Members of the Royal Family participate in hundreds of public engagements yearly throughout the whole of the United Kingdom, as formally recorded in the Court Circular, to honour, encourage and learn about the achievements or endeavours of individuals, institutions and enterprises in a variety of areas of life.

Raeder formally declined the honour to save embarrassing the Kiel government, but the entire episode embittered him, and he complained that he felt like an outcast.

On 6 November 2011, Waitara Oval, the home of the Northern District Cricket Club, had its name formally changed to Mark Taylor Oval, to honour its former First Grade captain and life member.

In November 1893, he was approached to see if he would accept a Baronetcy on the recommendation of the outgoing Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, the following February he legally changed his name to Burne-Jones He was formally created a baronet of Rottingdean, in the county of Sussex, and of the Grange, in the parish of Fulham, in the county of London in the baronetage of the United Kingdom on 3 May 1894, but remained unhappy about accepting the honour, which disgusted his socialist friend Morris and was scorned by his equally socialist wife Georgiana.

In the Netherlands ( Minister van Staat in Dutch ) and Belgium ( also Ministre d ' État in French ), Minister of State is a title of honour awarded formally by the Monarch, but on the initiative of the government.

On 16 April 2007, the airport was formally renamed " L. F. Wade International Airport " in honour of L. Frederick Wade father of L. Frederick Wade Jr. L. Frederick Wade a past leader of the incumbent governing party ( the Progressive Labour Party ) when it was in opposition.

EcoLogo certification is based on stringent criteria that examine the entire lifecycle of a product and the CNE ’ s success in achieving this honour formally recognizes the fair as an environmental leader.

In June 2009 it was formally named The Oswald Morris Building in honour of veteran cinematographer Ossie Morris.

Thonglongya worked with a British partner, John E. Hill, in classifying bats of Thailand ; after Thonglongya died suddenly in February 1974, Hill formally described the species, giving it the binomial name Craseonycteris thonglongyai in honour of his colleague.

The city is formally known as Cuatro Ciénegas de Carranza, in honour of its most famous son:

In July 2010, in honour of Di Canio, West Ham announced the opening of the ' Paolo Di Canio Lounge ', within the West Stand, at their Upton Park ground, which was formally launched by the unveiling of a plaque by Di Canio himself, on 11 September 2010.

Even in countries that formally enact laws to criminalise honour killings, they are rarely prosecuted.

The new area was then formally named Yabba's Hill in honour of his colourful comments, several of which have passed into cricketing folklore.

This creates the possibility that, even although – strictly speaking, or formally – everything is done " within the law ", economic actors nevertheless do not ( or not fully ) honour their trading obligations in some way, for selfish motives, and therefore commit what amounts to deceit, trickery or cheating, by utilizing a somewhat different " interpretation ", " intention ", " expectation " or " understanding ".

The city was formally known as El Porvenir de Velasco Suárez in honour of prominent neurologist Manuel Velasco Suárez, Governor of Chiapas during the period 1970 to 1976, but that nomenclature is now considered obsolete.

A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

In 1966, the " Finn VC Estate " was named in honour of Victoria Cross winner James Henry Finn who once lived in the town.

The Swiss town of Vevey, where he was a resident during his final years, named a park in his honour in 1980 and erected a replica of the Doubleday statue there in 1982.

To honour those women who defended the town of Tortosa against an attack by the Moors, Ramon Berenguer IV, then count of Barcelona, created the order of the Hatchet ( orden de la Hacha ) in 1149.

In 1992 the town of Echo Bay, Ontario, home of loonie designer Robert-Ralph Carmichael, erected a large loonie monument in his honour along the highway — similar to Sudbury's ' Big Nickel '.

The town was named after the Scottish Perth, in Murray's honour.

With the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, the fort was renamed James Fort, the town Jamestown and the valley James Valley, all in honour of the Duke of York, later James II of England.

This honour was usually reserved for places with the status of a city, such as a prefectural capital not normally given to a mere county town, as Shanghai was.

Jealous, however, of the preference shown by the Voortrekkers in Natal to another commandant, Gert Maritz, Potgieter soon recrossed the Drakensberg, and in November 1838 he and his followers settled by the banks of the Mooi River, founding a town named Potchefstroom in honour of Potgieter.

When a new town was being built in the Wrekin area of Shropshire in 1968, it was named Telford in his honour.

He has also had a Street named after him in the town Hitchin ( Bessemer Close ) bordering the village of Ickleford in 1995, and has a road named Bessemer Way in Rotherham in his honour.

The town was visited in 1802 by Admiral Horatio Nelson, who knew the importance of the area's woodland in providing timber for the British Navy and approved a Naval Temple built in his honour on the nearby Kymin Hill.

The town of Anazarbus was renamed Justinopolis in 525, in honour of Justin I.

* Emperor Constantine the Great gives the ancient Roman town Drepana ( Asia Minor ) the name Helenopolis, after his mother Helena, and builds a church in honour of the martyr St. Lucian.

As a boy he was thrown out of the grounds of local estates for trespass so in later life he purchased and gave land to the town to provide a public space ; this park, which opened in 1906, is called Collett Park in his honour.

* Following his death, the town of Berlin, Ontario, Canada, was renamed Kitchener in his honour.

The grant of the honour on the grounds of being a large industrial town, rather than a diocesan centre, was unprecedented.

During the Battle of France, in World War II, Saumur was the site of the Battle of Saumur ( 1940 ) where the town and south bank of the Loire was defended with great honour by the teenage cadets of the cavalry school.

A statue has been erected in honour of Kingsley by the town park's car park.

His visit to Cape Cod in 1797 coincided with the division of the town of Eastham into two towns, one of which took the name of Orleans, possibly in his honour.

Septimius Severus inaugurated his reign and dynasty with games to honour Liber / Shadrapa and Hercules / Melqart, the Romanised founding hero-deities of his native town, Lepcis Magna ( North Africa ); then he built them a massive temple and arch in Rome.

The massacre of French citizens by French soldiers shocked Europe ; Henry V of England, noting that the town of Soissons was dedicated to the saints Crispin and Crispinian, claimed to avenge the honour of the saints when he met the French forces at the Battle of Agincourt on St Crispin's Day 1415.

The family name of William of Orange was derived from the dynasty's ancestral origins as feudal lords of the French town of Orange, which was named by the ancient Gauls in honour of a Celtic water deity.

The town of Bexley, Ohio, a suburb of the city of Columbus, was named at the suggestion of an early resident, Mr. Kilbourne, in honour of his family's roots in Bexley, England.

He named it Kaap Hoorn ( Cape Horn ) in honour of his home town.

The proverb was apparently based on an anecdote about Ibycus stupidly or nobly turning down an opportunity to become tyrant of Rhegium in order to pursue a poetic career instead ( one modern scholar however infers from his poetry that Ibycus was in fact wise enough to avoid the lure of supreme power, citing as an example Plato's quotation from one of his lyrics: " I am afraid it may be in exchange for some sin before the gods that I get honour from men ") There is no other information about Ibycus ' activities in the West, apart from an account by Himerius, that he fell from his chariot while travelling between Catana and Himera and injured his hand badly enough to give up playing the lyre " for some considerable time.

The annual festival of Xipe Totec was celebrated on the spring equinox before the onset of the rainy season, it was known as Tlacaxipehualiztli (" flaying of men in honour of Xipe ") and fell in March at the time of the Conquest.

A certain Prince who fell into this category boasted to Fabergé about his latest honour from the Tsar, adding that he had no idea as to why the award was made.

* Sudanese honour warriors who fell fighting British-A report from battle commemoration, originally by Reuters

The Valley of the Fallen ( ) is a Catholic basilica and a monumental memorial in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial, erected at Cuelgamuros Valley in the Sierra de Guadarrama, near Madrid, conceived by Spanish dictator Francisco Franco to honour and bury those who fell during the Spanish Civil War.

The War Cemetery in Kohima has the famous inscription " When You Go Home, Tell Them Of Us And Say, For Your Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today " — The Kohima Epitaph is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds ( 1875 – 1958 ), and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph of Simonides written by Simonides to honour the Spartans who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.

The verse is attributed to John Maxwell Edmonds and is thought to have been inspired by the epitaph written by Simonides to honour the Greek who fell at the Battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC.

* Foinavon winning the 1967 Grand National at odds of 100 / 1 following a 23rd fence pile up in which every other horse fell or was remounted-the fence was subsequently named in Foinavon's honour.

After the Velvet Revolution, Palach ( along with Zajíc ) was commemorated in Prague by a bronze cross embedded at the spot where he fell outside the National Museum, as well as a square named in his honour.

Coombe Hill Monument is one of the first and largest examples of a war memorial erected to honour the names of individual men who fell whilst fighting for their country.

He further writes ; " but the honour of its second discovery fell to the Pole Johannes Scoluus ( Johannes Scoluus Polonus ), who in the year 1476 — eighty-six years after its first discovery — sailed beyond Norway, Greenland, Frisland, penetrated the Northern Strait, under the very Arctic Circle, and arrived at the country of Labrador and Estotiland ".

The proposed signing of Stephen Larkham fell through after the SRU were unable to honour the terms of the agreement.

The former fell passionately in love with Bickerton and asked him to become the father of her child ( an honour which Bickerton declined ), while the latter took Bickerton as the model for Leonard Anquetil, the hero of her best novel, The Edwardians ( 1930 ).

A statue to his honour has been erected at Marosvásárhely ( now Târgu-Mureş, Romania ) but he lives still more enduringly in the verses of the Hungarian national poet Sándor Petőfi, who fell in the fatal action of July 31, 1849 at the Battle of Segesvár.

In spite of personal hardship and receiving substantial offers, Singh refused to sell his medal during his lifetime, saying that selling the medal would " stain the honour of those who fell in battle ".

As a result the family had it estates confiscated by the Crown and it fell from honour.

It also contains bronze honour rolls bearing the names of 83 local men who fell during the war.

f ) The Gruisfontein battle field 24 km east of Lichtenburg, where a monument has been erected in honour of the burghers who fell there.

For Aed Muimnech had violated the sanctuary of Tibohine and plundered it, and many other churches and sacred buildings had been plundered by them, so that they fell the hand of their enemies to avenge the honour of the saints and churches of Connacht.

The western clothes were thrown in bonfires and it was an act of honour to wear the local Indian clothes. The British products were also boycotted in the markets and the sales of the British fell dramatically.

Rani Kishori fell prisoner into their hands and was taken with all honour to the camp of Nawab.

Three runestones, the Högby Runestone ( the brave champion Asmund fell on the Fyrisvellir ), one of the Hällestad Runestones labelled DR 295 ( he did not flee at Uppsala ) and the Sjörup Runestone ( He did not flee at Uppsala, but slaughtered as long as he had a weapon ), from this time relate to deaths with honour at Uppsala, probably three Jomsvikings.

The name soon fell out of favour with many residents and the current name in honour of Governor Thomas Brisbane was adopted instead.

The mountain was named in honour of Joseph Charles Bishop, the first president of the British Columbia Mountaineering Club ( BCMC ), who fell into a crevasse and was killed in 1913 whilst climbing on Mount Baker.