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1906 Birthday Honours

The Honourable Adélard Turgeon, Minister of Lands and Forests of the Province of Quebec, in the Dominion of Canada.

1977 FESPIC Games

The Games were opened on November 20 by Right Honourable Malcolm Fraser, Prime Minister of Australia and closed on November 26, 1977 by Honourable Neville Wran, Premier of New South Wales.

1987 New Year Honours

The Honourable James Cameron Tudor, C.M.G., Minister of Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Senate.

A.K. Golam Jilani

At Nawabganj, many meetings and conferences took place for the Indian independence movement, for which many honourable leaders like Satish Chandra Dasgupta, Prafulla Chandra Ghosh, Indra Narayn Dasgupta and Mahatma Gandhi visited Algichor to meet Golam Jilani.

Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988

During 1996, the Honourable Elizabeth Evatt AC carried out a comprehensive review of the Australian Government's then Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Act 1984 (Cwlth), and, in the process reviewed the Aboriginal heritage protection arrangements of each State.

Alastair Morrison, 3rd Baron Margadale

He married, firstly, Lady Sophia Cavendish, daughter of Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire and The Honourable Deborah Mitford, on 19 July 1988.

Angela Lascelles

She was the first wife of The Honourable Gerald Lascelles, the second son of Princess Mary, the Princess Royal and Countess of Harewood.

As the son of an earl, he was styled The Honourable, and Mrs Lascelles's style (formerly Miss Angela Dowding) became The Honourable Mrs Gerald Lascelles.

Angela Slatter

Her work has been listed for Honourable Mention by Ellen Datlow, Gavin Grant and Kelly Link; and she has been nominated three times for the Aurealis Award for best fantasy short story.

Arthur Purey-Cust

Purey-Cust was born into a distinguished family as the son of the Honourable William Cust, younger son of Brownlow Cust, 1st Baron Brownlow.

Baron Alington

He was the son of Henry Sturt, great-grandson of Humphrey Sturt by his wife Diana (through which marriage Crichel House in Dorset came into the Sturt family), daughter of Sir Nathaniel Napier, 3rd Baronet, and the Honourable Catherine, daughter of the third Baron of the 1642 creation.

Baron Lamington

He was the son of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas John Cochrane, son of Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane, sixth son of Thomas Cochrane, 8th Earl of Dundonald (see the Earl of Dundonald for earlier history of the Cochrane family).

Baron Leigh

The Very Reverend the Honourable James Wentworth Leigh, third son of the first Baron, was Dean of Hereford.

The Honourable Sir Edward Chandos Leigh, second son of the first Baron, was a cricketer and barrister.

Battle of Honkaniemi

The remaining five tanks were lost in a more honourable way, "being targeted by T-26s, T-28s and 45 mm anti-tank guns".

Canada–Australia Consular Services Sharing Agreement

Secretary of State for External Affairs of Canada and the Honourable Bill Hayden, M.P., Minister for Foreign Affairs of Australia exchanged notes to create the agreement.

Chandos Leigh, 1st Baron Leigh

Their third and youngest son the Very Reverend the Honourable James Wentworth Leigh Dean of Hereford.

Charles Cathcart

Charles Cathcart, 8th Lord Cathcart (1686 — 1740), British Army officer, also known as The Honourable Charles Cathcart

Charles Howard-Bury

A member of the Howard family, he was born at Charleville Castle, King's County, Ireland, the only son of Captain Kenneth Howard-Bury (1846–1885), son of the Honourable James Howard.

Clan MacEwen

On 11 October 2012, the Lord Lyon announced the appointment of the Honourable Adam Bruce, Marchmont Herald of Arms, as Supervising Officer for the Family Convention.

Continental Bank of Canada

On December 8, 2013 the Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, signed Letters Patent of Continuance for Continental Bank of Canada (“Continental”), thereby chartering Canada’s newest bank.

Dennis Byron

In 2000, Judge Byron was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and he was appointed a member of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council in 2004, making him only the second national of St. Kitts and Nevis to be appointed, following the appointment of the country's first Prime Minister Dr. Kennedy Simmonds in 1984.

Earl of Inverness

The title of Earl of Inverness (Scottish Gaelic:Iarla Inbhir Nis) was first created in 1718 in the Jacobite Peerage of Scotland by James Francis Edward Stuart ("James III & VIII") for the Honourable John Hay of Cromlix, third son of the 7th Earl of Kinnoull, but became extinct upon the death of the grantee in 1740.

Edward Bligh

Edward Bligh (19 September 1769 – 2 November 1840), styled The Honourable from birth, was an Irish politician, a noted amateur cricketer and a prominent early member of the Marylebone Cricket Club.

Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby

Major-General The Honourable Sir Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby, GCMG, KCB, KCH (6 July 1783 – 11 January 1837), styled The Honourable from 1806 to 1837, was a British military officer, the second son of the 3rd Earl of Bessborough and Henrietta Ponsonby, Countess of Bessborough.

George Arbuthnot

George Bingham Arbuthnot (1803–1867), Major-General in the Honourable East India Company

Henry Coventry

The Honourable Henry Coventry (1619–1686) was an English politician, who was Secretary of State for the Northern Department between 1672 and 1674 and the Southern Department between 1674 and 1680.

Henry Guest

In 1911, he married Honourable Frances Lyttelton (1885–1918), daughter of the 8th Viscount Cobham.

Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons

The Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons was a London-based Welsh social, cultural, and philanthropic society, which was in existence from 1715 until the end of the 18th century.

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival

Charles Officer (Mighty Jerome, Hot Docs 2011 Official Selection) received an honourable mention.

John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge

Colonel John Granville, 1st Baron Granville of Potheridge PC (12 April 1665 – 3 December 1707), styled The Honourable John Granville until 1703, was an English soldier, landowner and politician.

John Lawrence O'Meally

The Honourable Judge John Lawrence O'Meally (AM RFD) (born 1939) was president of the Dust Diseases Tribunal of New South Wales.

John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne

The son of Captain William Palmer, Viscount Wolmer, in turn son of Roundell Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne, and the Honourable Grace Ridley, Lord Selborne succeeded to his grandfather's titles in 1971.

Joseph Matthew Sebastian

In 1995, the only surviving son of The Honourable Joseph Matthew Sebastian and Mrs. Inez Veronica Sebastian (née Hodge), Dr. Cuthbert Sebastian.

Lionel Dawson-Damer, 4th Earl of Portarlington

Lord Portarlington married the Honourable Harriett Lydia, daughter of Henry Montagu, 6th Baron Rokeby, in 1855.

Masami Tsuruoka

On Wednesday, May 27, 1998, Master Tsuruoka received the Order of Ontario presented by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, the Honourable Hilary Weston.

Montagu Bertie, 5th Earl of Abingdon

Lord Abingdon's first wife was Emily Gage (d. 28 August 1838), daughter of General the Honourable Thomas Gage and Margaret Kemble, 27 August 1807.

OmniCompete

Its board members include the honourable H. Lee Buchanan III, who used to be Deputy Director of DARPA before his current role as VC at Paladin Capital Group.

Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax

Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax is the quadruple-barrelled surname of the descendants of Admiral The Honourable Sir Reginald Aylmer Ranfurly Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1880–1967), who was the younger son of the 17th Baron of Dunsany by his wife Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, née Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Burton (1855–1916).

Queen's Champion

The feudal holder of the Manor of Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, England, has, since the Norman Conquest in 1066, held the manor from the Crown by grand serjeanty of being The Honourable The King's/Queen's Champion.

Robert Bemborough

An alternative point of view is portrayed in Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novel Sir Nigel, in which Bemborough (called Richard of Bambro in the novel) is a hardy knight who accepts the combat as an honourable means to continue the fight after a truce has been declared.

Roslyn Atkinson

The following year she was an Associate to the Honourable Justice Brennan, then a Justice of the High Court of Australia.

Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet

Hayes was born in 1840 the son of Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet and his wife Emily Pakenham, daughter of Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Hercules Pakenham, a son of the Earl of Longford.

Theobald Butler, 1st Viscount Butler of Tulleophelim

Butler was the son of Sir Edmund Butler by the Honourable Eleanor Eustace, daughter of Rowland Eustace, 2nd Viscount Baltinglass.

Thomas J. Dodd Prize in International Justice and Human Rights

2003: Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, T.D., Prime Minister of Ireland and the Right Honourable Tony Blair

Thomas Lyon-Bowes, 12th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne

Lord Strathmore and Kinghorne married the Honourable Charlotte Maria Barrington, daughter of William Barrington, 6th Viscount Barrington, on 30 April 1850.

Thomas Thynne, 5th Marquess of Bath

Known by the courtesy title Viscount Weymouth from birth, he was born at The Stable Yard, St James's, London, the eldest son of John Thynne, 4th Marquess of Bath, by the Honourable Frances Isabella Catherine Vesey, daughter of Thomas Vesey, 3rd Viscount de Vesci.

Vavaʻu

Hon. Samisoni Fonomanu Tu'i'afitu – The Noble Tu'i'afitu was appointed Acting Governor of Vavaʻu in 1988 and then Governor of Vavaʻu in 1991.


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