Royal Warrant - For Letters Patent Empowering the Queen Mother to Confer Various Knighthoods [1983-02-09]
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(Sgd.) Elizabeth R
Elizabeth the Second by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith: TO Our right trusty and well beloved Counsellor Quintin McGarel Baron Hailsham of Saint Marylebone
Our Chancellor of Great Britain GREETING: WE WILL AND COMMAND that under the Great Seal of Our Realm remaining in your custody you cause these Our Letters to be made forth Patent in form following:—
ELIZABETH THE SECOND by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Our other Realms and Territories Queen Head of the Commonwealth Defender of the Faith To Our most dearly beloved Mother Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Greeting: Whereas We are desirous of conferring upon you Our most dearly beloved Mother certain powers to act on Our behalf on the first day of March One thousand nine hundred and eighty-three when We cannot Ourself conveniently be personally present Know Ye that We do by these Presents Do direct and empower you Our most dearly beloved Mother to confer on the said first day of March in Our Name and on Our behalf in as full and ample a manner as if the same had been conferred by Us in person the title degree and honour of a Knight Bachelor upon such persons as We have signified at the date of these Presents Our intention of promoting or appointing to be Members of the First or Second Class of Our Most Honourable Order of the Bath or of Our Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George or of Our Royal Victorian Order or of Our Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and as under special Warrant issued under the Seal of any one of the said Orders you Our most dearly beloved Mother have been empowered to invest with the insignia of the First or Second Class of that Order And also to confer in Our Name and on Our behalf upon such other persons as We have been pleased to approve the title degree and honour of a Knight Bachelor together with all rights privileges and advantages appertaining thereto in as full and ample a manner as if the same had been conferred by Us in person IN WITNESS &c. WITNESS &c.
Given at Our Court at Sandringham the ninth day of February one thousand nine hundred and eighty-three in the thirty-second Year of Our Reign
BY HER MAJESTY’S COMMAND
(Sgd.) William Whitelaw
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY
This contains a Warrant to the Lord High Chancellor to pass Letters Patent under the Great Seal whereby Your Majesty is pleased to empower Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on the 1st March, 1983, to confer the Honour of Knighthood upon such persons as Your Majesty has been pleased to appoint to be Honourable Members of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, the Royal Victorian Order and further to confer the title and degree of Knight Bachelor
And this Warrant is prepared according to Your Majesty’s Royal Command
Signified by Mr. Secretary Whitelaw
OULTON
Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
Received the 9th day of February 1983
(Sgd.) Hailsham of St Marylebone C.
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Royal name is in a Gothic font.
Date clause is filled in by hand.
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