List of Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour
Below is a list of Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour from the order's creation in 1917 until the present day:
Members
Date | Image | Name | Birth–Death | Area of achievement |
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4 June 1917 | ![]() | Jan Smuts | 1870–1950 | Statesman |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | Harry Gosling | 1861–1930 | Politician and trade unionist |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | The Marchioness of Lansdowne | 1850–1932 | Courtier and humanitarian |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | Elizabeth Haldane | 1862–1937 | Suffragist, writer |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | K. B. Quinan | 1878–1948 | Chemical engineer |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | Sir Henry Smith | 1863–1923 | Civil servant |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | The Lord Burnham | 1862–1933 | Newspaper proprietor and politician |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | Sir Frank Swettenham | 1850–1946 | Colonial administrator |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | Edward Strutt | 1854–1930 | Agriculturalist |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | The Lord Faringdon | 1850–1934 | Financier and politician |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | The Viscount Chetwynd | 1863–1936 | Industrialist |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | William Ripper | 1853–1937 | Educationalist |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | May Tennant | 1869–1946 | Civil servant and social reformer |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | Violet Markham | 1872–1959 | Social reformer |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | William John Davis | 1848–1934 | Trade unionist |
4 June 1917 | ![]() | George Wardle | 1865–1947 | Politician |
4 June 1917 | Alexander Wilkie | 1850–1928 | Politician | |
1 January 1918 | ![]() | Sir John Furley | 1836–1919 | Humanitarian |
1 January 1918 | ![]() | James Andrew Seddon | 1868–1939 | Politician and trade unionist |
1 January 1918 | James Parker | 1863–1948 | Politician | |
25 February 1918 | ![]() | Sir Alfred Keogh | 1857–1936 | Doctor, head of Army Medical Service |
3 June 1918 | ![]() | Sir Herbert Perrott, Bt | 1849–1922 | Humanitarian |
3 June 1918 | ![]() | Sir Samuel Provis | 1845–1926 | Civil servant |
29 April 1919 | ![]() | Walter Layton | 1884–1966 | Economist and newspaper proprietor |
29 April 1919 | ![]() | Sir Thomas Royden, Bt | 1871–1950 | Businessman and politician |
1 January 1920 | ![]() | George Nicoll Barnes | 1859–1940 | Politician |
1 January 1920 | ![]() | Philip Kerr | 1882–1940 | Diplomat |
1 January 1921 | ![]() | Sir John Ellerman, Bt | 1862–1933 | Entrepreneur and shipping magnate |
1 January 1921 | ![]() | John Clifford | 1836–1923 | Nonconformist minister |
4 June 1921 | ![]() | The Viscount Dillon | 1844–1932 | Antiquary and heraldist |
4 June 1921 | ![]() | Arthur Headlam | 1862–1947 | Bishop of Gloucester |
4 June 1921 | ![]() | Sir William Robertson Nicoll | 1851–1923 | Church minister and journalist |
2 January 1922 | ![]() | Sir Henry Jones | 1852–1922 | Philosopher |
2 January 1922 | ![]() | Sir Henry Newbolt | 1862–1938 | Poet |
2 January 1922 | ![]() | Joseph Havelock Wilson | 1859–1929 | Trade unionist |
19 October 1922 | ![]() | Sir Hall Caine | 1853–1931 | Novelist |
19 October 1922 | ![]() | Winston Churchill | 1874–1965 | Statesman |
19 October 1922 | ![]() | Sir Evan Vincent Evans | 1851–1934 | Journalist and promoter of the Welsh national revival[1] |
19 October 1922 | ![]() | John Jowett | 1863–1923 | Congregationalist minister[2] |
25 May 1923 | ![]() | J. C. C. Davidson | 1889–1970 | Conservative politician |
1 January 1926 | ![]() | Wilson Carlile | 1847–1942 | Church Army founder |
5 June 1926 | ![]() | Herbert Armitage James | 1844–1931 | Cleric and school administrator |
1 January 1927 | ![]() | Hugh Sheppard | 1880–1937 | Anglican priest |
9 May 1927 | ![]() | Stanley Bruce | 1883–1967 | Prime Minister of Australia |
3 June 1927 | ![]() | John Jones | 1865–1942 | Congregational minister |
4 June 1928 | ![]() | John Scott Haldane | 1860–1936 | Physiologist |
1 March 1929 | ![]() | Lady Florence Barrett | 1867–1945 | Gynaecologist |
1 March 1929 | ![]() | John Carlile | 1862–1941 | Baptist minister, social reformer |
1 March 1929 | ![]() | Lilian Baylis | 1874–1937 | Theatre producer |
1 March 1929 | ![]() | Frederick Delius | 1862–1934 | Composer |
30 April 1929 | ![]() | Bramwell Booth | 1856–1929 | Leader of The Salvation Army |
3 June 1929 | ![]() | Thomas Jones | 1870–1955 | Civil servant and educationalist |
1 January 1930 | Maude Royden | 1876–1956 | Suffragist | |
1 January 1930 | ![]() | V. S. Srinivasa Sastri | 1869–1946 | Indian politician |
1 January 1930 | ![]() | Gertrude Tuckwell | 1861–1951 | Trade unionist and social worker |
3 June 1930 | ![]() | Margaret McMillan | 1860–1931 | Trade unionist |
1 January 1931 | ![]() | Helena Swanwick | 1864–1939 | Feminist and pacifist |
1 January 1931 | ![]() | Jane Harriett Walker | 1859–1938 | Medical doctor |
3 June 1931 | ![]() | Albert Mansbridge | 1876–1952 | Educator |
3 June 1931 | ![]() | Seebohm Rowntree | 1871–1954 | Industrialist and philanthropist |
1 January 1932 | ![]() | John Buchan | 1875–1940 | Scottish author and Governor General of Canada |
3 June 1932 | ![]() | E. V. Lucas | 1868–1938 | Writer |
3 June 1932 | ![]() | Laurence Binyon | 1869–1943 | Poet |
2 January 1933 | ![]() | Tubby Clayton | 1885–1972 | Priest and philanthropist |
2 January 1933 | John Scott Lidgett | 1854–1953 | Methodist priest and educationist | |
3 June 1933 | ![]() | Annie Horniman | 1860–1937 | Theatre manager |
1 January 1934 | ![]() | Thomas Page | 1850–1936 | Classicist |
3 June 1935 | ![]() | William Bruce | 1858–1936 | Lawyer, politician, educationalist |
3 June 1935 | ![]() | John White | 1867–1951 | Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland |
1 January 1936 | ![]() | J. Dover Wilson | 1881–1969 | Shakespeare scholar |
23 June 1936 | ![]() | Joseph Lyons | 1879–1939 | Prime Minister of Australia |
23 June 1936 | ![]() | Janet Trevelyan | 1879–1956 | Writer |
23 June 1936 | ![]() | Hugh MacDowell Pollock | 1852–1937 | Businessman and Ulster Unionist politician |
23 June 1936 | ![]() | George Adams | 1874–1966 | Political scientist and academic |
11 May 1937 | ![]() | Melbourn Aubrey | 1885–1957 | Baptist Union of Great Britain General Secretary |
11 May 1937 | ![]() | John Alfred Spender | 1862–1942 | Journalist and editor |
11 May 1937 | ![]() | Charles Thomson Rees Wilson | 1869–1959 | Physicist |
11 May 1937 | ![]() | The Viscountess Astor | 1879–1964 | Pioneering woman politician |
11 May 1937 | ![]() | Gwendoline Davies | 1882–1951 | Philanthropist and patron of the arts |
1 January 1938 | Howell Arthur Gwynne | 1865–1950 | Newspaper editor and author | |
8 June 1939 | ![]() | James Mallon | 1875–1961 | Social reformer |
8 June 1939 | ![]() | George Peabody Gooch | 1873–1968 | Historian |
1 January 1941 | ![]() | James Louis Garvin | 1868–1947 | Journalist and author |
1 January 1941 | ![]() | Arthur Henry Mann | 1876–1972 | Journalist |
1 January 1941 | ![]() | Billy Hughes | 1862–1952 | Prime Minister of Australia |
12 June 1941 | ![]() | A. V. Alexander | 1885–1965 | Labour politician |
11 June 1942 | ![]() | The Lord Woolton | 1883–1964 | Businessman turned-politician |
23 June 1942 | ![]() | Sir Earle Page | 1880–1961 | Prime Minister of Australia |
1 January 1943 | ![]() | Joseph Hertz | 1872–1946 | Chief Rabbi of Great Britain and the Commonwealth |
1 January 1943 | ![]() | The Lord Leathers | 1883–1965 | Industrialist turned-politician |
21 May 1943 | ![]() | J. M. Andrews | 1871–1956 | Prime Minister of Northern Ireland |
2 June 1943 | ![]() | Ernest Hives | 1886–1965 | Industrialist |
2 June 1943 | The Lord Snell | 1865–1944 | Labour politician | |
9 August 1943 | ![]() | The Viscount Swinton | 1884–1972 | Conservative politician |
24 September 1943 | ![]() | Essington Lewis | 1881–1961 | Industrialist |
1 January 1944 | ![]() | Richard Casey | 1890–1976 | Australian politician and British colonial administrator |
1 January 1944 | ![]() | Edmund Fellowes | 1870–1951 | Theologian and musicologist |
1 January 1944 | ![]() | Robert Hudson | 1886–1957 | Conservative politician |
8 June 1944 | ![]() | Sir Henry Wood | 1869–1944 | Conductor, founded the Proms |
4 August 1944 | Sir Godfrey Huggins | 1883–1971 | Prime Minister of Rhodesia | |
1 January 1945 | ![]() | The Earl of Selborne | 1887–1971 | Conservative politician |
8 June 1945 | ![]() | Clement Attlee | 1883–1967 | Labour politician |
8 June 1945 | Arthur Greenwood | 1880–1954 | Labour politician | |
14 June 1945 | ![]() | Henry Williams | 1872–1961 | Bishop of Carlisle |
5 July 1945 | ![]() | Harry Crerar | 1888–1965 | Canadian general |
17 August 1945 | Leo Amery | 1873–1955 | Conservative politician | |
17 August 1945 | Ernest Brown | 1881–1962 | Liberal politician | |
17 August 1945 | ![]() | Hastings Ismay | 1887–1965 | Soldier |
1 January 1946 | ![]() | Archibald Hill | 1886–1977 | Physiologist |
4 January 1946 | ![]() | Peter Fraser | 1884–1950 | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
22 May 1946 | ![]() | Vincent Massey | 1887–1967 | Governor General of Canada |
13 June 1946 | ![]() | George Gibson | 1885–1953 | Trade unionist |
13 June 1946 | ![]() | Andrew McNaughton | 1887–1966 | Canadian general and diplomat |
12 June 1947 | ![]() | James Bone | 1872–1962 | Journalist |
12 June 1947 | J. W. Robertson Scott | 1866–1962 | Writer, campaigner on rural issues | |
1 January 1948 | ![]() | Margaret Bondfield | 1873–1953 | Pioneering woman politician |
1 January 1948 | ![]() | Vita Sackville-West | 1892–1962 | Writer |
10 June 1948 | ![]() | Walter de la Mare | 1873–1956 | Writer |
10 June 1948 | ![]() | Howell Elvet Lewis | 1860–1953 | Bard, Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales |
10 June 1948 | ![]() | William Whiteley | 1882–1955 | Labour politician |
1 January 1949 | ![]() | Lord David Cecil | 1902–1986 | Biographer, historian and academic |
1 January 1949 | ![]() | Arthur Deakin | 1890–1955 | Trade unionist |
9 June 1949 | ![]() | Lionel George Curtis | 1872–1955 | Soldier and author |
1 January 1951 | ![]() | Sir Stafford Cripps | 1889–1952 | Politician |
1 January 1951 | ![]() | Robert Menzies | 1894–1978 | Prime Minister of Australia |
7 June 1951 | ![]() | Sidney Holland | 1893–1961 | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
30 November 1951 | ![]() | Herbert Morrison | 1888–1965 | Politician |
5 June 1952 | Walter Elliot | 1888–1958 | Scottish Unionist politician | |
1 January 1953 | ![]() | E. M. Forster | 1879–1970 | Novelist |
1 June 1953 | ![]() | Benjamin Britten | 1913–1976 | Composer |
1 June 1953 | James Chuter Ede | 1882–1965 | Labour politician | |
1 June 1953 | ![]() | Ian Fraser | 1897–1974 | Conservative politician |
1 June 1953 | ![]() | Tom Johnston | 1881–1965 | Labour politician |
10 November 1953 | ![]() | The Lord Cherwell | 1886–1957 | Physicist |
1 January 1954 | ![]() | John Christie | 1882–1962 | Founder of Glyndebourne Festival Opera |
8 January 1954 | ![]() | Rab Butler | 1902–1982 | Politician |
10 June 1954 | ![]() | W. Somerset Maugham | 1874–1965 | Writer |
21 December 1954 | ![]() | René Massigli (honorary) | 1888–1988 | French diplomat |
1 January 1955 | ![]() | Harry Crookshank | 1893–1961 | Conservative politician |
1 January 1955 | ![]() | Hugh Martin | 1890–1964 | Christian activist |
9 June 1955 | ![]() | Henry Moore | 1898–1986 | Sculptor |
2 January 1956 | ![]() | The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood | 1864–1958 | Conservative politician |
2 January 1956 | ![]() | Sir John Kotelawala | 1897–1980 | Prime Minister of Sri Lanka |
2 January 1956 | ![]() | Arthur Waley | 1889–1966 | Orientalist and sinologist |
31 May 1956 | ![]() | Edward Gordon Craig | 1872–1966 | Theatre practitioner |
31 May 1956 | ![]() | Arnold J. Toynbee | 1889–1975 | Historian |
16 July 1956 | ![]() | Nuri al-Said (honorary) | 1888–1958 | Prime Minister of Iraq |
1 January 1957 | ![]() | John Baillie | 1886–1960 | Theologian |
14 January 1957 | James Stuart | 1897–1971 | Scottish Unionist politician | |
13 June 1957 | ![]() | Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt | 1879–1961 | Conductor and musical impresario |
13 June 1957 | ![]() | John Gregg | 1873–1961 | Clergyman, theologian |
1 January 1958 | ![]() | The Viscount Nuffield | 1877–1963 | Industrialist |
12 June 1958 | ![]() | Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bt | 1892–1969 | Writer |
1 January 1959 | ![]() | Sir John Beazley | 1885–1970 | Archaeologist and art historian |
1 January 1959 | ![]() | Sir Kenneth Clark | 1903–1983 | Art historian |
13 June 1959 | ![]() | Walter Nash | 1882–1968 | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
1 January 1960 | ![]() | Alan Lennox-Boyd | 1904–1983 | Politician |
31 December 1960 | ![]() | The Earl of Limerick | 1888–1967 | Soldier |
31 December 1960 | ![]() | Tunku Abdul Rahman | 1903–1990 | Prime Minister of Malaysia |
10 June 1961 | ![]() | C. H. Dodd | 1884–1973 | Theologian |
1 January 1962 | ![]() | Walter Matthews | 1881–1973 | Church of England priest |
2 June 1962 | ![]() | The Lord Hailes | 1901–1974 | Politician |
20 July 1962 | ![]() | Selwyn Lloyd | 1904–1978 | Politician |
20 July 1962 | John Maclay | 1905–1992 | Politician | |
20 July 1962 | Harold Watkinson | 1910–1995 | Politician | |
1 January 1963 | ![]() | Keith Holyoake | 1904–1983 | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
14 May 1963 | ![]() | Paul-Henri Spaak (honorary) | 1899–1972 | Belgian politician and statesman |
1 January 1964 | ![]() | I. A. Richards | 1893–1979 | Literary critic |
1 December 1964 | Henry Brooke | 1903–1984 | Politician | |
1 January 1965 | ![]() | The Lord Silkin | 1889–1972 | Politician |
12 June 1965 | ![]() | Patrick Blackett | 1897–1974 | Physicist |
12 June 1965 | ![]() | Manny Shinwell | 1884–1986 | Politician |
1 January 1966 | Graham Greene | 1904–1991 | Writer | |
1 January 1966 | ![]() | The Baroness Summerskill | 1901–1980 | Physician, politician, writer |
19 May 1966 | Jim Griffiths | 1890–1975 | Politician | |
19 May 1966 | Lady Megan Lloyd George | 1902–1966 | Politician | |
1 January 1967 | ![]() | Sir William Lawrence Bragg | 1890–1971 | Physicist |
1 January 1967 | ![]() | Sir Mortimer Wheeler | 1890–1976 | Archaeologist |
5 January 1967 | ![]() | Douglas Houghton | 1898–1996 | Politician |
10 June 1967 | ![]() | Sir Arthur Bryant | 1899–1985 | Historian and writer |
10 June 1967 | ![]() | Sir Harold Hartley | 1878–1972 | Chemist |
10 June 1967 | ![]() | The Lord Reid | 1890–1975 | Judge and politician |
14 June 1967 | ![]() | Harold Holt | 1908–1967 | Prime Minister of Australia |
1 January 1968 | ![]() | The Lord Boyd-Orr | 1880–1971 | Biologist, head of FAO |
1 January 1968 | ![]() | Ernest Alexander Payne | 1902–1980 | Baptist administrator |
1 January 1968 | ![]() | The Lord Robbins | 1898–1994 | Economist, academic |
8 June 1968 | ![]() | Patrick Gordon Walker | 1907–1980 | Politician |
1 January 1969 | Sir Adrian Boult | 1889–1983 | Conductor | |
1 January 1969 | ![]() | Sir John McEwen | 1900–1980 | Prime Minister of Australia |
1 January 1969 | ![]() | Michael Stewart | 1906–1990 | Politician |
14 June 1969 | ![]() | Sir John Barbirolli | 1899–1970 | Conductor |
14 June 1969 | ![]() | Sir Allen Lane | 1902–1970 | Publisher |
14 June 1969 | Eric Williams | 1911–1981 | Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago | |
1 January 1970 | ![]() | Sir James Chadwick | 1891–1974 | Physicist, discovered the neutron |
1 January 1970 | ![]() | Sir A. P. Herbert | 1890–1971 | Writer and advocate of law reform |
1 January 1970 | ![]() | Lee Kuan Yew (honorary) | 1923–2015 | Singaporean politician |
14 June 1970 | ![]() | Sir Frederick Ashton | 1904–1988 | Dancer and choreographer |
14 June 1970 | ![]() | Dame Sybil Thorndike | 1882–1976 | Actress |
1 January 1971 | ![]() | Sir Maurice Bowra | 1898–1971 | Classicist |
12 June 1971 | ![]() | Charles Herbert Best | 1899–1978 | Medical researcher |
12 June 1971 | ![]() | Sir Arthur Bliss | 1891–1975 | Composer |
12 June 1971 | ![]() | John Gorton | 1911–2002 | Prime Minister of Australia |
14 June 1971 | ![]() | Joseph Luns (honorary) | 1911–2002 | Dutch politician |
1 January 1972 | ![]() | William McMahon | 1908–1988 | Prime Minister of Australia |
1 January 1972 | ![]() | Sir Peter Medawar | 1915–1987 | Biologist |
22 January 1972 | ![]() | Jean Monnet (honorary) | 1888–1979 | French economist and diplomat |
3 June 1972 | ![]() | The Lord Goodman | 1915–1995 | Lawyer, administrator |
3 June 1972 | ![]() | Herbert Howells | 1892–1983 | Composer |
3 June 1972 | ![]() | John Piper | 1903–1992 | Artist |
1 January 1973 | ![]() | Jack Marshall | 1912–1988 | New Zealand politician |
1 January 1973 | ![]() | Sir Robert Mayer | 1879–1985 | Businessman and philanthropist |
1 January 1973 | ![]() | Duncan Sandys | 1908–1987 | Politician |
2 June 1973 | ![]() | Bernard Leach | 1887–1979 | Potter |
2 June 1973 | ![]() | Irene Ward | 1895–1980 | Politician |
1 January 1974 | ![]() | The Lord Cohen of Birkenhead | 1900–1977 | Physician |
1 January 1974 | ![]() | The Countess of Limerick | 1897–1981 | Humanitarian, prominent in Red Cross |
1 January 1974 | William Whitelaw | 1918–1999 | Politician | |
5 April 1974 | ![]() | The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone | 1907–2001 | Politician |
15 June 1974 | David Jones | 1895–1974 | Poet | |
15 June 1974 | ![]() | Nathaniel Micklem | 1888–1976 | Theologian |
1 January 1975 | ![]() | Jack Ashley | 1922–2012 | Politician |
1 January 1975 | The Lord Gardiner | 1900–1990 | Politician | |
1 January 1975 | ![]() | Max Perutz | 1914–2002 | Molecular biologist |
29 April 1975 | ![]() | Arnold Smith | 1915–1994 | Canadian diplomat |
14 June 1975 | ![]() | The Lord Aylestone | 1905–1994 | Politician |
14 June 1975 | ![]() | The Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest | 1896–1979 | Judge |
1 January 1976 | ![]() | John Diefenbaker | 1895–1979 | Prime Minister of Canada |
27 May 1976 | ![]() | The Lord Elwyn-Jones | 1909–1989 | Politician |
27 May 1976 | ![]() | Edward Short | 1912–2012 | Politician |
31 December 1976 | ![]() | Cledwyn Hughes | 1916–2001 | Politician |
31 December 1976 | ![]() | Jack Jones | 1913–2009 | Trade unionist |
31 December 1976 | ![]() | F. R. Leavis | 1895–1978 | Academic, literary critic |
26 January 1977 | ![]() | Malcolm Fraser | 1930–2015 | Prime Minister of Australia |
11 June 1977 | ![]() | Sir John Gielgud | 1904–2000 | Actor |
11 June 1977 | ![]() | Robert Muldoon | 1921–1992 | Prime Minister of New Zealand |
11 June 1977 | The Baroness Wootton of Abinger | 1897–1988 | Sociologist, criminologist | |
3 June 1978 | ![]() | Michael Somare | b. 1936 | Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea |
12 June 1979 | ![]() | Denis Healey | 1917–2015 | Politician |
16 June 1979 | Sir Michael Tippett | 1905–1998 | Composer | |
31 December 1979 | ![]() | The Lord Thorneycroft | 1909–1994 | Politician |
14 June 1980 | ![]() | The Lord Soames | 1920–1987 | Politician |
31 December 1980 | ![]() | Victor Pasmore | 1908–1998 | Artist |
30 April 1981 | ![]() | Brian Talboys | 1921–2012 | New Zealand politician |
13 June 1981 | ![]() | The Lord Boyle of Handsworth | 1923–1981 | Politician |
13 June 1981 | ![]() | Frederick Sanger | 1918–2013 | Biochemist |
31 December 1981 | ![]() | Doug Anthony | b. 1929 | Australian politician |
31 December 1981 | Dame Ninette de Valois | 1898–2001 | Dancer, choreographer, teacher, and director of ballet | |
12 June 1982 | ![]() | Sir Karl Popper | 1902–1994 | Philosopher |
11 June 1983 | ![]() | The Lord Carrington | 1919–2018 | Politician |
11 June 1983 | ![]() | Lucian Freud | 1922–2011 | Artist |
31 December 1983 | ![]() | Sir Steven Runciman | 1903–2000 | HIstorian |
31 December 1983 | ![]() | Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt | 1897–1988 | Art critic and writer |
16 June 1984 | The Viscount Eccles | 1904–1999 | Politician | |
16 June 1984 | ![]() | Friedrich Hayek | 1899–1992 | Economist and philosopher |
16 June 1984 | ![]() | Sir Philip Powell | 1921–2003 | Architect |
4 July 1984 | ![]() | Pierre Trudeau | 1919–2000 | Prime Minister of Canada |
31 December 1984 | Sir Hugh Casson | 1910–1999 | Architect and broadcaster | |
15 June 1985 | ![]() | Philip Larkin | 1922–1985 | Poet |
15 June 1985 | Rodney Robert Porter | 1917–1985 | Biochemist | |
21 May 1986 | ![]() | Sir Keith Joseph, Bt | 1918–1994 | Politician |
31 December 1986 | ![]() | Sydney Brenner | 1927–2019 | Biologist |
31 December 1986 | ![]() | Sir John Summerson | 1904–1992 | Architectural historian |
13 June 1987 | ![]() | Dadie Rylands | 1902–1999 | Academic and theatre director |
13 June 1987 | ![]() | Sir Peter Scott | 1909–1989 | Naturalist and conservationist |
31 July 1987 | Norman Tebbit | b. 1931 | Politician | |
31 December 1987 | Anthony Powell | 1905–2000 | Author | |
17 June 1989 | ![]() | Stephen Hawking | 1942–2018 | Physicist |
30 December 1989 | ![]() | David Lange | 1942–2005 | Politician |
13 April 1992 | ![]() | Kenneth Baker | b. 1934 | Politician |
13 April 1992 | ![]() | Peter Brooke | b. 1934 | Politician |
13 April 1992 | ![]() | Tom King | b. 1933 | Politician |
13 June 1992 | ![]() | Dame Elisabeth Frink | 1930–1993 | Artist |
13 June 1992 | Joseph Needham | 1900–1995 | Biochemist and sinologist | |
31 December 1992 | ![]() | Sir Victor Pritchett | 1900–1997 | Writer |
12 June 1993 | C. H. Sisson | 1914–2003 | Writer | |
12 June 1993 | Elsie Widdowson | 1906–2000 | Nutritionist | |
31 December 1993 | ![]() | David Astor | 1912–2001 | Newspaper publisher |
31 December 1993 | ![]() | Dame Janet Baker | b. 1933 | Opera singer |
31 December 1993 | ![]() | Sir John Smith | 1923–2007 | Politician |
11 June 1994 | ![]() | Sir Alec Guinness | 1914–2000 | Actor |
11 June 1994 | ![]() | Reginald Victor Jones | 1911–1997 | Physicist, scientific military intelligence expert |
11 June 1994 | ![]() | The Lord Owen | b. 1938 | Politician |
31 December 1994 | ![]() | César Milstein | 1927–2002 | Biochemist |
31 December 1994 | ![]() | Carel Weight | 1908–1997 | Artist |
17 June 1995 | ![]() | Sir Denys Lasdun | 1914–2001 | Architect |
17 June 1995 | Sir Nevill Francis Mott | 1905–1996 | Physicist | |
30 December 1995 | ![]() | Sir David Attenborough | b. 1926 | Broadcaster and naturalist |
30 December 1995 | ![]() | Sir Richard Doll | 1912–2005 | Epidemiologist |
30 December 1995 | ![]() | Douglas Hurd | b. 1930 | Politician |
30 December 1995 | ![]() | Derek Worlock | 1920–1996 | Roman Catholic Archbishop of Liverpool |
15 June 1996 | ![]() | The Lord Howe of Aberavon | 1926–2015 | Politician |
31 December 1996 | A. L. Rowse | 1903–1997 | Historian | |
14 June 1997 | ![]() | David Hockney | b. 1937 | Artist |
2 August 1997 | ![]() | Michael Heseltine | b. 1933 | Politician |
31 December 1997 | ![]() | Eric Hobsbawm | 1917–2012 | Historian |
31 December 1997 | ![]() | Chris Patten | b. 1944 | Politician and governor of Hong Kong |
13 June 1998 | Peter Brook | b. 1925 | Theatre director | |
31 December 1998 | ![]() | John Major | b. 1943 | Politician |
31 December 1998 | ![]() | Bridget Riley | b. 1931 | Artist |
31 December 1998 | John de Chastelain | b. 1937 | Canadian general and diplomat | |
31 December 1999 | ![]() | Richard Hamilton | 1922–2011 | Artist |
31 December 1999 | ![]() | Doris Lessing | 1919–2013 | Writer |
31 December 1999 | ![]() | Chad Varah | 1911–2007 | Founder of The Samaritans |
11 May 2000 | ![]() | Amartya Sen (honorary) | b. 1933 | Indian economist |
30 December 2000 | ![]() | Sir Harrison Birtwistle | b. 1934 | Composer |
30 December 2000 | ![]() | Paul Scofield | 1922–2008 | Actor |
16 June 2001 | ![]() | Sir Colin Davis | 1927–2013 | Conductor |
31 December 2001 | ![]() | Sir George Christie | 1934–2014 | Opera manager |
12 June 2002 | ![]() | Bernard Haitink (honorary) | b. 1929 | Dutch conductor |
15 June 2002 | ![]() | Harold Pinter | 1930–2008 | Playwright |
15 June 2002 | ![]() | Sir Michael Howard | 1922–2019 | Historian |
31 December 2002 | ![]() | Sir Howard Hodgkin | 1932–2017 | Artist |
31 December 2002 | ![]() | James Lovelock | b. 1919 | Scientist and environmentalist |
31 December 2002 | ![]() | Sir Denis Mahon | 1910–2011 | Art historian |
14 June 2003 | ![]() | Sir Charles Mackerras | 1925–2010 | Conductor |
14 June 2003 | ![]() | Dan McKenzie | b. 1942 | Geophysicist |
14 June 2003 | ![]() | The Lord Hannay of Chiswick | b. 1935 | Diplomat |
11 June 2005 | ![]() | Dame Judi Dench | b. 1934 | Actress |
2006 | ![]() | Anthony Pawson | 1952–2013 | Microbiologist |
31 December 2007 | ![]() | Sir Ian McKellen | b. 1939 | Actor |
14 June 2008 | ![]() | The Lord Rogers of Riverside | b. 1933 | Architect |
11 June 2011 | ![]() | The Lord Howard of Lympne | b. 1941 | Politician |
20 September 2012 | ![]() | Sir George Young, Bt | b. 1941 | Politician |
29 December 2012 | ![]() | The Lord Coe | b. 1956 | Athlete, politician, organiser of 2012 Olympics |
29 December 2012 | ![]() | Peter Higgs | b. 1929 | Physicist |
7 January 2013 | ![]() | The Lord Strathclyde | b. 1960 | Politician |
15 June 2013 | ![]() | Sir Menzies Campbell | b. 1941 | Politician |
15 June 2013 | ![]() | Sir Nicholas Serota | b. 1946 | Museum curator |
31 December 2013 | ![]() | Peter Maxwell Davies | 1934–2016 | Composer and conductor |
31 December 2013 | ![]() | The Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve | b. 1941 | Philosopher |
14 June 2014 | ![]() | Dame Maggie Smith | b. 1934 | Actress |
22 July 2014 | ![]() | Kenneth Clarke | b. 1940 | Politician |
1 January 2015 | ![]() | The Lord Ashdown of Norton-sub-Hamdon | 1941–2018 | Politician |
1 January 2015 | ![]() | Sir Adrian Cadbury | 1929–2015 | Businessman |
1 January 2015 | ![]() | Dame Mary Peters | b. 1939 | Athlete |
1 January 2015 | ![]() | The Lord Young of Graffham | b. 1932 | Politician |
13 June 2015 | ![]() | Sir Neville Marriner | 1924–2016 | Conductor |
13 June 2015 | ![]() | The Lord Woolf | b. 1933 | Judge |
30 November 2015 | ![]() | Desmond Tutu (honorary) | b. 1931 | Clergyman and activist |
31 December 2015 | ![]() | Sir Roy Strong | b. 1935 | Art historian |
11 June 2016 | ![]() | Dame Vera Lynn | 1917–2020 | Singer |
11 June 2016 | The Lord Smith of Kelvin | b. 1944 | Businessman | |
11 June 2016 | ![]() | The Baroness Amos | b. 1954 | Politician and diplomat |
4 August 2016 | ![]() | George Osborne | b. 1971 | Politician |
31 December 2016 | ![]() | Sir Roger Bannister | 1929–2018 | Athlete |
31 December 2016 | Sir Richard Eyre | b. 1943 | Director and playwright | |
31 December 2016 | ![]() | Dame Evelyn Glennie | b. 1965 | Percussionist |
31 December 2016 | Sir Alec Jeffreys | b. 1950 | Geneticist | |
31 December 2016 | The Baroness Warnock | 1924–2019 | Philosopher | |
31 December 2016 | ![]() | The Baroness Williams of Crosby | b. 1930 | Politician |
16 June 2017 | Sir Terence Conran | b. 1931 | Designer | |
16 June 2017 | ![]() | Sir Mark Elder | b. 1947 | Conductor |
16 June 2017 | ![]() | Dame Beryl Grey | b. 1927 | Ballet dancer |
16 June 2017 | ![]() | Sir Paul McCartney | b. 1942 | Musician |
16 June 2017 | ![]() | J. K. Rowling | b. 1965 | Author |
16 June 2017 | ![]() | Dame Stephanie Shirley | b. 1933 | Entrepreneur and philanthropist |
16 June 2017 | Delia Smith | b. 1941 | Cook and writer | |
16 June 2017 | ![]() | The Lord Stern of Brentford | b. 1946 | Economist |
16 June 2017 | ![]() | Sir John Sulston | 1942–2018 | Biologist |
30 December 2017 | ![]() | The Lord Bragg | b. 1939 | Broadcaster |
30 December 2017 | ![]() | Lady Antonia Fraser | b. 1932 | Author |
30 December 2017 | Margaret MacMillan | b. 1943 | Historian | |
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References
- James, H. E. (2004). "Evans, Sir (Evan) Vincent (1851–1934)". In Roberts, Brynley F. (ed.). The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33037.
- Watts, Michael (2004). "Jowett, John Henry (1863–1923)". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58298.
Further reading
- COMPANIONS OF HONOUR. leighrayment.com
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