* Harold Wilson's Prime Minister's Resignation Honours ( known satirically as the " Lavender List ") gives honours to a number of wealthy businessmen whose principles were considered antipathetic to those held by the Labour party ( May 1976 )

His Resignation Honours were announced in August 1997.

Breaking open the Crown Room, he retrieved the Honours of Scotland, which were then put on public display, with an entry charge of one shilling.

The Honours of Scotland were almost forgotten following their last use at the coronation of Charles II in 1651 until they were discovered in a chest inside Edinburgh Castle in the early Nineteenth century.

Both Neil and his brother Tim were invested as Officers of the Order of the British Empire ( OBE ) for services to New Zealand music in the 1993 Queen's Birthday Honours List.

In the 2011 Birthday Honours List, Sam Taylor-Wood and Gillian Wearing were appointed Order of the British Empire by the UK constitutional monarch Elizabeth II.

Honours and dignities were now showered upon him.

In the 2006 New Year Honours list they were each awarded an MBE.

Rossi and Parfitt were awarded the OBE in the New Year Honours 2010 for their services to music.

Honours, however, were not refused him, and in 1834 he obtained an open fellowship at Balliol.

On January 1, 2006, Hunter and his younger brother, fellow former NHLer Mark Hunter, as co-owners of the London Knights ( Mark is the team's general manager ), were named to the 2006 Mayor's New Year's Honours List for Sports by the City of London, Ontario.

There were two high school diplomas in Ontario, the Secondary School Graduation Diploma ( SSGD ) which was awarded after Grade 12 and the Secondary School Honours Graduation Diploma ( SSHGD ) awarded after Grade 13.

Twelve cities were also honoured by the Local Government Honours Award for innovative local environmental programs.

However, the Honours of Scotland were hidden, firstly in Dunnottar Castle, which was later besieged by the New Model Army, and from where the Honours were smuggled out ; secondly under the floor of Kinneff Parish Church, only to be recovered after The Restoration in 1660.

Although, they had been found, the Honours were no longer used to crown Scottish sovereigns.

Until the Acts of Union 1707, which united the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England to form the unified Kingdom of Great Britain, the Honours of Scotland were taken to sittings of the Parliament of Scotland to represent the Monarch who, since the Union of the Crowns in 1603, resided in England.

After the Act of Union, the Parliament of Scotland and Parliament of England having been dissolved, the Parliament of Great Britain sat in London ; the Honours of Scotland, having no symbolic role to play in the unified British Parliament, were placed in a chest and locked away at Edinburgh Castle.

In 1941, the Honours were hidden due to fears that they might be lost should there be a German invasion during World War II.

This created additional ill feeling among other members of the Cabinet ; two more were elevated in the 1947 New Year's Honours, after which the Prime Minister refused to consider any more.

In July 1917, King George V changed the name of the British Royal House to the House of Windsor and discontinued for himself and all other descendants of Queen Victoria who were British subjects all " other German Degrees, Styles, Dignities, Titles, Honours and Appellations.

Examination passes are awarded as follows: Pass, Pass Plus, Commended, Highly Commended and Honours.

Although it was written for an audience familiar with the procedures of the University of Cambridge at the turn of the twentieth century, Microcosmographia Academica could apply to any political system and is reminiscent of the British television comedy Yes Minister ; a portion of the dialogue in one episode of that programme, " Doing the Honours ", closely follows Cornford's text.

After four years there he obtained a scholarship at St John's College, Cambridge and four years later graduated with a First Class Honours degree.

The diploma generally exempted a student from the first two or three years of a four year university Honours Bachelor's Degree in Ireland.

The University's Joint Honours Scheme allows students to combine over 40 subjects from across all four University faculties.

Scottish Honours Degrees are normally four year courses, and so an extra year of study is required.

The Open University offers the MEng degree as a postgraduate qualification but requires students to complete its course within four years of completing a BEng Honours degree.

The Honours degree will usually take over four years of full time study, with the inclusion of the Degree programme of 360 credits included.

Honours degrees, as well as four Foundation Certificate programmes of study.

At its peak The West Yorkshire Regiment numbered 37 battalions, 66 Battle Honours were bestowed and four Victoria Crosses were awarded.

The duration of the Degree is four years on completion of which the Honours Degree of Bachelor of Science of Engineering is awarded.

The Battalion had the unique distinction of getting four Battle Honours for the five battles fought.

The Bachelor of Business Science ( BBusSci ) is a four year Honours level degree providing for a scientifically based study of economic and management sciences.

The BBusSci " allows for intensive specialisation " in the degree major and thus comprises a four year Honours level program.

According to Charles Cotton, Ruff and Honours, alias called Slam, was played by four players in two partnerships where it was compulsory to follow suit when able.

Ruff and Honours, if not the same game as Trump, was most probably a game with a score for the four highest cards of the trump suit, as first described in Cotton's The Compleat Gamester written in 1674, who also states that Ruff and Honours was indeed one of the games most commonly known in England.

# If the partners hold three Honours they score two points, or four points if they hold all four.

In 1953, at the age of 29, and after an education interrupted by four years teaching at his old school, de Graft graduated from the University College of the Gold Coast, one of the first undergraduates to take English Honours.

It derives from the 16th century game of trump or ruff, via Ruff and Honours.

* Ruff and Honours, a 17th century card game featuring a trump suit

The Chancellery of Honours also centres around the Queen and is thus administered by the governor general, whose secretary simultaneously holds the position of Herald Chancellor of Canada and, as such, oversees the Canadian Heraldic Authority — the mechanism of the Canadian honours system by which armorial bearings are granted to Canadians by the governor general in the name of the sovereign.

From October 2011, students can only be awarded an Honours degree if they have been awarded honours in a Part II or Part III examination ; a combination of Part I examinations will allow a student to graduate with an Ordinary degree.

Honours degrees and integrated master's degrees are awarded with 1st, upper 2nd, lower 2nd or 3rd class honours.

By contrast, the Dual Honours system at Keele remains distinctive and popular, with almost 90 per cent of current undergraduates reading dual honours.

* In the past IRMA have organized " The IRMA Honours ," an awards ceremony which honours the life work of Ireland's leading musicians and people who have influenced the Irish music industry.

The Honours Secretariat of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet is responsible for the administration of honours.

A further review of the New Zealand Honours system in 1996 and 1997 resulted in the termination of awards of almost all British honours and the creation of a new five-level New Zealand Order of Merit to replace them.

Bolger's government also ended the awarding of British honours in 1996, introducing a New Zealand Honours System.

A change to non-titular honours was a recommendation contained within the original report of the 1995 honours committee ( The New Zealand Royal Honours System: The Report of the Prime Minister ’ s Honours Advisory Committee ) which prompted the creation of the New Zealand Order of Merit.

Honours degrees are usually awarded with first, upper-second, lower-second or third class honours.

Simon Burns was educated at Christ the King School, Accra, Ghana ; Stamford School ; and Worcester College, Oxford, where he obtained a BA Honours Degree in Modern History ( third class honours, resulting in the nickname ' third degree burns ') in 1975.

Scarlett's appointment as a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the Queen's New Years Honours List 2007 was criticised in the media by some who believe that certain honours have been given unfairly to officials and supporters loyal to the government during the 2003 war in Iraq.

For its part in the campaign the 3rd Gurkhas gained seven Battle Honours and the Theatre Honour " Palestine 1917 – 18 " after such honours were granted to units in the 1920s.

In addition to the Battle Honours listed above ( which are emblazoned on the Squadron Standard ), the Squadron has been granted the following battle honours: Cambrai 1917, Somme 1918, Lys, Amiens, France and Low Countries 1940, Invasion Ports 1940, Biscay Ports 1940-1941.

In 2009 the group welcomed the reintroduction of titular honours to the New Zealand Royal Honours system after years of lobbying.

HRH Sultan of Johor's Birthday Honours List is usually published annually in most mainstream Malaysian media and newspapers with a list of the honours recipients.

* Chancellery of Honours, an office in the Canadian Heraldic Authority, part of the Canadian honours system.

He has received numerous honours for this discovery, including the Society of Chemical Industry ( SCI ) Environment Medal, The Chree Medal and Prize, membership of the Global 500 Roll of Honour, and a CBE in the 2000 New Year Honours.

At the University he eventually enrolled in a joint honours course in Classics and English, graduating in 1931 with Honours in both.