Sentences with phrase «knighthood despite»
The most prominent pro-Brexit campaigner, Nigel Farage, has not been given a peerage or knighthood despite calls from the right for him to be rewarded for his part in the successful campaign.
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He claimed ever after to have remained an outsider, despite his appointment as CBE (1976), a knighthood (1992) and being made a Companion of Honour (2003), with trusteeships, successively, of the Tate and the National Gallery, appearances on TV's The South Bank Show, with Melvyn Bragg, and Arena, with Alan Yentob, and sundry honorary fellowships and doctorates.
Despite a knighthood and a planned Tate retrospective, he remains an outsider in British art.