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Norman Criddle

Criddle was awarded an honorary diploma from the Manitoba Agricultural College, was Honorary President of the Natural History Society of Manitoba from 1925 to 1933, and a member of the Manitoba Agricultural Hall of Fame.


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1890–91 St. Mary's F.C. season

Canon Basil Wilberforce remained as Honorary President although Dr. Russell Bencraft, the senior committee member, was responsible for the running of the club.

Action Committee for the Defense of Democracy – Youth Movement

André Okombi Salissa was the President-Coordinator of the Central Council of the CADD-MJ, while Sassou Nguesso was the organization's Honorary President.

Al Sharjah SC

Sultan Bin Mohamed Al-Qasimi (Ruler of Sharjah as (Honorary President of the honor council))

Albert Vander Veer

He was a delegate to the International Medical Congress, held at Copenhagen in 1884, and was elected honorary president of the Fifteenth International Medical Congress held at Lisbon in 1906, having been appointed one of the commissioners from the United States government.

Alfréd Meissner

In 1930 Meissner was made honorary president of the conference of the International Association of Penal Law in Prague.

Association for Jewish Outreach Programs

Rabbi Ephraim Buchwald has served as AJOP's Honorary President during the entire lifespan of the organization.

Association of British Scrabble Players

The honorary president of the Association is former Member of Parliament Gyles Brandreth, who founded the first British National Scrabble Championship in 1971 and has taken a keen interest in the game ever since.

British Guild of Travel Writers

Notable members, past and present, include Somerset Maugham (the Honorary President when the Guild was founded in 1960), Maeve Binchy, Egon Ronay, Charlie Connelly, Bill Birkett, Duncan J. D. Smith and Hilary Bradt.

Children's Rights Council

CRC's former honorary president was Lady Catherine Meyer, Catherine Meyer the wife of the British Ambassador to the U.S., Christopher Meyer.

Connaught Park Racetrack

The track was founded in 1913, named after the governor-general of the time Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, who was also the club's first honorary president.

Conservative Friends of Russia

It was founded by public affairs consultant Richard Royal and had several notable Parliamentarians on its board, including former Defence and Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind as its Honorary President, and John Whittingdale MP, Andrew Rosindell MP, Nigel Evans MP, and Robert Buckland MP among its Honorary Vice Presidents.

Dollhouse Museum

Gisela Oeri, honorary president of local football club FC Basel, is heavily involved in the museum on a financial level.

Edwin A. Goodman

Goodman was also active in charity work as honorary president of Scouts Canada and as a director for various bodies such as the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and Princess Margaret Hospital.

Elizabeth Lippincott McQueen

She served as "founder and honorary president" of the WIAA; presidents of the association were, in turn, prominent British aviator Lady Mary Heath (1929-1932), British reporter Lady Grace Hay Drummond-Hay (1932-1940), educator Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford (1940-1947), actress Mary Pickford (1947-1949), airplane manufacturing executive Olive Ann Beech (1949-1954), and pioneer aviator Matilde Moisant (1954-).

Elvan Abeylegesse

"My target since the first day I started running has been to break world records and become Olympic champion." Şarık Tara, the honorary president of her club, said, "I am proud of our daughter Elvan. Her achievement is an even greater success than our men's national soccer team finishing third in the World Cup."

Evian Thonon Gaillard F.C.

In the summer of 2009, the president of the Groupe Danone, Franck Riboud, was made honorary president of the football club.

Fekri Hassan

Editor of the African Archaeological Review journal, contributory editor of The Review of Archaeology he is also honorary president of the Egyptian Cultural Heritage Organisation.

George Frederick Armstrong

He was honorary local secretary for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, the Iron and Steel Institute, and the British Association, as well as Honorary President of the East of Scotland Engineering Association.

Glasgow University Conservative Association

The Current Honorary President is Ruth Davidson with Struan Stevenson and James MacLeod serving as Honorary Vice Presidents.

Gökçek Vederson

He took his Turkish name after Melih Gökçek, the mayor of Ankara and the honorary president of Ankaraspor.

Hajime Ishii

Ishii said the situation created a great problem for democracy in Japan and invited three former Komeito party members and Soka Gakkai Honorary President Daisaku Ikeda for an intensive deliberation on issue of politics.

Hockley Village

One claim to fame was the season of crime thrillers ("Shots in the Dark") it used to hold every year, whose honorary president was Quentin Tarantino.

Hotaru Akane

At the 2007 AV Open, Akane's June 2007 video Anal Splash Thick Lesbian United! for Cross with Chihiro Hara and Sakura Sakurada won First Place in the "Challenge Stage" section and also took the Lily Franky Honorary President Prize.

International Association of Exorcists

Although Father Amorth is the honorary president, following the death of Father Giancarlo Gramolazzo in November 2010, Capuchin father Cipriano de Meo has been named as new president.

Japanese Red Cross

The Imperial Family of Japan traditionally has supported the society, with Empress as Honorary President and other royal family members as vice presidents.

Juniper, New Brunswick

Doctor Albert Schweitzer, famous for his medical and humanitarian work, served as an Honorary President of the International Kindness Club, before it was incorporated into the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), of which Mrs. Flemming became an honorary board member.

Karel Voous

He was Secretary-General (1966–1970) and Honorary President (1990–1994) of the International Ornithological Committee.

La Cruz Blanca

Soon General Pablo González wrote Magnón to congratulate and thank her for her efforts with Cruz Blanca, and he was made honorary president of the cause.

Lawrence Bergman

He also received several honors for his service among the Jewish Community while he was a council member of the Montreal Jewish Community, an honorary president of the Montreal's Jewish community centres and the director of Magen David Adom for Israel.

Leopoldo Bravo

After his retirement as leader, Bravo became honorary president of the Partido Bloquista, which went on to participate in the ruling Alliance of Fernando de la Rúa and take over the government of San Juan once again after the impeachment of the incumbent.

Leslie Jaeger

He was an Honorary Professor of Civil Engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai and Honorary President of the Usman Institute of Technology, Karachi.

Mahler Chamber Orchestra

The MCO has stable residencies in Ferrara (Ferrara Musica, honorary president: Claudio Abbado), Aix-en-Provence (Festival international d'art lyrique d'Aix-en-Provence), Toblach (Gustav Mahler Musikwochen), Lucerne (Lucerne Festival), Salzburg (Mozartwochen) and Landshut.

Marcel Thil

Thil remained active in boxing circles as an advisor and cornerman and was named honorary president of the Dieppe Boxing Club.

Millwall Rugby Club

After election of following-season officers at the AGM, the season is rounded off by an annual dinner and awards ceremony at the Palace of Westminster hosted by the Honorary President of Millwall Rugby Club, Jim Fitzpatrick MP.

Organization of Ibero-American States

The Honorary President of the organization is His Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain.

Peter Trudgill

Peter Trudgill is the honorary president of the Friends of Norfolk dialect society, and contributes a regular column on language and dialect to the Eastern Daily Press newspaper.

Robin Blair

On 19 February 2007, he became the Honorary President of the Scottish Genealogy Society upon the retirement after many years of Sir Malcolm Innes of Edingight, who had preceded him as Lord Lyon.

RSCN

Royal Society for the Conservation of Nature, an independent voluntary organization devoted to the conservation of Jordan's natural resources established in 1966 under the patronage of Queen Noor with the late King Hussein as Honorary President

Sholem Asch

In 1932 he was awarded the Polish Republic's Polonia Restituta decoration and was elected honorary president of the Yiddish PEN Club.

Sir James Swinburne, 9th Baronet

Swinburne and Leo Baekeland later founded the Demard Lacquer Company, which eventually became Bakelite Limited, which Swinburne served as chairman and, in 1948, as honorary president.

The Bob Hope Theatre

In September 1982, Bob Hope became co-honorary president of Eltham Little Theatre Company along with Former President of the United States Gerald Ford, who was heavily involved with the Bob Hope Classic Golf Tournament.

Walter Rabl

Rabl’s Quartet in E-Flat Major for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 1 won first prize in 1896 in a prestigious competition for young composers sponsored by the Vienna Tonkünstlerverein (Musicians’ Society) of which Johannes Brahms was honorary president and a judge of the competition.

World Universities Congress

Furthermore, the honorary president of the congress became Prof. Pier Ugo Calzolari who is the former Rector of Bologna University and the Vice President of International Association of Universities (IAU).

Writers' Union of Romania

Tudor Arghezi was honorary president from 1962 to 1967, as was Victor Eftimiu in 1972; Ștefan Augustin Doinaș was chosen for this function in 1990 as well.