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â€˜The Australian Jubilee Peerage: A Detailed Scheme for the Institution of Various Long-Needed Australian Orders of Nobilityâ€™, The Bulletin, 25 June 1887

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This full-page illustration by the Bulletinâ€™s American-born cartoonist Livingston Hopkins (aka â€˜Hopâ€™), pokes fun at some of Australiaâ€™s prominent political figures. The 25 June 1887 issue of the Bulletin reviewed Queen…

Tags: â€˜pedigree hunting, â€™ Australian politics, Britain, heraldry, honours, Jubilee, knight, knighthood, Livingston York Hopkins (1846-1927), Melbourne, nobility, peerage, political figures, politics, Queen Victoria, social mobility, Vic, Victoria, White Knight of Kerry

‘Melbourne Investiture: Honours Conferred with Sword’, The West Australian, 6 November 1937

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This article from The West Australian in 1937 reports on a number of new knighthoods awarded as part of the King’s Coronation Honours. For the first time, the article informs readers, the recipients were ‘dubbed’ by the…

Tags: Accolade, authority, ceremony, chivalry, dubbing, Governor-General, honours, investiture, Kingâ€™s Coronation Honours, knight, knighthood, letters patent, Lord Gowrie, pageantry, Parliament House, sword

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