In the United Kingdom and the British Overseas Territories,personal bravery,achievement,or service are rewarded with honours. The honours system consists of three types of award:
Prince Arthur of Connaught was a British military officer and a grandson of Queen Victoria. He served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 20 November 1920 to 21 January 1924.
Colonel Sir Henry Abel Smith,was a British Army officer who served as Governor of Queensland,Australia. He married Lady May Cambridge,a niece of Queen Mary,consort of King George V.
George Herbert Hyde Villiers,6th Earl of Clarendon,,styled Lord Hyde from 1877 to 1914,was a British Conservative politician from the Villiers family. He served as Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1931 to 1937.
David George Coke Patrick Ogilvy,13th Earl of Airlie,was a Scottish landowner,soldier,banker and peer.
Robin Berry Janvrin,Baron Janvrin,is a British naval officer,diplomat,and courtier who was private secretary to Elizabeth II from February 1999 to September 2007.
Charles Hector Fitzroy Maclean,Baron Maclean,was Lord Chamberlain to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from 1971 to 1984. He became the 27th Clan Chief of Clan Maclean of Duart in 1936 at the death of his grandfather.
Sir Alan Frederick "Tommy" Lascelles, was a British courtier and civil servant who held several positions in the first half of the twentieth century,culminating in his position as Private Secretary to both George VI and Elizabeth II. In 1950,he wrote the Lascelles Principles in a letter to the editor of The Times,using the pen-name "Senex".
Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur John Bigge,1st Baron Stamfordham,was a British Army officer and courtier. He was Private Secretary to Queen Victoria during the last few years of her reign,and to George V during most of his reign. He was the maternal grandfather of Lord Adeane,Private Secretary to Elizabeth II from 1953 to 1972.
Michael Edward Adeane,Baron Adeane,was Private Secretary to Elizabeth II for 19 years,between 1953 and 1972.
Patrick Terence William Span Plunket,7th Baron Plunket,,was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and British Army officer who served as an equerry to Queen Elizabeth II and Deputy Master of the Household from 1954 until his death in 1975.
Sir Edward William Spencer Ford was a courtier in the Royal Households of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth II. He is perhaps best known for writing to Elizabeth II’s private secretary regarding the 40th year of her reign,having hoped that the Queen would experience an annus mirabilis but instead finding 1992 an annus horribilis. She used the phrase in a speech to describe a year in which one of her four children was divorced,two more formally separated from their spouses,and Windsor Castle caught fire.
Sir George Rothe Bellew,,styled The Honourable after 1935,was a long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London. Educated at the University of Oxford,he was appointed Portcullis Pursuivant in 1922. Having been Somerset Herald for 24 years,he was promoted to the office of Garter Principal King of Arms in 1950,the highest heraldic office in England and Wales. He served in that capacity until his resignation in 1961. As Garter,Bellew oversaw the funeral of George VI,proclaimed the late King's daughter,Elizabeth II,as Queen and took a leading role in the organisation of her Coronation in 1953. After his retirement,Bellew was Secretary of the Order of the Garter and Knight Principal of the Imperial Society of Knights Bachelor. He lived for many years at Dower House in Old Windsor,Berkshire,but later moved to Farnham and died in 1993,aged 93.
Captain Sir Alastair Sturgis Aird was a British royal courtier.
Christopher Edward Wollaston MacKenzie Geidt,Baron Geidt,is a member of the House of Lords,former Courtier and Chairman of the Council of King's College London. He was Private Secretary to Queen Elizabeth II from 2007 to 2017.
The Royal Households of the United Kingdom are the collective departments that support members of the British royal family. Many members of the royal family who undertake public duties have separate households. They vary considerably in size,from the large household that supports the sovereign to the household of the Prince and Princess of Wales,with fewer members.
Hon. Leonard Francis Tyrwhitt,MVO,OBE was a Canon of Windsor from 1910 to 1921
Sir Clive Alderton is a British diplomat and courtier who has served as Private Secretary to King Charles III and Queen Camilla since 8 September 2022. As Private Secretary to the Sovereign,he is the senior operational member of the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. In this role,he took part in the 2023 Coronation. He is the 25th holder of the office of Private Secretary since its inception in 1805.
Captain Sir Walter Douglas Somerset Campbell,KCVO was a British soldier and courtier who served as Groom in Waiting to three British sovereigns and as Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park.
Colonel Sir Henry Streatfeild,GCVO,CB,CMG,JP,DL (1857–1938) was a British Army officer and courtier who served as the commanding officer of the Grenadier Guards,and was Equerry to Edward VII from 1908 until the King's death in 1910. He was then Private Secretary and Equerry to Queen Alexandra from 1910 until her death in 1925.
