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Royal Victorian Order
The Royal Victorian Order is given by The Queen to people who have served her or the Monarchy in a personal way.
These may include officials of the Royal Household, family members or perhaps British Ambassadors who have helped organise a State Visit to a particular country.
The Order was founded in April 1896 by Queen Victoria as a way of rewarding personal service to her, on her own initiative rather than by ministerial recommendation.
The Order was, and is, entirely within the Sovereign's personal gift.
The anniversary of the institution of the Order is 20 June, the day of Queen Victoria's accession to the throne.
There have never been any limits on the number of appointments made. Today, people receive their award either privately from The Queen or another member of the Royal Family, or during an Investiture.
Often, after a State Visit, the Queen will invest people in the country visited before returning to the United Kingdom.
The Order is also conferred on foreigners, and it is often awarded by the Sovereign during official tours overseas.
The first foreigners to receive the Order were the Prefect of Alpes Maritimes and the Mayor of Nice, during Queen Victoria's visit to the south of France in 1896.
The Chapel of the Order is The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, a 'Royal peculiar' which for historic reasons is in the private possession of the Sovereign in his or her right as the Duke of Lancaster.
The number of members in recent years has outgrown the available space in the Savoy Chapel, so the service for those who have received awards is now held in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle every four years.
Many members of the Royal Family who have themselves received the award are present, along with the many recipients, who include servants of The Queen who have served the Monarchy for many years.
Motto:
Victoria
Chapel:
The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy
Ranks:
Knight/Dame Grand Cross, Knight/Dame Commander, Commander, Lieutenant and Member
Post-nominals:
GCVO, KCVO/DCVO, CVO, LVO and MVO
Founded:
1896
==Past Recipients:==
A
Amjad Adaileh
Sir William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny
Arthur Campbell Ainger
Walter Galpin Alcock
Edwyn Alexander-Sinclair
Bertram Allen (Royal Navy officer)
David Murray Anderson
John Bernard Arbuthnot
Rear-Admiral Sir Robert Keith Arbuthnot, 4th Baronet
Nick Archer
William Armstrong, Baron Armstrong of Sanderstead
Edward Ashmore (British Army officer)
Charles Athill
John George Stewart-Murray, 8th Duke of Atholl
B
Henare Te Raumoa Huatahi Balneavis
Charles Robert Broberg
Harry Blinman
Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre
Edward Denny Bacon
John Henry Frederick Bacon
Frederick Bailey (priest)
Nigel Baker
Charles Alfred Ballance
Colville Barclay (diplomat), Sir Colville Adrian de Rune Barclay
W. N. T. Beckett
Nawab Muhammad Ali Beg
Matthew Best (Royal Navy officer)
Richard Bevan (Royal Navy officer), Rear Admiral Sir Richard Hugh Loraine Bevan, KBE, CB, DSO, MVO
George Baillie-Hamilton, Lord Binning
Christopher Birdwood, 2nd Baron Birdwood, Christopher 2nd Baron Birdwood
Dermot Blundell
Alan Bourne
Algernon Boyle, Admiral Hon. Sir Algernon Douglas Edward Harry Boyle, KCB, CMG, MVO
Camilla, Queen Consort of the United Kingdom
Rodney Brazier
Reginald Bridgeman
Mike Brown (transport executive, b. 04 14 1964)
Charles Granville Bruce
Henry Bruce (Royal Navy officer)
Maj.-Gen. Charles Edward Dutton Budworth, CB CMG MVO
Rick M. Burr (Ltn. Gral. Australian Army, b. 06 02 1964)
Paul Bush (Royal Navy officer)
Alfred Butler, Alfred Butler,MVO
Julian Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy
C
Bede Clifford, Sir Bede Edmund Hugh Clifford, G.C.M.G., C.B., M.V.O.
Cecil James Carroll
Francis Caldwell, Francis Caldwell Wellwood
Thomas Calley, Maj.-Gen. Thomas Charles Pleydell Calley, CB CBE MVO
John Cameron (Royal Navy officer)
Alexander Campbell (Royal Navy officer)
M. P. Castle
William Chaine, Lt. Col. William Chaine, MVO
Arthur Christian
John Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston
Martin Clayton (Head of Prints and Drawings at Widsor Castle, b. 1967)
Cyril Cobb
Arthur Collins (courtier)
Walter Norris Congreve
Robert Cooper, (British diplomat and adviser (strategist), b. 1947)
Alec Coryton
Walter Cowan
John Cowans
George Creasy
Thomas Crick
Sydney Crookshank
Eugene Cruft
Sir Michael Culme-Seymour, 4th Baronet, Vice-Adm. Sir Michael Culme-Seymour
John Cunningham (Royal Navy officer)
D
Charles Dare (Royal Navy officer), Admiral Sir Charles Holcombe Dare, KCMG CB MVO
Charles de Gaulle, 18th Président de la République française
Guy Dawnay (British Army officer), Guy Dawnay
Dudley de Chair
Henry Bromley Derry, Sir Henry Bromley Derry, MVO, DMus, FRCO, FLCM
Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, GCB GCVO CMG
Edmund Rupert Drummond
Laurence Drummond
Alexander Murray, 8th Earl of Dunmore
E
Ian Eaves, Sir Ian Donald Dietrich Eaves, MVO, FSA
Edmund Elliot
Phillip Edwards (Royal Navy officer)
John Egerton, 4th Earl of Ellesmere
Rowland Prothero, 1st Baron Ernle
William Erskine (diplomat)
Hugh Evan-Thomas
F
Harold Farncomb
Michael Fawcett
Edmund Fellowes
Henry Fenwick (Liberal politician)
Sir Charles Fergusson, 7th Baronet
Mark Fisher (architect)
Peter Franklyn
John Fraser (surgeon)
William Archibald Kenneth Fraser
Sydney Fremantle
Frank Froest
G
John Te Herekiekie Grace
Sydney Grange
Ernest Gambart
Jack Gannon
Alfred Gilbert
Albert Goldsmid
William Goodenough
Archibald Alexander Gordon
Oliver Gordon
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
Richard Graham-Vivian
Clement Greatorex
Hugh Gurney
H
John Hamilton (RNZAF officer)
Frederick Halahan
Geoffrey Hawkins
Herbert Heath
John Heaton-Armstrong
Edward Heaton-Ellis
Michael Hodges (Royal Navy officer)
Leonard Holbrook
Arthur Holland (British Army officer)
Vyvyan Holt
Horace Hood
Christopher Hopper
Edwin Hunt (waterman)
Thomas Hunton
I
Vladimir Ivir
J
Reginald Jackson (police officer)
Carl Jackson (organist)
Thomas Jackson (Royal Navy officer)
Weston Jarvis
Charles Johnson (Royal Navy officer)
K
Wilfrid Kent Hughes
Rajan Kadiragamar
Howard Kelly (Royal Navy officer)
George Keppel (British Army officer, born 1865)
Malik Umar Hayat Khan
Francis Kjeldsberg
L
Guy Francis Laking
Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne
Philip de László
John Leach (Royal Navy officer)
Tiggy Legge-Bourke
Thomas Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester
Rambahadur Limbu
Arthur Foljambe, 2nd Earl of Liverpool
General Rt. Hon. Sir Neville Gerald Lyttelton, GCB, GCVO, PC
Gerald Lloyd-Verney
Brig-Gen Arthur Henry Orlando Lloyd, CB, CMG, MVO
Edward Loch, 2nd Baron Loch
Lionel Logue
Charles Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 7th Marquess of Londonderry
M
William McKie (musician)
Sir Victor Mackenzie, 3rd Baronet
Donald James MacKintosh
Lt.-Col. Sir Eric Charles William Mackenzie Penn, GCVO
Alison MacMillan
John Malcolmson
Stella Marks
Richard Marsh (horseman)
George Martin (organist)
Tim Massy-Beresford
Stanley McArdle
Christopher McCreery
Harry Bell Measures
Bobby Milburn
Edward Montagu-Stuart-Wortley
Thomas Spring Rice, 3rd Baron Monteagle of Brandon
Chris Moran
Bill Mott (British Army soldier)
Horace Charles Mules
Ririd Myddelton
N
Richard Napier LUCE, Baron Luce
Trevylyan Napier
John Harper Narbeth
Sir William Nevill, 1st Marquess of Abergavenny
Douglas Nicholson
Sydney Nicholson
Benedict Nicolson
Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland
George Colborne Nugent
Alfred Young Nutt
O
Henry Oliver
Robin Ord-Smith
Charles Ottley
Esmond Ovey
P
Tony Parr
Godfrey Paine
Stewart Parvin
James Patrick (British Army officer)
William Payne-Gallwey (cricketer)
Charles Alfred Payton
Richard Peirse (Royal Navy officer)
Commander Loftus Edward Peyton-Jones CVO DSO MBE DSC
J. Greg Peters
Lord Charles Petty-Fitzmaurice
Richard Phillimore
Wyndham Portal, 1st Viscount Portal
Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt
Q
Patrick Quinn (Metropolitan Police officer)
John Qvale
R
Admiral Sir Bertram Home Ramsay, KCB, KBE, MVO
Monty Roberts
Ganga Ram
Bertram Ramsay
Chief Joseph Kosoniola Randle, MVO MBE
Robert Rennie
Charles Gordon-Lennox, 8th Duke of Richmond
Elizabeth Roads
Edward Murray Colston, 2nd Baron Roundway
Henry Innes-Ker, 8th Duke of Roxburghe
William Ruck-Keene
Harold Ruggles-Brise
Audrey Russell
S
Larry Siegert
Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland Sr.
Johan Søhr
R. J. D. "Samaki" Salmon
Arthur Sassoon
Reuben David Sassoon
Robert Scott-Kerr
Debra Searle
David Sellar
Arthur Sheppard
Percy Sherwood (police officer)
Roger Short
Frank Keith Simmons
Ram Singh (architect)
Frederick Duleep Singh
Bruce Skinner
Aubrey Smith (Royal Navy officer)
Clement Smith (priest)
Emanuel Snowman
John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer
Dougie Squires
Richard Stapleton-Cotton
Christopher Steel (diplomat)
Sam Steele
James Stuart, 1st Viscount Stuart of Findhorn
Charles Harbord, 6th Baron Suffield
T
Campbell Tait
Godfrey Talbot
Charles Tegart
William Tennant (Royal Navy officer)
David V. Thomas
Crispin Charles Cervantes TICKELL, Sir, GCMG, KCVO
John Alexander Tilleard
Wilfred Tomkinson
George Napier Tomlin
Lady Juliet Townsend LVO, DCVO
Ernest Troubridge
Brian Trubshaw
Robert Turnbull (railway manager)
Philip Geoffrey Twining
Leonard Francis Tyrwhitt
U
Henri, 8th Duke d'Ursel
'
V
Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, DBE, LVO
Robert Vansittart, 1st Baron Vansittart
Tudor Vaughan
W
Lloyd White (diplomat)
Richard Gordon Wakeford
William Walker (diver)
Edward Wickham
Robert Joseph Willan
William Willett (Royal Navy officer)
Legh Winser
Joseph Wood (schoolmaster)
Henry Woods (British Army officer)
Guy Wyndham
X
Y
Sir Alban Young, 9th Baronet
John Reginald Lopes Yarde-Buller, 3rd Baron Churston
Z
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