List of freemen of the City of Birmingham

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Below is a list of Honorary Freemen of the City of Birmingham.

List

The City of Birmingham, England has granted Honorary Freedom to individuals and military organisations since 1888. Designation as a Freeman of the City is an honorary title and, subject to a two-thirds majority of the Council, is granted to persons of distinction and those who have rendered eminent services to the City. The following have received this honour (up to 1998):

Picture Name Received
File:Joseph Chamberlain.jpg Joseph Chamberlain 20 March 1888
File:Philip Henry Muntz, Vanity Fair, 1875-08-07.jpg Philip Henry Muntz 23 October 1888
Thomas Avery 4 October 1892
File:George Dixon MP.jpg George Dixon 4 January 1898
John Thackray Bunce 7 March 1899
File:Earl Roberts of Kandahar.jpg Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts 1 January 1901
Edward Lawley Parker 31 October 1904
File:JesseCollings.jpg Jesse Collings 13 June 1911
File:William Kenrick (Birmingham).jpg William Kenrick 13 June 1911
Frances Corder Clayton 2 July 1912
Charles Gabriel Beale 2 July 1912
Sir William Henry Bowater 4 January 1916
File:BillyHughes.png William Moris Hughes 22 May 1916
File:David Lloyd George.jpg David Lloyd George 5 February 1921
File:Gws balfour 02.jpg Earl Balfour 22 June 1922
Sir George Hamilton Kenrick 25 September 1923
Sir David Brooks 25 September 1923
File:Laszlo - The Rt. Hon. Sir Austen Chamberlain.jpg Sir Austen Chamberlain 22 February 1926
Barrow Cadbury 6 May 1932
File:Chamberlain Neville.jpg Neville Chamberlain 6 May 1932
John Henry Lloyd 6 May 1932
Ernest Martineau 11 July 1938
File:Barrow Cadbury by Thomas Bowman Garvie.jpg William Adlington Cadbury 11 July 1938
Wilfred Byng Kenrick 11 July 1938
Henry James Sayer 11 July 1938
File:Jan Smuts 1947.jpg Jan Christiaan Smuts 19 May 1944
File:Sir Winston Churchill - 19086236948.jpg Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill 31 October 1946
The Royal Warwickshire Regiment 1946
File:Clement Attlee.png Clement Attlee 18 October 1947
File:William Slim, 1950.jpg Sir William J. Slim 18 October 1947
Sir Frank Henry Cufaude Wiltshire[1] 18 October 1947
Harrison Barrow[1] 12 April 1949
Ann Marie Howes[1] 16 April 1955
Sir Barry V. Jackson 16 April 1955
Sir Sydney Vernon[1] 16 April 1955
Sir T. B. Pritchett 7 May 1960
Sir Albert Frederick Bradbeer[1] 7 May 1960
268 Regiment, Royal Artillery TA 4 June 1966
Sir Francis. F. Griffin 2 May 1970
Harry Watton[1] 2 May 1970
35th Signal Regiment 12 September 1970
Ernest Walter Horton[1] 15 September 1973
Eric Edward Mole[1] 15 September 1973
Royal Regiment of Fusiliers 7 May 1975
HMS Birmingham 11 May 1978
Sir Neville Bruce Alfred Bosworth 4 December 1982
Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury 4 December 1982
Julius Silverman 4 December 1982
Queen's Own Hussars 4 October 1983
Marjorie Alice Brown[1] 25 October 1986
Freda Mary Cocks[1] 25 October 1986
Sir Reginald E. Eyre 23 February 1991
Denis Howell, Baron Howell of Aston Manor 23 February 1991
File:Rattle BPH-Rittershaus1-Wikipedia.jpg Sir Simon D. Rattle 1 October 1996
Lisa Clayton 1 October 1996
Royal British Legion (Birmingham County Branch)[2] 2 October 2010
Peter Hollingworth 14 June 2011[1]
RAF Cosford 19 May 2018
Terence "Geezer" Butler[3] 30 June 2025
Tony Iommi[3] 30 June 2025
Ozzy Osbourne[3] 30 June 2025
Bill Ward[3] 30 June 2025

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