About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Australian knights and dames, Joan Sutherland, Nellie Melba, Living Australian knights and dames, Judith Anderson, Enid Lyons, Val Beral, Joan Hammond, Elisabeth Murdoch, Mary Gilmore, Peggy van Praagh, Doris Fitton, Pattie Menzies, Mary Hughes, Mary Durack, Dame Mary Cook, Florence Cardell-Oliver, Mary Herring, Carol Kidu, Leonie Kramer, Zara Bate, Roma Mitchell, Annabelle Rankin, Margaret Guilfoyle, Annie McEwen, Dorothy Tangney, Elizabeth Couchman, Mabel Brookes, Jean Macnamara, Alice Chisholm, Bridget Ogilvie, Ida Mann, Rachel Cleland, Rita Buxton, Nancy Buttfield, Alexandra Hasluck, Audrey Reader, Marie Breen, Marjorie Parker, Jacobena Angliss, Beryl Beaurepaire, Margaret Scott, Flora Reid, Monica Gallagher, Sister Philippa Brazill, Ella Macknight, Kate Isabel Campbell, Merlyn Myer, Raigh Roe, Hilda Stevenson, Patricia Mackinnon, Helen Blaxland, Phyllis Frost, Ivy Wedgwood, Gertrude Cosgrove, Alice Berry. Excerpt: This is an incomplete list of all Australians who have ever been appointed a knight or a dame, being entitled to be known as "Sir" or "Dame" respectively. It includes Living Australian knights and dames as well as deceased persons. Most of the details were sourced from It's an Honour, the Australian Government database of honours and awards. All names of persons who were appointed to orders of chivalry (Order of Australia, Order of the British Empire, etc) that appear in It's an Honour are listed. The list of Knights Bachelor is still incomplete. Not all awards appear in It's an Honour, as awardees may elect not to have their awards displayed. For the purposes of this list, an Australian is either: Hence, the list does not include most knighted British governors-general or colonial or state governors. Their primary domicile was, generally, in the United Kingdom, and they were only temporarily based in...
