FREE HONOURS KNIGHT PDF Rachel Bach | 384 pages | 25 Feb 2014 | Little, Brown Book Group | 9780356502366 | English | London, United Kingdom THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR - HONOURS The British honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement, or service to the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories. The system consists of three types of award — honours, decorations and medals:. Appointments to the various orders and awards of Honours Knight honours are usually published in the London Gazette. Although Honours Knight Anglo-Saxon monarchs are known to have rewarded their loyal subjects with rings and other Honours Knight of favour, it was the Normans who introduced knighthoods as part of their feudal government. Since then, the system has evolved to address the changing need to Honours Knight other forms of service to the United Kingdom. As the head of statethe Sovereign is the ' fount of honour ', [1] but the system for identifying and recognising candidates to honour has changed considerably over time. Various orders of knighthood have been created see below as well as awards for military service, bravery, merit, and achievement which take the form of decorations or medals. Most medals are not graded. Each one recognises specific service and as Honours Knight there are normally set criteria which must be met. These criteria may include a period of time and will often delimit a particular geographic region. Medals are not normally presented by the Sovereign. A full list is printed in the 'order of wear', published infrequently by the London Gazette. Honours Honours Knight split into classes 'orders' and Honours Knight graded to distinguish different degrees of achievement or service, according to various criteria. A list of approximately 1, names is published twice a year, at the New Year and on the date of the Sovereign's official birthday. Since their decisions are inevitably subjective, the twice-yearly honours lists often provoke criticism from those who feel strongly about particular cases. Depending on their roles, those people selected by the honours committee are submitted either to the Prime MinisterSecretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairsor Secretary of State for Defence for their Honours Knight before being sent to the Sovereign for final approval. Certain honours are conferred solely at the Sovereign's discretion, such as appointments to the Order of the Garter[6] the Order of the Thistlethe Royal Victorian Order[7] and the Order Honours Knight Merit. By convention, a departing prime minister is allowed to nominate Prime Minister's Resignation Honoursto reward Honours Knight and Honours Knight service. In recent Honours Knight, only Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not taken up this privilege although Brown did issue the Dissolution Honours to similar effect. The current system is made up of six orders of chivalry Honours Knight four orders of merit. The statutes of each order specify matters such as the size of the order, the use of post-nominal letters and insignia design and display. Orders were created for Honours Knight reasons at particular times. In some cases these reasons have ceased to have any validity and orders have fallen into abeyance, primarily due to the decline of the British Empire during the twentieth century. Reforms of the system have sometimes made other changes. For example, the British Empire Medal temporarily ceased to be awarded in the UK inas was the companion level award of the Imperial Service Honours Knight although its medal is still used. The British Empire Medal was revived, however, in with BEMs awarded for the Birthday Honoursand has continued to be awarded in some other Commonwealth nations. After the Honours Knight Free State 's Honours Knight inHonours Knight members of the royal family were appointed to the order, the last in Although dormant, the order technically still exists, and may be used as an award at any Honours Knight. Queen Elizabeth II is the current sovereign of this order. The senior order, the Order of the Star of Honours Knight, was divided into three grades, Knight Grand Commander, Knight Commander and Companion, of which Honours Knight first and highest was conferred upon the Princes and Chiefs of Indian states and upon important British civil servants working in India. Women were not eligible to receive the award. The junior order, the Order of the Indian Empire, was divided into the Honours Knight ranks and also excluded women. The third order, the Order of the Crown of India, was used exclusively to honour women. Upon Indian independence inappointments to all these orders ceased. The Queen remains also the Sovereign of the Indian orders as they have never been abolished. This order had one class which entitled the member to the postnominal letters OB but no title. It was originally intended Honours Knight reward long and faithful service by military and police. In the Royal Warrant was altered to allow for membership for acts of gallantry as well as meritorious service. The Order was one of the rarest awarded with only 33 appointments Honours Knight the time appointments were discontinued in when Burma declared independence. In the United Kingdom it was used only briefly, until the death of William IV in that resulted in the ending of the personal union with the Kingdom of Hanover due to succession to the throne of Hanover following the Salic Law, unlike in the United Kingdom where women could inherit the Honours Knight. The order continued for some time as a national order of Hanover until the defeat and forced dissolution of the Honours Knight by Prussia in Since then the order has been a house order to be awarded by the House of Hanover. The Order includes two Divisions, Civil and Military. During the personal union of the United Kingdom and Hanover it originally Honours Knight three classes, but with several reorganizations since as house order today it has four classes Honours Knight an additional Cross Honours Knight Merit. Current awarded Honours Knight in order of wear: [17]. The cross itself is given to the family of the deceased. There are five ranks of hereditary peerage : dukemarquessearlviscountand baron. Until the mid 20th century, peerages were usually hereditary, and, until the end of the 20th century, English, Scottish, British, and UK peerages except, until very recent times, those for the time being held by women carried the right to a seat in the House of Lords. Hereditary peerages are now normally given only to members of the Royal Family. The most recent were the grants to the Queen's youngest son, the Earl of Wessexon his marriage Honours Knight ; to the Queen's grandson Prince WilliamHonours Knight was made the Duke of Cambridge on the morning before his marriage to Catherine Middleton on 29 April ; and to the Queen's grandson Prince Harrywho was made the Duke of Sussex on the morning before his marriage to Meghan Markle on 19 May No hereditary Honours Knight were granted to commoners after the Labour Party came to power inuntil Margaret Thatcher tentatively reintroduced them by two grants to men with no sons in Speaker of the House of Commons George Thomas and former Deputy Prime Minister William Whitelaw. Both these titles died with their holders. She followed this with an Earldom in for former Prime Minister Harold Honours Knight not long before his Honours Knight, reviving a traditional honour for former Prime Ministers. Macmillan's grandson succeeded him on his death in No hereditary peerages have been created since, and Thatcher's own title was a life peerage see further explanation below. The concession of a baronetcy i. Hereditary peerages are not "honours under the crown" and so cannot normally be withdrawn. A peerage can be revoked only by a specific Honours Knight of Parliament, and then for only the current holder, in the case of hereditary peerages. A hereditary peer can disclaim his peerage for his own lifetime under Peerage Act within a year after inheriting the title. Modern life peerages were introduced under the Appellate Jurisdiction Honours KnightHonours Knight a test case the Wensleydale Peerage Case which established that non-statutory life peers would not have the right to sit in the House of Lords. At that time, life peerages were intended only for Law Lordsthere being a desire to introduce legal expertise into the chamber to assist appellate law work, without conferring rights on future generations of these early working peers because the future generations might contain no legal experts. Subsequently, under the Life Peerages Actlife peerages became the norm for all new grants outside the Royal Family, this being seen as a modest reform of the nature of the second legislative chamber. However, its effects were gradual because hereditary peers, and their successors, retained until recently their rights to attend and vote Honours Knight the life peers. All hereditary peers except 92—chosen in a secret ballot of all hereditary peers—have now lost their rights to sit in the second chamber. All hereditary peers retain dining rights to the House of Lords, retaining its title as "the best club in London". All Life Peers hold the rank of baron and automatically have the right to sit in the House of Lords. The title exists only for the duration of their Honours Knight lifetime and is not passed to their heirs although the children even of Honours Knight peers enjoy the same courtesy titles as hereditary peers. Some Honours Knight peerages are created as an honour for achievement, some for the specific purpose of introducing legislators from the various political parties known as working peers and some under the Honours Knight Jurisdiction Actwith a view to judicial work.