List of knights of St Patrick

The regular creation of knights of Saint Patrick lasted until 1921, when most of Ireland became independent as the Irish Free State.

[1] While the Order technically still exists, no knight of St Patrick has been created since 1936, and the last surviving knight, Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, died in 1974.

St Patrick is patron of the order; its motto is Quis separabit?,[1] Latin for "Who will separate us?

": an allusion to the Vulgate translation of Romans 8:35, "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?

The original Royal Warrant (dated 5 February 1783) specified that there were to be no more than fifteen knights of the Order at any one time, something that changed in 1821 when George IV appointed an extra six knights (although the royal warrant was not altered to reflect this change until 1830).