Order Rank
Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (DB)
A senior rank within the Order of the Bath for distinguished military or civil service.
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Awarded over time
Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (DB) appointments by year, split by honours list.
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- 2026New Year (1) · Birthday (1)
- 2025New Year (1) · Birthday (2)
- 2024New Year (1) · Birthday (1)
- 2022Birthday (1)
- 2021New Year (1) · Birthday (2)
- 2020New Year (2) · Birthday (1)
- 2018Birthday (1)
- 2017Birthday (1)
- 2016New Year (1)
- 2015Birthday (1)
- 2014Birthday (1)
- 2013New Year (2)
- 2010Birthday (1)
- 2009Birthday (1)
- 2008Birthday (1)
- 2004New Year (1)
Topics
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The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by King George I on 18 May 1725. Recipients of the Order are usually senior military officers or senior civil servants, and the monarch awards it on the advice of His Majesty's Government. The name derives from an elaborate medieval ceremony for preparing a candidate to receive his knighthood, of which ritual bathing was an element. While not all knights went through such an elaborate ceremony, knights so created were known as "knights of the Bath".
Background from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
About this honour
The Dame Commander of the Order of the Bath (DB) recognises high-level service and leadership. It was established in 1725 by King George I, and is conferred by the British Crown.
It is awarded to senior civil servants and military officers, recognising impact at national level, in areas such as leadership, service and excellence.
Candidates are put forward through government nomination, assessed by the honours committee and approved by the Sovereign. Appointments are announced in the New Year Honours and the King's Birthday Honours. Recipients are invested at a royal ceremony.
Recipients take the formal title “Dame”. Recipients may use the post-nominal letters DB. Recipients wear the badge, star, sash. In the order of precedence it sits above companion (CB) and below grand Cross (GCB).
It signifies high-level service and leadership, representing service, excellence and leadership.
Recipients
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2026
2025
Sarah Healey
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2025
London, Greater London
“For Public Service.”
Tamara Finkelstein
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2025
London, Greater London
“For Public Service.”
Madeleine Alessandri
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2025
London, Greater London
“For Public Service.”
2024
2022
2021
Elizabeth Anne Finlay Gardiner
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2021
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
“For services to Government and the Legislative Process.”
Lynne Gillian Owens
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2021
Surrey Heath, Surrey
“For services to Law Enforcement.”
Brenda Sullivan, (brenda King)
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2021
Belfast, City of Belfast
“For services to Constitutional Law.”
2020
Melanie Henrietta Dawes
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2020
London, Greater London
“For public service.”
Alison Saunders
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2020
London, Greater London
“For services to Criminal Justice.”
Clare Moriarty
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The Bath · 2020
Petersfield, Hampshire
“For public service.”
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Linked data
Dame Commander, the second grade of the Order of the Bath for women; recipients are styled Dame and use the post-nominal DCB.
- Post-nominal
- DCB
- Wikidata
- Q12177471
- The Gazette ontology
- gaz:DameCommmanderOrderOfBath
From the Honoria honours vocabulary (SKOS). exactMatch = Wikidata; closeMatch = The Gazette honours ontology (official but a 2008–2015 beta).
Related honours
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)CBE
- Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)CVO
- Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG)CMG
- Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)CB
- Companion of the Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)CH
- Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG)DCMG