In 1862 Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (age 42) appointed seven Knights of the Garter:

729th Charles Canning 1st Earl Canning (age 49). He died a month later.

730th Edward Adolphus Seymour 12th Duke Somerset (age 57).

731st. John Russell 1st Earl Russell (age 69).

732nd Anthony Ashley-Cooper 7th Earl Shaftesbury (age 60).

733rd William Thomas Wentworth-Fitzwilliam 6th and 4th Earl Fitzwilliam (age 46).

734th Prince Louis Hesse Darmstadt IV Grand Duke (age 24).

735th Grand Duke Frederick William of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (age 42).