List of members of the Order of the Companions of Honour
Appearance
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 |
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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 | Sir 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 |