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Knighted


1998 Elton John knighted

1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by the Queen

1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

1946 Annette Penhaligon, born in England, politician, secretary for Member of Parliament for Truro, in Cornwall, England, knighted for services to politics and public service

1918 Mervyn Pike, born in England, Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Baroness Pike, Conservative, Life Peerk, knighted, Member of Parliament for Melton, in the county of Leicestershire

1915 Stanley Matthews, 1st British soccer player to be knighted

1902 Jack Newman, New Zealand cricket lefty pace bowler, 1932-33, later knighted

1887 Sir John Layton Jarvis, 1st British race horse trainer knighted

1882 John Berry Hobbs, England, 1st cricket played knighted, 1953

1838 Henry Irving, John H Brodribb, England, knighted 1895/actor, Hamlet


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