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The Savoy Chapel was made the order's chapel in 1938 and its chaplain has also been ex officio the order's chaplain ever since. Since 1938, the order has also had an Honorary Genealogist, who has also been an Officer of Arms, although appointees are not technically officers of the order, there being no provision for it in the statutes. [8]
Matthew Best (Royal Navy officer) Richard Bevan (Royal Navy officer) George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning; Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood; Dermot Blundell; Alan Bourne; Algernon Boyle; Rodney Brazier; Reginald Bridgeman; Frederick Hervey, 4th Marquess of Bristol; Mike Brown (transport executive) Charles Granville Bruce; Henry Bruce ...
Queen Victoria in 1897, the year after she founded the Royal Victorian Order. Prior to the close of the 19th century, most general honours within the British Empire were bestowed by the sovereign on the advice of her British ministers, who sometimes forwarded advice from ministers of the Crown in the Dominions and colonies (appointments to the then most senior orders of chivalry, the Order of ...
Seymour was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1934 New Year Honours. He then served as an Extra Equerry to Edward VIII in 1936 and to George VI from 1937 to his death in 1948. In 1905 Seymour married Lady Blanche Frances Conyngham, daughter of Henry Conyngham, 4th Marquess Conyngham, with whom he had a son and a daughter.
Vickers was made a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in 1959 [1] [4] and a Commander of the Order (CVO) in 1998. [1] He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1964, [1] promoted to an Officer of the Order (OBE) in 1970, [1] [7] and to a Knight Commander of the Order (KCB) in 1983.
He was made an LVO in 1987 and promoted to CVO in 1992. In March 1973, Beaton was transferred to the Royalty Protection Squad, A Division, and from 14 November served as a Personal Protection Officer to Princess Anne. He was given the number 11 in the small team responsible for protecting members of the Royal Family.
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Volunteer Officers' Decoration General Sir William Dillon Otter KCB CVO VD (December 3, 1843 – May 6, 1929) was a professional Canadian soldier who became the first Canadian-born Chief of the General Staff , the head of the Canadian Militia .
Noël Édouard, vicomte de Curières de Castelnau (24 December 1851 – 19 March 1944) was a French military officer and Chief of Staff of the French Armed Forces during the First World War. Elected deputy in 1919 and president of the Army Commission in the legislature, he then took the head of a confessional political movement, the ...