One Thousand and One Knights - Page 2

hectorberlioz · 09-22-2005, 06:12 PM

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Originally Posted by EarthBound

Sir-Cumstances

Sir-Hosis of Liver-pool

Sir-Cumstantial

Sir-Ti Fye

Of course these are the more obscure Knights...BB probably has lunch with them regularly...

Sir Lee Dunn

(sean connery accent on the sir

)

Lotesse · 09-22-2005, 06:26 PM

Sir Alexander Fleming - Nobel Prize winner who discovered penicillin
Sir Richard Doll - discovered & published inf. about the link between smoking and lung cancer

hectorberlioz · 10-06-2005, 06:20 PM

Sir Ben Kingsley

and also, it IS supremely hard to name one thousand in the twentieth century alone...no restrictions now.

Sir Charles Halle

Butterbeer · 10-06-2005, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by EarthBound

Sir-Cumstances

Sir-Hosis of Liver-pool

Sir-Cumstantial

Sir-Ti Fye

Of course these are the more obscure Knights...BB probably has lunch with them regularly...

well, when i can

.... Sir-Cumstances can't always make it though, and Sir-Cumstantial usually has a tenuous reason for being late!

here's one: Sir geoff Hurst ...yes you guessed it, football.

best BB

EarthBound · 10-07-2005, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Butterbeer

well, when i can

.... Sir-Cumstances can't always make it though, and Sir-Cumstantial usually has a tenuous reason for being late!

here's one: Sir geoff Hurst ...yes you guessed it, football.

best BB

I resent I'm not being taken seriously, my exhaustive research demands respect!

Sir Prize E’ Partee

Sir Mise A’ Prob’lem

Sir Upp Pann Kakk

Perhaps they are more obscure in their knighthoods, but no less important....

Acalewia · 10-31-2005, 04:17 PM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Sir Michael Tippet (mu. '98)
.

Whos that and are you sure you spelled the name right?

hectorberlioz · 10-31-2005, 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Acalewia

Whos that and are you sure you spelled the name right?

You mean, might I be mistaken that Aaron Tippen (the country singer) is english and a knight?

Not the same

Sir Michael wrote classical music.

Acalewia · 11-06-2005, 07:31 PM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

You mean, might I be mistaken that Aaron Tippen (the country singer) is english and a knight?

Not the same

Sir Michael wrote classical music.

That's not what I ment at all

wanted to clarify. could be a distint reletive

sure it's not Tippett

tolkienfan · 11-07-2005, 01:04 AM

Dame Agatha Christie (writer)

Bombadillo · 11-07-2005, 01:25 AM

Would Sir William Wallace count?

There's also Sir Loin of Beef, played by Goofy in an old Disney cartoon, from the era when those were actually funny. (A bee flew inside his suit of armor!

) Just in case we eventually resort to cartoon characters.

hectorberlioz · 11-09-2005, 07:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Bombadillo

Would Sir William Wallace count?

There's also Sir Loin of Beef, played by Goofy in an old Disney cartoon, from the era when those were actually funny. (A bee flew inside his suit of armor!

) Just in case we eventually resort to cartoon characters.

Was Wallace knighted? I never heard it...

Dame Agatha Christie, good one tolkienfan.

Acawalei, I don't think Tippet is a very common name even in England...check your genealogy though. Our family is related to the Motleys who fought with William Wallace, and also David Livingstone fits in there somewhere.

My own addition : Sir Thomas Browne (writer?)

I always wondered why neither Tolkien nor C.S. Lewis was knighted...

Telcontar_Dunedain · 11-09-2005, 07:32 PM

Sir Stanley Matthews. (football)

Spock · 11-09-2005, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Was Wallace knighted? I never heard it...

You were obviously too young

William Wallace history. ... Upon returning to Scotland early in December 1297,he was knighted and proclaimed guardian of the kingdom.

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Dame Agatha Christie, good one tolkienfan.

Agatha Christie Mallowan was made C.B.E. in 1956 and Dame of the British Empire in 1971.

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

My own addition : Sir Thomas Browne (writer?)

He received a knighthood by default (he was dead) in 1671 from Charles II on the occasion of the King’s visit to Norwich in 1671.

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

I always wondered why neither Tolkien nor C.S. Lewis was knighted...

Well, "Gandalf" was : Sir Ian McKellen, knighted in 1991

Sorry, old bean, they never were.

anything to help ones betters.

sun-star · 11-10-2005, 05:15 AM

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Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

I always wondered why neither Tolkien nor C.S. Lewis was knighted...

Lewis was offered a knighthood and turned it down.

Two writers:
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Scott

Butterbeer · 11-10-2005, 06:25 AM

sir bob geldof (looking scruffy - occasional music)

and i think sir trevor macdonald (broadcast / television)

Finrod Felagund · 11-19-2005, 03:08 AM

Sir Charlie Chaplin (film legend)
Sir Cliff Richard (music)
Sir Isaac Newton (physics)
Sir Ernest Shackleton (explorer)
Sir Alexander Fleming (medicine)
Sir Thomas More (politician)
Sir Steve Redgrave (olympic rower)
Sir Frank Whittle (invented the Jet engine)
Sir William Wallace
Sir Francis Drake (military/explorer)
Sir Edward Elgar (composer)
Sir Frederick Banting (co-discoverer of insulin)
Sir John A. MacDonald (first Prime Minister of Canada)
Sir Wilfrid Laurier (prime minister of Canada)
Sir Sidney Poitier (actor)

Dame Julie Andrews

Finrod Felagund · 11-19-2005, 04:16 AM

[ Double Post ]

Serenoli · 11-19-2005, 04:55 AM

Sir Donald Bradman (cricket)
Sir Richard Hadlee (cricket)
Sir Bobby Robson (soccer)
Sir Garfield Sobers (cricket)
Lord Tennyson (poetry) [Are lords counted??]
Sir Walter Hammond (cricket)
Sir John Hobbs (cricket)
Sir Frank Worell (cricket)

I got most of the list from my two brothers, who are both cricket fans.

Serenoli · 11-19-2005, 04:59 AM

oh, and I just remembered: Sir Humphry Davy (scientist)

Finrod Felagund · 11-19-2005, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by sun-star

Lewis was offered a knighthood and turned it down.

Really? Didn't know that...

Tolkien recived the honour one step below knighthood...can't think of the name.

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