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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/List of people who have declined a British honour
		In most cases, the honour was rejected privately; others were rejected publicly, or accepted then returned later, as with John Lennon and Rabindranath Tagore (although the honour itself, once accepted, cannot be unilaterally renounced by its recipient).
		Alan Bennett, playwright (declined knighthood in 1996 and CBE in 1988)
		Geraldine McEwan, actress (declined OBE in 1986 and damehood in 2002)
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	CBC.ca - The Greatest Canadian - Top 100 - 11 to 100 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A woman 'of slender frame and delicate appearance,’ she was 37 when she made the long trip on foot to warn the British of a planned American attack, thus earning her place in history as a heroine of the War of 1812.
		Known as one of the most reliable defencemen in the NHL for nearly 22 years, he was credited with bringing “honour” to hockey by refusing to fight on the ice, while others claim he invented the slap shot.
		Convinced that 'aboriginal people are not being recognized as the first people of this country,' the Manitoba legislator blocked the passage of the Meech Lake Accord, hoping to put aboriginal issues at the top of Canada's constitutional agenda.
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	Wikinfo \| British honours system (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The recipients are chosen by the Sovereign, who is the 'fountain of honour', acting upon the advice of the Prime Minister.
		There is usually an elaborate ceremony for bestowing honours, the most famous of which is the well-known "knighting" ceremony, in which the sovereign taps the recipient on the shoulder with a ceremonial sword.
		Honours are sometimes refused or returned; see list of people who have declined a British honour.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=British_honours_system (883 words)

	List, The National System of Political Economy, Book IV, Chapter 34: Library of Economics and Liberty
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		People know also how to estimate at their proper value the interests and the advice of those who are our industrial competitors.
		People require that a statesman should be well acquainted with the powers and the requirements of the nation, and, without troubling himself with scholastic systems, should develop the former and satisfy the latter.
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	List of people who have declined a British honour - Definition, explanation
		The following is a partial list of people who have declined a British honour, such as a knighthood or an Order of the British Empire.
		In most cases, the honour was rejected privately; others were rejected publicly, or accepted then returned later, as with John Lennon and Rabindranath Tagore.
		Sometimes a potential recipient will refuse a knighthood or peerage, but will accept an honour that does not carry a title (Paul Scofield and Augustus John are examples).
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/l/li/list_of_people_who_have_declined_a_british_honour.php (205 words)

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		Evelyn Waugh as a student, from a portrait by the British painter Henry Lamb (1883-1960), a member of Walter Sickert's Camden Town Group, and later the Bloomsbury Group.
		He was briefly apprenticed to a cabinet-maker and afterwards maintained an interest in marquetry, to which his novels have been compared in their intricate inlayed subplots.
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		British forces people to move to other areas for labour work, but lack of transportation and housing facilities lead to many such labourers falling sick and dying.
		British tactic of getting Govigamas, who are half the population, to believe that they hold the upper hand in the society would devide the Sinhalese society with no hope of any liberation struggle ever becoming successful.
		British who didn't want to spend on education to the average Sinhalese, are supported by the new Sinhala elite.
	www.spur.asn.au /British.htm (8064 words)

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		One such figure was the priest Sergius who became a noted speaker within the walls of the eminent Islamic academy, an anomaly that would have been inconceivable at the time of the revolution against the Napoleonic invasion.
		British heavy-handedness galvanised the nationalist movement, which had been sharply divided between the pro-Adli and pro-Zaghlul camps, into reuniting ranks and precipitated such a resurgence in nationalist resistance as to suggest a revival of the spirit of March 1919.
		Against this accumulated attrition, the revolution of the Egyptian people was a natural and logical culmination, not the ephemeral aberration or passing flash of anger the British attempted to convey.
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		He came to know the painters Nina Hamnett and Adrian Daintrey, who were neighbours in Fitzrovia and was soon to meet the composer Constant Lambert, who remained a close friend until Lambert's death in 1951.
		The Quota was a device intended by the Government to protect the British film industry, by requiring cinemas to show a proportionate footage of British-made film for every one of the (more popular) foreign films they put on.
		He was appointed Companion of Honour (CH) in 1988.
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Anthony_Powell (4860 words)

	List of people who have declined a British honour
		The following is a partial list of people who have declined a British honour, such as a knighthood or an honour usually within the Order of the British Empire.
		Or you might be interested in the List of Foods Named after People or the List of People Who Declined a British Honour.
		Honours are sometimes refused or returned; see list of people who have declined a British honour
	www.logicjungle.com /List_of_people_who_have_declined_a_British_honour.html (517 words)

	Would you accept an Honour? - TrendUK - British Council (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Honours are awarded twice a year on the Queen’s official birthday in June and at the New Year.
		Those people selected for the award have to agree to accept the award before the list goes to the Queen for formal approval.
		Although you can nominate anyone for an honour the majority of awards still go to civil servants and military figures; not everyday people who contribute to their community.
	www.britishcouncil.org /korea-trenduk-honours.htm (377 words)

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		The prisoners received a serious admonition from His Honor, who told them that they had nothing whatever to complain of—that he rejoiced in the merciful view that the Jury had taken of their case, and hoped they would not offend again.
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		I have the honour to inform you that the conical steel forging, rough from the forge, which was manufactured in your establishment, and of which you advised the shipment in your letter (stated in the margin), was received by the Commander of Artillery, in the Fort of Antwerp.
		Those clever people who set up this bogey of "uncertainty" in the quality of steel, simply for self-protection, dared not assert that occasional bars of bad iron were unknown in commerce.
		The same persons who so strenuously advocated the building up of heavy masses of wrought-iron could not pretend that the welding of many parts to form a whole was exempt from uncertainty and failure.
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		Bedingfeld, who is the York Herald of the College of Arms in London, was returning to England from Canada, where he was the keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the Royal Heraldry Society of Canada in Edmonton.
		Cromp, who died in 1715, was the first President of the Court of Honour and Principal Herald of the province.
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		Also, not everybody sees pubs as the hub of the community, although my personal sympathies are with those who do.
		That option also offers some guarantee that > the people signing up > actually are British and are living overseas, which > is necessary if the > petition to the FCO is to be credible.
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