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FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY - NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω Ω MEMBERSHIP ROLL Illustrious Royal Order of Saint Januarius Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George Royal Order of Francis I DELEGATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND July 2014 The Grand Master HRH Prince Charles of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duke of Castro, and HRH Princess Camilla of Bourbon Two Sicilies, Duchess of Castro, His Eminence Renato Raffaele, Cardinal Martino, Grand Prior of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George The Prayer of the Constantinian Order 1 The History of the Order in Great Britain 2 The History of the Order in Ireland 4 Council of the Delegation of Great Britain and Ireland 6 Members of the Delegation of Great Britain and Ireland 8 Illustrious Royal Order of Saint Januarius 8 » In the Category of Knight 8 Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George 9 » In the Category of Justice 9 » In the Special Category 10 » In the Category of Grace 10 » In the Category of Merit 12 » » In the Category of Office 15 RoyalRecepients Order of of BenemerentiFrancis I Medals 1715 Post Nominals of Decorations 20 Obituaries 21 The Prayer of the Constantinian Order Almighty and Merciful Father, King of kings and Lord of lords, in Your immeasurable goodness You have called me into the ranks of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George, Your Knight and Martyr. May I never cease to emulate our heavenly patron and with alacrity fol- low in the footsteps of Your Only-begotten Son, Who is our Alpha and Omega, our Beginning and End. Impress, O Lord, upon my heart the Sign of Your Holy Cross, and grant that I may bear it honourably and dutifully, in total fealty to You and to the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church, and to the Vicar of your Son. Bless our Grand Master, His Family and Household, and all our Knights and Dames. Imbue me, moreover, with the particular grace of preserving in diligent charity toward my neighbour, and especially to the sick, the needy, and the abandoned. All this, Heavenly Father, I beg by the power of the Most Holy Cross upon which throne He Who is the Way, the Truth, and the Life did reign, and to Whom with You in the life-giving Holy Spirit be ascribed all honour, glo- ry and power, sovereignty and blessing both now and forevermore. Amen. Most Holy Mother, Virgin most compassionate, who did stand at the Foot of the Cross, pray for us that we may be made worthy of the fruits of Your Son’s Passion, Death and Resurrection. Saint George, Knight and Martyr, may your sacred witness strengthen and inspire us to be generous in the service of the Most Holy Cross, in whose Sign alone can we conquer. 1 History of the Delegation in Great Britain - Thethe decoration first known from British King subject Ferdinand to be I ofinvested the Two into Sicilies the Sacredin 1801. Military In the sameCon stantinianyear, he obtained Order ofa RoyalSaint LicenceGeorge fromwas Captain King George William III ofD’Arley, Great Britainwho received which permitted him to be styled as “Sir William” and to wear the Order’s decoration at Court. the Winspeare and Acton families, who had close ties to the Royal Neapolitan In 1810, Sir John Carr was invested into the Order’s ranks. Several members of- Court,ranks. were invested in the middle of the nineteenth century. In 1883, the in dustrialist and inventor, Sir Edward Thomason, was invested into the Order’s and Winspeare were again the mainstay of British members of the Sacred Mili- In the first 75 years of the 20th century the Anglo-Neapolitan families of Acton of the Bourbons of Naples, became a Constantinian knight. tary Constantinian Order. Sir Harold Acton, famous for his two-volume history - sociations of the Order of Malta decided to establish a national association for In the early 1970’s some prominent members of the British and Polish As the Constantinian Order in Britain and Ireland. In 1975 the premier baron of England, Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton, was elected as its president and remained in office until 2000. - - Amongcount Monckton those invested of Brenchley, during thisSir John time Hope were and five Captain presidents Peregrine of the BritishBertie. As sociation of the Order of Malta including Lord Craigmyle, Major-General Vis - lege of Arms including the future Garter King of Arms Sir Conrad Swan and OtherJohn Brooke-Little, members included later Clarenceux Viscount Furness Arms. and eminent members of the Col - Italy’s Knights of St AmongGeorge: activitiesThe Constantinian undertaken Order by the’ by DelegationDesmond Seward, in the early the attendanceyears were theof many pub licationBritish and of the Irish first knights history and of damesthe Order at the in Englishstate funeral entitled of the ‘ last monarchs of theunder Two the Sicilies, Bourbons King in Francis southern II and Italy Queen was Sofiacreated in the and Basilica presented of Santa at the Chiara Nea- inpolitan Naples museums in 1984, of and Capodimonte a ground breaking and San exhibition Martino and on theat the art Detroit and civilization Institute of Art in the USA. 2 HE Archbishop Luigi Barbarito, was invested into the Constantinian Order in 1986became at the startnew Priorof his of eleven the delegation year term and as Apostolic placed a specialNuncio chapel to the Courtof the ofPro- St James’s.Cathedral The of London Rt Rev Mgr at the Adrian disposal Arrowsmith, of the knights Canon and of Westminsterdames. Cathedral, MembersMalta. The of late the Lord Recusant High Chancellor,aristocracy Lord were Hailsham also invested of Saint including Marylebone, HMEH was Frà Andrewalso appointed Bertie, a Prince medalist and of Grand the Constantinian Master of the Order. Sovereign Military Order of - The Delegation and its activities grew considerably further from 2000 on wards under delegates Lord Belhaven and Stenton (2000-2003), Mr Anthony BaileyThe delegation (2003-2006) membership and Lord Brennanin Britain of today Bibury includes QC (2006-2009). Royalty, Peers of the - Realm,tary leaders judges and and senior lawyers, clergy. Members of Parliament, authors, charity workers, diplomats, businessmen, ministers, civil leaders, interfaith campaigners, mili - AmongHohenberg them Mrs are Anthony HMEH Frà Bailey, Matthew Sister Festing, Ellen Flynncurrent of Princethe Passage and Grand Homeless Mas ter of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, HSH Princess Marie-Therese von Norfolk, the former Chief Minister of Gibraltar Sir Peter Caruana, QC, the Lord Centre, The Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury (medalist), The Duchess of Defence Staff Field Marshal The Lord Guthrie of Craigiebank, former Attorney High Constable of Scotland the Earl of Erroll (medalist), former Chief of the the Court of St James’s and former MP, pro-life campaigner and entertainer GeneralAnn Widdecombe. Baroness Scotland of Asthal, QC, several ambassadors accredited to The senior dame of the Delegation in Britain is Her Royal Highness Princess - der in 1996. Michael of Kent who was invested into the Sacred Military Constantinian Or His Eminence Cormac, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop Emeritus of Westminster, is the current Prior of the British and Irish Delegation. Since as Sub-Prior of the British and Irish Delegation. The current Archbishop of 2001, His Grace The Most Rev George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff, has served- - Westminster,der in 1990. His Eminence Vincent, Cardinal Nichols, is a longstanding chap lain of the British and Irish Delegation having first been invested into the Or 3 In 2012 HE Archbishop Antonio Mennini was invested into the Constantinian Order at the start of his term as Apostolic Nuncio to the Court of St James’s. nature, are foreign royalty, a former prime minister, charity workers, artists, Withincabinet the ministers, Royal Order barristers, of Francis academics, I, which inter-faith is not exclusively leaders, Roman businessmen Catholic and in Members of Parliament. Among them are Lord Archbishop of Canterbury Emeritus - Lord Williams of Oystermouth, and his predecessor Lord Carey of Clifton, The Duke of Westmin- ster,Sternberg, HRH The Baroness Princess Margaret Elena of Thatcher,Romania, KnightAlbert PrincipalRoux, Greek Lord Orthodox Lingfield, Arch HRH- Princessbishop Gregorios Katarina ofof ThyateiraYugoslavia, and Lord Great Denman, Britain, inter-faith Syrian Orthodox leader Sir Archbishop Sigmund - man, as well as a number of current and past Ambassadors and High Com- Athanasiusmissioners accreditedToma Dawod, to thePresident Court of of St the James’s Board includingof British fromJews Italy,Vivian Ireland, Wine Poland, Colombia, Hungary, Andorra, Yemen and the Holy See. - Theegate current for Inter-Religious British and Irish Relations delegate and is Secretary HE Mr Anthony General Bailey of the (2009-2012Royal Order of& 2012+) who simultaneously serves as the Order’s worldwide Magistral Del FrancisDelegate I. for He Scotland is supported is Field by aMarshal Council, The which Lord is Guthrie elected ofevery Craigiebank three years. and The the Vice-Delegate for England is Professor The Lord Alton of Liverpool, the Vice- Vice-DelegateThe Delegation for in WalesGreat Britainis The Rt has Hon supported Paul Murphy, numerous MP. worthy charities and organisations including The Passage Homeless Centre, St Thomas Fund, West- - minsterShrine, the Cathedral, Apostolic Blind Nunciature, Veterans the UK All-Party (St Dunstan’s), Parliamentary The Council Pro-Life of GroupChris tianswithin and the Jews, British The Parliament, Schola of the Co-Operation London Oratory Ireland, School, Forthspring Tyburn Convent Inter-Com and- munity Group, St Peter’s Italian Church in London, Stroke Association and Magistry in Rome. many of the international charitable and humanitarian initiatives of the Grand History of the Delegation in Ireland into the Constantinian Order from across the island of Ireland including mem- Overbers ofthe the last old century Gaelic nobility,there have the been Order numerous of Malta, knightsthe clergy and as dames well as invested parlia- mentarians, leading businessmen and academics.

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