Founder Knights
All the founder knights were invested on 27 May 1725 (except Lords Inchiquin and Tyrconnell, who were invested on 28 May, and the Duke of Richmond, who was not invested at all) and then installed on 17 June 1725.
| Image | Name | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Prince William Augustus | died 31 October 1765 | |
| John Montagu, 2nd Duke of Montagu | died 5 July 1749 | |
| William Montagu, 2nd Duke of Manchester | died 21 October 1739 | |
| Charles Beauclerk, Earl of Burford | died 27 July 1751 | |
| John Sidney, 6th Earl of Leicester | died 27 September 1737 | |
| Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle | died 22 December 1754 | |
| Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine | died 25 December 1750 | |
| George Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax | died 9 May 1739 | |
| Talbot Yelverton, 1st Earl of Sussex | died 27 October 1731 | |
| Thomas Fermor, 1st Earl of Pomfret | died 8 July 1753 | |
| Lord Nassau Powlett | died 24 August 1741 | |
| Admiral George Byng, 1st Viscount Torrington | died 17 January 1733 | |
| George Cholmondeley, Viscount Malpas | died 10 June 1770 | |
| John Campbell, Viscount Glenorchy | died 26 January 1782 | |
| John West, 7th Baron De La Warr | died 16 March 1766 | |
| Hugh Fortescue, 14th Baron Clinton | died 2 May 1751 | |
| Robert Walpole, 1st Baron Walpole | died 31 March 1751 | |
| Spencer Compton | resigned on receiving the Garter 12 June 1733 | |
| William Stanhope | died May 1772 | |
| Conyers Darcy | died 1 December 1758 | |
| Thomas Lumley-Saunderson | died 15 March 1752 | |
| Paul Methuen | died 11 April 1757 | |
| Robert Walpole | resigned on receiving the Garter 26 May 1726 | |
| Robert Sutton | died 13 August 1746 | |
| Lieutenant General Charles Wills | died 25 December 1741 | |
| Sir John Hobart, 5th Baronet | died 22 September 1756 | |
| Sir William Gage, 7th Baronet | died 23 April 1744 | |
| Robert Clifton | died 7 December 1762 | |
| Michael Newton | died 6 April 1743 | |
| William Yonge | died 10 August 1755 | |
| Thomas Watson-Wentworth | died 14 December 1750 | |
| John Monson | died 18 July 1748 | |
| William Morgan | died 24 April 1731 | |
| Thomas Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester | died 20 April 1759 | |
| William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin | died 18 July 1777 | |
| John Brownlow, 1st Viscount Tyrconnel | died 27 February 1754 |
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