Degradation is the formal term for removal of a knighthood or other honour.
The last knight to be publicly degraded was Sir Francis Mitchell in 1621. More recent examples include Sir Roger Casement, whose knighthood was canceled for treason during the First World War, and Sir Anthony Blunt, whose knighthood was withdrawn in 1979.
The most recent degradations centre on the fallout from the banking crisis at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Examples include Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, who lost his knighthood in 2012 over his role in the bank's near-collapse in 2008 and Sir James Crosby, the former chief executive of HBOS.
References
- Chronological Tables of the Private and Personal Acts.Part 2 (1603-1627). Legislation.gov.uk. Accessed on 4 May 2012. See note 4.
- Lee, Sidney and Sean Kelsy (2004). "Giles Mompesson". The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography vol. 38. London: Oxford University Press. pp. 569–572.
- "No. 29651". The London Gazette. 4 July 1916. p. 6596.
- "On This Day: 16 November". BBC. 16 November 1979. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- "Former RBS boss Fred Goodwin stripped of knighthood". BBC. 31 January 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
- "Ex-HBOS chief Sir James Crosby asks to return knighthood". BBC. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
See also
- Revocation
- List of revocations of appointments to orders and awarded decorations and medals of the United Kingdom
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