G.C.B.

American  

abbreviation

1. Grand Cross of the Bath.

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GCB British  

abbreviation

1. (Knight) Grand Cross of the Bath (a Brit title)

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Example Sentences

For his special services in this connexion he was made G.C.B. in 1893, this being the only instance of a lord chancellor being decorated with an order.

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He had been promoted to the rank of admiral on the 18th of January 1886; was made K.C.B, in December 1885; G.C.B. in September 1889; and in February 1892 was raised to the peerage as Lord Hood of Avalon, but on his death the title became extinct.

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From that date the history of Sir Evelyn Baring, who became Baron Cromer in 1892, G.C.B. in 1895, viscount in 1897, and earl in 1901, is the history of Egypt, and requires the barest mention of its salient points here.

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In 1830 he was made first sea lord of the admiralty, being created G.C.B. in 1831.

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G.C.B., and to offer congratulations to Her Most Noble Majesty upon her worthy subject.

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