Malaysia Boleh! First Malaysian awarded British Knighthood

[bluewolf]

Taken directly from the British Monarchy Website:

Knighthoods:
http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/Knighthoods.aspx

Order of St. Michael and St. George:
http://www.royal.gov.uk/MonarchUK/Honours/OrderofStMichaelandStGeorge.aspx

Any contradiction to what I said? GCMG is a knighthood. Any British citizen conferred a GCMG can be addressed as a Sir.

 

[steffychun]

Any contradiction to what I said? GCMG is a knighthood. Any British citizen conferred a GCMG can be addressed as a Sir.

Does that specifically say it?

LKY is not a Brit.

GCMG is for Commonwealth members mainly.

 

[rover2sg]

Actually we do have a Singaporean who was made a British Lord and sat in the House of Lords. He was Dr Michael C K Chan formerly of Raffles Institution, class of 1955. He was in KK Hospital before leaving to UK. He was my friend and school mate. He was given a lordship for his social work in UK was known a Lord Chan of ... (sorry I forget what county).

So sad and sorry that he passed away just a few years after he attended a reunion with us in 2001 at the Island Golf Club.

In our time being a Lord was totally out of the question!

 

[steffychun]

Actually we do have a Singaporean who was made a British Lord and sat in the House of Lords. He was Dr Michael C K Chan formerly of Raffles Institution, class of 1955. He was in KK Hospital before leaving to UK. He was my friend and school mate. He was given a lordship for his social work in UK was known a Lord Chan of ... (sorry I forget what county).

So sad and sorry that he passed away just a few years after he attended a reunion with us in 2001 at the Island Golf Club.

In our time being a Lord was totally out of the question!

Lord is not the same as a knight

 

[bluewolf]

Does that specifically say it?

LKY is not a Brit.

GCMG is for Commonwealth members mainly.

Everyone who was invested as a knight/knight commander/knight grand cross is a knight, no matter which order (order of the British empire, order of the thistle, order of....etc) it is.

LKY is not a Brit, hence he is not entitled to be addressed as a "Sir". Foreigners can be made honorary members of the orders.

 

[steffychun]

Everyone who was invested as a knight/knight commander/knight grand cross is a knight, no matter which order (order of the British empire, order of the thistle, order of....etc) it is.

LKY is not a Brit, hence he is not entitled to be addressed as a "Sir". Foreigners can be made honorary members of the orders.

Maybe. But actually beyond Wikipedia, is there any official document that says he still holds the GCMG

 

[rover2sg]

Lord is not the same as a knight

It is much much higher lah!

 

[steffychun]

It is much much higher lah!

No it is not.