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{{Short description|Commonwealth order}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2017}}
{{Infobox order
|title       = Order of the<br/>Companions of Honour
|image       = CHCompanionofHonour.jpg
|image_size  = 150px
|caption     = Badge and ribbon of the order
|awarded_by  = [[Charles III]]
|type        = [[Order (distinction)|Order]]
|established = 4 June 1917
|motto       = ''In Action Faithful and in Honour Clear''
|eligibility = All living citizens of the [[Commonwealth realm]]s
|criteria    = Nationally important service
|status      = Currently constituted
|founder     = [[George V]]
|head_title  = Sovereign
|head        = [[Charles III]]
|grades      = Member (CH)
|date        = 1917
|image2      = Order of the Companions of Honour Ribbon.gif
|image_size2 = 100px
|caption2    = [[Ribbon bar]] of the order
}}

The '''Order of the Companions of Honour''' is an [[Order (distinction)|order]] of the [[Commonwealth realm]]s. It was founded on 4 June 1917 by King [[George V]] as a reward for outstanding achievements. It was founded on the same date as the [[Order of the British Empire]].<ref name=Times250817/><ref name=CH>{{cite web|url=http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/CompanionsofHonour.aspx |title=The Monarch of the Today > Queen Ann arbor to the new one w public > Honours > Companions of Honour |publisher=Royal.gov.uk |access-date=3 December 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111223114812/http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/CompanionsofHonour.aspx |archive-date=23 December 2011 }}</ref>

The order was originally intended to be conferred upon a limited number of persons for whom this special distinction seemed to be the most appropriate form of recognition, constituting an honour dissociated from either the acceptance of title or the classification of merit.<ref name=Times250817>{{cite news |url=https://www.thetimes.com/tto/archive/article/1917-08-25/7/12.html |title=A New Order |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=25 August 1917 |page=7 |url-access=subscription }}</ref> It is now described as being "awarded for having a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government lasting over a long period of time".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gov.uk/honours/types-of-honours-and-awards |title=The honours system: Types of honours and awards |publisher=UK Government  |date=22 August 2016 |access-date=31 August 2016}}</ref> The first recipients of the order were all decorated for "services in connection with the [[First World War|war]]" and were listed in ''[[The London Gazette]]''.<ref>{{London Gazette |issue=30250 |supp=y |date=24 August 1917 |page=8799}}</ref>

==Composition==
[[Image:btweedsmuir2.jpg|thumb|left|[[John Buchan]], Lord Tweedsmuir, as [[Governor General of Canada]], wearing the Order of the Companions of Honour badge around his neck]]
The order consists of the monarch of the Commonwealth realms, who is the Sovereign of the Order of the Companions of Honour, and a maximum of 65 members. Additionally, foreigners or Commonwealth citizens from outside the Commonwealth realms may be added as honorary members. Members are organised into a single class and are appointed by the monarch of the Commonwealth realms in their capacity as sovereign of the order. While membership of the order confers no title or [[Order of precedence|precedence]], those inducted into the order are entitled to use the [[post-nominal letters]] ''CH''.

Appointments to the order are generally made on the advice of prime ministers of the Commonwealth realms.<ref name=CH/> For Canadians, the advice to the Sovereign can come from a variety of officials.<ref>{{Cite book| last=McCreery| first=Christopher| author-link=Christopher McCreery| title=The Canadian Honours System| publisher=Dundurn Press| location=Toronto| year=2005a| page=100| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQZ-db0k1jAC&q=The%20Canadian%20Honours%20System&pg=PA1| isbn=978-1-55002-554-5}}</ref> Originally, the order was limited to 50 ordinary members, but in 1943 it was enlarged to 65, with a quota of 45 members for the [[United Kingdom]], seven for [[Australia]], two each for [[New Zealand]] and [[Union of South Africa|South Africa]], and nine for [[British Raj|India]], [[British rule in Burma|Burma]], and the other [[British colonies]]. The quota numbers were altered in 1970 to 47 for the United Kingdom, seven for Australia, two for New Zealand, and nine for other Commonwealth realms. The quota was adjusted again in 1975 by adding two places to the New Zealand quota and reducing the nine for the other countries to seven.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.leighrayment.com/misc/compofhonor.htm| title=Companions of Honour| last=Rayment| first=Leigh| access-date=7 December 2013| url-status=usurped| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080926113647/http://www.leighrayment.com/misc/compofhonor.htm| archive-date=26 September 2008}}</ref>

Whilst still able to nominate candidates to the order, the [[Cabinet of Australia]] has effectively stopped the allocation of this award to that country's citizens in preference to other Australian honours. The last Australian member, [[Doug Anthony]], former Deputy Prime Minister of Australia, died on 20 December 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Barbour |first1=Lucy |title=Doug Anthony, former Nationals leader and deputy prime minister, dies aged 90 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-12-20/former-deputy-prime-minister-doug-anthony-dies/12590524 |access-date=20 December 2020 |work=ABC News |location=Australia |date=20 December 2020}}</ref> Companions from other Commonwealth realms continue to be appointed, Dame [[Kiri Te Kanawa]], a New Zealand soprano, was given the award in 2018 and Canadian author [[Margaret Atwood]] was given the award in 2019.

[[Sebastian Coe|Lord Coe]] represented the Order at the [[Coronation of Charles III and Camilla|2023 Coronation]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Coronation order of service in full |work=BBC News |date=5 May 2023 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65503950 |access-date=6 May 2023}}</ref>

==Insignia==
The insignia of the order is an oval medallion, surmounted by a royal crown (but, until recently,{{When|date=June 2025}} surmounted by an imperial [[Crown (headgear)|crown]]), and with a rectangular panel within, depicting on it an oak tree, a shield with the [[Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom]] hanging from one branch, and, on the left, a mounted [[knight]] in armour. The insignia's blue border bears in gold letters the motto "in action faithful and in honour clear", [[Alexander Pope]]'s description (in [[iambic pentameter]]) in his ''Epistle to Mr Addison'' of [[James Craggs the Younger]], later used on Craggs's monument in [[Westminster Abbey]]. Men wear the badge on a neck ribbon (red with golden border threads) and women on a bow at the left shoulder.
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==Current members==

=== Sovereign ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%; background:white; border:#01796f solid;"
!Name
!'''Year of appointment'''
!'''Present age'''
|-
|King [[Charles III]] (''ex officio'')
|Sovereign since 2022
|{{age|1948|11|14}}
|}

=== Royal Companion ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%; background:white; border:#01796f solid;"
!Name
!'''Year of appointment'''
!'''Present age'''
!Notes
|-
|[[Catherine, Princess of Wales]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCVO|CH|sep=,}}
|2024
|{{age|1982|01|09}}
|First Royal Companion
|}

=== Members ===
{{sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sortable sticky-header" style="width:100%; background:white; border:#01796f solid;"
!Member number{{#tag:ref|The number shown in brackets is the individual's place in the wider sequence of appointment since the Order's inception.|group=n|name=Order}}
!Name
!Known for
!Year of appointment
!Present age
|-
|1-(267)
|[[Norman Tebbit]], Baron Tebbit {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Secretary of State for Business and Trade|Secretary of State for Trade and Industry]] and [[Secretary of State for Employment]]
|1987
|{{age|1931|03|29}}
|-
|2-(270)
|[[Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Secretary of State for the Home Department]]
| rowspan="2" |1992
|{{age|1934|11|03}}
|-
|3-(278)
|[[Tom King, Baron King of Bridgwater]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Secretary of State for Defence]]
|{{age|1933|06|13}}
|-
|4-(282)
|Dame [[Janet Baker]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|DBE|FRSA|sep=,}}
|Opera singer
|1993
|{{age|1933|08|21}}
|-
|5-(287)
|[[David Owen]], Baron Owen {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]]
|1994
|{{age|1938|07|02}}
|-
|6-(289)
|Sir [[David Attenborough]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OM|GCMG|CH|CVO|CBE|FRS|FSA|FRSA|FLS|FZS|FRSGS|FRSB|sep=,}}
|Television broadcaster and conservationist
| rowspan="2" |1995
|{{age|1926|05|08}}
|-
|7-(291)
|[[Douglas Hurd]], Lord Hurd of Westwell {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]] and [[Secretary of State for the Home Department]]
|{{age|1930|03|08}}
|-
|8-(294)
|[[David Hockney]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OM|CH|RA|sep=,}}
|Artist
| rowspan="3" |1997
|{{age|1937|07|09}}
|-
|9-(296)
|[[Michael Heseltine]], Baron Heseltine {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] and [[Secretary of State for Defence]]
|{{age|1933|03|21}}
|-
|10-(297)
|[[Chris Patten]], Baron Patten of Barnes {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KG|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Governor of Hong Kong]], Chairman of the [[BBC Trust]], and [[Chancellor of the University of Oxford]]
|{{age|1944|05|12}}
|-
|11-(299)
|Sir [[John Major]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KG|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
| rowspan="3" |1998
|{{age|1943|03|29}}
|-
|12-(300)
|[[Bridget Riley]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|sep=,}}
|Artist
|{{age|1931|04|24}}
|-
|13-(305)
|[[General (Canada)|General]] [[John de Chastelain]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CC|CMM|CD|CH|CStJ|sep=,}}
|[[Chief of the Defence Staff (Canada)]] and Chairman of the [[Independent International Commission on Decommissioning]]
|{{age|1937|07|30}}
|-
|14-(317)
|[[Dan McKenzie (geophysicist)|Dan McKenzie]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FRS|sep=,}}
|Geophysicist
| rowspan="2" |2003
|{{age|1942|02|21}}
|-
|15-(318)
|[[David Hannay, Baron Hannay of Chiswick]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|GCMG|CH|sep=,}}
|[[Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations|Permanent Representative to the United Nations]]
|{{age|1945|09|28}}
|-
|16-(320)
|Dame [[Judi Dench]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|DBE|FRSA|sep=,}}
|Actress
|2005
|{{age|1934|12|09}}
|-
|17-(321)
|Sir [[Ian McKellen]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|sep=,}}
|Actor
|2007
|{{age|1939|05|25}}
|-
|18-(323)
|[[Michael Howard]], Baron Howard of Lympne {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|KC|sep=,}}
|[[Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)|Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition]] and [[Secretary of State for the Home Department]]
|2011
|{{age|1941|07|07}}
|-
|19-(324)
|[[Sir George Young, 6th Baronet|George Young, Baron Young of Cookham]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury]] and [[Leader of the House of Commons|Leader of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom]]
| rowspan="2" |2012
|{{age|1941|07|16}}
|-
|20-(325)
|[[Sebastian Coe]], Baron Coe {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|KBE|sep=,}}
|President of [[World Athletics]] and Chairman of the [[British Olympic Association]]
|{{age|1956|09|29}}
|-
|21-(327)
|[[Thomas Galbraith, 2nd Baron Strathclyde]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Leader of the House of Lords]] and [[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]]
| rowspan="4" |2013
|{{age|1960|02|22}}
|-
|22-(328)
|[[Menzies Campbell]], Baron Campbell of Pittenweem {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|PC|KC|sep=,}}
|[[Chancellor of the University of St Andrews]] and [[Leader of the Liberal Democrats]]
|{{age|1941|05|22}}
|-
|23-(329)
|Sir [[Nicholas Serota]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|sep=,}}
|Curator and [[Director of the Tate]]
|{{age|1946|04|27}}
|-
|24-(331)
|[[Onora O'Neill]], Baroness O'Neill of Bengarve {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|FBA|FMedSci|MRIA|sep=,}}
|[[President of the British Academy]]
|83
|-
|25-(333)
|[[Kenneth Clarke]], Baron Clarke of Nottingham {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|KC|sep=,}}
|[[Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain]], [[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] and [[Secretary of State for the Home Department]]
|2014
|{{age|1940|07|02}}
|-
|26-(336)
|Lady [[Mary Peters (athlete)|Mary Peters]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|LG|CH|DBE|DStJ|sep=,}}
|[[Olympic medal|Olympic gold medallist]] and [[Lord Lieutenant of Belfast]]
| rowspan="2" |2015
|{{age|1939|7|6}}
|-
|27-(339)
|[[Harry Woolf, Baron Woolf]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|FBA|FMedSci|sep=,}}
|[[Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales]]
|{{age|1933|5|2}}
|-
|28-(341)
|Sir [[Roy Strong]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FRSL|sep=,}}
|Director of the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] and [[National Portrait Gallery, London]]
| rowspan="7" |2016
|{{age|1935|8|23}}
|-
|29-(343)
|[[Robert Smith, Baron Smith of Kelvin]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|KT|CH|FRSGS|sep=,}}
|[[Board of Governors of the BBC|Governor]] of the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]]
|{{age|1944|8|8}}
|-
|30-(344)
|[[Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|LG|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[United Nations]] [[Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator]], [[Leader of the House of Lords]] and [[Secretary of State for International Development]]
|{{age|1954|3|13}}
|-
|31-(345)
|[[George Osborne]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Chancellor of the Exchequer]] and [[First Secretary of State]]
|{{age|1971|5|23}}
|-
|32-(347)
|Sir [[Richard Eyre]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|sep=,}}
|Director
|{{age|1943|3|28}}
|-
|33-(348)
|Dame [[Evelyn Glennie]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|DBE|sep=,}}
|Musician
|{{age|1965|7|19}}
|-
|34-(349)
|Sir [[Alec Jeffreys]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FRS|MAE|sep=,}}
|Geneticist
|{{age|1950|1|9}}
|-
|35-(353)
|Sir [[Mark Elder]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|sep=,}}
|Conductor
| rowspan="9" |2017
|{{age|1947|6|2}}
|-
|36-(355)
|Sir [[Paul McCartney]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|MBE|sep=,}}
|Musician
|{{Age|1942|06|18}}
|-
|37-(356)
|[[J. K. Rowling]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|OBE|FRSL}}</small>
|Author
|{{age|1965|7|31}}
|-
|38-(357)
|Dame [[Steve Shirley]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|DBE|FREng}}</small>
|Entrepreneur and philanthropist
|{{age| 1933 |9|16}}
|-
|39-(358)
|[[Delia Smith]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|sep=,}}
|Cook and author
|{{age|1941|6|18}}
|-
|40-(359)
|[[Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FRS|FBA|FAcSS|sep=,}}
|President of the [[British Academy]] and [[Chief Economist of the World Bank]]
|{{age|1946|4|22}}
|-
|41-(361)
|[[Melvyn Bragg]], Baron Bragg {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FRS|FBA|FRSL|sep=,}}
|Broadcaster and [[Chancellor (education)|Chancellor]] of the [[University of Leeds]]
|{{Age|1939|10|06}}
|-
|42-(362)
|Lady [[Antonia Fraser]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|DBE|FRSL|sep=,}}
|Author
|{{Age|1932|08|27}}
|-
|43-(363)
|[[Margaret MacMillan]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|OM}} {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH}} {{post-nominals|country=CAN|FRSL|FRSC|FBA|FRCGS|sep=,}}
|Historian, author and Provost of [[Trinity College, Toronto]]
|{{Age|1943|12|23}}
|-
|44-(364)
|[[Richard Henderson (biologist)|Richard Henderson]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FRS|FMedSci|sep=,}}
|Biologist
| rowspan="3" |2018
|{{Age|1945|07|19}}
|-
|45-(365)
|Dame [[Kiri Te Kanawa]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100|ONZ|CH|DBE|AC}}</small> 
|Opera singer
|{{Age|1944|03|06}}
|-
|46-(366)
|[[Margaret Atwood]] {{post-nominals|country=CAN|CC|OOnt}} {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH}} {{post-nominals|country-CAN|FRSC|FRSL}}
|Author
|{{Age|1939|11|18}}
|-
|47-(367)
|[[Patrick McLoughlin]], Baron McLoughlin {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|sep=,}}
|[[Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster]] and [[Secretary of State for Transport]]
| rowspan="3" |2019
|{{Age|1957|09|30}}
|-
|48-(368)
|Sir [[Elton John]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|sep=,}}
|Musician
|{{Age|1947|03|25}}
|-
|49-(369)
|Sir [[Keith Thomas (historian)|Keith Thomas]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|FBA|FLSW|FRHistS|sep=,|size=100}}
|Historian and [[List of presidents of Corpus Christi College, Oxford|President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford]]
|{{Age|1933|01|02}}
|-
|50-(370)
|Sir [[Paul Smith (fashion designer)|Paul Smith]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|RDI|sep=,}}
|Fashion designer
| rowspan="2" |2020
|{{Age|1946|07|05}}
|-
|51-(371)
|Sir [[David Chipperfield]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|CBE|RA|RDI|RIBA|sep=,|size=100|HRSA}}</small>
|Architect
|{{Age|1953|12|18}}
|-
|52-(372)
|Sir [[Paul Nurse]] {{postnominals|country=GBR|OM|CH|FRS|FMedSci|HonFREng|HonFBA|MAE|sep=,}}
|[[Geneticist]] and [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Laureate]]
|2021
|{{Age|1949|01|25}}
|-
|53-(374)
|Sir [[Quentin Blake]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|CBE|FCSD|FRSL|RDI}}</small>
|Illustrator
| rowspan="4" |2022
|{{age|1932|12|16}}
|-
|54-(375)
|Sir [[Salman Rushdie]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|FRSL}}</small>
|Author
|{{age|1947|06|19}}
|-
|55-(376)
|Dame [[Marina Warner]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|DBE|FRSL|FBA}}</small>
|Author
|{{age|1946|11|09}}
|-
|56-(377)
|Sir [[Michael Marmot]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|FRCP|FFPM|FMedSci|FBA}}</small>
|Academic
|{{age|1945|01|26}}
|-
|57-(379)
|Sir [[Bill Cash]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|sep=,}}
|[[Shadow Secretary of State for Justice|Shadow Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs]] and [[Shadow Attorney General for England and Wales]]
| rowspan="5" |2023
|{{age|1940|05|10}}
|-
|58-(380)
|Sir [[John Bell (physician)|John Bell]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|GBE|CH|FRS|FMedSci|FREng}}</small>
|President of the [[Office for Strategic Coordination of Health Research]]
|{{age|1952|07|01}}
|-
|59-(381)
|[[Ian McEwan]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|CBE|FRSA|FRSL}}</small>
|Author
|{{age|1948|06|21}}
|-
|60-(382)
|Dame [[Anna Wintour]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|DBE}}</small>
|Media executive
|{{age|1949|11|3}}
|-
|61-(383)
|Dame [[Shirley Bassey]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|DBE}}</small>
|Singer
|{{age|1937|01|8}}
|-
|62-(385)
|[[Gordon Brown]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|PC|HonFRSE|sep=,}}
|[[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]]
|rowspan=2|2024
|{{age|1951|02|20}}
|-
|63-(386)
|Sir [[Kazuo Ishiguro]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|OBE|FRSA|FRSL|sep=,}}
|Novelist and screenwriter
|{{age|1954|11|8}}
|-
|64-(387)
|Dame [[Jocelyn Bell Burnell]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|DBE|FRS|FRSE|FRAS|FInstPsep=,}}
|Physicist
|rowspan=2|2025
|{{age|1943|7|15}}
|-
|65-(388)
|Sir [[Antony Gormley]] {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CH|OBE|RA|sep=,}}
|Sculptor
|{{age|1950|8|30}}
|-
|}

=== Honorary Members ===
{| class="wikitable" style="width:100%; background:white; border:#01796f solid;"
!Member number
!Name
!'''Known for'''
!Year of appointment
!Present age
|-
|1-(261)
|[[Amartya Sen]] <small>{{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CH|FBA}}</small>
|Economist
|2000
|{{age|1933|11|03}}
|}

==See also==
* [[List of members of the Order of the Companions of Honour]]
* [[List of honorary British knights and dames]]
* [[List of people who have declined a British honour]]

== Notes ==
{{reflist|group="n"}}

==References==
{{reflist|30em}}

==External links==
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*[https://honours.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/about/orders-and-medals/#companion The Order of the Companions of Honour] – UK Cabinet Office
*[https://www.centralchancery.org.uk/orders-of-chivalry/additional-orders-of-chivalry/ Additional Orders] – Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
*[https://www.gov.uk/honours/types-of-honours-and-awards The British honours system] – UK Government
*[https://www.royal.uk/the-king-and-honours The King and Honours] – Royal Household website

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