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...ecclesiastical delegates filed in and seated themselves. Promptly their dignity was sharply and strikingly assailed. In the opening address, they were berated by the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, D. D., D. C. L., LLD., Prelate of the Order of the Garter from 1895 until 1903, and since that time Archbishop of Canterbury...
...King appointed ex-Premier Lord Oxford and Asquith a Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter in the place of the recently deceased Lord Milner (TIME, May 25). Lord Oxford is the third living ex-Prime Minister to be so honored, the other two being Lords Rosebery and Balfour. The Order of the Garter, created in 1349 by Edward III, is the highest decoration† in the Commonwealth...
...decoration is distinct from a medal, of which the highest is the Victoria Cross-which takes precedence even over the Garter...
...Manhattan, before the American Iron and Steel Institute, British Ambassador Sir Esme Howard made a speech. He began: "It is a great honor. . . . But, like all honors or privileges-if we except the ancient British Order of the Garter, which Disraeli said he particularly admired because there was no damned merit attached to it-it entails some responsibility." Like U. S. Ambassador Alanson B. Houghton at London, in his recent Pilgrims speech (TIME, May 18), he took for granted all the Anglo-Saxon platitudes, but, "looking about for a substitute, it struck me that, building on these sentiments...
...having a year before returned from Egypt, he resigned, was awarded the Most Noble Order of the Garter for his illustrious services and, in the same month, married the widow of Lord Edward Cecil...