List of members of the Order of the Companions of Honour

Below is a list of Members of the Order of the Companions of Honour from the order's creation in 1917 until the present day:

Members

Date	Image	Name	Born/Died
4 June 1917		Jan Smuts	1870-1950
4 June 1917		Harry Gosling	1861-1930
4 June 1917		The Marchioness of Lansdowne	1850-1932
4 June 1917		Elizabeth Haldane	1862-1937
4 June 1917		K. B. Quinan	1878-1948
4 June 1917		Sir Henry Smith	1863-1923
4 June 1917		The Lord Burnham	1862-1933
4 June 1917		Sir Frank Swettenham	1850-1946
4 June 1917		Edward Strutt	1854-1930
4 June 1917		The Lord Faringdon	1850-1934
4 June 1917		The Viscount Chetwynd	1863-1936
4 June 1917		William Ripper	1853-1937
4 June 1917		Margaret Tennant	1869-1946
4 June 1917		Violet Markham	1872-1959
4 June 1917		William John Davies	1848-1934
4 June 1917		George Wardle	1865-1947
4 June 1917		Alexander Wilkie	1850-1928
1 January 1918		Sir John Furley	1836-1919
1 January 1918		James Andrew Seddon	1868-1939
1 January 1918		James Parker	1863-1948
25 February 1918		Sir Alfred Keogh	1857-1936
3 June 1918		Sir Herbert Perrott, Bt	1849-1922
3 June 1918		Sir Samuel Provis	1845-1926
29 April 1919		Walter Layton	1884-1966
29 April 1919		Sir Thomas Royden, Bt	1871-1950
1 January 1920		George Nicoll Barnes	1859-1940
1 January 1920		Philip Kerr	1882-1940
1 January 1921		Sir John Ellerman, Bt	1862-1933
1 January 1921		John Clifford	1836-1923
4 June 1921		The Viscount Dillon	1844-1932
4 June 1921		Arthur Headlam	1862-1947
4 June 1921		Sir William Robertson Nicoll	1851-1923
2 January 1922		Sir Henry Jones	1852-1922
2 January 1922		Sir Henry Newbolt	1862-1938
2 January 1922		Joseph Havelock Wilson	1859-1929
19 October 1922		Sir Hall Caine	1853-1931
19 October 1922		Winston Churchill	1874-1965
19 October 1922		Sir Evan Evans	1851-1934
19 October 1922		John Jowett	1863-1923
25 May 1923		J. C. C. Davidson	1889-1970
1 January 1926		Wilson Carlile	1847-1942
5 June 1926		Herbert Armitage James	1844-1931
1 January 1927		Hugh Sheppard	1880-1937
9 May 1927		Stanley Bruce	1883-1967
3 June 1927		John Jones	1865-1942
4 June 1928		John Scott Haldane	1860-1936
1 March 1929		Lady Florence Barrett	1867-1945
1 March 1929		John Carlile	1862-1941
1 March 1929		Lilian Baylis	1874-1937
1 March 1929		Frederick Delius	1862-1934
30 April 1929		Bramwell Booth	1856-1929
3 June 1929		Thomas Jones	1870-1955
1 January 1930		Maude Royden	1876-1956
1 January 1930		V. S. Srinivasa Sastri	1869-1946
1 January 1930		Gertrude Tuckwell	1861-1951
3 June 1930		Margaret McMillan	1860-1931
1 January 1931		Helena Swanwick	1864-1939
1 January 1931		Jane Harriett Walker	1859-1938
3 June 1931		Albert Mansbridge	1876-1952
3 June 1931		Seebohm Rowntree	1871-1954
1 January 1932		John Buchan	1875-1940
3 June 1932		E. V. Lucas	1868-1938
3 June 1932		Laurence Binyon	1869-1943
2 January 1933		Tubby Clayton	1885-1972
2 January 1933		John Scott Lidgett	1854-1953
3 June 1933		Annie Horniman	1860-1937
1 January 1934		Thomas Page	1850-1936
3 June 1935		William Bruce	1858-1936
3 June 1935		John White	1867-1951
1 January 1936		J. Dover Wilson	1881-1969
23 June 1936		Joseph Lyons	1879-1939
23 June 1936		Janet Trevelyan	1879-1956
23 June 1936		Hugh Pollock	1852-1937
23 June 1936		George Adams	1874-1966
11 May 1937		Melbourn Aubrey	1885-1957
11 May 1937		John Alfred Spender	1862-1942
11 May 1937		Charles Thomson Rees Wilson	1869-1959
11 May 1937		The Viscountess Astor	1879-1964
11 May 1937		Gwendoline Davies	1882-1951
1 January 1938	File:Howell Arthur Gwynne.jpg	Howell Arthur Gwynne	1865-1950
8 June 1939		James Mallon	1875-1961
8 June 1939		George Peabody Gooch	1873-1968
1 January 1941		James Louis Garvin	1868-1947
1 January 1941		Arthur Henry Mann	1876-1972
1 January 1941		Billy Hughes	1862-1952
12 June 1941		A. V. Alexander	1885-1965
11 June 1942		The Lord Woolton	1883-1964
23 June 1942		Sir Earle Page	1880-1962
1 January 1943		Joseph Hertz	1872-1946
1 January 1943		The Lord Leathers	1883-1965
21 May 1943		J. M. Andrews	1871-1956
2 June 1943		Ernest Hives	1886-1965
2 June 1943		The Lord Snell	1865-1944
9 August 1943	File:Swinton1929.png	The Viscount Swinton	1884-1972
24 September 1943		Essington Lewis	1881-1961
1 January 1944		Richard Casey	1890-1976
1 January 1944		Edmund Fellowes	1870-1951
1 January 1944		Robert Hudson	1886-1957
8 June 1944		Sir Henry Wood	1869-1944
4 August 1944		Sir Godfrey Huggins	1883-1971
1 January 1945		The Earl of Selborne	1887-1971
8 June 1945		Clement Attlee	1883-1967
8 June 1945	File:ArthurGreenwood2.jpg	Arthur Greenwood	1880-1954
14 June 1945		Henry Williams	1872-1961
5 July 1945		Harry Crerar	1888-1965
17 August 1945		Leo Amery	1873-1955
17 August 1945		Ernest Brown	1881-1962
17 August 1945		Hastings Ismay	1887-1965
1 January 1946		Archibald Hill	1886-1977
4 January 1946		Peter Fraser	1884-1950
22 May 1946		Vincent Massey	1887-1967
13 June 1946		George Gibson	1885-1953
13 June 1946		Andrew McNaughton	1887-1966
12 June 1947		James Bone	1872-1962
12 June 1947		John Robertson Scott	1866-1962
1 January 1948		Margaret Bondfield	1873-1953
1 January 1948		Vita Sackville-West	1892-1962
10 June 1948		Walter de la Mare	1873-1956
10 June 1948		Howell Elvet Lewis	1860-1953
10 June 1948		William Whiteley	1882-1955
1 January 1949		Lord David Cecil	1902-1986
1 January 1949		Arthur Deakin	1890-1955
9 June 1949		Lionel George Curtis	1872-1955
1 January 1951		Sir Stafford Cripps	1889-1952
1 January 1951		Robert Menzies	1894-1978
7 June 1951		Sidney Holland	1893-1961
30 November 1951		Herbert Morrison	1888-1965
5 June 1952		Walter Elliot	1888-1958
1 January 1953		E. M. Forster	1879-1970
1 June 1953	File:Benjamin Britten-Karsh.jpg	Benjamin Britten	1913-1976
1 June 1953		James Chuter Ede	1882-1965
1 June 1953		Ian Fraser	1897-1974
1 June 1953		Tom Johnston	1881-1965
10 November 1953		The Lord Cherwell	1886-1957
1 January 1954		John Christie	1882-1962
8 January 1954		Rab Butler	1902-1982
10 June 1954		W. Somerset Maugham	1874-1965
21 December 1954		René Massigli (honorary)	1888-1988
1 January 1955		Harry Crookshank	1893-1961
1 January 1955		Hugh Martin	1890-1964
9 June 1955		Henry Moore	1898-1986
2 January 1956		The Viscount Cecil of Chelwood	1864-1958
2 January 1956	File:John Kotelawala.jpg	Sir John Kotelawala	1897-1980
2 January 1956		Arthur Waley	1889-1966
31 May 1956		Edward Gordon Craig	1872-1966
31 May 1956		Arnold J. Toynbee	1889-1975
16 July 1956		Nuri as-Said (honorary)	1888-1958
1 January 1957		John Baillie	1886-1960
14 January 1957		James Stuart	1897-1971
13 June 1957		Sir Thomas Beecham, Bt	1879-1961
13 June 1957		John Gregg	1873-1961
1 January 1958		The Viscount Nuffield	1877-1963
12 June 1958		Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bt	1892-1969
1 January 1959		Sir John Beazley	1885-1970
1 January 1959		Kenneth Clark	1903-1983
13 June 1959		Walter Nash	1882-1968
1 January 1960		Alan Lennox-Boyd	1904-1983
31 December 1960		The Earl of Limerick	1888-1967
31 December 1960		Tunku Abdul Rahman	1903-1990
10 June 1961		C. H. Dodd	1884-1973
1 January 1962		Walter Matthews	1881-1973
2 June 1961		The Lord Hailes	1901-1974
20 July 1962		Selwyn Lloyd	1904-1978
20 July 1962		John Maclay	1905-1992
20 July 1962		Harold Watkinson	1910-1995
1 January 1963		Keith Holyoake	1904-1983
14 May 1963		Paul-Henri Spaak (honorary)	1899-1972
1 January 1964		I. A. Richards	1893-1979
1 December 1964		Henry Brooke	1903-1984
1 January 1965		The Lord Silkin	1889-1972
12 June 1965		Patrick Blackett	1897-1974
12 June 1965		Manny Shinwell	1884-1986
1 January 1966	File:Graham greene.jpg	Graham Greene	1904-1991
1 January 1966		Edith Summerskill	1901-1980
19 May 1966		Jim Griffiths	1890-1975
19 May 1966		Lady Megan Lloyd George	1902-1966
1 January 1967		Sir William Lawrence Bragg	1890-1971
1 January 1967		Mortimer Wheeler	1890-1976
5 January 1967		Douglas Houghton	1898-1996
10 June 1967		Sir Arthur Bryant	1899-1985
10 June 1967		Sir Harold Hartley	1878-1972
10 June 1967		The Lord Reid	1890-1975
14 June 1967		Harold Holt	1908-1967
1 January 1968		The Lord Boyd-Orr	1880-1971
1 January 1968		Ernest Alexander Payne	1902-1980
1 January 1968		The Lord Robbins	1898-1994
8 June 1968		Patrick Gordon Walker	1907-1980
1 January 1969		Sir Adrian Boult	1889-1983
1 January 1969		Sir John McEwen	1900-1980
1 January 1969		Michael Stewart	1906-1990
14 June 1969		Sir John Barbirolli	1899-1970
14 June 1969		Sir Allen Lane	1902-1970
14 June 1969		Eric Williams	1911-1981
1 January 1970	File:Chadwick.jpg	Sir James Chadwick	1891-1974
1 January 1970		Sir A. P. Herbert	1890-1971
1 January 1970		Lee Kuan Yew (honorary)	b. 1923
14 June 1970		Sir Frederick Ashton	1904-1988
14 June 1970		Dame Sybil Thorndike	1882-1976
1 January 1971		Sir Maurice Bowra	1898-1971
12 June 1971	File:C. H. Best ca. 1924.png	Charles Herbert Best	1899-1978
12 June 1971		Sir Arthur Bliss	1891-1975
12 June 1971		John Gorton	1911-2002
14 June 1971		Joseph Luns (honorary)	1911-2002
1 January 1972		William McMahon	1908-1988
1 January 1972		Sir Peter Medawar	1915-1987
22 January 1972		Jean Monnet (honorary)	1888-1979
3 June 1972		The Lord Goodman	1915-1995
3 June 1972		Herbert Howells	1892-1983
3 June 1972		John Piper	1903-1992
1 January 1973		Jack Marshall	1912-1988
1 January 1973		Sir Robert Mayer	1879-1985
1 January 1973		Duncan Sandys	1908-1987
2 June 1973		Bernard Leach	1887-1979
2 June 1973		Irene Ward	1895-1980
1 January 1974		The Lord Cohen of Birkenhead	1900-1977
1 January 1974		The Countess of Limerick	1897-1981
1 January 1974		William Whitelaw	1918-1999
5 April 1974		The Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone	1907-2001
15 June 1974		David Jones	1895-1974
15 June 1974		Nathaniel Micklem	1888-1976
1 January 1975		Jack Ashley	1922-2012
1 January 1975		The Lord Gardiner	1900-1990
1 January 1975		Max Perutz	1914-2002
29 April 1975		Arnold Smith	1915-1994
14 June 1975		The Lord Aylestone	1905-1994
14 June 1975		The Lord Morris of Borth-y-Gest	1896-1979
1 January 1976	File:Diefmontreal.jpg	John Diefenbaker	1895-1979
27 May 1976		The Lord Elwyn-Jones	1909-1989
27 May 1976		Edward Short	1912-2012
31 December 1976		Cledwyn Hughes	1916-2001
26 January 1977		Malcolm Fraser	b. 1930
11 June 1976		Sir John Gielgud	1904-2000
11 June 1976		Robert Muldoon	1921-1992
11 June 1976		The Baroness Wootton of Abinger	1897-1988
31 December 1976		Jack Jones	1913-2009
31 December 1976		F. R. Leavis	1895-1978
3 June 1978		Michael Somare	b. 1936
12 June 1979		Denis Healey	b. 1917
16 June 1979		Sir Michael Tippett	1905-1998
31 December 1979		The Lord Thorneycroft	1909-1994
14 June 1980		The Lord Soames	1920-1987
31 December 1980		Victor Pasmore	1908-1998
30 April 1981		Brian Talboys	1921-2012
13 June 1981		The Lord Boyle of Handsworth	1923-1981
13 June 1981		Frederick Sanger	b. 1918
31 December 1981		Doug Anthony	b. 1929
31 December 1981	File:Ninette de Valois, 1914.jpg	Dame Ninette de Valois	1898-2001
12 June 1982		Sir Karl Popper	1902-1994
11 June 1983		The Lord Carrington	b. 1919
11 June 1983		Lucian Freud	1922-2011
31 December 1983		Sir Steven Runciman	1903-2000
31 December 1983		Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt	1897-1988
16 June 1984		The Viscount Eccles	1904-1999
16 June 1984		Friedrich Hayek	1899-1992
16 June 1984		Sir Philip Powell	1921-2003
4 July 1984		Pierre Trudeau	1919-2000
31 December 1984		Sir Hugh Casson	1910-1999
15 June 1985		Philip Larkin	1922-1985
15 June 1985		Rodney Robert Porter	1917-1985
21 May 1986		Sir Keith Joseph, Bt	1918-1994
31 December 1986		Sydney Brenner	b. 1927
31 December 1986		Sir John Summerson	1904-1992
13 June 1987		Dadie Rylands	1902-1999
13 June 1987		Sir Peter Scott	1909-1989
31 July 1987		Norman Tebbit	b. 1931
31 December 1987		Anthony Powell	1905-2000
17 June 1989		Stephen Hawking	b. 1942
30 December 1989		David Lange	1942-2005
13 April 1992		Kenneth Baker	b. 1934
13 April 1992		Peter Brooke	b. 1934
13 April 1992		Tom King	b. 1933
13 June 1992		Dame Elisabeth Frink	1930-1993
13 June 1992		Joseph Needham	1900-1995
31 December 1992		Sir Victor Pritchett	1900-1997
12 June 1993		C. H. Sisson	1914-2003
12 June 1993		Elsie Widdowson	1906-2000
31 December 1993		David Astor	1912-2001
31 December 1993		Dame Janet Baker	b. 1933
31 December 1993		Sir John Smith	1923-2007
11 June 1994		Sir Alec Guinness	1914-2000
11 June 1994		Reginald Victor Jones	1911-1997
11 June 1994		The Lord Owen	b. 1938
31 December 1994		César Milstein	1927-2002
31 December 1994		Carel Weight	1908-1997
17 June 1995		Sir Denys Lasdun	1914-2001
17 June 1995		Sir Nevill Francis Mott	1905-1996
30 December 1995		Sir David Attenborough	b. 1926
30 December 1995		Sir Richard Doll	1912-2005
30 December 1995		Douglas Hurd	b. 1930
30 December 1995		Derek Worlock	1920-1996
15 June 1996		The Lord Howe of Aberavon	b. 1926
31 December 1996		A. L. Rowse	1903-1997
14 June 1997		David Hockney	b. 1937
2 August 1997		Michael Heseltine	b. 1933
31 December 1997		Eric Hobsbawm	1917-2012
31 December 1997		Chris Patten	b. 1944
13 June 1998		Peter Brook	b. 1925
31 December 1998		John Major	b. 1943
31 December 1998		Bridget Riley	b. 1931
31 December 1998	File:John de-Chastelain.jpg	John de Chastelain	b. 1937
31 December 1999		Richard Hamilton	1922-2011
31 December 1999		Doris Lessing	b. 1919
31 December 1999		Chad Varah	1911-2007
11 May 2000		Amartya Sen (honorary)	b. 1933
30 December 2000		Sir Harrison Birtwistle	b. 1934
30 December 2000		Paul Scofield	1922-2008
16 June 2001		Sir Colin Davis	b. 1927
31 December 2001		Sir George Christie	b. 1934
12 June 2002		Bernard Haitink (honorary)	b. 1929
15 June 2002		Harold Pinter	1930-2008
15 June 2002		Sir Michael Howard	b. 1922
31 December 2002		Sir Howard Hodgkin	b. 1932
31 December 2002		James Lovelock	b. 1919
31 December 2002		Sir Denis Mahon	1910-2011
14 June 2003		Sir Charles Mackerras	1925-2010
14 June 2003		Dan McKenzie	b. 1942
14 June 2003		The Lord Hannay of Chiswick	b. 1935
11 June 2005		Dame Judi Dench	b. 1934
2006		Anthony Pawson	b. 1952
31 December 2007		Sir Ian McKellen	b. 1939
14 June 2008		The Lord Rogers of Riverside	b. 1933
11 June 2011		The Lord Howard of Lympne	b. 1941
20 September 2012		Sir George Young, Bt	b. 1941

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