Field Marshal Sir Hugh Gough, first Viscount Gough, who in this portrait is wearing the Army Gold Cross and the broad riband of a GCB, was said to have commanded in more general actions than any other British officer in the 19th century, except the Duke of Wellington. On 1 March 1861 Gough went to Windsor Castle from Ireland (he was of Irish birth and descent) to attend the first investiture of the Order of the Star of India, when he was the first non-royal knight to receive the Order from the Queen. He died eight years later, when he was nearly ninety.