01-22-2006, 09:34 AM | #81 |
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If we are counting Dames then Dame Tanni-Grey Thompson.
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
01-25-2006, 05:03 PM | #82 |
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All right, but can you tell me what she does?
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01-25-2006, 05:08 PM | #83 |
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Paralympics 2004
Athlete profile: Tanni Grey-Thompson Name: Tanni Grey-Thompson. Event: Wheelchair athletics. Date of birth: 26 July 1969. Interests: Sport and listening to '80s music. ............but I hadn't heard she got knighted.............
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01-25-2006, 07:34 PM | #84 |
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Yes in the 2005 New Years Honours List.
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Then Huor spoke and said: "Yet if it stands but a little while, then out of your house shall come the hope of Elves and Men. This I say to you, lord, with the eyes of death: though we part here for ever, and I shall not look on your white walls again, from you and me a new star shall arise. Farewell!" The Silmarillion, Nirnaeth Arnoediad, Page 230 |
03-22-2006, 03:19 PM | #85 |
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Sir Arthur C. Clarke (sci-fi writer)
Sir Stanley Unwin (Publisher) Sir James Murray (founder of the Oxford English Dic.) Sir Landon Ronald (conductor)
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03-29-2006, 03:26 PM | #88 |
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Thought I'd Put This Here*****yeah, Baby!
Singer Tom Jones Is Knighted
From Associated Press March 29, 2006 12:16 PM EST LONDON - Welsh singer Tom Jones is getting used to meeting Queen Elizabeth II - but Wednesday was something special as she dubbed him, "Sir Tom." The 65-year-old singer, a coal miner's son from the Welsh town of Pontypridd, received the honor from the queen at Buckingham Palace. Jones said he had met the British monarch "six or seven times, maybe more," starting with a royal charity performance in 1966. "I love seeing the queen and I have always been a royalist," Jones said after the investiture. "She is lovely and she still is lovely." The big-voiced belter, who was accompanied by his son, daughter and granddaughter, said receiving the knighthood was "just tremendous." "When you first come into show business and you get a hit record, it is the start of something," he said. "As time goes on, it just gets better. This is the best thing that I have had. It is a wonderful feeling, a heady feeling. "Sometimes you just can't believe it, you think you have been dreaming." Born Thomas Jones Woodward, Jones began his singing career at age 3. His string of hits started with "It's Not Unusual" in 1965, and includes "What's New, Pussycat?," "Green, Green Grass of Home," "Help Yourself," "She's a Lady," and "Never Fall in Love Again,"
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03-29-2006, 03:28 PM | #89 |
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A royalist, eh? Good for him!
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03-29-2006, 05:43 PM | #90 |
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I'll have to add him. *chagrin in his grin*
update: and with him adde, we have: total:359, that is NOT including Dames and Lords
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03-29-2006, 07:15 PM | #91 |
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shame on you Hector!!!
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04-14-2006, 04:32 AM | #93 |
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Did we get "Sir Ben Kingsley, Actor" yet?
(Go see "Lucky Number Slevin" BTW...)
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I believe to have read that Anita Roddick (founder of Body Shop) is also a Dame? Not sure, though, you might want to check that.
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I do believe I have some new ones:
Sir Renigald Goodall (conductor) Sir Edward Downes (conductor) Sir John Pritchard (conductor) Sir Anthony Lewis (conductor) Sir Granville Bantock (composer) Sir Andrew Pafnufnik (composer) Sir Harrison Birtwistle (composer) Sir John More (Thomas's father, a judge on the King's court) Sir James Jeans (astronomer) Lord Berners (composer)
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05-02-2006, 08:21 PM | #97 |
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[tell me if these don't count, but they should if they don't!]
sir launcelot sir gawain sir gaheris sir ector sir bors sir lionel sir gareth sir tristram sir mordred sir agravaine sir tarquine sir tor sir percival sir galahad and of course, sir not-appearing-in-this-picture...they were real! the stories were legend, but legend is based on fact...oh, they were warriors all...
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Ladies and Gentlemen...Preparez tous
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 Impressive Eh?
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Which brings us to 484! Very close to half. Start helping me pump the numbers people!
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