However, Botham subsequently accepted the honour of Honorary Life membership of MCC and his portrait ( depicting him enjoying a cigar ) now hangs prominently in the Long Room Bar at Lord's.

Since leaving office Major has maintained a low profile, indulging his love of cricket as president of Surrey County Cricket Club until 2002 ( and Honorary Life Vice-President since 2002 ) and commentating on political developments in the manner of a wise elder statesman.

In 1949, the Directors Guild of America bestowed an Honorary Life Membership on him.

Loren Coleman, John Willison Green, and several other prominent cryptozoologists were either Life Members, Honorary Members, or Board Members.

Wolpoff is a member of many anthropological organizations, and is an Honorary Life Member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

In 1965, Humphrey was made an Honorary Life Member of Alpha Phi Alpha, a historically African American fraternity.

After the initial successes of the Ecumenical Movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910 ( chaired by future WCC Honorary President John R. Mott ), church leaders agreed in 1937 to establish a World Council of Churches, based on a merger of the Faith and Order Movement and Life and Work Movement organisations.

He then became Honorary President for Life of the International Olympic Committee.

Sir Elton John, who owned Watford during both of Graham Taylor's successful periods as manager, serves alongside Taylor as the club's joint Honorary Life President.

* Honorary Tiger: The Life of Billy Arjan Singh ( 2005 ) ISBN 81-7436-405-6

He was awarded Honorary Life Membership of King's College London Students ' Union in the early 2000s.

In 1997, Christoph von Dohnányi became principal conductor, and served until 2008, at which time he took on the title of Honorary Conductor for Life of the orchestra.

Swede retired in 2006 and was awarded Honorary Life Membership by the Canadian Psychological Association in 2007.

At its 30th anniversary held in Ottawa in May 2007, Haiku Canada awarded Swede an Honorary Life Membership.

This farmers " co-op " was founded in 1919 under the leadership of local farmer Con O ' Brien of Killickane, who chaired the co-op for its first 40 years and then became Honorary Life President until his death in 1968.

When Elgar was made an Honorary Life Member of the Worshipful Company of Musicians in 1931 ( descendants of the City Company of London ), this healed the ancient feud between the London and Westminster musicians.

She was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1971, and in 1984 she received an AFI Life Achievement Award.

Alternatively, some are awarded Honorary Life Membership, although this honour is seldom given.

Current Honorary Life Members include Wasim Akram, Mike Atherton, Dickie Bird, Sir Ian Botham, Keith Bradshaw, Aravinda de Silva, Andy Flower, Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Adam Gilchrist, David Gower, Sir Richard Hadlee, Inzamam-ul-Haq, Rachael Lady Heyhoe-Flint, Nasser Hussain, Glenn McGrath, Sir John Major, Henry Olonga, Barry Richards, Sir Vivian Richards, Sir Garfield Sobers, Hashan Tillakaratne, Michael Vaughan, Shane Warne and Waqar Younis.

On 22 August 1885 he was made Honorary Colonel of the 5th ( Isle of Wight, Princess Beatrice's ) Volunteer Battalion, the Hampshire Regiment, In early 1886 it was announced in The Times that he would be made a Captain in the 1st Life Guards, but the Secretary of State for War denied knowledge of this in the House of Commons and the appointment did not take place.

Each Congress has two voting members from each Member federation, plus the following non-voting members: the 22 members of the Bureau, the Honorary Life President, and all Honorary Members.

* 1967-1971 – Honorary Life President American Bandmasters Association

* Honorary Life Trustee, New York Public Library

Oswald Short, who had resigned as Chairman in January of that year, remained as Honorary Life President.

In 1975, Hawks was awarded an Honorary Academy Award as " a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema " and, in 1942, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.

He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Sergeant York, but he received his only Oscar in 1975 as an Honorary Award from the Academy.

In 1885, he became professor of hygiene at the University of Berlin, then in 1891 he was made Honorary Professor of the medical faculty and Director of the new Prussian Institute for Infectious Diseases ( eventually renamed as the Robert Koch Institute ), a position from which he resigned in 1904.

The voting committee was chaired by Fay Vincent, Major League Baseball's eighth Commissioner and an Honorary Director of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

During his career, he won two Oscars as Best Director and received an Honorary Oscar, won three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globes.

He was a follower of Oldham Athletic and at one point in the 1970's he was an Honorary Director of the club.

In 1947 he received an Honorary Academy Award for his distinguished contributions to the art of the motion picture, and he was nominated three times for Best Director.

Honorary fellows of the College include Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the USA, Shami Chakrabarti CBE, Director of the civil rights group Liberty and Chancellor of Oxford Brookes University, Will Hutton, prominent journalist, economist and head of the Work Foundation, and The Rt.

William Baker, formerly the chairman of the council, was selected to succeed the founder of the homes as Honorary Director.

He was Director of the Program on U. S .- Japan Relations at the Center for International Affairs ( 1980-1987 ) and, since 1987, Honorary Director.

Along with the precentor, the musical side of its work is led by the " Organist and Director of Music ", working with any assistant organist and organ scholar, as well as the " Honorary Keeper of the Music and Music Librarian " and, as at 2007, a " Music Development Officer ".

* Prof. Wong Ming-hung, Honorary Director of Croucher Institute for Environmental Sciences, Chair Professor in Biology, Fellow of The Croucher Foundation, Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Geochemistry and Health ( Springer ) and the world's most cited Chinese scientist in Environment / Ecology ( ISI Web of Knowledge ).

* Dr Michael J Franklin, Praelector, Registrary, Undergraduate Admissions Tutor, IT Director and Honorary Archivist

In 1960, Szeryng was named Mexican Cultural Ambassador ; in 1966, by which time he had moved to Paris, he was designated Honorary Director of the Conservatory of Music in Mexico City, and a Henryk Szeryng Music Festival was held in his honor in Mexico City.

Even at this age, he was still active doing research work and discharging his duties as the Secretary and Director of the Indian Statistical Institute and as the Honorary Statistical Advisor to the Cabinet of the Government of India.

* Bradford Washburn, photographer, director of the Boston Museum of Science from 1939 – 1980 and Honorary Director ( a lifetime appointment ) 1985 – 2007

These include: Chairman, Ramos Peace and Development Foundation ; Chairman, Boao Forum for Asia ; Trustee, International Crisis Group ( ICG ); Member, Advisory Group, UN University for Peace ; Honorary Director, General Douglas MacArthur Foundation ; Founding Member, Policy Advisory Commission, World Intellectual Property Organization ( PAC-WIPO ); Honorary Member, World Commission on Water for the 21st century ; Member, International Advisory Council, Asia House ; Patron, Opportunity International ( Philippines ); Global Advisor, University of Winnipeg ; Honorary Chairman, Yuchengco Center, De La Salle University ; Member, Advisory Board, Metrobank ; Honorary President, Human Development Network ( HDN ) Philippines ; Lifetime Honorary President, Christian Democrats International ( CDI ); and Chairman Emeritus, Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats ( CMD ) Party.

When Professor Bruce Dickins succeeded as Honorary Director the Society moved to the University of Cambridge and Miss Margaret Midgley ( later Dr Margaret Gelling ) was appointed Research Assistant.

When Professor Hugh Smith assumed the position of Honorary Director in 1951, University College, London became once more the Society's headquarters, with Margaret Midgley continuing research until 1953.

On his death in 1967 Professor Kenneth Cameron became Honorary Director and the Society's offices were split between London and Nottingham, where the university provided room for the Library and Archives, as well as the services of a secretary.