Majesty’s licence and permission does not authorize the assumption of any style, appellation, rank, precedence, or privilege appertaining to a Knight Bachelor of Her Majesty’s Realms.
9. When a British Subject has received the Royal permission to accept a Foreign Order, he will at any future time be allowed to accept the Decoration of a higher Class of the same Order, to which he may have become eligible by increase of rank in the Foreign Service, or in the Service of his own country; or any other distinctive mark of honour strictly consequent upon the acceptance of the original Order, and common to every person upon whom such Order is conferred.
10. The preceding Clause shall not be taken to apply to Decorations of the Guelphic Order which were bestowed on British Subjects by Her Majesty’s predecessors, King George IV. and King William IV., on whose heads the Crowns of Great Britain and of Hanover were united.
Decorations so bestowed cannot properly be considered as rewards granted by a Foreign Sovereign for services rendered according to the purport of Clause 2 of these Regulations. They must be rather considered as personal favours bestowed on British Subjects by British Sovereigns, and as having no reference to services rendered to the Foreign Crown of Hanover.
REGULATIONS RESPECTING FOREIGN MEDALS.
1. Applications for permission to accept and wear Medals which, not being the decoration of any Foreign Order, are conferred by a Foreign Sovereign on British sub- jects in the Army or in the Navy, for military or for naval services, should be addressed, as the case may be, to the Commander-in-Chief, the Master-General of the Ordnance, or the Lords of the Admiralty, who, if they see fit, may submit the same to Her Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, for Her Majesty’s sanction; upon obtaining which, they may grant such permission without any other formality.
2. Permission to wear a Foreign Medal cannot be granted to a British subject, unless such Medal is bestowed for military or naval services performed by the command or with the sanction of Her Majesty. But no permission is necessary for accepting a Foreign Medal, if such Medal is not to be worn.
Foreign Office, May 10, 1855.
THE LEGION OF HONOUR.
THE ARMY.
GRAND CROSSES.
- Simpson, General Sir James
- Brown, General Sir George
GRAND OFFICERS.
- Burgoyne, Lieutenant-General Sir John
Fox, Bart. - Evans, Lieutenant-General Sir De Lacy
- Pennefather, Lieutenant-General Sir J.
Lysaght - England, Major-General Sir Richard
