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10 unusual facts about Venerable Order of Saint John


Alastair Bruce, 5th Baron Aberdare

He is Bailiff of St Davids of the Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, Priory of Wales.

Douglas Strutt Galton

Sir Douglas Strutt Galton KCB, GCB, F.R.S., MStJ, Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur, DCL, LLD (2 July 1822 – 18 March 1899) was a British engineer.

Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

Later that year he went to Venice, where he began work as the secretary of Francesco Boldieri, a nobleman who handled the property of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem.

James Balfour Paul

He was also admitted an Esquire of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and was a member of the Royal Societies and University (Edinburgh) Clubs.

Johannesgränd

It derives its name from the church of the Order of Saint John, in the early 16th century found north of the eastern part of the alley.

Philip Strong

Sir Philip Nigel Warrington Strong KBE CMG CStJ (1899–6 July 1983) served as the fifth Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane from 1962 to 1970, also serving as primate of the Church of England in Australia (now called the Anglican Church of Australia) from 1966.

Richard Gregg

Richard Gregg, SBStJ, son of Frank Carl Gregg and Jacquelyn Gregg, served as a 1st Lt. in the USAF Aux.

St John's Gate, Clerkenwell

The Gate was acquired in the 1870s by the revived Order of St. John and was gradually converted to serve as headquarters of both the Order and its subsidiary, St. John Ambulance.

Te Atairangikaahu

In 1986 she was appointed an Officer of the Order of St John.

William Keir Carr

Lieutenant General William Keir "Bill" Carr, CMM, DFC, OStJ, CD (born March 19, 1923) is a retired Canadian Air Force officer.


Amer Khammash

Queen Elizabeth II also presented him with an Associate Knighthood of the Venerable Order of Saint John.

James O'Higgins Norman

Dr. James O'Higgins Norman MStJ, GCEG KLJ, CIOM, FRSA is an Irish sociologist, author and academic based at Dublin City University.

John Furley

The organisation arose out of the Order of St. John, a charitable body of vague aims claiming descent from the medieval Knights Hospitaller.

Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway

Laura McLaren, Baroness Aberconway CBE, DStJ (b. 1854, Salford, England, UK – died 4 January 1933, Antibes) was a British suffragist and noblewoman.

Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond

From 1991 to 2001, he was a Governor of Wellington College, from 1991 to 1995 Registrar of the Most Venerable Order of St John of Jerusalem, and Director of Overseas Relations from 1995 to 1997.

Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont

CI: Companion of the Order of the Crown of India
VA: Lady of the Royal Order of Victoria and Albert
RRC: Member of the Royal Red Cross
DJStJ: Dame of Justice of St John

Roger Lindsay

Lindsay is an Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and is a Knight of Justice and a past Vice-Chancellor, Governance and the past Chief of Protocol of the Priory of Canada of Order of St John and is a trustee, director, and secretary of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation.