This entire story amounts to campaign lobbying for Steve Jobs to be awarded a Knighthood.
FORBES: Steve Jobs Knighthood Nixed By Political Pettyfoggery
The only record of a knighthood being given up was Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore in 1919.
Labour have criticised the decision to give a knighthood to a Conservative party donor, Paul Ruddock.
Her long-suffering husband Denis was given a baronetcy, which is a sort of hereditary knighthood.
The Chief Designer for Apple, Jony Ive, received his knighthood today in London.
Labour's Steve Rotherham said scrapping "Patnick's knighthood" was a job for the forfeiture committee.
In October, Labour MP Steve Rotheram called for Sir Irvine to be stripped of his knighthood.
The honours also see Peter Birkett, chief executive of Barnfield College in Luton receiving a knighthood.
Met Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe, who was born in Sheffield, has received a knighthood.
Reading Football Club chairman John Madejski, meanwhile, receives a knighthood for his charity work.
The decisions first to give him a knighthood and then to remove it were, primarily, political decisions.
He became a CBE seven years ago and, on learning of his knighthood, said he was "stunned".
Margaret Aspinall, of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, said Sir Norman should be stripped of his knighthood.
But this is not quite, technically, the same as receiving the knighthood (or indeed any other honour).
He declined a knighthood, but was happy to be made a Companion of Honour, a rarer distinction.
Out of the Northern Ireland-based recipients in this year's list, Professor Desmond Rea's knighthood was the highest honour.
But the knighthood existed from the time of the gazetting: today is just the ceremony to celebrate it.
Lifelong fan Ann Hughes started a letter-writing campaign to secure a knighthood for Tom around four years ago.
There is no established process to remove a papal knighthood posthumously because the honour dies with the recipient.
So embarrassed was Branson by complaints of late and shabby trains that he turned down a knighthood last year.
He has received several high-profile awards, including knighthood from the Queen of England.
He was also well known for his charitable work, having raised millions of pounds, and was awarded a knighthood.
Mr Lovell (as he was until his knighthood in 1961) scrounged kit from wartime pals, now in high places.
Though, just for the record, the knighthood Sir Stuart was given last week by the Queen really was his.
China may have had misgivings about Mr Tsang's closeness to the British in colonial days (he was awarded a knighthood).
His adventure with Laker Airways earned him a knighthood from a red-faced Labour government and the devotion of Margaret Thatcher.
He refused a knighthood almost to the end, pointing out that he had written only a slow handful of books.
Prof Keith Burnett, vice-chancellor of the University of Sheffield, has received a knighthood for services to science and higher education.
If he is refused a knighthood by Britain, perhaps he might qualify instead for the Order of the Rising Sun.
Or, if further prompting is needed, consider the just-announced knighthood of Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones ( No. 6 in 2000).
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