knighthood
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The inventor James Dyson has a winery, a knighthood, an English country pile, and an estimated net worth of more than $15 billion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026
Also a knighthood and a castle and certainly social status that ensures he won’t be treated like scum.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026
On Thursday a notice was published in The Gazette, external - one of the UK's official journals of record - stating that Charles III had directed the cancellation of Donaldson's knighthood.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
In 2023 he was awarded a knighthood in recognition of his campaigning work around acquired brain injury and melanoma - a type of skin cancer.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
“We all move to the human world. Move in with Heather. Jude doesn’t have to worry about knighthood, and Taryn doesn’t have to throw herself away on some silly faerie boy.”
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
It applies to the awards the government department oversees - which is the main New Year and Birthday honours, about 1,200 people each time, including knighthoods, damehoods, CBEs, OBEs, MBEs and BEMs.
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
Foreign citizens can be conferred knighthoods or damehoods but are not dubbed and cannot use the title Sir or Dame.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
In the past 22 years, the other England openers to score hundreds in the fourth innings of a Test have ended up with knighthoods.
From BBC ● Jun. 25, 2025
A cross-party group of MPs had claimed the lack of knighthoods a "scandal" linked to snobbery and class prejudice.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2025
Tyrion had done what he could to buy their continued loyalty, promising Bronn and a dozen of his best men lands and knighthoods when the battle was won.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
