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2 unusual facts about Honorary title


Honorary title

Courtesy title, a form of address in systems of nobility used by children, former wives and other close relatives of a peer

Honorary title (academic), primarily exists in Britain as well as some universities and colleges in the United States and Canada



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7th World Science Fiction Convention

Don Ford carried out the duties of Chairman, but was officially Secretary-Treasurer; Charles R. Tanner had the honorary title of Chairman.

Alessandro Mendini

He holds an honorary title from the Architectural League of New York as well as the title of "Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres" from the French Republic.

Alicia Llanos de Ramos

She holds the honorary title of First Lady of Tijuana, and officially serves as President of the Municipal DIF Sponsorship.

Allama

Allamah, an honorary title carried by the highest scholars of Islamic thought.

Antoine August Michel Gaujot

He solved some significant problems while in Japan, for which the Mikado reportedly conferred on him the honorary title of "general".

Arnold van Mill

He received the German/Austrian honorary title of Kammersänger from this theatre for his duties.

Chiann Fan Gibson

In 1998 Miss Universe Co-owner Donald Trump awarded Gibson the “honorary” title of the official dentist of the Miss Universe Pageant.

Dong Jin Kim

At this time Kim received the honorary title of Captain from the Pohnpei Police Department in Micronesia.

Dudaryc

The honorary title "People's Choir" (1977); Diploma of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine (1987), the Shevchenko National Prize laureate, 1989(The highest artistic award in Ukraine, the only one Youth art group in Ukraine) was awarded the honorary title of "State Choir" in 2000.

Electrocutango

During their concert in Academia Nacional de tango, Sverre Indris Joner was given the honorary title "Academico Correspondiente" of the academy by the president Horacio Ferrer.

Gérard de Lally-Tollendal

In 1779 Lally-Tollendal bought the honorary title of Grand bailli of Étampes, and in 1789 was a deputy to the Estates-General for the noblesse of Paris.

Gertrude Noone

The honorary title of oldest known living military veteran passed to Gertrude Noone on July 25, 2009, following the death of British World War I veteran Harry Patch.

Katowice Steelworks

Construction of the plant was carried out with cooperation with Soviet experts, and the honorary title of the First Worker was granted to Leonid Brezhnev.

Ma Xifan

The officers, headed by Yuan Quan (袁詮) and Pan Yue (潘約), welcomed Ma Xifan, who then carried the title of military governor of Zhennan Circuit (鎮南, headquartered in modern Nanchang, Jiangxi — an honorary title as at that time, Zhennan was a Wu possession) and who was the defender of Lang Prefecture (朗州, in modern Changde, Hunan), to Changsha.

Mehmed Fuad Pasha

The term “Pasha” is a title given to a high-ranking member of the Ottoman government and could only be given by the Sultan as an honorary title.

Meir Abulafia

He was so highly esteemed in Toledo that on his father's death in 1225 the latter's honorary title of Nasi (prince) was applied to him.

Raja of Chettinad

The Raja of Chettinad was an honorary title bestowed on the head of the S. Rm. M. family of Kanadukathan in the Chettinad region by the government of the Madras Presidency during the British Raj era in India.

Randle Wilbraham Falconer

In addition to his Edinburgh doctorate, he held the honorary title of doctor from Queen's University of Ireland, 1879, and that of fellow from King and Queen's College, Dublin, and was a fellow of the Medico-Chirurgical Society of London.

Resistance during the Holocaust

Since 1963, a commission organized by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority in Israel, and headed by an Israeli Supreme Court justice, has been charged with the duty of awarding people who rescued Jews from the Holocaust the honorary title Righteous Among the Nations.

Sergei Vasilyev

Sergei Vasilyev was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1948; and received (with Georgi Vasilyev) two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1942.

SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers

The honorary title Kurt Eggers referred to the SS war-correspondent and editor of the SS magazine Das Schwarze Korps who had been killed earlier in the year, while reporting on the Wiking's battles near Kharkov.