | ? | 1804 | ||
| Isaac Prescott | 1737 | 1830 | ||
| John Bazely | 1740 | 1809 | ||
| Sir Thomas Davy Spry | 1754 | 1828 | ||
| Sir John Orde, 1st Baronet | 1751 | 1824 | ||
| Sir William Young, GCB | 1751 | 1821 | ||
| James Gambier, 1st Baron Gambier GCB | 1756 | 1833 | First Naval Lord 1795–1801, 1804–1806, 1807–1808; promoted Admiral of the Fleet July 1830 | |
| Sir Andrew Mitchell KB | 1757 | 1806 | ||
| Charles Chamberlayne | 1750 | 1810 | ||
| Peter Rainier | 1741 | 1808 | ||
| Philip Patton | 1739 | 1815 | ||
| Sir Charles Pole, 1st Baronet | 1757 | 1830 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in July 1830 | |
| John Brown | 1751 | 1808 | died four days after promotion | |
| John Leigh Douglas | 1741 | 1810 | ||
| William Swiney | 1747 | 1829 | ||
| Sir Charles Edmund Nugent | 1759? | 1844 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1833 | |
| Charles Powell Hamilton | 1747 | 1825 | ||
| Edmund Dod | 1734 | 1815 | ||
| Sir Charles Cotton, 5th Baronet | 1753 | 1812 | ||
| John Thomas | 1751 | 1810 | ||
| James Brine | 1738 | 1814 | ||
| Sir Erasmus Gower | 1742 | 1814 | ||
| John Holloway | 1747? | 1826 | ||
| George Wilson | 1756 | 1826 | ||
| Sir Charles Henry Knowles, 2nd Baronet, GCB | 1754 | 1831 | ||
| Sir Thomas Pakenham GCB | 1757 | 1836 | not active in Navy after 1795 | |
| Robert Deans | 1740 | 1815 | ||
| Sir James Hawkins-Whitshed, 1st Baronet, GCB | 1762 | 1849 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1844 | |
| Arthur Kempe | 1743 | 1823 | ||
| Smith Child | 1730 | 1813 | ||
| Thomas Taylor | 1812 | |||
| Sir John Duckworth, 1st Baronet | 1748 | 1817 | ||
| Sir Robert Calder, 1st Baronet, KCB | 1745 | 1818 | ||
| Sir George Cranfield Berkeley GCB | 1753 | 1818 | ||
| Thomas West | 1821 | immediately preceded Douglas on 1814 Navy List | ||
| James Douglas | 1755? | 1839 | ranked after Whitshed on 1832 Navy List and after Whitshed and Arthur Kempe on earlier Royal Naval Biography list | |
| Peter Aplin | 1753 | 1817 | said by DNB never to have actively served as admiral; ranked immediately after Douglas on 1814 Navy List | |
| Henry Savage | 1737? | 1823 | ||
| Bartholomew Samuel Rowley | 1764 | 1811 | ||
| Sir Richard Hussey Bickerton, 2nd Baronet, KCB | 1759 | 1832 | First Naval Lord 1808–1812 | |
| George Bowen | 1823? | will proved 1823 per National Archives | ||
| Robert Montagu | 1763 | 1830 | Name spelled "Montagu" in most sources but "Montague" is also seen; promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White | |
| John Fergusson | 1731 | 1818 | promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White | |
| Edward Edwards | 1742 | 1815 | promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White | |
| Sir John Borlase Warren, 1st Baronet, GCB | 1753 | 1822 | promoted directly from Vice Admiral of the White | |
| Edward Tyrrell Smith | 1752? | 1824 | "Tyrrell" spelled with one L in Gazette | |
| Sir Thomas Graves, KB | 1747 | 1814 | ||
| Thomas Macnamara Russell | 1743? | 1824 | ||
| Sir Henry Trollope GCB | 1756 | 1839 | ||
| Sir Henry Edwyn Stanhope, 1st Baronet | 1754 | 1814 | ||
| Robert McDouall | 1816 | |||
| Billy Douglas | 1749 | 1817 | ||
| John Wickey | 1750 | 1833 | ||
| John Fish | 1758 | 1834 | ||
| Sir John Knight KCB | 1747 | 1831 | ||
| Sir Edward Thornbrough GCB | 1754 | 1834 | ||
| Sampson Edwards | 1745 | 1840 | ||
| Sir George Campbell KCB | 1759 | 1821 | ||
| Arthur Phillip | 1738 | 1814 | ||
| James Saumarez, 1st Baron de Saumarez GCB | 1757 | 1836 | ||
| Thomas Drury | 1750 | 1832 | ||
| Sir Albemarle Bertie, 1st Baronet KCB | 1755 | 1824 | ||
| William Carnegie, 7th Earl of Northesk | 1756 | 1831 | ||
| James Vashon | 1742 | 1827 | ||
| Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth GCB | 1757 | 1833 | ||
| Sir Isaac Coffin, 1st Baronet | 1759 | 1839 | ||
| John Aylmer | 1759 | 1841 | ||
| Samuel Osborne | 1754? | 1816 | name also spelled Osborn | |
| Richard Boger | 1736? | 1822 | ||
| John Child Purvis | 1747 | 1825 | ||
| Theophilus Jones | 1760 | 1835 | ||
| Sir William Domett, GCB | 1752 | 1828 | First Naval Lord 1812–1813 | |
| William Wolseley | 1756 | 1842 | ||
| Sir John Sutton KCB | 1758? | 1825 | ||
| Robert Murray | 1763? | 1834 | ||
| Sir Alexander Inglis Cochrane, GCB | 1758 | 1832 | ||
| John Markham | 1761 | 1827 | ||
| Sir Henry D'Esterre Darby KCB | 1750 | 1823 | ||
| Edward Bowater | 1753 | 1829 | ||
| George Palmer | 1755 | 1834 | ||
| Sir Eliab Harvey GCB | 1758 | 1830 | ||
| Sir Edmund Nagle KCB | 1757 | 1830 | - | |
| Sir John Wells GCB | 1763? | 1841 | ||
| Sir George Martin GCB | 1764 | 1847 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1846 | |
| Sir Richard John Strachan, 6th Baronet, GCB | 1760 | 1828 | ||
| Sir William Sidney Smith GCB | 1764 | 1840 | ||
| Thomas Sotheby | 1759 | 1831 | ||
| John Schank | 1740? | 1823 | Name is spelled "Schanck" in Gazettes | |
| Michael DeCourcy | 17?? | 1824 | ||
| Sir Henry Nicholls KCB | 1758? | 1830 | ||
| Sir Herbert Sawyer KCB | 17?? | 1833 | ||
| Sir Davidge Gould KCB | 1758 | 1847 | ||
| Sir Richard Goodwin Keats GCB | 1757 | 1834 | ||
| Robert Devereux Fancourt | 1742 | 1826 | ||
| Sir Robert Stopford, GCB, GCMG | 1768 | 1847 | ||
| Mark Robinson | 1754? | 1834 | ||
| Thomas Revell Shivers | 1751 | 1827 | ||
| John Dilkes | 1745? | 1827 | ||
| Sir Thomas Foley GCB | 1757 | 1833 | ||
| Sir Charles Tyler GCB | 1760 | 1835 | ||
| Sir Manley Dixon KCB | 1760? | 1837 | ||
| George Losack | ?? | 1829 | ||
| Sir Thomas Bertie | 1758 | 1825 | died weeks after promotion | |
| Isaac George Manley | 1755 | 1837 | last survivor of James Cook's circumnavigating crew on Endeavour; did not serve actively in Navy after 1796 | |
| Edmund Crawley | 1755/6 | 1835 | Manley and Crawley were promoted directly to Admiral of the White | |
| Sir Thomas Williams GCB | 1762? | 1841 | ||
| Sir William Hargood GCH KCB | 1762 | 1839 | ||
| John Ferrier | 1759? | 1836 | ||
| Sir Robert Moorsom KCB | 1760 | 1835 | ||
| Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Trebinshun House | 1767 | 1849 | ||
| Henry Curzon | 1765 | 1846 | ||
| Sir Lawrence William Halsted GCB | 1764 | 1841 | ||
| Sir Robert Barlow GCB | 1757 | 1843 | per Royal Naval Biography "superannuated" as a rear admiral 1823 but per London Gazette transferred to active list November 1840 as Admiral of the White ranked immediately after Halsted | |
| Sir Harry Burrard-Neale, 2nd Baronet GCB GCMG | 1765 | 1840 | ||
| Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke, KCB | 1768 | 1831 | First Naval Lord 1813–1816 | |
| Sir Arthur Kaye Legge KCB | 1766 | 1835 | ||
| George Stewart, 8th Earl of Galloway | 1768 | 1834 | ||
| Sir Francis Laforey, 2nd Baronet, KCB | 1767 | 1835 | ||
| Sir Philip Charles Calderwood Henderson Durham GCB | 1763 | 1845 | ||
| Sir Israel Pellew KCB | 1758 | 1832 | ||
| Sir Benjamin Hallowell Carew GCB | 1760 | 1834 | ||
| Lord Amelius Beauclerk GCB | 1771 | 1846 | ||
| William Taylor | 1760 | 1842 | ||
| Sir Thomas Byam Martin, GCB | 1773 | 1854 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1849 | |
| Sir John Lawford KCB | 1756? | 1842 | ||
| Frank Sotheron | 1765 | 1839 | Lawford and Sotheron were promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White | |
| Charles William Paterson | 1756 | 1841 | ||
| Sir George Cockburn, 10th Baronet | 1772 | 1853 | First Naval Lord 1828–1830, 1834–1835, 1841–1846; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1851 | |
| James Carpenter | 1760 | 1845 | ||
| Sir Graham Moore GCB GCMG | 1764 | 1843 | ||
| Joseph Hanwell | 1759 | 1839 | ||
| Sir Henry William Bayntun GCB | 1766 | 1840 | ||
| Sir Richard Lee KCB | 1765? | 1837 | died months after promotion | |
| Sir Peter Halkett, 6th Baronet | 1765 | 1839 | ||
| Philip Stephens | ?? | 1846 | ||
| William Shield | 1842 | "retired captain" in Royal Naval Biography; ranked immediately after Stephens when returned to active list in November 1840 | ||
| Charles Elphinstone Fleeming | 1774 | 1840 | ||
| Sir William Hotham, GCB | 1772 | 1848 | ||
| Sir Pulteney Malcolm GCB GCMG | 1768 | 1838 | ||
| Sir John Harvey KCB | 1772 | 1837 | ||
| Sir Josias Rowley, 1st Baronet | 1765 | 1842 | ||
| Sir Edward Codrington GCB | 1770 | 1851 | ||
| Sir George Parker KCB | 1767 | 1847 | ||
| Frederick Watkins | 1770 | 1856 | ranked immediately after Parker when returned to active list in November 1840; pensioned to Reserve List 1851 | |
| John Erskine Douglas | 1758? | 1847 | ||
| Sir Ross Donnelly KCB | 1761? | 1840 | ||
| Sir John Beresford, 1st Baronet | 1768 | 1844 | ||
| Thomas LeMarchant Gosselin | 1765 | 1857 | ||
| Sir Charles Rowley, 1st Baronet GCB | 1770 | 1845 | ||
| Sir David Milne, GCB | 1763 | 1845 | C-in-C Plymouth 1842–1845 | |
| Sir Robert Waller Otway, 1st Baronet KCB | 1770 | 1846 | ||
| Sir Willoughby Thomas Lake KCB | 1773 | 1847 | ||
| Sir Charles Ogle, 2nd Baronet | 1775 | 1858 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1857 | |
| Henry Raper | 1767 | 1845 | ||
| Robert Dudley Oliver | 1766 | 1850 | ||
| D'Arcy Preston | 1764 | 1847 | per Royal Naval Biography "superannuated" as a rear admiral in 1819 but per London Gazette transferred to active list November 1840 ranking after R D Oliver and promoted with him thereafter | |
| Man Dobson | 1755 | 1847 | ||
| Sir John Talbot GCB | 1769? | 1851 | ||
| John Giffard | 1766 | 1855 | on retired list from 1851 | |
| Sir John West, GCB | 1774 | 1862 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1858 | |
| Joseph Bullen | 1761 | 1857 | per Royal Naval Biography "superannuated" as a rear admiral in 1819 but per London Gazette transferred to active list November 1840 ranking after West and promoted with him thereafter | |
| Stephen Poyntz | 1771 | 1847 | ||
| John Colville, 9th Lord Colville of Culross | 1768 | 1849 | ||
| John Cochet | 1760 | 1851 | ||
| Sir Henry Digby GCB | 1770 | 1842 | last four were promoted directly from Vice-Admiral of the White | |
| Sir Charles Ekins GCB | 1768 | 1855 | ||
| Benjamin William Page | 1765 | 1845 | DNB claims promoted in August | |
| Thomas Alexander | 1768? | 1843 | ||
| Henry Richard Glynn | 1768 | 1856 | ||
| Sir Edward Hamilton, 1st Baronet | 1771 | 1851 | ||
| Sir Robert Laurie, 6th Baronet KCB | 1764 | 1848 | ||
| Sir William Hall Gage GCB | 1777 | 1864 | Second Naval Lord 1841–1846; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1862 | |
| Sir Henry Heathcote | 1777 | 1851 | ||
| Sir Edward Campbell Rich Owen GCB | 1771 | 1849 | ||
| Sir Graham Eden Hamond, 2nd Baronet, GCB | 1779 | 1862 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1862 | |
| Robert Honyman | 1765? | 1848 | ||
| Hugh Downman | 1765? | 1858 | ||
| Sir Thomas Bladen Capel GCB | 1776 | 1853 | ||
| James O'Brien, 3rd Marquess of Thomond | 1769 | 1855 | ||
| Richard Matson | 1770? | 1848 | per Gentleman's Magazine died aged 77 in mid-March; per ADNB had been on half-pay since Feb 1810 | |
| John MacKellar | 1768? | 1854 | per Gentleman's Magazine obituary "in the receipt of a full-service pension" at his death | |
| George Barker | on retired list | |||
| Sir Charles Adam, KCB | 1780 | 1853 | First Naval Lord 1834, 1835–1841, 1846–1847 | |
| Sir Adam Drummond | 1770 | 1849 | ||
| Sir Thomas Livingstone,7th Baronet | 1769 | 1853 | per 1850 Navy List | |
| Sir Francis William Austen, GCB | 1774 | 1865 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1863 | |
| Sir John Acworth Ommanney, KCB | 1773 | 1855 | ||
| Zachary Mudge | 1770 | 1852 | on reserved half pay list from January 1852 | |
| Alexander Wilmot Schomberg | 1774 | 1850 | ||
| Edward Durnford King | 1771 | 1862 | ||
| Sir George Mundy KCB | 1777 | 1861 | ||
| James Carthew | 1856 | on Reserved Half Pay list from January 1854 | ||
| Sir Thomas Briggs GCMG | 1780 | 1852 | ||
| Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of Dundonald, GCB | 1775 | 1860 | ||
| Sir William Parker, 1st Baronet, of Shenstone, GCB | 1781 | 1866 | First Naval Lord 1846; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1863 | |
| George McKinley | 1766 | 1852 | was pensioned at death | |
| Richard Curry CB | 1856? | on reserved half pay list since before promotion | ||
| Sir John Wentworth Loring KCB | 1775 | 1852 | ||
| Sir Robert Howe Bromley, 3rd Baronet | 1778 | 1857 | Noticed in Gentleman's Magazine obituary as Admiral of the White at death, on half-pay since 1809 | |
| John Dick | 1778? | 1854 | per Gentleman's Magazine obituary died in September aged 76 but if ANBD is right this would mean he joined the RN at the age of 7 | |
| Sir Charles Bullen GCB | 1769 | 1853 | ||
| Christopher John Williams Nesham | 1771 | 1853 | retired upon promotion | |
| John Wight | 1860 | on Reserved Half-Pay List since before promotion | ||
| William Henry Brown Tremlett | 1777 | 1866 | on Reserved Half-Pay List since before promotion | |
| Sir Samuel Pym KCB | 1778 | 1855 | ||
| Sir George Elliot KCB | 1784 | 1863 | ||
| Lord William FitzRoy KCB | 1782 | 1857 | ||
| Sir Hugh Pigot | 1775 | 1857 | ||
| Edward Hawker | 1782 | 1860 | ||
| Sir James Alexander Gordon GCB | 1782 | 1869 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1868 | |
| Francis Temple | on Reserved Half Pay List since before promotion | |||
| Henry Gordon | on Reserved Half Pay List since before promotion | |||
| Richard Darton Thomas | 1777 | 1857 | ||
| Frederick Whitworth Aylmer, 6th Baron Aylmer | 1777 | 1858 | On Reserved Half-pay List | |
| John Surman Carden | 1771 | 1858 | on Reserved Half-pay List before promotion | |
| John Sykes | 1774 | 1858 | some sources say born 1773; Admiral of the White 1857 | |
| John Impey | 1772 | 1858 | on Reserved Half-pay List before promotion | |
| Henry Manaton Ommanney | 1778 | 1857 | On Reserved Half-pay List before promotion | |
| Archibald Duff | 1773 | 1858 | On Reserved Half-pay List before promotion | |
| Thomas Brown | ||||
| Sir Lucius Curtis, 2nd Baronet KCB | 1786 | 1869 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1864 | |
| Sir John Louis, 2nd Baronet | 1785 | 1863 | ||
| John Ayscough | 1780 | 1863 | rank date from Navy Lists; died Admiral of the Red 1863 | |
| Sir Thomas John Cochrane GCB | 1789 | 1872 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1865 | |
| Sir George Francis Seymour GCB GCH | 1787 | 1870 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1866 | |
| Anthony Maitland, 10th Earl of Lauderdale KCB KCMG | 1785 | 1863 | per 1859 Navy List | |
| Sir William Beauchamp-Proctor, 3rd Baronet | 1781 | 1861 | promoted on reserved list | |
| Edward Ratsey | 1775? | 1867 | promoted on reserved list | |
| George Cadogan, 3rd Earl Cadogan CB | 1783 | 1864 | ||
| Granville Leveson Proby, 3rd Earl of Carysfort | 1782 | 1868 | on reserved half-pay list prior to promotion | |
| Sir Edward Tucker GCB | 1778 | 1864 | pensioned under Order in Council of 1851 in January 1858 | |
| Sir Edward Chetham Strode KCB | 1775 | 1862 | ||
| Sir William Bowles KCB | 1780 | 1869 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1869 | |
| William Croft | 1782 | 1872 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| Sir James Whitley Deans Dundas, GCB | 1785 | 1862 | First Naval Lord 1847–1850 | |
| Charles Gordon CB | on Reserved Half Pay List since before promotion | |||
| Sir Henry Hope KCB | 1787 | 1863 | ||
| Sir Fleetwood Broughton Reynolds Pellew CB | 1789 | 1861 | ||
| Sir Charles Napier KCB | 1786 | 1860 | ||
| Bertie Cornelius Cator | 1787 | 1864 | On Retired List since 1846 | |
| George Ourry Lempriere | 1787 | 1864 | On Retired List | |
| Frederick Edward Vernon-Harcourt | 1790 | 1883 | On Retired List | |
| Kenelm Somerville, 17th Lord Somerville | 1787 | 1864 | On Retired List | |
| Sir Phipps Hornby GCB | 1785 | 1867 | ||
| Sir Henry Prescott GCB | 1783 | 1874 | retired from June 1860 | |
| Sir Edward Harvey GCB | 1783 | 1865 | ||
| Edward Wallis Hoare | 1778 | 1870 | promoted on reserved list | |
| John Thompson | 1776 | 1864 | on retired list since 1846 | |
| Sir Barrington Reynolds GCB | 1786 | 1861 | ||
| Manley Hall Dixon | 1786 | 1864 | on retired list since 1855 | |
| Alexander Jones | promoted on reserved list | |||
| Sir Augustus William James Clifford, 1st Baronet CB | 1788 | 1877 | Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod from 1832 | |
| Sir George Rose Sartorius, GCB | 1790 | 1885 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1869 | |
| Sir Watkin Owen Pell | 1788 | 1869 | on Reserved List | |
| William Bowen Mends | 1781 | 1864 | promoted on Reserved List ; had been pensioned in 1856 | |
| George Ferguson | 1788 | 1867 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| George Le Geyt CB | 1777 | 1861 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Robert Mitford | 1781 | 1870 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Henderson Bain | 1776 | 1862 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Joseph Needham Tayler CB | 1785 | 1864 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Thomas Edward Symonds | 1781 | 1868 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Lewis Hole | 1779 | 1870 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Henry Thomas Davies | on retired list since 1846 | |||
| George Gustavus Lennock | 1775 | 1866 | on retired list since 1846 | |
| Robert Wauchope | 1788 | 1862 | ||
| Sir John Gordon Sinclair, 8th Baronet | 1790 | 1863 | ||
| Hayes O'Grady | 1864 | on Reserved Half-pay List before promotion | ||
| Maurice FitzHardinge Berkeley, 1st Baron FitzHardinge GCB PC | 1788 | 1867 | First Naval Lord 1852, 1854–1857 | |
| Robert Gambier | 1791 | 1872 | on Retired list before promotion | |
| Hercules Robinson | 1789 | 1864 | on Retired list since 1846 | |
| Thomas Dick | on Retired list before promotion | |||
| Sir Fairfax Moresby GCB | 1786 | 1877 | Promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1870 | |
| George William Hughes D'Aeth | 1786 | 1873 | On retired list since May, 1846 | |
| William Ffarington | 1777 | On retired list since May, 1846 | ||
| John Charles Gawen Roberts-Gawen | 1787 | 1874 | On retired list since May, 1846 | |
| Arthur Philip Hamilton | 1787 | 1877 | On retired list since May, 1846 | |
| James Rattray | 1790 | On retired list since May, 1846 | ||
| Charles Warde KH | 1786 | On retired list since May, 1846 | ||
| George Byron, 7th Baron Byron | 1789 | 1868 | On Reserved List | |
| Sir Charles Sullivan, 3rd Baronet | 1789 | 1862 | ||
| Francis Erskine Loch | 1788 | 1868 | ||
| Edward Saurin | on retired list | |||
| Sir Arthur Fanshawe KCB | 1794 | 1864 | ||
| Edward Collier CB | 1782 | 1873 | On Reserved List since 1857 | |
| Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland, KG | 1792 | 1865 | On Reserved List | |
| John Carter | 1785 | 1863 | On Reserved List | |
| Henry Meynell | 1789 | 1865 | On Reserved List | |
| Sir Houston Stewart, GCB | 1791 | 1875 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1872 | |
| Augustus Baldwin | on retired list before promotion | |||
| Henry Colins Deacon | on retired list before promotion | |||
| Sir James Stirling, Kt | 1791 | 1865 | ||
| William Bateman Dashwood | on retired list before promotion | |||
| Martin White | on retired list before promotion | |||
| Sir Provo William Parry Wallis, GCB | 1791 | 1892 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1875 | |
| George James Perceval, 6th Earl of Egmont | 1794 | 1874 | on reserved half-pay list by 1869 | |
| Sir George Augustus Alexander Westphal | 1785 | 1875 | on retired list | |
| John Gordon | on retired list before promotion | |||
| John William Montagu | 1790 | 1882 | on retired list since before promotion | |
| George Cornish Gambier | on retired list | |||
| Sir Charles Burrard, 2nd Baronet | 1793 | 1870 | on retired list | |
| Thomas Ladd Peake | on retired list since before promotion | |||
| Sir Henry William Bruce KCB | 1792 | 1863 | ||
| Benedictus Marwood Kelly | 1795 | 1867 | On Reserved List | |
| Sir Charles Parker, 5th Baronet | 1792 | 1869 | On Reserved List | |
| Sir James Hanway Plumridge KCB | 1788? | 1863 | ||
| John Edward Walcott CBE | 1790 | 1868 | On Reserved List | |
| William Walpole | pensioned under 1851 Order in Council since 1858 | |||
| William James Mingaye | 1784 | 1865 | pensioned under 1851 Order in Council since 1858 | |
| Sir Alexander Dundas Young Arbuthnott | 1789 | 1871 | On Retired List | |
| William Hotham, KH | 1794 | 1873 | On Retired List | |
| James Montagu | 1791 | 1872? | On Retired List since 1846; DNB says died 1868 | |
| Henry John Rous | 1795 | 1877 | on Retired List | |
| Henry Theodosius Browne Collier | on retired list before promotion | |||
| Henry Stanhope | on retired list before promotion | |||
| John Townsend Coffin | on retired list before promotion | |||
| Thomas Ball Clowes | 1787 | 1864 | on Retired List since 1846 | |
| George Frederick Rich | 1787 | 1863 | on Reserved List | |
| Sir William James Hope-Johnstone KCB | 1798 | 1878 | put on retired list April 1870 | |
| Sir William Fanshawe Martin, 4th Baronet, GCB | 1801 | 1895 | First Naval Lord 1858–1859; on retired list from April 1870 | |
| James Ryder Burton | 1795 | 1876 | on Reserved List | |
| William Henry Smyth | 1788 | 1865 | on retired list since 1846 | |
| Richard Saumarez | 1791 | 1864 | on retired list | |
| Sir Montagu Stopford, KCB | 1798 | 1864 | Retired February 1864 | |
| Sir Henry Ducie Chads GCB | 1788 | 1868 | ||
| Charles Yorke, 4th Earl of Hardwicke | 1799 | 1873 | on the Retired List | |
| Sir George Robert Lambert GCB | 1795 | 1869 | pensioned from March 1864 | |
| James Gore | retired before promotion | |||
| Charles Abbot, 2nd Baron Colchester, PC | 1798 | 1867 | on Reserved List | |
| William Abraham Keats | 1794 | 1874 | on Reserved List | |
| Sir Henry John Leeke KCB KH | 1794 | 1870 | Third Naval Lord 1859 | |
| Thomas Martin | 1787 | 1868 | on reserved list | |
| Henry Edwards | on reserved list | |||
| Sir Charles Howe Fremantle GCB | 1800 | 1869 | ||
| Sir Michael Seymour GCB | 1802 | 1887 | on retired list from April 1870 | |
| Richard Augustus Yates | promoted on the Reserved List | |||
| Charles Grenville Randolph | promoted on the Reserved List | |||
| Edward Richard Williams | promoted on the Reserved List | |||
| Sir Henry Byam Martin KCB | 1803 | 1865 | ||
| John Pakenham | 1790 | 1876 | promoted on Retired List "to have the rank and title expressed against their names, but without increase of pay" | |
| Henry Litchfield | 1786 | 1864 | see note on John Pakenham | |
| William Webb | 1796 | 1866 | see note on John Pakenham | |
| Henry Eden | 1798 | 1888 | on retired list from April 1870 | |
| Robert Patton | on retired list | |||
| Sir James Scott KCB | 1790 | 1872 | placed on Retired List 1866 | |
| Sir Frederick William Grey GCB | 1805 | 1878 | First Naval Lord 1861–1866 | |
| Charles Gordon | on retired list | |||
| Sir Robert Lambert Baynes KCB | 1796 | 1869 | ||
| Thomas Bennett | 1785 | 1870 | pensioned November 1863 under 1851 Order in Council | |
| Sir Henry Smith KCB | 1803 | 1887 | pensioned November 1865 under 1851 Order in Council | |
| Follett Walrond Pennell | 1804 | 1876 | on reserved half-pay list | |
| William Alexander Baillie-Hamilton | 1803 | 1881 | retired since 1855 | |
| Sir Charles Elliot KCB | 1801 | 1875 | on reserved list; received flag rank promotions while diplomat and colonial administrator | |
| Henry Gosset | 1795 | 1877 | on reserved list | |
| Edward Purcell | 1795? | 1870 | on Reserved List | |
| Sir Peter Richards, KCB | 1787 | 1869 | on Reserved List | |
| Joseph O'Brien | 1790 | 1865 | on Reserved List | |
| Russell Henry Manners | 1800 | 1870 | on retired list | |
| on retired list | ||||
| Theobald Jones,FLS | 1790 | 1868 | on retired list | |
| John Alexander Duntze | 1806 | 1882 | on retired list from April 1870 | |
| Sir Stephen Lushington GCB | 1803 | 1877 | ||
| Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune CB | 1802 | 1884 | on retired list from April 1870 | |
| Sir Thomas Hastings KCB | 1790 | 1870 | Promoted admiral on retired list | |
| John Lyons | 1787 | 1872 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list | |
| Sir Frederick Thomas Michell KCB | 1788 | 1873 | Promoted admiral on retired list | |
| George Scott | 1783 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list | ||
| Edward Sparshott KH | 1788 | 1873 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list; pensioned since 1846 | |
| Sir Charles Talbot KCB | 1801 | 1876 | ||
| John Wyatt Watling | 1786 | 1867 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list | |
| Philip Westphal | 1782 | 1880 | Promoted admiral on Reserved list; retired from 1847 | |
| James Wigston | Promoted admiral on Reserved list | |||
| John Wilson | Promoted admiral on Reserved list | |||
| Sir Thomas Sabine Pasley, 2nd Baronet | 1804 | 1884 | on retired list from April 1870 | |
| Lord George Paulet | 1803 | 1879 | on retired list | |
| Lord Edward Russell CB | 1805 | 1887 | on retired list from April 1870 | |
| Sir Burton Macnamara | 1794 | 1876 | on reserved half-pay list | |
| Henry Wolsey Bayfield | 1795 | 1885 | retired list since March 1866 | |
| George Grey | 1809 | 1891 | on Retired List since 1866; Bath King of Arms | |
| Arthur Duncombe | 1806 | 1889 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| Charles Henry Swinburne | 1797 | 1877 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| Sir Joseph Nias KCB | 1793 | 1879 | promoted on Retired List | |
| Sir George Back | 1796 | 1878 | promoted on Retired List | |
| Sir Henry John Codrington KCB | 1808 | 1877 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1877 | |
| Henry Shovell Jones Marsham | 1794 | 1875 | Gazette: "to have the rank of Retired Admirals, under the provisions of Her Majesty's Order in Council of 7th May, 1858." | |
| Charles Crowdy | 1786 | 1870 | Gazette note as with Marsham above | |
| Thomas Mansel | 1783 | 1869 | Gazette note as with Marsham above | |
| James Burney | 1794 | 1884 | Gazette note as with Marsham above | |
| Thomas Maitland, 11th Earl of Lauderdale GCB | 1803 | 1878 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1877 | |
| John Rivett-Carnac | 1796 | 1869 | Promoted on Reserved List | |
| Michael Quin | pensioned since March 1864 under 1851 Order in Council | |||
| Lord John Frederick Gordon Hallyburton | 1799 | 1878 | on reserved half-pay list | |
| Robert Contart M'Crae | on reserved half-pay list | |||
| John Balfour Maxwell | 1799 | 1874 | on reserved half-pay list | |
| William Slaughter | on retired list | |||
| Thomas Gill | on retired list | |||
| Sir Robert Smart KCB | 1796 | 1874 | C-in-C, Mediterranean Fleet 1863–66. On Retired List from April 1870 | |
| William Hargood | 1801 | 1888 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| Sir George Rodney Mundy GCB | 1805 | 1884 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1877; retired | |
| Henry Ommanney Love | on retired list | |||
| William Sydney Smith | on reserved list by 1873; on Navy List as William Sydney Smith & on ANBD as William Sidney Smith but is NOT the earlier namesake above | |||
| Sir Henry Keppel, GCB, OM | 1809 | 1904 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1877; retired 1879 | |
| John Elphinstone Erskine | 1806 | 1887 | on retired list from July 1871 | |
| George Augustus Eliott | 1799 | 1872 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| Brunswick Popham | 1805 | 1878 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| Thomas Ogle | promoted on Reserved List | |||
| George Evans | promoted on Reserved List | |||
| Frederick Bullock | 1788 | 1874 | promoted on Reserved List; pensioned since November 1864 under 1851 Order in Council | |
| Russell Eliott | 1802 | 1881 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| John Frederick Appleby | 1795 | 1878 | On Retired List | |
| George Charles Blake | On Retired List | |||
| Sir John Kingcome KCB | 1793 | 1871 | On Retired List since 1866 | |
| Alfred Luckraft | 1792 | 1871 | On Retired List | |
| John Jervis Tucker | 1802 | 1886 | On Reserved List. Had been pensioned under 1851 Order in Council since October 1864 | |
| Sir James Hope GCB | 1808 | 1881 | on retired list from 1878; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1879 | |
| Sir Baldwin Wake Walker, 1st Baronet, KCB, CMG | 1802 | 1876 | on retired list from April 1870 | |
| Edward Stanley | 1798 | 1878 | on reserved half-pay list | |
| Sir Alexander Milne, 1st Baronet GCB | 1806 | 1896 | First Naval Lord 1866–1868, 1872–1876; retired list 1876; Admiral of the Fleet 1881 | |
| Lord Clarence Edward Paget GCB | 1811 | 1895 | on retired list from 1876 | |
| Richard Laird Warren | 1806 | 1875 | ||
| Sir George Augustus Elliot KCB | 1813 | 1901 | ||
| Sir Sydney Colpoys Dacres, GCB | 1805 | 1884 | First Naval Lord 1868–1872; retired list from 1874 | |
| Plantagenet Pierrepoint Cary, 11th Viscount Falkland | 1806 | 1886 | On Reserved List | |
| Robert Craigie | 1800 | 1873 | On Reserved List | |
| Richard Crozier | 1803 | 1880 | On Reserved List | |
| Edward Howard, 1st Baron Lanerton | 1809 | 1880 | On Reserved List | |
| John Bunch Bonnemaison M'Hardy | 1801 | 1882 | On Reserved List | |
| George Hathorn | 1803 | 1876 | on Reserved List in 1871 and apparently retired by 1859 | |
| Sir Lewis Tobias Jones GCB | 1797? | 1895 | on retired list since 1870; may have been born 1799 | |
| Robert Fanshawe Stopford | 1811 | 1891 | on retired list since 1870 | |
| Sir Robert Spencer Robinson | 1809 | 1889 | on retired list since 1870 | |
| Sir Thomas Matthew Charles Symonds GCB | 1813 | 1894 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1879; retired from 1883 | |
| Thomas Leeke Massie | 1802 | 1898 | on Retired List since 1866 | |
| Sir Edward Belcher KCB | 1799 | 1878 | ||
| Woodford John Williams | 1809 | 1892 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Sir Augustus Leopold Kuper GCB | 1809 | 1885 | retired by 1883 | |
| Patrick John Blake | promoted on Reserved List | |||
| Talavera Vernon Anson | 1809 | 1895 | promoted on Reserved List | |
| Sir Charles Gilbert John Brydone Elliot KCB | 1818 | 1895 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1881; retired 1888 | |
| Sir Charles Eden KCB | 1808 | 1878 | on retired list since 1870 | |
| Sir George St. Vincent Duckworth-King, 4th Baronet KCB | 1804 | 1891 | retired from 1877 | |
| Sir Hastings Yelverton GCB | 1808 | 1878 | First Naval Lord 1876–1877 | |
| Joseph Sherer | on reserved half-pay list | |||
| James Beckford Lewis Hay | 1797 | 1892 | retired from 1862; promoted on Reserved List | |
| Sir Edward Alfred John Harris KCB | 1808 | 1888 | on reserved list from 1877 | |
| William Ward Percival Johnson | 1880 | on reserved half-pay list; retired since 1862 | ||
| Keith Stewart CB | 1814 | 1879 | on reserved half-pay list; retired since 1862 | |
| John Hallowes | on reserved half-pay list | |||
| Andrew Drew | 1792 | 1878 | on reserved half-pay list | |
| Henry Stroud | 1797? | 1892 | retired by 1862 | |
| John Baker Porter Hay | retired | |||
| George Goldsmith CB | 1806 | 1888 | on retired list | |
| Charles Frederick | 1797 | 1875 | on retired list since 1869 | |
| William Henry Anderson Morshead CB | 1811 | 1886 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Sir Richard Collinson KCB | 1811 | 1883 | on retired list | |
| George Ramsay, 12th Earl of Dalhousie | 1806 | 1880 | promoted on retired list | |
| Sir William Hutcheon Hall KCB | 1797? | 1878 | on retired list | |
| Sir George Greville Wellesley GCB | 1814 | 1901 | First Naval Lord 1877–1879 | |
| Sir Edward Gennys Fanshawe, GCB | 1814 | 1906 | retired 1879 | |
| Swynfen Thomas Carnegie | 1813 | 1879 | on retired list since 1873 | |
| Arthur Lowe | 1814 | 1882 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Richard Henry Stopford | 1803 | 1895 | on reserved list; retired since 1863 | |
| James Paterson Bower | 1806 | 1889 | on reserved list; retired 1863 | |
| Sir Claude Henry Mason Buckle KCB | 1803 | 1894 | on retired list since 1870 and pensioned 1885 | |
| Thomas Baillie | 1811 | 1889 | ||
| Sir George Giffard KCB | 1815 | 1895 | On retired list since 1 April 1870 | |
| Sir Frederick William Erskine Nicolson, 10th Baronet, CB | 1815 | 1899 | ||
| Sir James Robert Drummond, GCB | 1812 | 1895 | retired from September 1877; later Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod | |
| Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, KCB | 1810 | 1890 | on reserved list; retired from 1863 | |
| Sir George Nathaniel Broke-Middleton, 3rd Baronet CB | 1812 | 1887 | on reserved list | |
| Sir James Crawford Caffin | 1812 | 1883 | on retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir William Loring KCB | 1811 | 1895 | on retired list from November 1881 | |
| John Lort Stokes | 1811 | 1885 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Sir Henry Mangles Denham | 1800 | 1887 | on retired list since 1871 | |
| Arthur Forbes | 1807 | 1891 | on retired list | |
| Frederick Henry Hastings Glasse | on retired list | |||
| George Thomas Gordon | on retired list | |||
| Sir Alexander Leslie Montgomery, 3rd Baronet | 1807 | 1888 | on reserved list | |
| Edward Plunkett, 16th Baron of Dunsany | 1808 | 1889 | on reserved list | |
| Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton | 1817 | 1892 | on reserved list; retired from 1865 | |
| Robert Tryon | 1811? | 1890 | on reserved list; retired from 1865 | |
| Erasmus Ommanney | 1814 | 1904 | on retired list since 1875 | |
| George William Douglas O'Callaghan CB | 1811 | 1900 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Thomas Pickering Thompson | 1811 | 1892 | on retired list | |
| Wallace Houstoun | 1811 | 1891 | on retired list since April 1870; surname variantly spelled Houston but "Houstoun" is on Navy List | |
| Sir William John Cavendish Clifford, 2nd Baronet | 1814 | 1882 | on retired list | |
| Thomas Fisher | 1891 | on retired list since 1866 | ||
| Robert Fitzgerald Gambier | 1803 | 1885 | retired since 1864 | |
| Sir Cornwallis Ricketts, 3rd Baronet | 1803 | 1885 | had retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| William Louis | 1810 | 1887 | had retired as Captain before later promotions | |
| Courtenay Osborne Hayes | 1812 | 1892 | had retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| William Knighton Stephens | 1814 | 1897 | had retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| William Windham Hornby | 1812 | 1899 | had retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Charles George Edward Patey | 1811? | 1881 | on retired list since 1864 | |
| Sir Alfred Philipps Ryder KCB | 1820 | 1888 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1885 | |
| John Fulford | 1809 | 1888 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Sir Henry Chads KCB | 1819 | 1906 | on retired list from 1884 | |
| Sir Arthur Farquhar KCB | 1815 | 1908 | on retired list from 1880 | |
| John Hay | retired since 1866; it is not clear which of the three John Hays in A Naval Biographical Dictionary apart from a Lord John Hay who died a rear-admiral in 1851 and was uncle of the Lord John Hay below is the John Hay found as a retired admiral of this date on later Navy Lists | |||
| Robert Kerr | 1886 | retired since 1866 | ||
| Sir Astley Cooper Key, GCB, PC | 1821 | 1888 | First Naval Lord 1879–1885; Retired list on 18 January 1886 | |
| Edwin Clayton Tennyson D'Eyncourt CB | 1813 | 1903 | on retired list since 1870 | |
| Thomas Henry Mason CB | 1811 | 1900 | ||
| Sir John Charles Dalrymple-Hay, 3rd Baronet, GCB | 1821 | 1912 | on retired list since 1870 | |
| Hugh Dunlop CB | 1806 | 1887 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Frederick Montresor | 1811 | 1887 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Edward Codd | 1804 | 1887 | on retired list since 1867 | |
| Sir Charles Farrell Hillyar KCB | 1817 | 1888 | retired list from 1882 | |
| Arthur William Jerningham | 1807 | 1889 | on retired list since 1864 | |
| Sir Geoffrey Thomas Phipps Hornby GCB | 1825 | 1895 | Admiral of the Fleet 1888 | |
| Sir Edward Southwell Sotheby | 1813 | 1902 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Lord Frederick Herbert Kerr | 1818 | 1896 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Sir William Robert Mends, GCB | 1812 | 1897 | - | |
| Henry Harvey | 1812 | 1887 | retired as a Captain in 1866 before later promotions | |
| Sir Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell KCB | 1814 | 1886 | on retired list | |
| Sir William King Hall KCB | 1816 | 1886 | ||
| Edmund Gardiner Fishbourne CB | 1811 | 1887 | retired as Captain before later promotions | |
| Thomas Chaloner CB | 1815 | 1884 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Sir Edward Augustus Inglefield KCB | 1820 | 1894 | retired list from 1885 | |
| Thomas Wilson CB | 1811 | 1894 | on retired list since 1870 | |
| Colin Yorke Campbell | 1893 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | ||
| Sir William Edmonstone, 4th Baronet, CB | 1810 | 1888 | ||
| James Newburgh Strange | 1812 | 1894 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| James Charles Prevost | 1810 | 1891 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Sir Arthur Cumming KCB | 1817 | 1893 | on retired list from 1882 | |
| Nicholas Lefebvre | 1793 | 1881 | retired as a Captain 1864 and later promoted on retired list | |
| William Compton, 4th Marquess of Northampton KG | 1818 | 1897 | retired as Captain 1856 and subsequently promoted on retired list | |
| Henry Richard Foote | 1817 | 1885 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| James Stoddart | 1813 | 1892 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Robert Coote CB | 1820 | 1898 | on retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir William Houston Stewart GCB | 1822 | 1901 | on retired list from 1885 | |
| Sir Arthur Auckland Leopold Pedro Cochrane, KCB | 1824 | 1905 | Retired list 22 June 1886 | |
| Frederick Beauchamp Paget Seymour, 1st Baron Alcester, GCB | 1821 | 1895 | Second Naval Lord 1883–1885 | |
| John Welbore Sunderland Spencer | 1816 | 1888 | on retired list since 1871 | |
| Sir Reginald John James George Macdonald, KCB, KCSI | 1820 | 1899 | Retired list on 7 July 1884 | |
| Sir George Henry Richards KCB | 1820 | 1896 | on retired list since 1877 | |
| Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, KCB | 1819 | 1907 | Retired list on 8 July 1884, the day after promotion | |
| Lord John Hay, GCB | 1827 | 1916 | First Naval Lord 1886; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1888; retired 1892 | |
| Henry Schank Hillyar, CB | 1819 | 1893 | on the Retired list since before promotion | |
| George Granville Randolph, CB | 1818 | 1907 | on the Retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir Leopold George Heath, KCB | 1817 | 1907 | on retired list since 1873 | |
| Francis Egerton | 1824 | 1895 | on retired list since 1875 | |
| Sir Edward Bridges Rice KCB | 1819 | 1902 | on retired list from three days after promotion | |
| Richard Aldworth Oliver | 1811 | 1889 | retired as a Captain in 1864 before later promotions | |
| George Parker | retired as a Captain by 1872 before later promotions | |||
| Edward Philips Charlewood | 1813 | 1894 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Arthur Mellersh CB | 1812 | 1894 | retired as a Captain in 1864 before later promotions | |
| Sir Augustus Phillimore, KCB | 1822 | 1897 | on retired list from 1887 | |
| Thomas Miller | 1819 | 1899 | on retired list | |
| George Disney Keane CB | 1817 | 1891 | on retired list since 1877 | |
| Vincent Amcotts Massingberd | 1807? | 1889 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Charles Luxmoore Hockin | 1817 | 1902 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Thomas Etheridge | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |||
| Sir George Ommanney Willes KCB | 1823 | 1901 | on retired list from 1888 | |
| Henry Gage Morris | 1811 | retired as a Captain before later promotions; died before 1892 | ||
| George Henry Douglas | 1821 | 1905 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Henry Croft | 1815? | 1892 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Sir William Garnham Luard KCB | 1820 | 1910 | on retired list from one week after promotion | |
| Augustus Henry Ingram | 1888 | on retired list since 1867 | ||
| William Ellis | on retired list since at least 1875 | |||
| Augustus Sinclair Booth | on retired list since at least 1875 | |||
| Wiliam Heriot Maitland-Dougall | 1819 | 1890 | on retired list since at least 1875 | |
| Sir John Corbett KCB | 1822 | 1893 | on retired list from July 1887 | |
| Arthur Trevor Macgregor | 1799 | on retired list since 1857 | ||
| Sir Algernon Frederick Rous de Horsey KCB | 1827 | 1922 | on retired list from July 1892 | |
| Edward Winterton Turnour | 1821 | 1901 | on retired list since 1880 | |
| Henry Boys | 1820 | 1904 | on retired list from one month after promotion | |
| Sir William Montagu Dowell, GCB | 1825 | 1912 | Retired list on 2 August 1890 | |
| Robert Jenkins CB | on retired list before promotion | |||
| Frederick Augustus Maxse | 1833 | 1900 | on retired list before promotion | |
| David Robertson-Macdonald | 1817 | 1910 | on retired list before promotion | |
| William Norton Taylor | 1798 | 1888 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Jonas Archer Abbott | on retired list before promotion | |||
| John Ross Ward | on retired list before promotion | |||
| George Johnson | 1809 | 1903 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Robert Robertson | 1813 | 1885 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Jasper Henry Selwyn | 1820 | 1901 | on retired list before promotion | |
| Arthur William Acland Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon, GCB | 1824 | 1901 | First Naval Lord 1885–1886, 1886–1889; on retired list July 1889 | |
| Sir John Edmund Commerell VC GCB | 1829 | 1901 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1892; on retired list from January 1899 | |
| Victor Grant Hickley | 1823? | 1888 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Julian Foulston Slight CB | 1890 | retired as a Captain in 1866 before later promotions | ||
| Thomas Saumarez CB | 1827 | 1903 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Samuel Hoskins Derriman CB | 1813 | 1897 | retired as a Captain on 1866 before later promotions | |
| Charles Wake | 1824 | 1890 | on retired list since 1881 | |
| Richard James Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam, GCB, KCMG | 1832 | 1907 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1895 | |
| Fitzgerald Algernon Charles Foley | 1823 | 1903 | on Retired List since 1870 according to Dreadnought Project;in any event retired on promotion | |
| Prince Victor of Hohenlohe-Langenburg GCB | 1833 | 1891 | retired as a Captain in 1866 before later promotions | |
| William Everard Alphonso Gordon | 1817 | 1906 | retired as a Captain in 1868 before later promotions | |
| Ernest Leopold Victor Charles Auguste Joseph Emich, Prince of Leiningen, GCB | 1830 | 1904 | ||
| William Gore Jones CB | 1826 | 1888 | On retired list from October 1887 | |
| John Orlebar | 1810 | 1891 | on retired list since 1864 | |
| John William Dorville | 1814 | 1894 | on retired list since 1867 | |
| William Cornish-Bowden | 1826 | 1896 | promoted on retired list | |
| Henry Samuel Hawker | 1816/7 | 1889 | on retired list since 1868 | |
| Francis Arden Close | 1828 | 1918 | promoted on retired list | |
| William Wood | 1824? | 1889 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| Sir Richard Vesey Hamilton, GCB | 1829 | 1912 | Retired list on 28 May 1894 | |
| Alfred, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha KG KT KP GCB GCSI GCMG GCIE GCVO | 1843 | 1900 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1893 | |
| Henry John Blomfield | 1827 | 1901 | on retired list since April 1870 | |
| John Francis Campbell Mackenzie | 1821 | 1892 | on retired list since 1866 | |
| James Beautine Willoughby | 1814 | 1888 | promoted on retired list | |
| Charles Ludovic Darley Waddilove | 1828 | 1896 | Retired list on 13 May 1893 | |
| John Rashleigh Rodd | 1816 | retired as a Captain in 1866 before later promotions | ||
| Frederick Thomas Chetham Strode | 1895 | retired as a Captain in 1868 before later promotions | ||
| John Wallace Douglas McDonald | retired as a Captain in 1865 before later promotions | |||
| Leveson Eliot Henry Somerset | 1829 | 1900 | on retired list June 1891 | |
| Richard Bulkeley Pearse | 1830 | 1895 | retired as a Captain in 1870 before later promotions | |
| Herbert Philip de Kantzow | 1829 | 1915 | retired as a Captain in 1870 before later promotions | |
| Sir Algernon McLennan Lyons, GCB | 1833 | 1908 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1897 | |
| James Richard Veitch | 1827 | 1909 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Sir Thomas Brandreth, KCB | 1825 | 1894 | Retired list on 6 August 1890 | |
| Frederick William Pleydell Bouverie | 1816 | 1898 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Henry Christian | 1828 | 1916 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Charles Wright Bonham | 1817 | 1910 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| John Halliday Cave CB | 1827 | 1913 | retired as a Captain before later promotions | |
| Thomas Bridgeman Lethbridge | 1828 | 1892 | Retired list on 5 August 1890, three days after promotion | |
| Sir Francis Sullivan, 6th Baronet, KCB, CMG | 1834 | 1906 | ||
| Edward Hardinge CB | 1830 | 1894 | on the Retired list since 1888 | |
| Sir William Graham, GCB | 1826 | 1907 | Retired list 10 September 1891 | |
| Sir Anthony Hiley Hoskins, GCB | 1828 | 1901 | First Naval Lord 1891–1893 Retired list 1 September 1893 | |
| Sir Nowell Salmon, VC, GCB | 1835 | 1912 | C-in-C Portsmouth 1894–1897 Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1899 | |
| Sir John Kennedy Erskine Baird KCB | 1832 | 1908 | Retired list on 16 September 1897 | |
| Frederick William Gough, CB | 1824 | 1908 | on retired list since before promotion | |
| Mark Robert Pechell | 1830 | 1902 | on retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir George Willes Watson KCB | 1827 | 1897 | Retired list on 5 April 1892 | |
| William John Ward | 1829 | 1900 | Retired list on 9 December 1894 | |
| Henry Dennis Hickley | 1826 | 1903 | on the retired list since December 1886 | |
| Frederick Anstruther Herbert | 1827 | 1911 | on retired list since 1887 | |
| Henry Bouchier Phillimore, CB | 1833 | 1893 | on retired list since before promotion | |
| Frederick Harrison Smith | 1827 | 1897 | on retired list since 1871 | |
| William Henry Whyte | 1829 | 1912 | on retired list from August 1892 | |
| Henry Rushworth Wratislaw CB | 1832 | 1913 | on retired list since 1891 | |
| Henry Duncan Grant CB | 1834 | 1896 | ||
| Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 3rd Baronet, GCB, GCVO | 1836 | 1920 | Retired list on 13 March 1901 | |
| John Moresby | 1830 | 1922 | on Retired list since before promotion | |
| Sholto Douglas | 1833 | 1913 | on Retired list since before promotion | |
| William Henry Edye | 1830 | 1910 | on Retired list since 1890 | |
| Sir Frederick William Richards, GCB | 1833 | 1912 | First Naval Lord 1893–1899 Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1898 | |
| Thomas Hutchinson Mangles Martin | 1829 | 1895 | on the retired list since before promotion | |
| William FitzHerbert Ruxton | 1830 | 1895 | on the retired list since before promotion | |
| Charles Bailey Calmady Dent | 1832 | 1894 | on the retired list since before promotion | |
| George Teal Sebor Winthrop | on the retired list since before promotion | |||
| Walter Cecil Carpenter | 1834 | 1904 | on Retired list from March 1896 | |
| Ralph Peter Cator | 1829 | 1903 | on retired list since 1886 | |
| William Henry Fenwick | on retired list since before promotion | |||
| Sir Algernon Charles Fieschi Heneage GCB | 1833 | 1915 | Retired list on 19 March 1898 | |
| Armar Lowry-Corry | 1836 | 1919 | on the retired list since before promotion | |
| Theodore Morton Jones | 1832? | 1895 | on the retired list since 1883 | |
| Robert Gordon Douglas | 1829 | 1910 | on the retired list since before promotion | |
| Alexander Philips | on the retired list since before promotion | |||
| Sir Walter James Hunt-Grubbe, GCB | 1832 | 1922 | Retired list on 23 February 1897 | |
| Sir Richard Wells, KCB | 1833 | 1896 | C-in-C the Nore 1894–1896; died on active duty | |
| Sir Edmund Robert Fremantle GCB, GCVO, CMG | 1836 | 1929 | C-in-C Plymouth 1896–1899; Retired list on 15 June 1901 | |
| Sir John Ommanney Hopkins, GCB | 1834 | 1916 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1896–1899; Retired list on 13 July 1899 | |
| Thomas Le Hunte Ward, CB | 1830 | 1907 | on retired list since August 1890 | |
| Frederick William Sidney | on the Retired list since before promotion | |||
| Sir St. George Caulfield D'Arcy Irvine, KCB | 1833 | 1916 | Retired list on 10 May 1897 | |
| Sir Henry Fairfax, KCB | 1837 | 1900 | C-in-C Plymouth 1899–1900; died on active duty | |
| Sir James Elphinstone Erskine, KCB | 1838 | 1911 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1902 | |
| Alfred John Chatfield CB | 1831 | 1910 | on retired list since 1891 | |
| Thomas Barnardiston | 1833 | 1907 | on retired list since 1891 | |
| Lindesay Brine | 1834 | 1906 | on retired list since 1894 | |
| Sir Henry Frederick Nicholson, KCB | 1835 | 1914 | Retired list on 11 December 1897 | |
| Edward Field, CB | on the Retired list before promotion | |||
| George Lydiard Sulivan | 1832 | 1904 | on the Retired list since 1892 | |
| Sir Alexander Buller, GCB | 1834 | 1903 | Retired list on 30 June 1899 | |
| Loftus Francis Jones | 1836 | 1912 | Retired list 26 October 1899 | |
| Edward Stanley Adeane, CMG | 1836 | 1902 | Retired list on 7 December 1901 | |
| George Stanley Bosanquet | 1835 | 1914 | on the retired list since 1894 | |
| Sir Richard Edward Tracey, KCB | 1837 | 1907 | Retired list 22 January 1902 | |
| Sir Charles Frederick Hotham, GCB, GCVO | 1843 | 1925 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1903; on retired list from 1913 | |
| Lord Charles Thomas Montagu Douglas Scott, GCB | 1839 | 1911 | C-in-C Plymouth 1900–1902; Retired list on 20 October 1904 | |
| Sir Robert Henry More Molyneux GCB | 1838 | 1904 | Retired list on 6 August 1903 | |
| Sir Nathaniel Bowden-Smith, KCB | 1838 | 1921 | Retired list on 21 January 1903 | |
| Lord Walter Talbot Kerr, GCB | 1839 | 1927 | First Naval Lord 1899–1904; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1904 | |
| James George Mead | 1834 | 1913 | on the retired list since 1894 | |
| William Henry Maxwell | 1840 | 1920 | on the retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir George Digby Morant, KCB | 1837 | 1921 | Retired list on 24 May 1901 | |
| Sir Edward Hobart Seymour, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1840 | 1929 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1905; on retired list from 1910 | |
| Henry Craven St. John | 1837 | 1909 | on the retired list from 16 June 1901, day after promotion | |
| Sir William Robert Kennedy, GCB | 1838 | 1916 | Retired list on 2 November 1901 | |
| John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1841 | 1920 | First Sea Lord 1904–1910, 1914–1915; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1905 | |
| Sir Henry Frederick Stephenson, GCVO, KCB | 1842 | 1919 | Retired list on 1 September 1904 | |
| Sir Charles George Fane, KCB | 1837 | 1909 | Retired list on 25 January 1902 | |
| Sir Compton Edward Domvile, GCB, GCVO | 1842 | 1924 | Retired list on 10 October 1907 | |
| John Frederick George Grant | 1835 | 1916 | on the Retired list since 1894 | |
| Henry Forster Cleveland | 1834 | 1924 | on the Retired list since 1894 | |
| Sir Frederick George Denham Bedford, GCB, GCVO | 1838 | 1913 | Retired list on 30 May 1903 | |
| Sir Albert Hastings Markham KCB | 1841 | 1918 | on retired list from 1906 | |
| John Fiot Lee Pearse Maclear | 1838 | 1907 | on retired list since 1891 | |
| Alfred Taylor Dale | 1840 | 1925 | Retired list on 24 May 1905 | |
| Claude Edward Buckle | 1839 | 1930 | Retired list on 12 August 1903, six days after promotion | |
| Sir Harry Holdsworth Rawson GCB GCMG | 1843 | 1910 | Retired list on 5 November 1908 | |
| Sir Cyprian Arthur George Bridge, GCB | 1839 | 1924 | Retired list on 15 March 1904 | |
| Edmund Charles Drummond | 1841 | 1911 | Retired list on 26 November 1904 | |
| Sir Ernest Rice, KCB | 1840 | 1927 | Retired list on 24 February 1905 | |
| Charles Searle Cardale | 1841 | 1904 | on retired list since 1900 | |
| Edmund John Church | 1842 | 1904 | on retired list since 1899 | |
| Sir John Reginald Thomas Fullerton, GCVO, CB | 1840 | 1918 | on retired list since before promotion | |
| Charles Barstow Theobald | 1843 | 1905 | on retired list since 1893 | |
| Henry St Leger Bury Palliser | 1839 | 1907 | on retired list since 1899 | |
| Charles Lister Oxley | 1841 | 1920 | Retired List on 17 October 1906 | |
| Frederick Samuel Vander Meulen | 1839 | 1913 | on the Retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir Hilary Gustavus Andoe, KCB | 1841 | 1905 | on the Retired list since 1901 | |
| Armand Temple Powlett | 1841 | 1925 | on the Retired list since 1901 | |
| Alexander Plantagenet Hastings, CB | 1843 | 1928 | on the Retired list since before promotion | |
| Rodney Maclaine Lloyd, CB | 1841 | 1911 | on the Retired list since 1902 | |
| Francis Starkey Clayton | 1838 | 1913 | on the Retired list since before promotion | |
| Arthur Hildebrand Alington | 1839 | 1925 | on the Retired list since 1899 | |
| Henry John Carr | 1839 | 1914 | on the Retired list since 1899 | |
| Sir Robert Hastings Penruddock Harris KCB KCMG | 1843 | 1926 | Retired list on 12 October 1908 | |
| Sir Hugo Lewis Pearson, KCB | 1843 | 1912 | Retired list on 30 June 1908 | |
| Sir John Fellowes KCB | 1843 | 1913 | Retired list on 8 June 1905 | |
| Charles Cooper Penrose-Fitzgerald | 1841 | 1921 | Retired list on 2 March 1905 | |
| Sir Arthur Knyvet Wilson, 3rd Baronet, VC, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1842 | 1921 | First Sea Lord 1910–1911; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1907; on retired list from 1912 | |
| Sir Archibald Lucius Douglas, GCB, GCVO | 1842 | 1913 | C-in-C Portsmouth 1902–1907; Retired list 8 February 1907 | |
| Sir Gerard Henry Uctred Noel GCB KCMG | 1845 | 1918 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1908; on retired list from 1915 | |
| William Home Chisholm St Clair | 1841 | 1905 | on retired list since 1901 | |
| Atwell Peregrine MacLeod Lake | 1842 | 1915 | on retired list since July 1902 | |
| John William Brackenbury CB CMG | 1842 | 1918 | Retired list on 5 July 1905 | |
| Sir Thomas Sturges Jackson, KCVO | 1842 | 1934 | Retired list on 22 July 1905, 17 days after promotion | |
| Sir Arthur Dalrymple Fanshawe, GCB, GCVO | 1847 | 1936 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1910; on retired list from 1917 | |
| Richard Horace Hamond | 1843 | 1906 | on the Retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir Day Hort Bosanquet, GCMG, GCVO, KCB | 1843 | 1923 | Retired list on 22 March 1908 | |
| Sir Lewis Anthony Beaumont, GCB, KCMG | 1847 | 1922 | C-in-C Plymouth 1902–1908; Retired list on 19 May 1912 | |
| Charles William Beresford, 1st Baron Beresford, GCB, GCVO | 1846 | 1919 | C-in-C Channel Fleet 1903–1905, 1907–1909; Retired list on 10 February 1911 | |
| Albert Baldwin Jenkings | 1846 | 1942 | Retired list on 1 June 1907 | |
| Sir James Andrew Thomas Bruce, KCMG | 1846 | 1921 | Retired list on 2 January 1909 | |
| King George V | 1865 | 1936 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet on accession to the Throne in 1910 | |
| Pelham Aldrich, CVO | 1844 | 1930 | Retired list on 22 March 1908 | |
| Henry Rose | 1844 | 1928 | on the Retired list since 1904 | |
| Swinton Colthurst Holland | 1844 | 1922 | Retired list on 11 April 1908 | |
| Sir Arthur William Moore, GCB, GCVO, CMG | 1847 | 1934 | Retired list on 30 July 1912 | |
| Ernest Neville Rolfe, CB | 1847 | 1909 | on retired list since 1903 | |
| Andrew Kennedy Bickford, CMG | 1844 | 1927 | Retired list on 12 May 1908 | |
| Sir William Alison Dyke Acland, 2nd Baronet CVO | 1847 | 1924 | Retired list on 17 July 1911 | |
| Sir Charles Carter Drury, GCB, GCVO, KCSI | 1846 | 1914 | C-in-C The Nore 1908–1911; Retired list on 27 August 1911 | |
| William Frederick Stanley Mann | 1846 | 1924 | on the retired list since before promotion | |
| Edmund Frederick Jeffreys, CVO | 1846 | 1925 | Retired list on 18 May 1908, six days after promotion | |
| Sir Reginald Neville Custance, GCB, KCMG, CVO | 1847 | 1935 | Retired list on 20 September 1912 | |
| Sir William Hannam Henderson, KBE | 1845 | 1931 | Retired list on 2 July 1908 | |
| John Robert Ebenezer Pattisson | 1844 | 1928 | on the retired list since November 1904 | |
| Robert William Craigie | 1849 | 1911 | Retired list on 5 November 1908 | |
| Sir Wilmot Hawkesworth Fawkes, GCB, KCVO | 1846 | 1926 | Retired list on 12 April 1911 | |
| Sir George Lambart Atkinson-Willes, KCB | 1847 | 1921 | Retired list on 13 July 1912 | |
| Sir William Henry May, GCB, GCVO | 1849 | 1930 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1909–1911, C-in-C Plymouth 1911–13; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1913 | |
| Edward Henry Meggs Davis | 1846 | 1929 | On Retired list since 1905 | |
| John Harvey Rainier | 1847 | 1915 | on retired list since 1905 | |
| Sir Reginald Friend Hannam Henderson GCB | 1846 | 1932 | Retired list on 1 January 1910 | |
| Alfred Albert Chase Parr | 1849 | 1914 | on the Retired list since 1906 | |
| Count Frederick Cosmeto Metaxa | 1847 | 1910 | on the Retired list since 1905 | |
| Sir Assheton Gore Curzon-Howe, GCVO, KCB, CMG | 1850 | 1911 | died on active duty | |
| Angus MacLeod, CVO | 1847 | 1920 | Retired list on 22 July 1910 | |
| Sir Edmund Samuel Poe, GCVO, KCB | 1848 | 1921 | Retired list on 11 September 1914 | |
| Sir Charles Campbell, KCMG, CB, DSO | 1847 | 1911 | on retired list since 1906 | |
| Sir John Durnford, GCB, DSO | 1849 | 1914 | Retired list on 10 May 1913 | |
| Charles James Barlow, DSO | 1848 | 1921 | Retired list on 19 July 1911 | |
| William Marrack | 1847 | 1926 | on the retired list since 1906 | |
| Gerald Charles Langley | 1848 | 1914 | on the retired list since 1906 | |
| Sir Hedworth Meux, GCB, KCVO | 1856 | 1929 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1915; on retired list from July 1921 | |
| Sir Francis Charles Bridgeman, GCB, GCVO | 1848 | 1929 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1911; First Sea Lord 1911–1912; Retired list on 7 December 1913 | |
| Sir Francis Powell, KCMG, CB | 1849 | 1927 | on the retired list since 1907 | |
| Arthur Barrow | 1853 | 1914 | on the retired list since 1906 | |
| Sir Richard Poore, 4th Baronet, KCB, CVO | 1853 | 1930 | Retired list on 3 April 1917 | |
| George Augustus Giffard, CMG | 1849 | 1925 | Retired list on 16 May 1913 | |
| Robert Leonard Groome, CVO | 1848 | 1917 | on the Retired list since 1907 | |
| Charles Grey Robinson, CVO | 1850 | 1934 | Retired list on 18 September 1911 | |
| Edward Harpur Gamble, CB | 1849 | 1925 | Retired list on 18 September 1911, the same day | |
| Sir Archibald Berkeley Milne, 2nd Baronet, GCVO, KCB | 1855 | 1938 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1912–1914; Retired list on 12 February 1919 | |
| Charles Ramsay Arbuthnot | 1850 | 1913 | on the Retired list since July 1907 | |
| Walter Hodgson Bevan Graham | 1849 | 1931 | on the Retired list since January 1911 | |
| Sir Randolph Frank Ollive Foote, KCB, CMG | 1853 | 1931 | on the Retired list since March 1911 | |
| Sir George Fowler King-Hall KCB CVO | 1850 | 1939 | Retired list on 10 February 1914 | |
| Louis Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, GCB, GCVO, KCMG | 1854 | 1921 | First Sea Lord 1912–1914; Retired list on 1 January 1919, promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1921 | |
| Michael Pelham O′Callaghan, CB, CVO | 1850 | 1937 | on the retired list since 1907 | |
| Sir George Neville, KCB, CVO | 1850 | 1923 | Retired list on 3 June 1913 | |
| Gerald Walter Russell | 1850 | 1928 | on the retired list since 1908 | |
| Sir Alfred Leigh Winsloe, KCB, CMG, CVO | 1852 | 1921 | Retired list on 13 December 1913 | |
| Sir Percy Moreton Scott, 1st Baronet, KCB, KCVO | 1853 | 1924 | Retired list on 21 March 1913, the following day | |
| Thomas MacGill, CB | 1850 | 1926 | on retired list since 1906 | |
| Henry Seawell Frank Niblett, CVO | 1852 | 1939 | on retired list since 1910 | |
| Frank Finnis, CVO | 1851 | 1918 | on retired list since 1909 | |
| Arthur William Edward Prothero | 1850 | 1931 | on retired list since 1905 | |
| Sir George Le Clerc Egerton, KCB | 1852 | 1940 | Retired list on 9 June 1916 | |
| Charles Henry Adair | 1851 | 1920 | Retired list on 15 May 1913, 5 days after promotion | |
| Sir Frederic William Fisher, KCVO | 1851 | 1943 | Retired list on 24 October 1914 | |
| Alexander William Chisholm Batten, DSO, MVO | 1851 | 1925 | on the Retired list since 1907 | |
| Charles Henry Cross | 1852 | 1915 | Retired list on 17 May 1913, the day after promotion | |
| Sir George Astley Callaghan GCB GCVO | 1852 | 1920 | Acting Admiral from 1911; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1917 | |
| Sir James Edward Clifford Goodrich | 1851 | 1925 | Retired list on 4 June 1913, the day after promotion | |
| Charles Gauntlett Dicken | 1854 | 1937 | on the Retired list since 1908 | |
| Archibald James Pocklington | 1851 | 1922 | on the Retired list since 1906 | |
| George Morris Henderson, MVO | 1851 | 1915 | on the Retired list since 1908 | |
| Francis George Kirby | 1854 | 1951 | on the Retired list since January 1908 | |
| Sir Frederick Samuel Inglefield, KCB | 1854 | 1921 | Retired list on 9 June 1916 | |
| Charles Windham, CVO | 1851 | 1916 | on the Retired list since 1909 | |
| Philip Francis Tillard | 1852 | 1933 | on the Retired list since 1909 | |
| John Edward Bearcroft, CB, MVO | 1851 | 1931 | on the Retired list since 1906 | |
| John Locke Marx, CB, MVO, DSO | 1852 | 1939 | on the Retired list since 1909 | |
| Sir Arthur Mostyn Field, KCB | 1855 | 1950 | on the Retired list since August 1910 | |
| John Denison, DSO | 1853 | 1939 | Retired list 7 December 1913, the same day | |
| Sir Alfred Wyndham Paget, KCB, KCMG, DSO | 1852 | 1918 | on retired list from September 1914 | |
| Henry Morton Tudor Tudor | 1855 | 1926 | on retired list since 1909 | |
| Sir Robert Swinburne Lowry, KCB | 1854 | 1920 | on retired list from 1917 | |
| Sir Henry Bradwardine Jackson, GCB, KCVO | 1855 | 1929 | First Sea Lord 1915–1916; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1919 | |
| John Rushworth Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1859 | 1935 | C-in-C Grand Fleet 1914–1916; First Sea Lord 1916–1917; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1919, retired list in 1924 | |
| Sir Stanley Cecil James Colville, GCB, GCMG, GCVO | 1861 | 1939 | on retired list from April 1922 | |
| Sir Arthur Murray Farquhar KCB CVO | 1855 | 1937 | Retired list on 9 June 1916 | |
| William Blake Fisher CB | 1853 | 1926 | on retired list since August 1914 | |
| Ernest Alfred Simons | 1856 | 1928 | on retired list from October 1915 | |
| Robert Stevenson Dalton Cuming, CBE, DSO | 1852 | 1940 | on retired list since 1907 | |
| Sir Paul Warner Bush, KCB, MVO | 1855 | 1930 | on retired list from January 1916 | |
| Sir James Startin KCB AM | 1855 | 1948 | on retired list since September 1914 | |
| Harry Campbell Reynolds | 1853 | 1949 | on retired list since December 1908 | |
| Sir Charles John Briggs, KCB | 1858 | 1951 | on retired list from July 1917 | |
| Sir Frederick Tower Hamilton, GCVO, KCB | 1856 | 1917 | Second Sea Lord 1914–1916; Died of heart attack on active duty; listed in 1918 Navy List as killed in action | |
| Sir Cecil Burney, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG | 1858 | 1929 | Admiral of the Fleet 1920; on retired list November 1925 | |
| Alban Giffard Tate | 1853 | 1930 | on the Retired list since 1912 | |
| Thomas Young Greet | 1854 | 1947 | on the Retired list since 1908 | |
| Arthur John Horsley | 1853 | 1937 | on the Retired list since 1907 | |
| Herbert Augustus Warren, MVO | 1855 | 1926 | on the Retired list since 1911 | |
| Frederick Sidney Pelham, CBE | 1854 | 1931 | Retired list on 10 June 1916, the day after promotion | |
| Sir Alexander Edward Bethell, GCMG, KCB | 1855 | 1931 | C-in-C Plymouth 1916–1918; on retired list from September 1918 | |
| Sir Frederic Edward Errington Brock, GBE, KCMG, CB | 1854 | 1929 | on retired list from August 1918 | |
| Sir Charles Henry Coke, KCVO | 1854 | 1945 | Retired list on 10 April 1917, seven days after promotion | |
| Hugh Pigot Williams | 1858 | 1934 | on Retired list since 1915 | |
| Sir Charles Edmund Kingsmill | 1855 | 1935 | on Retired list since 1908 | |
| Sir Thomas Henry Martyn Jerram, GCMG, KCB | 1858 | 1933 | on Retired list in 1917 | |
| Sir Douglas Austin Gamble, KCVO | 1856 | 1934 | on retired list May 1917 | |
| Sir Colin Richard Keppel GCVO KCIE CB DSO | 1862 | 1947 | on retired list since December 1913 | |
| Sir Frederick Charles Doveton Sturdee, 1st Baronet, GCB KCMG CVO | 1859 | 1925 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1921 | |
| Sir Edward Eden Bradford GBE KCB CVO | 1858 | 1935 | on retired list from March 1918 | |
| Sir Robert Nelson Ommanney KBE CB | 1854 | 1938 | on retired list since 1915 | |
| Charles Hope Robertson CMG MVO | 1856 | 1942 | on retired list since 1909 | |
| Henry Coare Kingsford | 1858 | 1941 | on retired list since 1912 | |
| Sir Edmond John Warre Slade KCIE KCVO | 1859 | 1928 | on retired list from September 1917 | |
| Sir Sackville Hamilton Carden, KCMG | 1857 | 1930 | on retired list from October 1917 | |
| Richard Bowles Farquhar CB | 1859 | 1948 | on retired list from January 1918 | |
| Sir Lewis Bayly, KCB, KCMG, CVO | 1857 | 1938 | on retired list from 1919 | |
| Sir George Edwin Patey, KCMG, KCVO | 1859 | 1935 | on retired list from start of 1919 | |
| Sir Arthur Henry Limpus KCMG CB | 1863 | 1931 | on retired list 1 January 1919 | |
| Sir Richard Henry Peirse, KCB, KBE, MVO | 1860 | 1940 | Retired list on 17 January 1919 | |
| Sir Herbert Goodenough King-Hall KCB CVO DSO | 1862 | 1936 | On retired list from May 1922 | |
| Arthur Yerbury Moggridge | 1858 | 1946 | on retired list since July 1915 | |
| Sir William Lowther Grant KCB | 1864 | 1929 | on retired list from 1920 | |
| Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon KCB KCVO DSO | 1863 | 1947 | on retired list since 1909 but recalled to active duty 1914–1919 | |
| Robert Hathorn Johnston Stewart CB MVO | 1858 | 1940 | on retired list since 1912 | |
| David Richard Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, GCB, OM, GCVO, DSO | 1871 | 1936 | C-in-C Grand Fleet 1916–1919; First Sea Lord 1919–1927; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in May 1919, retired list in 1927 | |
| Henry Loftus Tottenham, CB | 1860 | 1950 | on retired list since October 1918 | |
| Sir Reginald Godfrey Otway Tupper, GBE, KCB, CVO | 1859 | 1945 | Retired list on 16 May 1921 | |
| Spencer Victor Yorke de Horsey | 1863 | 1937 | on retired list since before promotion | |
| Robert Grant Fraser | 1858 | 1920 | on retired list since 1910 | |
| Sir Herbert Edward Purey-Cust, KBE, CB | 1857 | 1938 | on retired list since 1912 | |
| Herbert Lyon, CB | 1856 | 1919 | on retired list since 1913 | |
| Charles Henry Hodgson Moore | 1858 | 1920 | on retired list since 1913 | |
| Lionel Grant Tufnell CMG | 1857 | 1930 | on retired list since 1911 | |
| Sir William Fane de Salis, KBE, MVO | 1858 | 1939 | on retired list since 1913 | |
| Sir Charles Hope Dundas, KCMG | 1859 | 1924 | on retired list since 1916 | |
| Bernard Currey | 1862 | 1936 | on retired list from 8 days after promotion | |
| Sir Ernest Charles Thomas Troubridge, KCMG, CB, MVO | 1862 | 1926 | on retired list | |
| Sir Archibald Gordon Henry Wilson Moore, KCB, CVO | 1862 | 1934 | Retired list on 21 February 1919 | |
| Arthur Wartensleben Ewart | 1862 | 1922 | on the retired list since 1911 | |
| Sir Charles Madden, 1st Baronet | 1862 | 1935 | First Sea Lord 1927–1930; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1924; retired list 1930 | |
| Rosslyn Erskine Wemyss, 1st Baron Wester Wemyss, GCB, CMG, MVO | 1864 | 1933 | First Sea Lord 1917–1919; Promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1919; retired list 1929 | |
| Charles Eustace Anson CB MVO | 1859 | 1940 | on retired list since April 1917 | |
| Sir Cecil Fiennes Thursby, KCB, KCMG | 1861 | 1936 | Retired list on 7 October 1920 | |
| Arthur Henry Christian, CB, MVO | 1863 | 1926 | Retired list on 3 October 1919 | |
| Sir Somerset Arthur Gough-Calthorpe GCB GCMG CVO | 1864 | 1937 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1925; retired list from 1930 | |
| Sir Herbert Leopold Heath, KCB, MVO | 1861 | 1954 | Second Sea Lord 1917–1919; on retired list from June 1922 | |
| William Oswald Story, CBE | 1859 | 1938 | on Retired list since 1912 | |
| Sir Montague Edward Browning GCB GCMG GCVO | 1863 | 1947 | on retired list from October 1926 | |
| Sir John Michael de Robeck, 1st Baronet, GCB GCMG GCVO | 1862 | 1928 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1925 | |
| Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, GCB, KCMG, MVO | 1862 | 1928 | Retired list on 30 June 1924 | |
| Richard Purefoy FitzGerald Purefoy, CBE, MVO | 1862 | 1943 | on retired list since 1916 | |
| Arthur William Waymouth, CB | 1863 | 1936 | on retired list since 1917 | |
| Godfrey Harry Brydges Mundy, CB, DSO, MVO | 1860 | 1928 | on retired list since 1917 | |
| Archibald Peile Stoddart, CB | 1860 | 1939 | on retired list since 1918 | |
| Stuart Nicholson CB MVO | 1865 | 1936 | on retired list the day after promotion | |
| Sir Dudley Rawson Stratford de Chair KCB KCMG MVO | 1864 | 1958 | on retired list from November 1923 | |
| Sir Frederick Charles Tudor Tudor, KCB, KCMG | 1863 | 1946 | on the retired list November 1922 | |
| Sir Henry Hervey Campbell, KCVO, CB | 1865 | 1933 | on the retired list since 1917 | |
| Evelyn Robert Le Marchant, DSO | 1858 | 1949 | on the retired list since 1913 | |
| Sir Alexander Ludovic Duff GCB GBE KCVO | 1862 | 1933 | on retired list July 1925 | |
| Sir Edward Francis Benedict Charlton, KCB, KCMG | 1865 | 1937 | on retired list from March 1924 | |
| Reginald Arthur Allenby, DSO, MVO | 1861 | 1936 | on the Retired list since 1915 | |
| Seymour Elphinstone Erskine, CB | 1863 | 1945 | on the Retired list since 1915 | |
| John de Mestre Hutchison, CMG, CVO | 1862 | 1932 | on the Retired list since 1916 | |
| Robert Stewart Phipps Hornby CMG | 1866 | 1956 | Retired list on 6 April 1922, two days after promotion | |
| Sir William Christopher Pakenham, GCB, KCMG, KCVO | 1861 | 1933 | Retired list on 1 March 1926 | |
| Mark Edward Frederic Kerr, CB, CVO | 1864 | 1944 | on the Retired list since 1918 | |
| John Bridges Eustace | 1861 | 1947 | on the Retired list since 1918 | |
| Cresswell John Eyres DSO OBE | 1862 | 1949 | on retired list since December 1914 | |
| Francis Spurstow Miller CB | 1863 | 1954 | on retired list since January 1920 | |
| Francis George Eyre | 1864 | 1941 | on retired list since February 1919 | |
| Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson GCB | 1868 | 1929 | on retired list from February 1928 | |
| Sir Sydney Robert Fremantle, GCB, MVO | 1867 | 1958 | Retired list on 5 April 1928 | |
| Sir Henry Francis Oliver GCB KCMG MVO | 1865 | 1965 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1928; retired list 1933–1940 | |
| George Alexander Ballard CB | 1862 | 1948 | on retired list since June 1921 | |
| Sir Morgan Singer KCB KCVO | 1864 | 1938 | Retired list on 1 August 1924 | |
| Sir Edmund Radcliffe Pears KBE CB | 1862 | 1941 | on retired list since January 1920 | |
| Arthur David Ricardo CB | 1861 | 1931 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Sir Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt, KCB, KBE, CMG | 1865 | 1940 | on retired list from March 1925 | |
| Cecil Frederick Dampier CMG | 1868 | 1950 | on retired list since July 1922 | |
| Sir Osmond de Beauvoir Brock, GCB, KCMG, KCVO | 1869 | 1947 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1929 | |
| Sir Robert John Prendergast, KCB | 1864 | 1946 | on the Retired list since 1919 | |
| Norman Craig Palmer, CVO | 1866 | 1926 | on the Retired list since 1919 | |
| Cecil Frederick Dampier, CMG | 1868 | 1950 | on the Retired list since 1922 | |
| Sir Richard Fortescue Phillimore, GCB, KCMG, MVO | 1864 | 1940 | on retired list from October 1929 | |
| Hugh Grant-Dalton, CB | 1862 | 1934 | on retired list since 1915 | |
| Alfred Ernest Albert Grant | 1861 | 1933 | on retired list since 1919 | |
| Cyril Everard Tower, DSO | 1861 | 1929 | on retired list since 1915 | |
| Joseph Ridgway Bridson | 1861 | 1933 | on retired list since 1919 | |
| Edmund Hyde Smith, CB | 1865 | 1939 | on retired list since 1919 | |
| Ernest Gillbe Barton | 1861 | 1938 | on retired list since 1915 | |
| Robert Hamilton Anstruther, CMG | 1862 | 1938 | on retired list since 1915 | |
| Bentinck John Davies Yelverton, CB | 1862 | 1959 | on retired list since 1915 | |
| Henry James Langford Clarke, CBE | 1866 | 1944 | on retired list since 1915 | |
| Arthur Hayes-Sadler, CSI | 1865 | 1952 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Sir Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee KBE CB | 1867 | 1928 | on the retired list since 1920 | |
| Sir Douglas Romilly Lothian Nicholson KCMG KCVO | 1867 | 1946 | Retired list on 1 March 1926 | |
| Edward Stafford Fitzherbert, 13th Baron Stafford, KCB | 1865 | 1941 | on retired list since March 1923 | |
| Sir William Edmund Goodenough GCB MVO | 1867 | 1945 | on retired list from 1930 | |
| Cecil Spencer Hickley, CB, MVO | 1865 | 1941 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Sir Arthur John Henniker-Hughan, 6th Baronet, CB | 1866 | 1925 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Sir Thomas Dawson Lees Sheppard, KBE, CB, MVO | 1866 | 1953 | on retired list since 1922 | |
| Francis William Kennedy, CB | 1862 | 1939 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Rowland Nugent | 1861 | 1948 | on retired list since 1916 | |
| Hugh Thomas Hibbert, CBE, DSO | 1863 | 1951 | on retired list since 1916 | |
| Herbert Arthur Stevenson Fyler, CB, DSO | 1864 | 1934 | on retired list since 1916 | |
| Sir Heathcoat Salusbury Grant, KCMG, CB | 1864 | 1938 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Sir Thomas Jackson, KBE, CB, MVO | 1868 | 1945 | on retired list since 1923 | |
| Frank Edward Cavendish Ryan, CBE | 1865 | 1945 | on retired list since 1916 | |
| Philip Nelson-Ward, CVO | 1866 | 1937 | on retired list since 1916 | |
| Sir William Coldingham Masters Nicholson KCB | 1863 | 1932 | on retired list from October 1925 | |
| Sir George Price Webley Hope KCB KCMG | 1869 | 1959 | Retired list on 2 March 1926 | |
| John Scott Luard CB | 1865 | 1936 | on retired list since 1917 | |
| Herbert Charles Campbell Da Costa | 1865 | 1940 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Cuthbert Edward Hunter | 1866 | 1952 | on retired list since 1917 | |
| Sir Laurence Eliot Power, KCB, CVO | 1864 | 1927 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Sir John Franklin Parry, KCB | 1863 | 1926 | on retired list since 1920 | |
| Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, GCB, KCVO, CMG, DSO | 1872 | 1945 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1925–1929; C-in-C Portsmouth 1929–1931; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1930 | |
| Cecil Foley Lambert KCB | 1864 | 1928 | On Retired List | |
| Sir Hugh Henry Darby Tothill, KCB, KCMG, KCVO | 1865 | 1927 | on retired list from October 1926 | |
| Sir Victor Albert Stanley, KCB, MVO | 1867 | 1934 | on retired list from November 1926 | |
| Sir Lionel Halsey GCMG GCVO KCIE CB | 1872 | 1949 | on retired list since November 1922 | |
| Sir Edwyn Sinclair Alexander-Sinclair GCB MVO | 1865 | 1945 | on retired list from 1930 | |
| Stuart St. John Farquhar | 1865 | 1941 | on retired list since 1917 | |
| Sir James Andrew Fergusson, KCB, KCMG | 1871 | 1942 | ||
| Sir Lewis Clinton-Baker KCB KCVO CBE | 1866 | 1939 | on retired list from August 1927 | |
| Thomas Webster Kemp CB CMG CIE | 1866 | 1928 | on retired list since 1917 | |
| Bertram Mordaunt Chambers CB | 1866 | 1945 | on retired list since 1917 | |
| Sir William Reginald Hall KCMG CB | 1870 | 1943 | on retired list since 1919 | |
| Sir Henry Harvey Bruce KCB MVO | 1862 | 1948 | on retired list since 1922 | |
| Clement Greatorex CB MVO | 1869 | 1937 | on retired list since 1922 | |
| George Cuthbert Cayley CB | 1866 | 1944 | on retired list since 1919 | |
| Sir Allan Frederic Everett KCMG KCVO CB | 1868 | 1938 | on retired list since 1925 | |
| Sir Henry Bertram Pelly KCVO CB | 1867 | 1942 | on retired list since 1925 | |
| John Nicholas | 1865 | 1942 | on retired list since 1917 | |
| Sir Allen Thomas Hunt KCB CSI | 1866 | 1943 | on retired list since 1924 | |
| Sir Walter Henry Cowan Bt, KCB DSO MVO ADC | 1871 | 1956 | Retired October 1931 | |
| Brian Herbert Fairbairn Barttelot, KBE CB CVO | 1867 | 1942 | on Retired List since 1923 | |
| Sir John Frederick Ernest Green, KCMG CB | 1866 | 1948 | on Retired List since January 1925 | |
| Richard Morden Harbord-Hamond, 10th Baron Suffield | 1865 | 1951 | on Retired List | |
| Vivian Henry Gerald Bernard, CB | 1868 | 1934 | on Retired List | |
| Charles Frederick Thorp CBE | 1869 | 1954 | on Retired List | |
| Edward Francis Bruen, CB | 1866 | 1952 | on Retired List | |
| James Clement Ley, CB CVO | 1869 | 1946 | on Retired List since 1923 | |
| Edmond Hyde Parker CB | 1868 | 1951 | on Retired List | |
| William George Elmhirst Ruck-Keene, MVO | 1867 | 1935 | on Retired List | |
| Edward Montgomery Philpotts, CB | 1871 | 1952 | on Retired List | |
| Cunningham Robert de Clare Foot, CBE | 1864 | 1940 | on Retired List | |
| Algernon Walker-Heneage-Vivian, CB MVO | 1871 | 1952 | on Retired List | |
| Sir Frederick Charles Learmonth, KBE, CB | 1866 | 1941 | on Retired List | |
| Philip Howard Colomb, CB | 1867 | 1958 | on Retired List since 1923 | |
| George Holmes Borrett, CB | 1868 | 1952 | on Retired List | |
| Charles Ferdinand Henderson | 1866 | 1935 | on Retired List | |
| Philip Wylie Dumas CB CVO | 1868 | 1948 | on retired list since 1918 | |
| Sir Richard Webb KCMG CB | 1870 | 1950 | on retired list from February 1929 | |
| Sir Rudolph Walter Bentinck, KCB KCMG | 1869 | 1947 | on retired list from October 1929 | |
| Charles Frederick Corbett CB MVO | 1867 | 1955 | on retired list since 1922 | |
| Sir Frederick Laurence Field, GCB, KCMG | 1871 | 1945 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1928–1930; First Sea Lord 1930–1933; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1933 | |
| Sir Algernon Douglas Edward Harry Boyle, KCB, CMG, MVO | 1871 | 1949 | on the retired list since 1924 | |
| Sir Edmund Percy Fenwick George Grant, KCVO, CB | 1867 | 1952 | on the retired list since 14 January 1928 | |
| Edwin Veale Underhill, CB | 1868 | 1928 | on the retired list since before promotion | |
| Henry Lancelot Mawbey, CB, CVO | 1870 | 1933 | on the retired list since 1924 | |
| Sir Hubert George Brand, GCB KCMG KCVO | 1870 | 1955 | Put on Retired List October 1932 | |
| Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, GCB, DSO | 1870 | 1951 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1934 | |
| Sir Michael Henry Hodges KCB CMG MVO | 1874 | 1951 | Second Sea Lord 1927–1930; on retired list from 1932 | |
| Sir Hugh Dudley Richards Watson, KCB, CVO, CBE | 1872 | 1954 | on retired list from April 1930 | |
| Alfred Ernle Montacute Chatfield, 1st Baron Chatfield GCB OM | 1873 | 1967 | First Sea Lord 1933–1938; Admiral of the Fleet 1935 | |
| Crawford Maclachlan CB | 1867 | 1952 | on Retired List | |
| John Luce CB | 1870 | 1932 | on Retired List | |
| Wilmot Stuart Nicholson, CB | 1872 | 1947 | on Retired List since 1927 | |
| Sir Arthur Allan Morison Duff, KCB | 1874 | 1952 | Retired list on 15 May 1930 | |
| Charles Duncan Johnson, CB, DSO, MVO | 1869 | 1930 | on the Retired list since 1926 | |
| Sir Cyril Thomas Moulden Fuller, KCB, CMG, DSO | 1874 | 1942 | Second Sea Lord 1930–1932; retired in 1935 | |
| Sir Hugh Francis Paget Sinclair, KCB | 1873 | 1939 | Director of British Naval Intelligence 1919. On the retired list since 1926 | |
| Sir Aubrey Clare Hugh Smith, KCVO, KBE, CB | 1872 | 1957 | on the retired list since 1926 | |
| Hugh Lindsay Patrick Heard, CB, DSO | 1869 | 1934 | on the retired list since 1926 | |
| Sir John Donald Kelly, GCB GCVO | 1871 | 1936 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1936 | |
| Sir Henry Tritton Buller, GCVO KCB | 1873 | 1960 | ||
| Thomas Drummond Gilbert, CB | 1870 | 1962 | On Retired List | |
| William Archibald Howard Kelly, GBE, KCB, CMG, MVO | 1873 | 1952 | put on Retired List June 1936 | |
| Bertram Sackville Thesiger, KBE CB CMG | 1875 | 1966 | Put on Retired List 31 December 1932 | |
| Vernon Harry Stuart Haggard, KCB CMG | 1874 | 1960 | Put on Retired List 13 October 1932 | |
| Percival Henry Hall-Thompson CB CMG | 1874 | 1950 | Retired 1932 | |
| Robert Nesham Bax, CB | 1875 | 1969 | On Retired List from 1928–1940 and after 1945 | |
| Charles Pipon Beaty-Pownall, CMG | 1872 | 1938 | On Retired List | |
| Richard Greville Arthur Wellington Stapleton-Cotton, CB CBE MVO | 1873 | 1953 | On Retired List | |
| William Henry Dudley Boyle, 12th Earl of Cork and Orrery, GCB GCVO | 1873 | 1967 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1938 | |
| Sir Albert Percy Addison, KBE CB CMG | 1875 | 1952 | on Retired List since 1929 | |
| Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer, GBE KCB | 1878 | 1956 | on retired list from 1939 | |
| Sir Alan Geoffrey Hotham, KCMG CB | 1876 | 1965 | On Retired List since 1929 | |
| Sir Francis Herbert Mitchell, CB, DSO | 1876 | 1946 | ||
| John Ewen Cameron, CB MVO | 1874 | 1939 | on Retired List since 1929 | |
| Cyril Samuel Townsend, CB | 1875 | 1949 | on Retired List since 1929 | |
| David Thomas Norris, CB CMG | 1875 | 1937 | on retired list since 1929 | |
| Sir Roger Roland Charles Backhouse GCB GCVO CMG | 1878 | 1939 | First Sea Lord 1938–1939; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1939 | |
| Sir Lionel George Preston KCB | 1875 | 1971 | on retired list from 1935 | |
| Sir Herbert Meade-Fetherstonhaugh, GCVO CB DSO | 1875 | 1964 | On Retired List July 1936 | |
| King Edward VIII | 1894 | 1972 | promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on accession to the Throne in 1936 | |
| Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, GCB, OM, GCVO | 1877 | 1943 | First Sea Lord 1939–1943; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1939 | |
| Sir Hugh Justin Tweedie, KCB | 1877 | 1951 | Retired list on 1 January 1936 | |
| Leonard Andrew Boyd Donaldson, CB, CMG | 1875 | 1956 | on the Retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir Eric John Arthur Fullerton, KCB, DSO | 1878 | 1962 | Retired list on 1 January 1936 | |
| Sir William Munro Kerr, KBE, CB | 1876 | 1959 | Retired list on 2 January 1936, the day after promotion | |
| Sir Barry Edward Domvile, KBE, CB, CMG | 1878 | 1971 | Retired list on 2 January 1936, the day after promotion | |
| Herbert Willes Webley Hope, CB, CVO, DSO | 1878 | 1968 | on retired list since 1931 | |
| Anselan John Buchanan Stirling, CB | 1875 | 1936 | on retired list since 1931 | |
| John Moore Casement, CB | 1877 | 1952 | on retired list since 1931 | |
| Sir Arthur John Davies, KBE, CB | 1877 | 1954 | on retired list since before promtion | |
| Sir Reginald Aylmer Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax, KCB, DSO | 1880 | 1967 | C-in-C Plymouth 1935–1938; C-in-C the Nore 1939–1941 | |
| Sir Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, VC, KCB, KCMG | 1883 | 1965 | C-in-C Plymouth 1938–1941 | |
| King George VI | 1895 | 1952 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet upon accession to the Throne in December 1936 | |
| Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, KCB, DSO | 1880 | 1957 | ||
| Matthew Robert Best, KCB DSO MVO | 1879 | 1940 | C-in-C, America and West Indies Station 1934. Retired Jan 1936 | |
| Sir George Knightley Chetwode, KCB CBE | 1877 | 1957 | on retired list from August 1936 | |
| Sir Charles Morton Forbes, GCB DSO | 1880 | 1960 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1940 | |
| Sir Charles James Colebrooke Little GCB GBE | 1882 | 1973 | on retired list from April 1945 | |
| Sir William Milbourne James GCB | 1881 | 1973 | ||
| Sir Ragnar Musgrave Colvin, KBE, CB | 1882 | 1954 | ||
| Sir Percy Lockhart Harnam Noble GBE KCB CVO | 1880 | 1955 | ||
| Sir Francis William Loftus Tottenham KCB CBE | 1880 | 1967 | ||
| Sir Sidney Robert Bailey, KBE, CB, DSO | 1882 | 1942 | ||
| Sir Alexander Robert Maule Ramsay GCVO KCB DSO | 1881 | 1972 | ||
| Sir Sidney Julius Meyrick KCB | 1879 | 1973 | on retired list from 1941 | |
| Sir Dudley Burton Napier North, GCVO, CB, CSI, CMG | 1881 | 1961 | ||
| Noel Frank Laurence, KCB DSO | 1882 | 1970 | ||
| Andrew Browne Cunningham, 1st Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, KT, GCB, OM, DSO | 1883 | 1963 | First Sea Lord 1943–1946; promoted Admiral of the Fleet January 1943 | |
| Sir Max Kennedy Horton GCB DSO | 1883 | 1951 | ||
| Sir Wilbraham Tennyson Randle Ford KCB KBE | 1880 | 1964 | ||
| Sir Tom Spencer Vaughan Phillips KCB | 1888 | 1941 | his full Admiral rank promotion announced on 1 December 1941; C-in-C Eastern Fleet October 1941 – 10 December 1941; killed in action when Prince of Wales and Repulse were sunk by Japanese air attack on 10 December 1941 | |
| Sir Charles Edward Kennedy-Purvis GBE KCB | 1884 | 1946 | ||
| Sir Charles Gordon Ramsey KCB | 1882 | 1966 | retired 1942 | |
| Sir Thomas Hugh Binney KCB KCMG DSO | 1883 | 1953 | retired 1945 | |
| Sir James Fownes Somerville GCB GBE DSO | 1882 | 1949 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet May 1945 | |
| Sir George Hamilton D'Oyly Lyon GCB | 1883 | 1947 | ||
| Sir Geoffrey Layton GBE KCB KCMG DSO | 1884 | 1964 | ||
| Sir Guy Charles Cecil Royle KCB CMG | 1885 | 1954 | ||
| John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey GCB, KBE, DSO | 1885 | 1971 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet October 1943 | |
| Sir George Frederick Basset Edward-Collins KCB KCVO | 1883 | 1958 | ||
| Sir John Henry Dacres Cunningham, GCB, MVO | 1885 | 1962 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1943–1946; First Sea Lord 1946–1948; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1948 | |
| Sir Ralph Leatham KCB | 1886 | 1954 | ||
| Sir William Jock Whitworth KCB DSO | 1884 | 1973 | ||
| Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape GCB, KBE | 1888 | 1981 | First Sea Lord 1948–1951; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1948 | |
| Sir Bertram Home Ramsay KCB KBE MVO | 1883 | 1945 | killed in air accident on active duty | |
| Sir Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell KCB CVO | 1885 | 1952 | ||
| Sir Henry Ruthven Moore, GCB, CVO, DSO | 1886 | 1978 | C-in-C The Nore 1948–1950; retired list on 15 January 1951 | |
| Sir William Frederic Wake-Walker KCB CBE | 1888 | 1945 | died on active duty months after promotion | |
| John Henry Godfrey CB | 1888 | 1970 | on retired list from date of promotion | |
| Sir Harold Martin Burrough GCB KBE DSO | 1889 | 1977 | retired 1949 | |
| Sir Henry Harwood Harwood KCB OBE | 1888 | 1950 | on retired list since August 1945 | |
| Sir Marshal Llewellyn Clarke KBE CB DSC | 1887 | 1959 | on retired list upon promotion | |
| Sir Algernon Usborne Willis GCB DSO | 1889 | 1976 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1949 | |
| Sir Edward Neville Syfret GCB KBE | 1889 | 1972 | retired 1948 | |
| Sir Arthur John Power, GCB, GBE, CVO | 1889 | 1960 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1948–1950; C-in-C Portsmouth 1950–1952; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in April 1952 | |
| Sir Arthur Malcolm Peters KCB DSC | 1888 | 1979 | retired list since 1945 | |
| Sir Arthur Francis Eric Palliser, KCB, DSC | 1890 | 1956 | Retired list on 2 September 1948 | |
| Sir Geoffrey John Audley Miles KCB KCSI | 1890 | 1986 | retired list from April 1948 | |
| Sir Frederick Hew George Dalrymple-Hamilton KCB | 1890 | 1974 | ||
| Sir Denis William Boyd, KCB, CBE, DSC | 1891 | 1965 | Retired in 1949 | |
| Sir Rhoderick Robert McGrigor GCB | 1893 | 1959 | First Sea Lord 1951–1955; Admiral of the Fleet 1953 | |
| Sir Harold Thomas Coulthard Walker KCB | 1891 | 1975 | on retired list since September 1947 | |
| Sir Philip Louis Vian GCB KBE DSO | 1894 | 1968 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet June 1952 | |
| Sir William Tennant KCB CBE MVO | 1890 | 1963 | ||
| Sir Victor Alexander Charles Crutchley VC KCB DSC | 1893 | 1986 | on retired list since May 1947 | |
| Sir Wilfrid Rupert Patterson, KCB, CBE, CVO | 1893 | 1954 | Retired list on 1 December 1950 | |
| Sir Reginald Henry Portal KCB DSC | 1894 | 1983 | retired list from May 1951 | |
| Sir Harold Richard George Kinahan, KBE, CB | 1893 | 1980 | ||
| Sir Ernest Russell Archer, KCB, CBE | 1891 | 1958 | Retired list on 1 December 1950, the same day | |
| Sir George Elvey Creasy, GCB, CBE, DSO, MVO | 1895 | 1972 | promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1955 | |
| Angus Cunninghame Graham | 1893 | 1981 | ||
| Sir Guy Herbrand Edward Russell, GBE, KCB, DSO | 1898 | 1977 | C-in-C Far East Fleet 1952–1953; Second Sea Lord 1953–1955; Retired list on 7 January 1958 | |
| Sir Arthur Robin Moore Bridge, KBE, CB | 1894 | 1971 | on the retired list since 1951 | |
| Sir Michael Maynard Denny, GCB, CBE, DSO | 1896 | 1972 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1954–1955 | |
| Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO | 1900 | 1979 | First Sea Lord 1955–1959; Chief of Defence Staff 1959–1965; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1956; | |
| Sir Richard Victor Symonds-Tayler, KBE, CB, DSC | 1897 | 1971 | on the Retired list since before promotion | |
| Sir Maurice James Mansergh, KCB, CBE | 1896 | 1966 | Retired list on 30 March 1954 | |
| Sir Guy Grantham GCB CBE DSO | 1900 | 1992 | ||
| Sir Charles Edward Lambe GCB CVO | 1900 | 1960 | First Sea Lord 1959–1960; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1960 | |
| Sir William Gerrard Andrewes KBE CB DSO | 1899 | 1974 | ||
| Sir Charles Thomas Mark Pizey GBE CB DSO | 1899 | 1993 | ||
| Sir John Arthur Symons Eccles, GCB, KCVO, CBE | 1898 | 1966 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1955–1958; Retired list on 28 February 1958 | |
| Sir Alan Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, KCB, CBE, DSO | 1900 | 1980 | Retired list on 31 January 1958 | |
| Sir William Wellclose Davis, GCB, DSO | 1901 | 1987 | Vice-Chief of the Naval Staff 1954–1957; C-in-C Home Fleet 1958–1960; Retired list on 17 August 1960 | |
| Sir Caspar John GCB | 1903 | 1984 | First Sea Lord 1960–1963; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet 1962 | |
| Sir John Peter Lorne Reid, GCB, CVO | 1903 | 1973 | Controller of the Navy 1956–1961 | |
| Sir Gerald Vaughan Gladstone, GBE, KCB | 1901 | 1978 | C-in-C Far East Fleet 1957–1960 | |
| Sir Manley Laurence Power, KCB, CBE, DSC | 1904 | 1981 | C-in-C Portsmouth 1959–1961; Retired list on 25 October 1961 | |
| Sir Wilfrid John Wentworth Woods, GBE, KCB | 1906 | 1975 | C-in-C Home Fleet 1960–1963; C-in-C Portsmouth 1963–1965; Retired list on 29 September 1965 | |
| Sir Alexander Noel Campbell Bingley, GCB, OBE | 1905 | 1972 | C-in-C Mediterranean Fleet 1959–1961; C-in-C Portsmouth 1961–1963 | |
| Sir John David Luce, KCB | 1906 | 1971 | First Sea Lord 1963–1966; Retired list on 15 March 1966 | |
| Sir Laurence Durlacher KCB OBE DSC | 1904 | 1986 | Fifth Sea Lord 1959–1962 | |
| Sir Charles Madden, 2nd Baronet | 1906 | 2001 | Commander-in-Chief Home Fleet 1963–1965; Retired list on 11 August 1965 | |
| Sir Varyl Cargill Begg, GCB, DSO, DSC | 1908 | 1995 | First Sea Lord 1966–1968; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1968 | |
| Sir Desmond Parry Dreyer, GCB, DSC | 1910 | 2003 | ||
| Sir John Graham Hamilton, GBE, CB | 1910 | 1994 | C-in-C Mediterranean 1964–1967 | |
| Sir Michael Le Fanu GCB DSC | 1913 | 1970 | First Sea Lord 1968–1970; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1970 | |
| Sir John Byng Frewen, GCB | 1911 | 1975 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1969–1970; Retired list on 21 April 1970 | |
| Sir Frank Henry Edward Hopkins, KCB, DSO | 1910 | 1990 | C-in-C Portsmouth 1966–1967 | |
| Sir Frank Roddam Twiss, KCB, KCVO, DSC | 1910 | 1994 | Second Sea Lord 1967–1970; Retired list on 21 April 1970 | |
| Sir John Fitzroy Duyland Bush, GCB, DSC | 1914 | 2013 | C-in-C Western Fleet 1967–1970 | |
| Peter John Hill-Norton, Baron Hill-Norton, GCB | 1915 | 2004 | First Sea Lord 1970–1971; Chief of the Defence Staff 1971–1974; promoted to Admiral of the Fleet in 1971 | |
| Sir William Donough O'Brien, KCB, DSC | 1916 | 2016 | C-in-C Western Fleet 1970–1971; on retired list from November 1971 | |
| Sir Michael Patrick Pollock, GCB, LVO, DSC | 1916 | 2006 | First Sea Lord 1971–1974; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1974 | |
| Sir Arthur Francis Turner, KCB, DSC | 1912 | 1991 | Chief of Fleet Support 1967–1971 | |
| Sir Edward Beckwith Ashmore, GCB, DSC | 1919 | 2016 | First Sea Lord 1974–1977; Chief of Defence Staff 1977; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1977 | |
| Sir Anthony Templer Frederick Griffith Griffin, GCB | 1920 | 1996 | Retired list on 15 December 1975 | |
| Terence Thornton Lewin, Baron Lewin, KG, GCB, LVO, DSC | 1920 | 1999 | C-in-C Fleet 1973–1975; C-in-C Naval Home Command 1975–1977; First Sea Lord 1977–1979; Chief of the Defence Staff 1979–1982; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1979 | |
| Sir John Rae McKaig KCB | 1922 | 1996 | ||
| Sir John Devereux Treacher, KCB | 1924 | 2018 | C-in-C Fleet 1975–1977 | |
| Sir Peter White GBE | 1919 | 2010 | Chief of Fleet Support 1974–1977 | |
| Sir Raymond Derek Lygo, KCB | 1924 | 2012 | ||
| Sir Henry Conyers Leach GCB | 1923 | 2011 | First Sea Lord 1979–1982; Admiral of the Fleet 1982 | |
| Sir James Henry Fuller Eberle, GCB | 1927 | 2018 | C-in-C Fleet 1979–1981; C-in-C Naval Home Command 1981–1982 | |
| Sir Desmond Cassidi, GCB | 1925 | 2019 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1982–1985 | |
| John David Elliott Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse, GCB, GBE | 1928 | 1992 | First Sea Lord 1982–1985; Chief of Defence Staff 1985–1988 promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1985 | |
| Sir William Pillar KCB | 1924 | 1999 | Commandant RCDS 1982–1984 | |
| Sir William Doveton Minet Staveley GCB | 1928 | 1997 | First Sea Lord 1985–1989; promoted Admiral of the Fleet 1989 | |
| Sir Peter Herbert KCB OBE | 1929 | 2019 | Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff 1983-1984 | |
| Sir Simon Alistair Cassilis Cassels, KCB, CBE | 1928 | 2019 | Second Sea Lord 1982–1986; on retired list from March 1986 | |
| Sir Peter Stanford GCB, LVO | 1929 | 1991 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1985–1987 | |
| Sir Nicholas John Streysham Hunt GCB, LVO, DL | 1930 | 2013 | C-in-C Fleet 1985–1987 | |
| Sir Richard George Alison Fitch KCB | 1929 | 1994 | Second Sea Lord 1986–1988 | |
| Sir David Hallifax KCB, KCVO, KBE | 1927 | 1992 | DSACLANT 1982–1984; Commandant RCDS 1986–1987 | |
| Sir John Forster Woodward, GBE, KCB | 1932 | 2013 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1987–1989 | |
| Sir Julian Oswald GCB | 1933 | 2001 | First Sea Lord 1989–1993; Admiral of the Fleet 1993 | |
| Sir Derek Roy Reffell, KCB | 1928 | Controller of the Navy 1984–1989; Retired list on 21 October 1989 | ||
| Sir Brian Thomas Brown KCB CBE | 1934 | Second Sea Lord 1988–1991 | ||
| Sir David Benjamin Bathurst, GCB | 1936 | First Sea Lord 1993–1995; promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 1995 | ||
| Sir Jeremy Black GBE, KCB, DSO | 1932 | 2015 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1989–1991 | |
| Sir Richard Thomas KCB, KCVO, OBE | 1932 | 1998 | DSACLANT 1987–89; Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod in retirement | |
| Sir Kenneth John Eaton, GBE, KCB | 1934 | Controller of the Navy 1989–1994 | ||
| Sir John Cunningham Kirkwood Slater, GCB, LVO | 1938 | First Sea Lord 1995–1998 | ||
| Sir Michael Howard Livesay KCB | 1936 | 2003 | Second Sea Lord 1991–1993 | |
| Sir John Beverley Kerr GCB, DL | 1937 | 2019 | C-in-C Naval Home Command 1991–1993 | |
| Sir Hugo Moresby White, GCB, CBE | 1939 | 2014 | C-in-C Fleet 1992–1995; Retired list 2 May 1997 | |
| Sir Michael Henry Gordon Layard KCB, CBE | 1936 | C-in-C Home Command & Second Sea Lord 1993–1995 | ||
| Sir Peter Charles Abbott, GBE, KCB | 1942 | 2015 | DSACLANT 1993–1995, C-in-C Fleet 1995–1997; VCDS 1997-2001 | |
| Michael Cecil Boyce, Baron Boyce, KG, GCB, OBE | 1943 | First Sea Lord 1998–2001; Chief of the Defence Staff 2001-2003; promoted honorary Admiral of the Fleet in 2014 | ||
| Sir John Richard Brigstocke, KCB | 1945 | Second Sea Lord 1997–2000 | ||
| Sir Nigel Richard Essenhigh, GCB | 1944 | First Sea Lord 2001–2002 | ||
| Sir James Francis Perowne, KBE | 1947 | DSACLANT 1998–2002; Retired list 2002 | ||
| Alan William John West, Baron West of Spithead, GCB, DSC | 1948 | First Sea Lord 2002–2006 | ||
| Sir Ian David Graham Garnett, KCB | 1944 | DSACLANT 1995–1998 | ||
| Sir Ian Andrew Forbes, KCB, CBE | 1946 | DSACLANT Jan–Oct 2002 | ||
| Sir Jonathon Band, GCB, DL | 1950 | First Sea Lord 2006–2009 | ||
| Sir Mark Stanhope, GCB, OBE | 1952 | First Sea Lord 2009–2013 | ||
| Sir James Michael Burnell-Nugent, KCB, CBE | 1949 | C-in-C Fleet 2005-2007 Retired list 11 April 2008 | ||
| The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, KG, KT, GCB, OM | 1948 | Promoted Admiral of the Fleet in 2012 | ||
| Sir Trevor Alan Soar, KCB, OBE | 1957 | C-in-C Fleet 2009–2012 | ||
| Sir George Michael Zambellas, GCB, DSC | 1958 | First Sea Lord 2013–2016 | ||
| The Princess Anne, Princess Royal, KG, KT, GCVO | 1950 | Chief Commandant for Women in the Royal Navy | ||
| Sir Philip Andrew Jones, GCB | 1960 | First Sea Lord 2016 — 2019 | ||
| Anthony David Radakin, CB | 1965 | First Sea Lord from 2019 | ||
| Timothy Peter Fraser CB | 1960? | Vice Chief of the Defence Staff from May 2019 |