The 1922 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 19 October 1922 at the advice of the outgoing Prime Minister, David Lloyd George. The Rt Hon. Frederick...
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Honours, also known as "the Lavender List", about which BBC Four produced a docudrama. An earlier scandal over David Lloyd George's 1922 Dissolution Honours...
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The 2024 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 4 July 2024, the day of the 2024 general election. They were gazetted in The London Gazette on 7 August...
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Baron Bethell (category Noble titles created in 1922)
title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in the 1922 Dissolution Honours for the banker and Liberal politician Sir John Bethell, 1st Baronet...
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The 2025 New Year Honours are appointments by King Charles III among the 15 Commonwealth realms to various orders and honours to recognise and reward...
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The 1945 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 7 June to mark the dissolution of the United Kingdom parliament prior to the 1945 general election. The...
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King's Birthday Honours when he was made a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG). In the 1922 Dissolution Honours List he was promoted...
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Herbert Lewis (politician) (category UK MPs 1918–1922)
in 1922, but declined the honour. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE) in the 1922 Dissolution Honours List...
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The 1964 Dissolution Honours were officially announced on 27 November 1964 and marked the dissolution of parliament following the 1964 General Election...
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Winston Churchill (category National Liberal Party (UK, 1922) politicians)
Order of the Companions of Honour, as named in Lloyd George's 1922 Dissolution Honours list. Churchill spent much of the next six months at the Villa...
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List of people who have declined a British honour (redirect from Declined honours)
Queen, in 2013. Keith Hill, Labour MP; declined knighthood in 2010 Dissolution Honours, stating: "My fundamental reason is that I have never had the least...
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The 1970 Dissolution Honours List was issued on 2 June 1970 to mark the dissolution of the United Kingdom parliament prior to the 1970 general election...
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Westminster Chapel from 1918 to 1922, when he retired due to ill-health, dying the following year. In the 1922 Dissolution Honours as suggested by David Lloyd...
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Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom (redirect from British honours)
2010 Dissolution Honours and Sunak issued the 2024 Dissolution Honours to similar effect). As part of the British honours system, Special Honours are issued...
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became one of 50 Companions of Honour named in Lloyd George's 1922 Dissolution Honours list. After the 1923 general election was called, seven Liberal...
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He was awarded a knighthood for his services to music in the 1922 Dissolution Honours. Terry was also a composer of church music, most notably of hymn...
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John Pratt (Liberal politician) (category UK MPs 1918–1922)
the Ministry of Health for Scotland from 1919 to 1922. He was knighted in the 1922 Dissolution Honours. Pratt did not contest the general election of the...
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Distances round the British Isles. Underhill was knighted in 1922 as part of the 1922 Dissolution Honours. see: Arthur Underhill, The Staffordshire Underhills...
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Neville Jodrell (category UK MPs 1918–1922)
Jodrell did not stand for Parliament again. He was knighted in the 1922 Dissolution Honours List. Craig, F. W. S. (1983) [1969]. British parliamentary election...
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Alfred Cope (section Honours)
of the Bath (CB) in the 1920 Birthday Honours and knighted in the same order (KCB) in the 1922 Dissolution Honours. London, England, Church of England Baptisms...
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died in infancy. He was created a baronet in 1922, of Merseyside, Lancashire, in the 1922 Dissolution Honours. He died on 20 April 1934, the day after undergoing...
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Graham Brady (category Chairmen of the 1922 Committee)
general election, Brady was nominated for a life peerage in the 2024 Dissolution Honours. He was created Baron Brady of Altrincham, of Birch-in-Rusholme in...
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appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath on 19 October 1922 in the 1922 Dissolution Honours List. As Permanent Secretary Napier was secretary of the...
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This 1927 Art Deco medal was edited for the dissolution of the 1st Life Grenadier Regiment, obverse...
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Douglas Hacking, 1st Baron Hacking (category UK MPs 1918–1922)
Palatine of Lancaster in the 1938 Birthday Honours, was sworn of the Privy Council in the 1929 Dissolution Honours and was raised to the peerage as Baron...
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Humphrey Atkins (category 1922 births)
St Michael and St George as a Knight Commander (KCMG) in the 1983 Dissolution Honours. He left the House of Commons in 1987 and was created a life peer...
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Clanfield in the County of Southampton, and Earl Peel in that year's Dissolution Honours. When a Conservative-dominated National Government was formed after...
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and other honours; the 1783 introduction of the Order of St. Patrick was a similar source of patronage and compliance. Article 5 of the 1922 Constitution...
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Aberdeen. He was knighted in 1934 Birthday Honours and created a baronet in the 1945 Dissolution Honours. "No. 34056". The London Gazette (Supplement)...
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Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood (category UK MPs 1918–1922)
Gardens in the Royal Borough of Kensington, in 1915, and in the 1929 Dissolution Honours he was raised to the peerage as Baron Greenwood, of Llanbister in...
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