The Navy ListH.M. Stationery Office, 1854 |
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Page 40 - Majesty's Licence and Permission doth not authorise, and shall not be deemed or construed to authorise, the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege, appertaining unto a Knight Bachelor of these Realms.
Page 40 - Majesty could be allowed to accept the Insignia of a Foreign Order from any Sovereign of a Foreign State, except they shall be so conferred in consequence of active and distinguished services before the Enemy, cither at Sea or in the Field ; or unless he shall have been actually employed in the Service of such Foreign Sovereign.
Page 292 - Majesty having been pleased to approve of the several suggestions submitted by the said Committee, the following notice is issued for the information and guidance of those who may have claims to this honourable distinction : — 1st. — The rule directed by Her Majesty to be observed in extending this mark of her royal favour is so comprehensive as to bring within its scope all officers, seamen, and marines (and soldiers who served as marines) who were present in any action which at the time received...
Page 40 - His consent upon the occasion, he shall then signify the same to His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Home Department, in order that he may cause the usual Warrant to be prepared for the Royal Sign Manual, and take such other steps as may be necessary for carrying His Majesty's pleasure into effect accordingly. 4th. That when the Warrant is signed by the King, it shall be announced in the ' Gazette' in the usual manner, and registered in His Majesty's College of Arms.
Page 102 - Third nates, to comprise Her Majesty's other Yachts, and all such Vessels as may bear the Flag or Pendant of any Admiral Superintendent or Captain Superintendent of one of Her Majesty's...
Page 40 - Affairs takes the Prince Regent's pleasure, on any application for an Officer in the Army to be permitted to accept a Foreign Order, he causes the same to be referred to the Commander.in.Chief, through His...
Page 106 - THAT no British Subjects shall accept a Foreign Order, or wear its Insignia, without having previously obtained a Warrant under the Royal Sign Manual (directed to the Earl Marshal of England), granting them His Majesty's permission to accept and wear the same.
Page 196 - Navy, it will be required that they produce proof of having received a preliminary classical education, and that they possess, in particular, a competent knowledge of Latin ; also, that they are of good moral character, the certificate of which must be signed by the clergyman of the parish, or by a magistrate of the district. That they have served an apprenticeship, or have been engaged for not less than six months in Practical Pharmacy. That their age be not less than twenty years, nor more than...
Page 194 - Admiralty, or who shall not have been examined by some competent person appointed for that purpose by the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and be reported by him to be in every respect a fit and proper person to fill with respectability and advantage to Her Majesty's service the situation of Chaplain.
Page 276 - Her Majesty has also been pleased to take into Her gracious consideration the many instances of gallantry displayed by Officers, Seamen and Marines in boat actions during the same period, and to direct that such services, if distinguished by the promotion of the Officer conducting the enterprise, shall entitle those who were present, and now living, to a Medal : provided the answers, to be given in the form (B), shall enable the Committee to ascertain that the claim is well founded.