"Royal Air Force and, in 1969, the definition of honorary recipients was expanded to include members of the Commonwealth of Nations that are not realms. From its inception, the order has been open to women, Florence Nightingale being the first woman to receive the honour, in 1907. Several individuals have refused admission into the Order of Merit, such as Rudyard Kipling, A. E. Housman, and George Bernard Shaw. To date, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, remains the youngest person ever inducted into the Order of Merit, having been admitted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1968, when he was 47 years"
"Order of Merit The Order of Merit () is an order of merit recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture. Established in 1902 by King Edward VII, admission into the order remains the personal gift of its Sovereign—currently Edward VII's great-granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II—and is restricted to a maximum of 24 living recipients from the Commonwealth realms, plus a limited number of honorary members. While all members are awarded the right to use the post-nominal letters ""OM"" and wear the badge of the order, the Order of Merit's precedence among other"
"Ladies Merit Cross The Ladies Merit Cross (""Frauenverdienstkreuz"") was founded on 22 October 1907 by King William II of Prussia as a two-class Ladies Order and to reward women and young women, who worked in the field of charity, or in a religious or social field, who rendered outstanding had personal self-sacrificing service. The award was ranked just behind the Order of Louise. To be awarded the first class, a member must have held the second class for ten years. In exceptional cases, this requirement could be waived. The insignia were returnable upon death. The badge is made of gold"
"Merit was the highest civilian award for merit a Canadian could receive. Some orders of precedence are as follows: Order of Merit The Order of Merit () is an order of merit recognising distinguished service in the armed forces, science, art, literature, or for the promotion of culture. Established in 1902 by King Edward VII, admission into the order remains the personal gift of its Sovereign—currently Edward VII's great-granddaughter, Queen Elizabeth II—and is restricted to a maximum of 24 living recipients from the Commonwealth realms, plus a limited number of honorary members. While all members are awarded the right to"
"Order Of Merit first class for her work on Beethoven. She died at Hampstead, London in October 1962. Emily Anderson Emily Anderson, OBE (March 1891 – October 1962) was a British Foreign Office official and scholar of German. She was born in Galway, Ireland, the daughter of Alexander Anderson, president of Queens College Galway. Ms Anderson was educated privately and won the Browne Scholarship in 1909 at QCG, where she received a B.A. in 1911. She displayed a strong interest in the suffragette movement in Galway. After further study in Berlin and Marburg, she taught for two years at Queen's"
"""KMS"", and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters ""KMA"". However, Sir Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy, advised against the new order, primarily because of its selection process. Victoria's son, King Edward VII, eventually founded the Order of Merit on 26 June 1902 (the date for which his coronation had been originally planned) as a means to acknowledge ""exceptionally meritorious service in Our Navy and Our Army, or who may have rendered exceptionally meritorious service towards the advancement of Art, Literature and Science"". All modern aspects of the order were"
"women have made up a steady 30–31% of recipients. Colloquially, the decorations of the different classes of the Order are also known as the Federal Cross of Merit (""Bundesverdienstkreuz""). Most of the German federal states (""Länder"") have each their own order of merit as well, with the exception of the Free and Hanseatic Cities of Bremen and Hamburg, which reject any orders (by old tradition their citizens, particularly former or present senators, will refuse any decoration in the form of an order — the most famous example: former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt). The order was established on 7 September 1951 by"
"be appointed to the Order of Merit by a king or queen. She was the first and, as of 2016, remains the only woman to receive the prestigious Copley Medal. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1947 and EMBO Membership in 1970., Hodgkin was Chancellor of the University of Bristol from 1970 to 1988. In 1958, she was elected a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1966, she was awarded the Iota Sigma Pi National Honorary Member for her significant contribution. She became a foreign member of the USSR Academy of"
"In November 1917 she was appointed honorary Captain in the W.A.A.C. (Women's Auxiliary Army Corps), (from 1918 known as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps), which was preparing to embark for France, and she was one of the first to go. While treating wounded soldiers at the front, the W.A.A.C.'s shelter trench was bombed and machine-gunned by German aeroplanes, and many around her were killed. With apparent disregard for her own safety she attended to the wounds of her injured comrades and despatched them to nearby Abbeville. For her coolness under fire she was awarded a Military Medal, the first woman"
"she became manager of the Medford Postal telegraph office in 1907 it was an unusual circumstance since very few women were appointed managers. She earned respect and admiration of the community through the successful management of the company. In 1923 she won the prize of the Postal Telegraph company for having the most successful office of its size on the West Coast. She retired in 1939 after 32 years of services. In 1897 she was initiated to the Adarel Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star and remained a member for 60 years. She was identified with the history"
"special precedence or status due to it. Furthermore, they were entitled to wear the badge of the Order, which included Queen Victoria's Imperial Cypher, VRI (""Victoria Regina Imperatrix""). The letters were set in diamonds, pearls and turquoises and were together surrounded by a border of pearls surmounted by a figure the Imperial Crown. The badge was worn attached to a light blue bow, edged in white, on the left shoulder. Queen Elizabeth II (as Princess Elizabeth) and her sister Princess Margaret were appointed to the Order by their father King George VI in June 1947. Queen Elizabeth II is the"
"and from 1917 to 1926 sat on the Special Grants Committee of the Ministry of Pensions. She was appointed a Justice of the Peace for Birmingham in 1922, specialising in cases involving children and working-class girls. She was a family visitor for foster parents and invited many poor women and girls to stay in her home at Caldwell Hall, Upton Warren, Worcestershire. Ethel Shakespear was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1918 for her war work and Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. She died"
"Margaret Seward Margaret Seward MBE (22 January 1864 - 29 May 1929) became the earliest Chemist on staff at the Women's College (of which she was a founding Lecturer), from 1896 to 1915. She became the pioneer woman to obtain a first class in the honour school of Natural Science and later received an MBE for her work on nutrition during World War I. Maragaret Seward, daughter of James Seward, Master at the Liverpool Institute, was born on 22 January 1864 and educated at Blackburne House, Liverpool. She entered Somerville College, Oxford, in 1881; In 1884, she was the first"
"Caroline Soule Caroline Augusta White Soule (September 3, 1824 – December 6, 1903), was an American novelist, poet, religious writer, editor, and ordained Universalist minister, who was in 1880 the first woman to be ordained as a minister in the United Kingdom; first president and one of the founders of the Woman's Centenary Aid Association, the earliest national organization of American church women; and the first Universalist Church of America missionary when sent to Scotland in 1878. Caroline Augusta White was born on September 3, 1824 in Albany, New York, the third of six children of Nathaniel White (born 1792"
"the Ionian Islands became part of Greece. A revision of the basis of the Order in 1868, saw membership granted to those who ""hold high and confidential offices within Her Majesty's colonial possessions, and in reward for services rendered to the Crown in relation to the foreign affairs of the Empire"". Accordingly, numerous Governors-General and Governors feature as recipients of awards in the order. In 1965 the order was opened to women, with Evelyn Bark becoming the first female CMG in 1967. The British Sovereign is the Sovereign of the Order and appoints all other members of the Order (by"
"Appeals Advisory Committee. From 1935 to 1951 she was chairman of the London Council for the Welfare of Women and Girls. For her work with the Board of Agriculture she was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the first list of the Order in 1917, and promoted to Commander (CBE) in 1918 and Dame Commander (DBE) in the 1920 civilian war honours. Meriel Talbot Dame Meriel Lucy Talbot, (16 June 1866 – 15 December 1956) was a British public servant and women's welfare worker. She was born in Westminster, the daughter of the politician John"
"nominated by the association to attend the National Convention for the Civil Rights of Women, held in London on 16 and 17 October 1903. She resigned from this group in 1907, to join the more militant Women's Social and Political Union. By the 1920s, Irwin was focusing much of her time on the fruit farm, developing model housing for workers there. She was elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1927. The SCWT dissolved in 1939, and Irwin died the following year. Margaret Irwin"
"Women's Hall of Fame. Carol Mutter Carol A. Mutter (born December 17, 1945) is a former United States Marine Corps lieutenant general. She is the first woman in the history of the U.S. Armed Forces to be appointed to a three-star grade. She retired from the Marine Corps on January 1, 1999. Her last active duty assignment was as Deputy Chief of Staff, Manpower and Reserve Affairs (DC/S, M&RA) at Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.C. Mutter was born on December 17, 1945 in Greeley, Colorado. In 1967 she was commissioned a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps upon"
"of Humane Letters, Marymount University In 1977, Shouse was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Gerald Ford, and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 1994. In 2007, she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame. Shouse received myriad other awards, including the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center, the Vienna (Austria) Medal of Honor for Assistance to Austrian Youth, and the City of Paris Award (both in 1949). She was the first woman to receive the German Federal Republic's Commander's Cross of Merit (1954), and Shouse was named by Queen Elizabeth"
"2013 inductees. Beverly P. Ryder, board of directors co-president, said that Millett was a ""real pillar of the women's movement"". The induction ceremony took place on October 24, 2013, at the National Women's Hall of Fame headquarters in Seneca Falls, New York. Some of her exhibitions and installations are: Kate Millett Katherine Murray Millett (September 14, 1934 – September 6, 2017) was an American feminist writer, educator, artist, and activist. She attended Oxford University and was the first American woman to be awarded a degree with first-class honors after studying at St Hilda's College, Oxford. She has been described as"
"of age. All citizens of the Commonwealth realms are eligible for appointment to the Order of Merit. There may be, however, only 24 living individuals in the order at any given time, not including honorary appointees, and new members are personally selected by the reigning monarch of the realms, currently Queen Elizabeth II, with the assistance of her private secretaries; the order has thus been described as ""quite possibly, the most prestigious honour one can receive on planet Earth."" Within the limited membership is a designated military division, with its own unique insignia; though it has not been abolished, it"
"Women) in London, and the Canning Town Mission Hospital for Women in East London. In 1907 she was appointed gynaecological surgeon to a new unit in the Liverpool Stanley Hospital – the first woman to hold an honorary post in a Liverpool hospital. Beds had been specially endowed on the condition that they should be in the care of a woman practitioner. Here she built up a large gynaecological out-patient department. Later she was also appointed honorary surgeon to the Liverpool Samaritan Hospital. In Liverpool she fought to have more women appointed to hospital posts, and became a leading member"
"and two of her three sisters, in Mount Royal Cemetery. Margaret Ridley Charlton Award for Outstanding Achievement At the winter 2004 meeting of the Canadian Health Libraries Association /Association des bibliothèques de la santé du Canada Board of Directors, it was decided to rename the Award for Outstanding Achievement in honour of Margaret Ridley Charlton Margaret Ridley Charlton Margaret Charlton (10 December 1858 – 1 May 1931) was a pioneering medical librarian who was instrumental in founding the Association of Medical Librarians - which became the Medical Library Association in 1907. She was the Associations's first Secretary. She was born"
"Order of Merit for Science and Art The Order of Merit for Science and Art was established on 30 July 1873 by Duke Friedrich I of Anhalt. It was awarded to acknowledge and reward excellent and outstanding achievements in the field of science and art at home and abroad. First instituted in only one class, the order in 1912 was expanded to include a First Class, Second Class, and Third Class. The badge of the first model from 1873–1905 was a high oval bronze gilt medal, surrounded by twenty-four pointed rays and is suspended by a crown from its ribbon."
"honoured. Parker was posthumously inducted to the Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women in 2007 for service to the community. Marjorie Parker Dame Marjorie Parker, DBE (1900 – 18 February 1991), known as Margot Parker, was an Australian civic and political activist who was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977. Born in Ballarat as Marjorie Alice Collett Shoppee to Walter Collett Shoppee and Victoria Alice (née Tilley), she attended Ballarat State School. She married James Maxwell Parker on 12 June 1926; they had one child, a son, Alan. From 1941 to 1969 she was"
"approved its statutes while the first General Chapter held on 15 December 1859 saw her appointed as the order's first Superior General - she held that position until her death. On 5 May 1860 the members of the congregation made their solemn vows. Pope Pius IX granted the order the decree of praise on 7 June 1871. Merkert died on 14 November 1872 from typhus. Her remains were interred in the cathedral after their transferral there on 16 July 1964 while being moved once more to the side chapel of the cathedral on 19 September 1998 after her remains were"
"of the Rana dynasty or the Sultans of Oman, were usually appointed Knights Grand Commanders. Women, save the princely rulers, were ineligible for appointment to the order. They were, unlike the habit of many other orders, admitted as ""Knights"", rather than as ""Dames"" or ""Ladies"". The first woman to be admitted to the order was HH Nawab Sikandar Begum Sahiba, Nawab Begum of Bhopal; she was created a Knight Companion at the Order's foundation in 1861. The order's statutes were specially amended to permit the admission of Queen Mary as a Knight Grand Commander in 1911. Members of the Order"
"room was then also dedicated in her honor there – in the HAO's new south tower. Mary Parker Converse Mary Caroline (Parker) Converse (1872–1961), also known as Captain Mary Parker Converse, was the first woman to be commissioned by the United States Merchant Marine (USMM), and was also a noted philanthropist who wrote poetry and composed music. Born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1872, Mary Caroline Parker was a daughter of Anne Elizabeth (Gilmore) Parker and John H. Parker, a respected deacon of Malden’s First Baptist Church and successful shoe manufacturer who was a lineal descendant of an American Revolutionary War"
"were progressing. She was the last woman to leave the ship. In 1919, Leach was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE), the first Dame Commander of the Military Division. Florence Simpson Dame Florence Edith Victoria Simpson, DBE (née Way, formerly Leach; 9 October 1874 – 5 September 1956) was the senior female British army officer during World War I and Controller in Chief, later President, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (formerly the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps). The then Florence Edith Victoria Way was born on 9 October 1874. She was the daughter of Colonel Wilfred"
"Berlin. By 1914 she had become a Senior Lady Inspector. In 1918 she was a recipient of one of the 1918 Birthday Honours; specifically, she was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1925 she became Deputy Chief Inspector of Factories. In 1933 she joined the Treasury, and she retired at age 65 in 1937. She had been one of the first women to reach the higher levels of the Civil Service. She was a member of the Whitley Council Committee on the Women's Question, and as such she argued in favor of women's right"
"Dorothie Feilding Lady Dorothie Mary Evelyn Feilding-Moore, MM (6 October 1889 – 24 October 1935) was a British heiress who shunned her aristocratic background to become a highly decorated volunteer nurse and ambulance driver on the Western Front during World War I. She was the first woman to be awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. She also received the 1914 Star, the Croix de guerre from the French and the Order of Leopold II from the Belgians for services to their wounded. Born on 6 October 1889 to Rudolph Feilding, 9th Earl of Denbigh and the Countess"
"consider other matters than purely financial ones. Another revision of the statutes of the Order was undertaken in 1925, to consolidate the 41 additional statutes which had been issued since the 1859 revision. Women were admitted to the Order in 1971. In the 1971 New Year Honours, Jean Nunn became the first woman admitted to the order. In 1975, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, an aunt of Elizabeth II, became the first (and to date only) woman to reach the highest rank, Dame Grand Cross. Princess Alice (née Douglas-Montagu-Scott) was a direct descendant of the Order's first Great Master, and"
"noted that immediately after the ribbon was cut, the gateway was ""consecrated"" by the birth of a baby during an air raid warning; the article quoted Gwynne-Vaughan as saying, ""In the old days, a new building was consecrated by the building in of a human being who had therefore died. This was consecrated yesterday by the birth of a baby!"" Mona Chalmers Watson Alexandra Mary Chalmers Watson CBE, (née Geddes; 31 May 1872 – 7 August 1936), known as Mona Chalmers Watson, was a Scottish physician and head of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The first woman to receive an"