Only 65 people have the privilege to call themselves Companions of Honour. Now, Sir Paul Smith can count himself among them.
“It was a wonderful surprise to receive the letter to say I was going to be made a Companion of Honour. It’s extraordinarily humbling to be included on such an incredible list of people.”
The Companion of Honour is a special award granted to those who have made a major contribution to the arts, science, medicine, or government lasting over a long period of time. The members, of which there are 65 at any one time, currently include actress Dame Maggie Smith, Lord Coe, Stephen Hawking, John Major and Desmond Tutu.
Sometimes regarded as a junior class of the Order of Merit, the Order of the Companions of Honour was founded by George V in 1917 to recognise services of national importance.
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