One Thousand and One Knights

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

If we are counting Dames then Dame Tanni-Grey Thompson.

[hectorberlioz]

All right, but can you tell me what she does?

[Spock]

Paralympics 2004
Athlete profile: Tanni Grey-Thompson

Name: Tanni Grey-Thompson.

Event: Wheelchair athletics.

Date of birth: 26 July 1969.

Interests: Sport and listening to '80s music.

............but I hadn't heard she got knighted.............

[Telcontar_Dunedain]

Yes in the 2005 New Years Honours List.

[hectorberlioz]

Sir Arthur C. Clarke (sci-fi writer)
Sir Stanley Unwin (Publisher)
Sir James Murray (founder of the Oxford English Dic.)
Sir Landon Ronald (conductor)

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by hectorberlioz

Aha! Thank you. I wasnt sure what he has (besides human, and english)

What do you mean, you don't know David Attenborough?! Really Hector, you must have seen some of his nature documentaries. I can't believe you've never seen any.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

What do you mean, you don't know David Attenborough?! Really Hector, you must have seen some of his nature documentaries. I can't believe you've never seen any.

I've watched quite a few nature documentaries, but they were definitely american productions, and from the 1980s

[Spock]

Singer Tom Jones Is Knighted
From Associated Press
March 29, 2006 12:16 PM EST
LONDON - Welsh singer Tom Jones is getting used to meeting Queen Elizabeth II - but Wednesday was something special as she dubbed him, "Sir Tom."

The 65-year-old singer, a coal miner's son from the Welsh town of Pontypridd, received the honor from the queen at Buckingham Palace.

Jones said he had met the British monarch "six or seven times, maybe more," starting with a royal charity performance in 1966.

"I love seeing the queen and I have always been a royalist," Jones said after the investiture. "She is lovely and she still is lovely."

The big-voiced belter, who was accompanied by his son, daughter and granddaughter, said receiving the knighthood was "just tremendous."

"When you first come into show business and you get a hit record, it is the start of something," he said.

"As time goes on, it just gets better. This is the best thing that I have had. It is a wonderful feeling, a heady feeling.

"Sometimes you just can't believe it, you think you have been dreaming."

Born Thomas Jones Woodward, Jones began his singing career at age 3. His string of hits started with "It's Not Unusual" in 1965, and includes "What's New, Pussycat?," "Green, Green Grass of Home," "Help Yourself," "She's a Lady," and "Never Fall in Love Again,"

[Gwaimir Windgem]

A royalist, eh? Good for him!

[hectorberlioz]

I'll have to add him. *chagrin in his grin*


update: and with him adde, we have:

total:359, that is NOT including Dames and Lords

[Butterbeer]

shame on you Hector!!!

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Butterbeer

shame on you Hector!!!

Which? My changrin or my grin?

[Finrod Felagund]

Did we get "Sir Ben Kingsley, Actor" yet?

(Go see "Lucky Number Slevin" BTW...)

[Earniel]

I believe to have read that Anita Roddick (founder of Body Shop) is also a Dame? Not sure, though, you might want to check that.

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

I believe to have read that Anita Roddick (founder of Body Shop) is also a Dame? Not sure, though, you might want to check that.

Alright then:

Dame Anita Roddick (founder of Body shop)
Dame Agatha Christie (novelist)

Originally Posted by Finrod Felagund

Did we get "Sir Ben Kingsley, Actor" yet?

(Go see "Lucky Number Slevin" BTW...)

yep

[hectorberlioz]

I do believe I have some new ones:


Sir Renigald Goodall (conductor)
Sir Edward Downes (conductor)
Sir John Pritchard (conductor)
Sir Anthony Lewis (conductor)
Sir Granville Bantock (composer)
Sir Andrew Pafnufnik (composer)
Sir Harrison Birtwistle (composer)
Sir John More (Thomas's father, a judge on the King's court)
Sir James Jeans (astronomer)
Lord Berners (composer)

[durinsbane2244]

[tell me if these don't count, but they should if they don't!]
sir launcelot
sir gawain
sir gaheris
sir ector
sir bors
sir lionel
sir gareth
sir tristram
sir mordred
sir agravaine
sir tarquine
sir tor
sir percival
sir galahad

and of course, sir not-appearing-in-this-picture...they were real! the stories were legend, but legend is based on fact...oh, they were warriors all...

[hectorberlioz]

Originally Posted by durinsbane2244

[tell me if these don't count, but they should if they don't!]
sir launcelot
sir gawain
sir gaheris
sir ector
sir bors
sir lionel
sir gareth
sir tristram
sir mordred
sir agravaine
sir tarquine
sir tor
sir percival
sir galahad

and of course, sir not-appearing-in-this-picture...they were real! the stories were legend, but legend is based on fact...oh, they were warriors all...

well...I suppose they could count. we need to pump our numbers.

[hectorberlioz]

Ladies and Gentlemen...Preparez tous

1.Sir Francis Leopold McClintock (1907, arctic explorer)
2.Sir John Franklin 1847 arctic explorer
3.Sir Francis Vere 1609 military commander
4.Sir Gilbert Lart 1698 son of…
5.Sir John Lart 2nd bt.
6.Sir George Holles 1626 brother of a certain Lord Clare
7.Sir Thomas Mauleurer 1st bt 1655
8.Sir George Pocock Admiral 1792
9.Sir Charles Stuart 1801 the Honorable General
10.Sir Humphrey Davy 1829 inventor of safety-lamp
11.Sir Thom Parry 1560 treasurer to Queen Elizabeth
12.Sir William Berkeley 1666 vice-admiral
13.Sir John Harpedon 1438 4th husband of de la Pole, Lady Cobman
14.Sir John Oldcastle 3rd husband to Lady Cobman
15.Sir Christopher Hatton 1619 (?)
16.Sir Charles Reed Peers 1952, surveyor of the Fabric
17.Sir Charles Saunders 1775 admiral
18.Sir Thomas Vaughn 1483 priv. treasurer to Edward IV
19.Sir Robert Howard 1698 dramatist
20.Sir John Wyndesore 1414 bro. to Lord William Wyndesore Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland
21.Sir Thomas Peyton 2nd bt. 1684
22.Sir Lewis Robessart 1430 parliament
23.Sir Thomas Bromley 1587 Lord Keeper
24.Sir Nicholas Bacon lord keeper
25.Sir James Fullerton 1631 1st Gentleman to Royal Bedchamber to Charles I
26.Sir John Puckering 1596 parliament lawyer
27.Sir Henry Belasyse 1717 L-Lieutenant to WIII
28.Sir Rowland Hill 1879 inventor
29.Sir Charles Parsons 1931 Marine England
30.Sir Benjamin Baker 1907 engineer
31.Sir John Wolfe Barry 1918 president inst. Civil Engineering
32.Sir Frederick Henry Royce 1933 aero-engineer
33.Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman (Prime Minister d.1908)
34.Sir Robert Thomas Wilson (General 1849)
35.Sir James Stuart Denham 1780, soldier
36.Sir John Frederick William Herschel 1st bt. 1871, astronomer
37.Sir George Gabriel Stokes 1903, mathematician
38.Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker 1911, botanist
39.Sir William Ramsey 1916 chemist
40.Sir George Leonard Staunton 1801, diplomat
41.Sir Edmund Prideaux 5th bt. 1729
42.Sir Stamford Raffles 1826 Lt. of Singapore(?)
43.Sir Edward Spragge 1673, General
44.Sir Thomas Hogketh 1605, attorn. To QEI
45.Sir Thomas Fowell Baxton 1845, philanthropist
46.Sir Thomas Richardson 1635 spkr. House of Commons
47.Sir John Burland 1776, baron exchequer
48.Sir Godfrey Kneller 1723, painter
49.Sir Clowdisly Shovell 1707 Admiral of the Royal Fleet
50.Sir Thomas Trigge Lt.-Gen of Ordinance
51.Sir Richard Bingham 1599 Marshal of Ireland
52.Sir John James, descendant of Lords of Haertsomething
53.Sir Robert Killigrew vice-chamberlain to QHenriette Maria
54.Sir Edward Broughton 1665 Keeper of Gatehouse Prison
55.Sir John Beaumont 1627 poet
56.Sir John Denham 1669 poet
57.Sir Henry Irving 1905 stage producer
58.Sir Frederick Bridge (composer)
59.Sir Archibald Campbell 1791 General
60.Sir James Campbell 1819 Lt.-Gen
61.Sir Robert Atkyns 1711 Author of History of Gloucester
62.Sir Thomas Robinson 1777 architect
63.Sir Robert Taylor 1788 architect
64.Sir Richard Coxe 1623 “Taster” –for food!?- to QE & JI
65.Sir Robert Stapylton 1669 poet
66.Sir Robert Moray 1796 architect
67.Sir William Chambers 1796 architect
68.Sir William D’Avenant 1668 poet laureate
69.Sir John de la Roche (?)
70.Sir William Constable bt. 1655
71.Sir Thomas Lovell 1524 Gov. of Gloucester
72.Sir John Golofre 1396 Ambassador to the Court of France
73.Sir Richard Pecksall 1571 Master of the Royal Buckhounds
74.Sir Bernard Brocas 1396 Master of the Royal Buckhounds
75.Sir Bernard Brocas II, Master of Buckhounds, executed as traitor
76.Sir Humphrey Bourgcier 1471, Soldier
77.Sir Frescheville Holles 1672 Soldier
78.Sir Robert Anstruther 1645 privy councilor
79.Sir Henry Spelman 1641 Antiquarian
80.Sir John Brydges, Lord Mayor of London
81.Sir Richard Sackville, husband to Marchioness of Winchester
82.Sir Hugh Smithson-Percy, Duke of Northumberland
83.Sir Nicholas Carew 1470 feudal Baron of Carew Pembroke shire
84.Sir George Fane 1618 (?)
85.Sir Humphrey Stanley 1505 (in plated Armour…presumably a knight)
86.Sir George Villiers 1605 (…no known occupation to me…but is said to have appeared as a ghost before his son was murdered)
87.Sir Thomas Ingram 1672 chancellor duchy of Lancaster
88.Sir Robert Ayton 1638, poet philosopher, friend to Ben Jonson
89.Sir John Balchen 1744, Admiral
90.Sir William Sanderson 1676, historian to QMOS
91.Sir Edward Tyrell 1681 father of certain Dame Bridget
92.Sir Henry James Sumner Maine 1888 Member council of India, Prof. of Law
93.Sir Herbert Benjamin Edwardes 1868 soldier
94.Sir Henry Blackwood 1832 vice-admiral
95.Sir Clifton Wintingham 1794 physician
96.Sir Eyre Coote 1783 Lt.-Gen
97.Sir George Cornewall Lewis 1863, Chancellor of the Exchequer
98.Sir Charles Wager 1743, Admiral
99.Sir John Malcolm 1833 Maj-Gen
100.Sir Peter Warren 1752 Vice-Admiral
101.Sir Robert Peel 1850 (Prime Minister)
102.Sir Walter Tapper 1861 President of RIB Architects
103.Sir Sydney Hugo Nicholson (organist 1928
104.Sir Charles Wynham Murray Colonel, gentleman usher of the scarlet Rod
105.Sir Edward Knapp-Fisher 1940 Chapter clerk
106.Sir John Hawkins 1789….
107.Sir John Kemp 1771, Bt.
108.Sir Edmond Berry Godfry 1678, Court Justice


Impressive Eh?

[hectorberlioz]

Which brings us to 484! Very close to half. Start helping me pump the numbers people!