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One Thousand and One Knights
help me name that many
From any era, but must be real historical person. No fiction. Theatre, stage, and film 1.Sir Ian McKellen (actor) 2.Sir Ian Holme (actor) 3.Sir Ian McDermid (actor) 4.Sir Peter Ustinov (actor) 5.Sir Sean Connery (actor) 6.Sir Michael Redgrave (actor) 7.Sir Charlie Chaplin (film legend) 8.Sir Derek Jacobi (actor) 9.Sir David Frost (television) 10.Sir Richard Attenborough (movie dir.) 11.Sir David Jason (comedian) 12.Sir David Attenborough (documentary film maker) 13.Sir John Gielgud (actor. I think recent) 14.Sir Alec Guiness (actor. recent enough) 15.Sir Anthony Hopkins. (film actor) 16.20.Sir Sidney Poitier (actor) 17.Sir Trevor MacDonald (broadcast / television) 18.Sir Ben Kingsley (actor) 19.Sir Richard Burton (actor) 20.Sir Michael Caine (actor) 21.Sir Laurence Olivier (actor) 22.Sir Roger Moore (JB actor) 23.Sir (Edward) Ian Claud Jacob - Director of the BBC 24.Sir William Haley - Director of the BBC 25.Sir Hugh Greene - Director of the BBC 26.Sir Alan Sugar (TV / Buisiness) 27.Sir David Lean (director) Politicians and historical 1.Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (following are politicians until next brackets) 2.Sir Winston Churchill 3.Sir Anthony Eden 4.Sir Alec Douglas-Home 5.Sir James Callaghan 6.Sir Edward Heath 7.Sir John Major 8.Sir Menzies Campbell 9.Sir Thomas More (politician) 10.Sir William Wallace 11.Sir John A. MacDonald (first Prime Minister of Canada) 12.Sir Wilfrid Laurier (prime minister of Canada) these are all contemporaries of Sir Walter Raleigh, and who were involved in his life and trial, or involved with the Roanoke mystery 13.Sir Walter Raleigh 14.Sir John Gilbert (Walter Raleigh's brother) 15.Sir Humphrey Gilbert (Raleigh's brother) 16.Sir Richard Grenville (explorer) 17.Sir Francis Drake (military/explorer) 18.Sir Francis Walsingham (sec. of state) 19.Sir Christopher Hatton (politician) 20.Sir John Hawkins (politician) 21.Sir Nicholas Throckmorton (politician) 22.Sir Phillip Sydney (politician) 24.Sir Francis Bacon (politician) 25.Sir John Arundell (explorer) 26.Sir Francis Allen (politician) 27.Sir John Popham (Lord Chief Justice) 28.Sir Francis Gawdy ( a Judge in Raleigh's trial) 29.Sir Dudley Carleton ( another judge?) 30.Sir Thomas Gates (Jamestown's interim Gov.) 31.Sir Martin Frobisher (explorer) 32.Sir Robert Cecil (court, privy council?) 33.Sir Anthony Parkhurst ( a writer? politician?) 34.Sir Amylus Paulet (Mary's guard?) 35.Sir George Peckham (Catholic investor?) 36.Sir George Carey (a relative of the Queen) 37.Sir George Carew ( Raleigh's cousin) 38.Sir Edward Coke (Attorney General) 39.Sir Robert Naunton (politician in Elizabeth's court?) 40.Sir Edward Stafford (politician in Elizabeth's court?) the following are most members of the Preston's of Craigmuller line, plus a "friend" 41.Sir John Preston I (baron of Gorton) 42.Sir Simon Preston (of JI, baron of Cragmelor) 43.Sir Simon Preston II (of SI, 1340) 44.Sir Henry Preston (of SI, 1371/85 45.Sir George Preston (of SII,1365/1424) 46.Sir Andrew Preston (of JII,ofGI,1374) 47.Sir David Preston (dec. of A.,1640)0 48.Sir William Preston (of JII) 49.Sir William Preston II (of WI) 50.Sir Simon Preston III, of WII) 51.Sir Thomas Preston of WII) 52.Sir George Preston II, Of SIII 53.Sir Simon Preston IV of GII 54.Sir David Preston I of SIV 55.Sir George Preston III of DI 56.Sir Robert Preston of DI 57.Sir Richard Preston of DI 58.Sir David Preston, dec. of SI 59.Sir John Gilmour (buyer of the Preston's Cragmelor in the the 1600's) end here 60.Sir Matthew Hale (1609-1676 cheif justice) 61.Sir Robert Bruce (scot who helped Wallace) 62.Sir John More (Thomas's father, a judge on the King's court) 63.Sir Henry Clinton (General) 64.Sir Thomas Gage (General) 65.Sir William Howe (General) 66.Sir Mike Jackson (General) 67.Sir Nigel Bagnall (Field Marshall) 68.Sir John Gilbert (Painter, designer) 69.Sir Patrick "Paddy" Bardon Hine - Royal Air Force Commander 70.Sir Anthony John Crowther Bagnall - RAF Commander 71.Sir (John) Jeremy Black - Naval Commander 72.Sir Ian Frank Bowater - Mayor of London 73.Sir Thomas Albert Blamey - Australian General 74.Sir Kenneth William Blackburne - First Governor General of Jamaica RAF 1.Sir Francis Mellersh (Also Inspector of Ground Combat Training) 2.Sir Bernard Chacksfield (Also Inspector of Ground Defence) 3.Sir Jock Stirrup (Air Cheif Marshall) THE STANDING COUNCIL OF THE BARONETAGE: 1.Sir Rowland Whitehead Bt 2.Sir Nicholas Bonsor Bt 3.Sir Tobias Clarke Bt 4.Colonel Sir Brian Barttelot Bt OBE DL 5.Colonel Sir Geoffrey Errington Bt OBE 6.Chairman: Sir Ian Lowson Bt OStJ Exec commitee: 7.Sir Ian Lowson Bt OStJ - Chairman 8.Sir Aubrey Brocklebank Bt - Hon Treasurer 9.Sir Richard Butler Bt 10.Sir Robert Clerk Bt OBE DL 11. 12.Sir Edward Hulse Bt 13.Colonel Sir Peter Redwood Bt 14.Sir David Roche Bt 15.Sir Charles Rowley Bt 16.Sir James Scott Bt 17.Sir Nicholas Thompson Bt 18.Sir George White Bt Knights of Arthur 1.Sir Launcelot 2.Sir Gawain 3.Sir Gaheris 4.Sir Ector 5.Sir Bors 6.Sir Lionel 7.Sir Gareth 8.Sir Tristram 9.Sir Mordred 10.Sir Agravaine 11.Sir Tarquine 12.Sir Tor 13.Sir Percival 14.Sir Galahad People Buried in or honored in, or in relation to those busried in Westminster Abbey 1.Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1907, arctic explorer) 2.Sir John Franklin 1847 arctic explorer 3.Sir Francis Vere 1609 military commander 4.Sir Gilbert Lart 1698 son of… 5.Sir John Lart 2nd bt. 6.Sir George Holles 1626 brother of a certain Lord Clare 7.Sir Thomas Mauleurer 1st bt 1655 8.Sir George Pocock Admiral 1792 9.Sir Charles Stuart 1801 the Honorable General 10.Sir Humphrey Davy 1829 inventor of safety-lamp 11.Sir Thom Parry 1560 treasurer to Queen Elizabeth 12.Sir William Berkeley 1666 vice-admiral 13.Sir John Harpedon 1438 4th husband of de la Pole, Lady Cobman 14.Sir John Oldcastle 3rd husband to Lady Cobman 15.Sir Christopher Hatton 1619 (?) 16.Sir Charles Reed Peers 1952, surveyor of the Fabric 17.Sir Charles Saunders 1775 admiral 18.Sir Thomas Vaughn 1483 priv. treasurer to Edward IV 19.Sir Robert Howard 1698 dramatist 20.Sir John Wyndesore 1414 bro. to Lord William Wyndesore Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland 21.Sir Thomas Peyton 2nd bt. 1684 22.Sir Lewis Robessart 1430 parliament 23.Sir Thomas Bromley 1587 Lord Keeper 24.Sir Nicholas Bacon lord keeper 25.Sir James Fullerton 1631 1st Gentleman to Royal Bedchamber to Charles I 26.Sir John Puckering 1596 parliament lawyer 27.Sir Henry Belasyse 1717 L-Lieutenant to WIII 28.Sir Rowland Hill 1879 inventor 29.Sir Charles Parsons 1931 Marine England 30.Sir Benjamin Baker 1907 engineer 31.Sir John Wolfe Barry 1918 president inst. Civil Engineering 32.Sir Frederick Henry Royce 1933 aero-engineer 33.Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Prime Minister d.1908) 34.Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (General 1849) 35.Sir James Stuart Denham 1780, soldier 36.Sir John Frederick William Herschel 1st bt. 1871, astronomer 37.Sir George Gabriel Stokes 1903, mathematician 38.Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 1911, botanist 39.Sir William Ramsey 1916 chemist 40.Sir George Leonard Staunton 1801, diplomat 41.Sir Edmund Prideaux 5th bt. 1729 42.Sir Stamford Raffles 1826 Lt. of Singapore(?) 43.Sir Edward Spragge 1673, General 44.Sir Thomas Hogketh 1605, attorn. To QEI 45.Sir Thomas Fowell Baxton 1845, philanthropist 46.Sir Thomas Richardson 1635 spkr. House of Commons 47.Sir John Burland 1776, baron exchequer 48.Sir Godfrey Kneller 1723, painter 49.Sir Clowdisly Shovell 1707 Admiral of the Royal Fleet 50.Sir Thomas Trigge Lt.-Gen of Ordinance 51.Sir Richard Bingham 1599 Marshal of Ireland 52.Sir John James, descendant of Lords of Haertsomething 53.Sir Robert Killigrew vice-chamberlain to QHenriette Maria 54.Sir Edward Broughton 1665 Keeper of Gatehouse Prison 55.Sir John Beaumont 1627 poet 56.Sir John Denham 1669 poet 57.Sir Henry Irving 1905 stage producer 58.Sir Frederick Bridge (composer) 59.Sir Archibald Campbell 1791 General 60.Sir James Campbell 1819 Lt.-Gen 61.Sir Robert Atkyns 1711 Author of History of Gloucester 62.Sir Thomas Robinson 1777 architect 63.Sir Robert Taylor 1788 architect 64.Sir Richard Coxe 1623 “Taster” –for food!?- to QE & JI 65.Sir Robert Stapylton 1669 poet 66.Sir Robert Moray 1796 architect 67.Sir William Chambers 1796 architect 68.Sir William D’Avenant 1668 poet laureate 69.Sir John de la Roche (?) 70.Sir William Constable bt. 1655 71.Sir Thomas Lovell 1524 Gov. of Gloucester 72.Sir John Golofre 1396 Ambassador to the Court of France 73.Sir Richard Pecksall 1571 Master of the Royal Buckhounds 74.Sir Bernard Brocas 1396 Master of the Royal Buckhounds 75.Sir Bernard Brocas II, Master of Buckhounds, executed as traitor 76.Sir Humphrey Bourgcier 1471, Soldier 77.Sir Frescheville Holles 1672 Soldier 78.Sir Robert Anstruther 1645 privy councilor 79.Sir Henry Spelman 1641 Antiquarian 80.Sir John Brydges, Lord Mayor of London 81.Sir Richard Sackville, husband to Marchioness of Winchester 82.Sir Hugh Smithson-Percy, Duke of Northumberland 83.Sir Nicholas Carew 1470 feudal Baron of Carew Pembroke shire 84.Sir George Fane 1618 (?) 85.Sir Humphrey Stanley 1505 (in plated Armour…presumably a knight) 86.Sir George Villiers 1605 (…no known occupation to me…but is said to have appeared as a ghost before his son was murdered) 87.Sir Thomas Ingram 1672 chancellor duchy of Lancaster 88.Sir Robert Ayton 1638, poet philosopher, friend to Ben Jonson 89.Sir John Balchen 1744, Admiral 90.Sir William Sanderson 1676, historian to QMOS 91.Sir Edward Tyrell 1681 father of certain Dame Bridget 92.Sir Henry James Sumner Maine 1888 Member council of India, Prof. of Law 93.Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes 1868 soldier 94.Sir Henry Blackwood 1832 vice-admiral 95.Sir Clifton Wintingham 1794 physician 96.Sir Eyre Coote 1783 Lt.-Gen 97.Sir George Cornewall Lewis 1863, Chancellor of the Exchequer 98.Sir Charles Wager 1743, Admiral 99.Sir John Malcolm 1833 Maj-Gen 100.Sir Peter Warren 1752 Vice-Admiral 101.Sir Robert Peel 1850 (Prime Minister) 102.Sir Walter Tapper 1861 President of RIB Architects 103.Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson (organist 1928 104.Sir Charles Wynham Murray Colonel, gentleman usher of the scarlet Rod 105.Sir Edward Knapp-Fisher 1940 Chapter clerk 106.Sir John Hawkins 1789…. 107.Sir John Kemp 1771, Bt. 108.Sir Edmond Berry Godfry 1678, Court Justice The Battle of Towton, March 29, 1461. these are all the knighted men who died in the battle, Lancastrian and Yorkist. following are Yorkists 1.Sir John Asherton 2.Sir John Astley 3.Sir Richard Beauchamp 4.Sir Humphrey Blount 5.Sir Walter Blount, knighted 6.Sir Thomas Burgh 7.Sir Nicholas Byron 8.Sir Robert Chamberlain 9.Sir John Clay 10.Sir Robert Clifton 11.Sir Christopher Conyers 12.Sir John Conyers 13.Sir Roger Corbie, rewarded after battle 14.Sir Philip Courtenay 15.Sir Richard Croft the Younger, rewarded after battle 16.Sir Richard Croft the Elder, rewarded after battle 17.Sir Gilbert Debenham 18.Sir Walter Devereaux, knighted 19.Sir John Dinham, rewarded after battle 20.Sir John Dunne, rewarded after battle 21.Sir Guy Fairfax 22.Sir John Fogge, rewarded after battle 23.Sir Geoffrey Gate 24.Sir Robert Green 25.Sir John Harcourt, Esq 26.Sir Robert Harcourt, rewarded after battle 27.Sir James Harrington 28.Sir Robert Harrington 29.Sir Richard Hastings 30.Sir William Hastings, knighted 31.Sir William Herbert, knighted 32.Sir John Howard, rewarded after battle 33.Sir Richard Jenney, killed in battle 34.Sir Henry Lewys 35.Sir George Lumley 36.Sir Thomas Lumley 37.Sir John Markham 38.Sir Robert Markham 39.Sir Thomas Montgomery, rewarded after battle 40.Sir Simon Mountford 41.Sir William Norrys 42.Sir Robert Ogle, knighted 43.Sir Thomas Parr 44.Sir John Paston 45.Sir William Petche 46.Sir Henry Pierrepont 47.Sir John Pilkington 48.Sir Laurence Rainsford, rewarded in battle 49.Sir William Rainsford 50.Sir Henry Ratcliffe 51.Sir John Say, rewarded after battle 52.Sir John Scott, rewarded after battle 53.Sir Henry Stafford 54.Sir Humphrey Stafford, knighted 55.Sir John Stafford, killed in battle 56.Sir William Stanley 57.Sir James Strangeways, rewarded after battle 58.Sir Richard Strangeways 59.Sir Thomas Strickland 60.Sir William Stoner 61.Sir Roger Thornton of Nether Whitton, Northumberland 62.Sir Thomas Thorpe 63.Sir Lancelot Threlkeld of Threlkeld of Cumberland 64.Sir Roger Tocotes of Bromham, Wilts, rewarded after battle 65.Sir Thomas Tudenham, of Oxborough, Norfolk 66.Sir William Tyrell 67.Sir Roger Vaughan 68.Sir Thomas Vaughn, rewarded after battle 69.Sir Thomas Walgrave, rewarded after battle 70.Sir John Wenlock, knighted 71.Sir Robert Wingfield 72.Sir Roger Wolferstone follwing are Lancastrians: 1.Sir Thomas Babthorpe 2.Sir Henry Bellingham, attainted 3.Sir William Bertram 4.Sir John Bigod, Lord Mauley, killed in battle 5.Sir Henry Bokingham 6.Sir John Burton 7.Sir John Butler, attainted 8.Sir Thomas Butler, attainted 9.Sir Richard Carey 10.Sir William Catesby 11.Sir Roger Clifford 12.Sir Gervase Clifton 13.Sir John Courtenay, attainted 14.Sir John Crackenthorpe, killed in battle 15.Sir Thomas Crackenthorpe, killed in battle 16.Sir Henry Dacre 17.Sir Humphrey Dacre, attainted 18.Sir John Delves 19.Sir John Dunn 20.Sir Thomas Elderton 21.Sir Ralph Eure, killed in battle 22.Sir Thomas Everyingham, attainted 23.Sir William Fielding 24.Sir John Fortescue, attainted 25.Sir Baldwin Fulford 26.Sir Thomas Fulford 27.Sir Thomas Fyndern, attainted 28.Sir William Gascoigne 29.Sir Ralph Grey 30.Sir Thomas Grey, attainted 31.Sir Edward Hamden, attainted 32.Sir Simon Hammes, attainted 33.Sir Richard Hammis, killed in battle 34.Sir Edmund Hampden 35.Sir William Harhill, killed in battle 36.Sir Nicholas Harvey, attainted 37.Sir William Havill, killed in battle 38.Sir John Heron, killed in battle 39.Sir Thomas Hervey 40.Sir John Heyton, killed in battle 41.Sir William Hill, killed in battle 42.Sir Robert Hillyard, killed in battle 43.Sir Alexander Hody 44.Sir William Holland, attainted 45.Sir Walter Hungerford, attainted 46.Sir Nicholas Latimer, attainted 47.Sir Henry Lewes, attainted 48.Sir James Luttrell 49.Sir John Marney 50.Sir John Maulever 51.Sir Thomas Metham 52.Sir William Mille, attainted 53.Sir Thomas Molyneaux 54.Sir John Montgomery, executed 55.Sir Edmund Moundford, attainted 56.Sir Henry Narbohew, killed in battle 57.Sir Charles Neville 58.Sir Humphrey Neville 59.Sir William Newburgh 60.Sir John Pennington 61.Sir Ralph Percy, did not suffer forfeiture under Edward IV 62.Sir Richard Percy, killed in battle 63.Sir William Plumpton 64.Sir Henry Roos 65.Sir Henry Ross, killed in battle and later attainted 66.Sir William St. Quyntin 67.Sir William Tailboys, executed 68.Sir Richard Tempest of Bracewell, Yorkshire, betrayed by Henry VI, allegiance to to Clifford 69.Sir John Tresham 70.Sir Thomas Tresham 71.Sir Andrew Trollope, killed in battle 72.Sir David Trollope, killed in battle 73.Sir Richard Tuddenham of Oxborough, Norfolk 74.Sir Richard Tunstall of Thurland, attainted 75.Sir William Vaux, attainted 76.Sir Philip Wentworth, attainted 77.Sir Robert Whitingham, attainted Music 1.Sir Roger Norrington (conductor) 2.Sir Yehudi Menuhin (cond/violinist) 3.Sir James Galway (flautist) 4.Sir Edward Elgar (composer) 5.Sir William Walton (composer) 6.Sir Michael Tippet (composer) 7.Sir John Stainer (composer) 8.Sir Adrian Boult (conductor) 9.Sir Simon Rattle (conductor) 10.Sir Charles Mackerras (conductor) 11.Sir John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) 12.Sir John Barbirolli (conductor) 13.Sir Colin Davis (conductor) 14.Sir Neville Marriner (conductor) 15.Sir Paul McCartney (sonwriter/singer) 16.Sir Georg Solti (conductor) 17.Sir Cliff Richard (music) 18.Sir Elton John (songwriter/singer) 19.Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) 20.Sir Bob Geldof (looking scruffy - occasional music) 21.Sir Michael Costa (conductor) 22.Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) 23.Sir Hubert Parry (composer) 24.Sir Charles Villiers Stanford (composer) 25.Sir Andrew Davis (conductor) 26.Sir Malcolm Arnold (composer) 27.Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (composer) 28.Sir Charles Groves (conductor) 29.Sir Charles Halle (conductor) 30.Sir Thomas Armstrong (1 of the former Principals of Royal Acad. of Mus.) 31.Sir Peter Pears (opera singer) 32.Sir Geraint Evans (opera singer) 33.Sir John Dykes Bower (composer) 34.Sir George Smart (Drury Lane Opera Dir.) 35.Sir Arthur Sullivan (composer) 36.Sir William Sterndale Bennett (composer) 37.Sir David Willcocks (conductor) 38.Sir George Dyson (composer) 39.Sir Hamilton Harty (conductor) 40.Sir Alexander Mackenzie (composer) 41.Sir Arthur Bliss (composer) 42.Sir Arnold Bax (composer) 43.Sir Donald F. Tovey (music critic, pianist) 44.Sir Richard Rodney Bennet (composer)\ 45.Sir Harrison Birtwhistle (composer) 46.Sir Tom Jones (singer) 47.Sir Henry Wood (conductor) 48.Sir George Henschel (conductor) 49.Sir Eugene Goossens (conductor) 50.Sir F. Vivian Dunn (conductor) 51.Sir Alexander Gibson (conductor) 52.Sir John Pritchard (conductor) 53.Sir Reginald Goodall (conductor) 54.Sir Edward Downes (conductor) 55.Sir Thomas Allen (opera singer) 56.Sir Donald McIntyre (opera singer) 57.Sir Charles Santley (opera singer) 58.Sir Philip Ledger (b. 1937), organist 59.Sir George Martin (1844-1916) organist 60.Sir Frederick Cowen (1852-1935) pianist 61.Sir Clifford Curzon (1907-82), , pianist 62.Sir David Lumsden (b. 1928)organist 63.Sir John Stevenson (composer) 64.Sir Henry Rowley Bishop (composer) 65.Sir Julius Benedict (composer) 66.Sir George Elvey (composer) 67.Sir George Alexander Macfarren (composer) 68.Sir William Cusins (composer) 69.Sir William Parratt (composer) 70.Sir J. Frederick Bridge (composer) 71.Sir Walford Davies (composer) 72.Sir Edward German (composer) 73.Sir Granville Bantock (composer) 74.Sir Lennox Berkeley (composer) 75.Sir George Thalben-Ball (composer) 76.Sir Andrzej Panufnik (composer) 77.Sir John Manduell (composer) 78.Sir John Tavener (composer) 79.Sir Landon Ronald (conductor) 80.Sir Anthony Lewis (conductor) 81.Sir Bono (U2 singer, humanitarian) 82.Sir Ernest MacMillan (composer) Writers/poets 1.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (writer) '30 2.Sir Osbert Sitwell (writer) 1892-1969 3.Sir Sechervall Sitwell (writer) 1897-1988 4.Sir Walter Raleigh (writer) 5.Sir Walter Scott (writer) 6.Sir Arthur Miller (the playwright. recent) 7.Sir Thomas Malory (writer) 8.Sir Richard Francis Burton (writer,trans) 9.Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (Satirist, writer) 10.Sir Wemyss Reid (journalist) 11.Sir Neville Cardus (cricket and music journalist) 12.Sir Arthur C. Clarke (sci-fi writer) 13.Sir Stanley Unwin (Tolkien's Publisher!!) 14.Sir James Murray (founder of the Oxford English Dic.) 15.Sir Harry Johnston (author of two volumes on Liberia) 16.Sir Harry Roche (chairman Press Association '95) 17.Sir Noel Coward (writer) 18.Sir John Betjeman (poet) Science/medicine/invention 1.Sir Alexander Fleming (scientist-penicillen) 2.Sir Frederick Banting (co-discoverer of insulin) 3.Sir Richard Doll(scientist-smoking lung cancer...) 4.Sir Isaac Newton (physics) 5.Sir Ernest Shackleton (explorer) 6.Sir James Dyson (inventor) 7.Sir Humphry Davy (scientist) 8.Sir Frank Whittle (invented the Jet engine) 9.Sir Thomas Lipton (tea maker) 10.Sir Tim Berners-Lee (creator of WorldWideWeb) 11.Sir James Frazier (anthropologist) 12.Sir James Chadwick (physicist) 13.Sir James Jean (astronomer) 14.Sir Anders Grey (inventor) 15.Sir Richard Rogers, Architect 16.Sir William Rowan Hamilton, Mathematician. 17.Sir Paul Nurse, Biologist 18.Sir Edmund Hillary (adventurer/explorer) 19.Sir Henry Hallett Dale - Scientist 20.Sir Thomas Dalmahoy Barlow - Businessman 21.Sir Muir Gray (doctor) 22.Sir John Grimley Evans (doctor) 23.Sir Iain Chalmers (doctor) 24.Sir George Alberti (doctor) 25.Sir Thomas Farmer (doctor) 26.Sir Charles Fraser (doctor) 27.Sir Ian Gainsford (doctor) 28.Sir Robert Smith (doctor) 29.Sir Jobby McShite (doctor) Sports 1.Sir Donald Bradman (cricket) 2.Sir Stanley Matthews (football) 3.Sir Richard Hadlee (cricket) 4.Sir Bobby Robson (soccer) 5.Sir Garfield Sobers (cricket) 6.Sir Walter Hammond (cricket) 7.Sir John Hobbs (cricket) 8.Sir Frank Worell (cricket) 9.Sir Steve Redgrave (olympic rower) 10.Sir Alex Ferguson (football/soccer) 11.Sir Bobby Charlton(foot) 12.Sir Trevor Brooking(foot) 13.Sir Geoff Hurst (football) 14.Sir Alf Ramsey (football) 15.Sir Stephen Redgrave (olympic gold rower) 16.Sir Matthew Busby (football) 17.Sir Rodney Walker (sports chairman) 18.Sir Clyde Walcott (cricket) 19.Sir Everton Weekes (cricket) 20.Sir Arthur Sims (cricket) 21.Sir Donald Bradman (Cricket) 22.Sir Vivian Richards (cricket) 23.Sir Everton Weekes (cricket) 24.Sir Len Hutton (Cricket) other 1.Sir James Goldsmith (billionaire financier) 2.Sir Mick Jagger (demon) 3.Sir Rudy Giuliani (honorary kh. Politician) 4.Sir William Gates (Micrsoft founder, Honorary) 5.Sir Edward Vaughn Williams (RVW's dad) 6.Sir Steven Spielberg (movie dir. honorary knighthood) 7.Sir Francis Galton (Jerk) 8. Sir Gerald Kaufman (politician) total:545 1.Dame Moura Lympany (b. 1916), pianist 2.Dame Gillian Weir (b. 1941),organist 3.Dame Myra Hess (1890-1965), pianist 4.Dame Thea King (b. 1925), clarinettist, 5.Dame Ethel Smyth (1858-1944, composer) 6.Dame Elizabeth Maconchy (b. 1907, composer) 7.Dame Nellie Melba (opera singer) 8.Dame Clara Butt (opera singer) 9.Dame Emma Albani [Emma Lajeunesse] (opera singer) 10.Dame Maggie Teyte (opera singer) 11.Dame Eva Turner (opera singer) 12.Dame Joan Hammond ((opera singer) 13.Dame Vera Lynn (opera singer) 14.Dame Janet Baker (opera singer) 15.Dame Isobel Baillie (opera singer) 16.Dame Shirley Bassey (opera singer) 17.Dame Clio Laine (opera singer) 18.Dame Gracie Fields (opera singer) 19.Dame Joan Sutherland (opera singer) 20.Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (opera singer) 21.Dame Gwyneth Jones (opera singer) 22.Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (opera singer) 23.Dame Margaret Price (opera singer) 24.Dame Josephine Barstow (opera singer) 25.Dame Felicity Lott (opera singer) 26.Dame Daphne Sheldrick (wildlife preservationist) 27.Dame Helen Mirren (actress) 28.Dame Maggie Smith 29.Dame Judi Dench 30.Dame Julie Andrews 31.Dame Edith Sitwell (writer) 1887-1964 32.Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson (wheelchair athlete) 33.Dame Anita Roddick (founder of Body shop) 34.Dame Agatha Christie (novelist) 35.Dame Elizabeth Taylor The Peerage Lord Tennyson (poetry) Lord Benjamin Britten (composer) Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber (Broadway composer) Lord Yehudi Menuhin (violinist/cond.) Lord Berners (composer) Famous refusals: C.S. Lewis Ralph Vaughn Williams Rabindranath Tagore, Bengali poet and writer, who gave up his knighthood in protest for a massacre in India in 1919.
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Sir Anthony Hopkins. (film actor) EDIT: This should include Dames too.
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well, he's a knight .... i knighted him myself for services to the Unholy alliance. when you say must have lived in the 1900's?? do you mean from then till current day??? all above i posted with the possible exception of sir grey?? were footballers. Also Sir Trevor Brooking. Last edited by Butterbeer : 09-16-2005 at 03:53 PM. |
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fortunately, keith richards has stated he would never accept the honor himself if given
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That's 'Sir' to You: Stones' Mick Jagger Knighted All Things Considered, December 12, 2003 · Forty years after his band crashed onto the world stage with its bad boy image, Rolling Stones rocker Mick Jagger was knighted by Prince Charles today at Buckingham Palace in London. NPR's Robert Siegel and NPR's Melissa Block reflect on how the Stones have become part of the establishment.
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Not the same Sir Michael wrote classical music.
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