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	Royal Victorian Order - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Royal Victorian Order is an order of chivalry that was established by Queen Victoria on 21 April 1896.
		The Lord Chamberlain serves as Chancellor, the Keeper of the Privy Purse and Treasurer to the Queen serves as Secretary, the Secretary to the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood serves as Registrar and the Chaplain of The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy serves as Chaplain.
		For Knights and Dames Grand Cross the star is an eight-pointed silver star, with a white enamelled Maltese Cross at the centre; for Knights and Dames Commanders it is an eight-pointed silver Maltese Cross, with silver rays between the arms, and a smaller forsted silver Maltese Cross at the centre.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Victorian_Order (1555 words)

	K (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		kinship : the matristical imposition of order on the affinal and consanguinal kindred of one maternal ego.
		kinship : the patristical imposition of order on the affinal and consanguinal kindred of one paternal ego.
		Knight of the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George : G.C.M.G. Knight of the Thistle : Sir ——, K.T. knight’s fee : the determinating quantity of land held by an estate of inheritance, or of annual income therefrom, sufficient to maintain one knight.
	www.arapacana.com /Glossary/K.htm (5233 words)

	Knights
		The knight or chevalier was the professional soldier of the time; in medieval Latin, the ordinary word miles (soldier) was equivalent to "knight." This pre-eminence of cavalry was correlative with the decline of infantry on the battlefield.
		Orders of chivalry had their origins in the religious orders of the Medieval Church, and in particular those created in the Holy Land during the crusades.
		Originally it was intended that the Order of the Garter was to consist of twenty four knights, however during 1349/50 it consisted of himself as Sovereign together with twenty five Knights Companion, one of whom was the Prince of Wales, the fl Prince.
	home.earthlink.net /~ronaldgcus/Knights.htm (2833 words)

	The Royal Family > HRH The Earl of Wessex > Honours and appointments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His Royal Highness The Earl of Wessex is a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO).
		In April 2006 The Earl of Wessex was appointed a Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
		His Royal Highness holds the Silver Jubilee (1977) and Golden Jubilee (2002) medals, and the New Zealand Commemorative Medal, struck in 1990 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Treaty of Waitangi and the formation of modern New Zealand.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/page2725.asp (206 words)

	Edward Elgar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Black Knight, King Olaf (1896), The Light of Life and Caractacus were all modestly successful and he obtained a long-standing publisher in Novello and Company.
		Elgar's Symphony No. 1 (1908) was given one hundred performances in its first year, the violin concerto (1910) was commissioned by the world-renowned violinist Fritz Kreisler, and in 1911, the year of the completion of his Symphony No. 2, he had the Order of Merit bestowed upon him.
		Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Elgar (2229 words)

	Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		However, in 1997 She and other members of the Royal Family were perceived as cold and unfeeling When they were seen not to participate in the public outpouring of grief at the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
		The Royal palace in Edinburgh, the Palace of Holyroodhouse, once home to Scottish kings and Queens Like Mary, Queen of Scots, is now regularly used again, with at least one member of the Royal Family (often the Prince of Wales or Princess Royal) in residence.
		She is cousin of Albert II of Belgium, Harald V of Norway, Juan Carlos I of Spain and Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, as well as former kings Constantine II of Greece and Michael of Romania, and to the former Royal houses of Prussia/Germany and Russia.
	elizabeth-ii-of-the-united-kingdom.iqnaut.net (4345 words)

	Spirituality, Shakespeare and Royalty: Canon Eric James (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He officiated at many other royal occasions, and was a much loved pastor to the Royal Family.
		In 1966, Eric was therefore made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order.
		That office requires one primarily to preach in the Chapel Royal, St James's Palace; but preaching without a pastoral concern for the Royal Family, and for its future, is, to my mind, unthinkable.
	www.cix.co.uk /~longitude0/canon-eric-james/welcome.htm (451 words)

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		Orders, Decorations and Medals: Star and badge of a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order [K.C.V.O. cr.
		2 July 1906]; star and badge of a Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Queen Victoria Jubilee medal, 1897; Jubilee medal, 1897 (Mayor's issue); Coronation medal, 1902.
		Orders, Decorations and Medals: (Royal Victorian Order and Order of St. John of Jerusalem) Burke's Peerage; (others) Howard N. Cole, Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977, London, 1977.
	lafayette.150m.com /san6931.html (157 words)

	6/6/00: Things to Come (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Miraculously, the unpublished records survived over 50 years in storage when they were uncovered by Jonathan Dobson in 1991 among a private collection of recordings donated to the Royal Academy of Music by Sir Henry Wood (who is cherished today as the founding father of the BBC Promenade concerts.
		Only two movements from the latter have been retained - the 'March' and 'Epilogue' - and these have been reinstated in the order in which they were heard in the context of the film."[12] I am interested to hear from anyone who has a detailed knowledge of the reconstruction by Palmer.
		After 1941 the Royal Albert Hall (opened in 1871) became the new home for the Proms after a Luftwaffe air raid destroyed the original venue, the Queen's Hall in London.
	www.filmscoremonthly.com /articles/2000/06_Jun---Things_to_Come.asp (1753 words)

	Berger Collection (BCET) \| Artists \| Sir Alfred J. Munnings, KCVO, PRA, RWS, RP
		He first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1898, when he was just twenty.
		In 1944, he was elected President of the Royal Academy, and knighted by King George VI.
		Then, in 1947, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, an incredible achievement for a provincial artist with so little formal training.
	www.bergercollection.org /artist_detail.php?i=11 (581 words)

	Diocese of Derby - Media Centre - Press Releases
		The Rt Rev'd Jonathan Bailey, retired Bishop of Derby, has been awarded a KCVO (Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order) by Her Majesty the Queen.
		A KCVO is a member of the second highest rank of a British order of knighthood, given at the sole discretion of the Sovereign.
		The Clerk of the Closet supervises the Queen’s College of Chaplains, preaches from time to time in the Royal Chapels, presents new diocesan bishops to the Queen when they pay homage to her on their appointment, and suggests names for members of the College of Chaplains.
	www.derby.anglican.org /media_centre/pr_65.php (302 words)

	The Royal Family > HRH The Duke of York > Honours and decorations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Royal Family > HRH The Duke of York > Honours and decorations
		The Duke of York was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order on 2 June 2003 to mark the 50th anniversary of The Queen's Coronation.
		In April 2006 The Duke of York was appointed a Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
	www.royal.gov.uk /output/page800.asp (111 words)

	Order of Precedence when wearing medals
		Knight/Dame Commander of the Order of The British Empire
		The order of precedence for the Naval General Service Medal 1915-62 and General Service Medal 1918-62 (Army and Air Force) will vary from person to person depending on when the person earned the first clasp.
		Clasps to these medals should be worn on the ribbon in order of date of receipt.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-medals/order.htm (431 words)

	BizDex - Australian National B2B Registry : The Repository (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Justice of the Peace JP Knight Bachelor KB Knight/Dame Commander of the Order of Saint Michael
		Knight/Dame of the Order of Australia AK/AD Knight of the Garter KG Knight of the Thistle KT Medal of the Order of Australia-Order of St John OAM
		Military Cross MC Officer Commanding OC Officer of the Order of Australia AO Officer of the Order of the British Empire OBE
	www.bizdex.com.au /namesuffix-abbv.html (175 words)

	E-Bulletin: University of Leicester
		Lord Lieutenant of Leicestershire since 1989 and an Honorary Graduate of the University of Leicester (Doctor of Laws, 2002), Mr Tim Brooks, becomes a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) in the recent Queen's Birthday Honours.
		His wife, the Honourable Lady Brooks, is to receive the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws at a University of Leicester degree ceremony this July.
		He was awarded the CMG in 1991 and Knighted in the New Year's honours list in 1999.
	www.le.ac.uk /press/ebulletin/people/queensbirthday.html (380 words)

	Small Wars Journal
		Woodward is quick to note that he was tapped for the job because he happened to be the navy's closest flotilla commander at the time (in Gibraltar)--and confides that his superiors almost replaced him with a higher-ranking officer even as he led the task force into danger.
		Wounded in World War I and thereafter serving in a Gurkha regiment, Slim inherited the principal command in Burma in the wake of British defeats at Hongkong, Singapore, and Rangoon; and American ones at Pearl Harbor, Wake Island, and in the Philippines.
		Iraqi forces destroyed the brigade's command center, ambushed the brigade's resupply column, and even as it appeared that the brigade was seizing control of the capital on the battle's second day, a fierce counterattack across the Tigris River trapped an American company under withering fire and forced a retreat.
	www.smallwarsjournal.com /reading_list.htm (14052 words)

	Events Past 2001 and earlier
		Royal flags (including a Union Jack brought back to Buckingham Palace by Shackleton after the Endurance expedition), a 'crow's nest'from Quest (Shackleton's last ship) and a biscuit salvaged from the rations of the Nimrod expedition are among the objects on display.
		Levinson, a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and Past President of the Explorers Club (1985-87), is a resident of Rockland, DE.
		Shackleton is a distant relative of the famous Polar explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and is the past President of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and the Society of Wildlife Artists, and is currently the Vice President of the Guild of Aviation Artists and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust.
	www.antarctic-circle.org /eventspast1.htm (12085 words)

	Legislative Assembly of Alberta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		His Royal Highness Prince Michael of Kent, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO), will address the Members of the Legislative Assembly from the floor of the Chamber.
		Members gave their unanimous consent to this rare honour by way of a motion moved in the House on Thursday, March 14 by the Honourable Dave Hancock, QC, Minister of Justice and Attorney General and Government House Leader.
		A cousin to both the Queen and His Royal Highness Prince Phillip, Prince Michael is on a cross-Canada private visit comprised almost entirely of public engagements.
	www.assembly.ab.ca /lao/speaker/news020315.htm (206 words)

	Bertram Mackennal's War Sculptures in Australia
		Edward VII made him Royal Sculptor in 1910, and he was a personal friend of the Prince of Wales, who ascended the throne as George V in that year.
		The model for the sailor was Leading Signalman John William Varcoe (1897-1948) of the Royal Australian Navy.
		This conference discussed a concept, originating in the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, to erect a memorial on the small, low group of rocks known as 'The Sow And Pigs', just inside The Heads of Sydney Harbour, to yachtsmen who had served in the First World War.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /speel/sculpt/mackenn2.htm (3982 words)

	Sir Edgar Bertram Mackennal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He later studied at the Melbourne School of Art.
		He was created MVO (Member of the Royal Victorian Order) in 1912 and KCVO (Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order) in 1921.
		He was the first and only Australian sculptor ever to be made a full member of the Royal Academy.
	www.marleneantico.com.au /stockroom/html/mackennal/mackennal.htm (87 words)

	Westminster Abbey - Eric Symes Abbott Memorial Lecture 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		And that was, of course, particularly true concerning 'this royal throne of kings'.
		The life of a royal family can never be truly royal if it 'takes too little care' of, say, homeless families and those on benefit.
		I suggest that sometimes that prayer is specific for some member of the Royal Family; but sometimes it's an inarticulate prayer for, say, the future of the nation and its government.
	www.westminster-abbey.com /event/lecture/archives/symes_1998_1.htm (6250 words)

	VANZ- Alphabetical List of Honours, Awards and Decorations
		D.B.E. Dame Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
		K.St.J. Knight of the Order of the Thistle
		Knight or Dame Grand Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit
	www.veteransaffairs.mil.nz /memorials/honors-list.html (435 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		He became one of the foremost organ teachers of his day, with many important posts in Britain being filled by his students.
		He was knighted in 1892 and became Professor of Music at Oxford University in 1908, taking over from Hubert Parry.
		Later honors included Member of the Royal Victorian Order (1901), Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1917), and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (1921).
	www.cyberhymnal.org /bio/p/a/r/parratt_w.htm (106 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- No Future -- Mar. 16, 1936 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		From Sir Joshua Reynolds to the present day the Presidents of the Royal Academy have been sober distinguished gentlemen.
		No exception is the incumbent, Sir William Llewellyn, Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order, Commander of the Legion of Honor, recipient of the Grand Cross of the Crown of Italy.
		That ardent water colorist Wilhelmina of The Netherlands is so enamored of his brush that she has made him a Grand Officer of the Order of Orange Nassau.
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,755921,00.html (150 words)

	History
		He is pressured by his acquisitive family and fellow workers to accept the norms of society, bribery and corruption in order to guarantee his family a comfortable life.
		Queen Elizabeth II conferred on Churchill the dignity of Knighthood and invested him with the insignia of the Order of the Garter in 1953.
		His object was nothing less than the destruction of the power of Rome before Rome destroyed Carthage, and Rome's most vulnerable spot was in Italy itself where the Roman federation of states was still loose and the Celtic tribes of Gauls in the North were in revolt.
	www.onyeka.co.uk /html/links/links.htm (17271 words)

	Nova Scotia Quotations
		It was commanded by Col. Jonathan Hoar, and Maj. Winslow was Lieut.
		I had orders to enlist what men I could; and having obtained a number of recruits, I proceeded with them to join the Regiment at the Castle, near Boston, and was directed to enter Capt. Abel Cain's company.
		Congress had ordered the construction of 13 frigates, but because none of them was ready, I was ordered to put to sea alone and to engage the enemy in the manner I judged most favorable to the interests of the United States.
	www.littletechshoppe.com /ns1625/quotes.html (9704 words)

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		1904]; Star and Badge of a Knight Commander 1st Class of the Order of the Dannebrog [KCED cr.
		14 November 1903] [Denmark]; Star and Badge of a Knight Commander 1st Class of the Order of St Olav [KCSO cr.
		Orders, Decorations and Medals: (Royal Victorian Order) Burke's Peerage; (Queen Victoria Jubilee Medal and Coronation Medal 1902) Howard N. Cole, Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977, London, 1977; (Campaign Medals) E.C. Joslin, A.R. Litherland and B.T. Simpkin, British Battles and Medals, London, 1988; (Others) R. Werlich, Orders and Decorations of All Nations, Washington, 1990.
	lafayette.150m.com /mil4587.html (208 words)

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