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Carl A. Anderson, former special assistant to the President Ronald Reagan (1983–1987) and Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus [37] Martin Patrick Durkin, former U.S. Secretary of Labor; Raymond Flynn, former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See and former Democratic Mayor of Boston [38] John F. Kennedy, 35th president of the United States [39]
Dame Marea Hartman (1994, DBE, [3] 1920–1994); British athletics sports administrator. Dame Elizabeth Mary Nicholl (2023, DBE, [4] born 1952); Nicholl was a British sports administrator, former netball player, chief executive of UK Sport from 2010–19, and is current president of World Netball.
The Knights of Columbus presented a check to Catholic University of America on the steps of the university's McMahon Hall in 1904 to establish a Chair of American History. Since its earliest days, the Knights of Columbus has been a "Catholic anti-defamation society." [130] In 1914, it established a Commission on Religious Prejudices. [130]
This category consists of people who have received knighthoods under the British honours system, other Commonwealth honours systems, or some other system (Maltese, etc.), for their sporting achievements.
No sooner had the Vancouver Athletic Club team disbanded, than a couple days later the Knights of Columbus football team was founded, with most of their players. [5] While the players were very much the same, the team was supported by the venerable service organization and was a distinctively separate club.
Knights of Columbus; Knights of Peter Claver; Knights of Pythias of North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia; Knights of the Globe; Knights of the Golden Eagle; Loyal Order of Moose; Military Order of the Serpent; National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry; National Haymakers' Association; Native Sons of the ...
Christopher Columbus is the patron and namesake of the Knights.. Taking the name of Columbus was partially intended as a mild rebuke to Anglo-Saxon Protestant leaders, who upheld the explorer (a Genovese Italian Catholic who had worked for Catholic Spain) as an American hero, yet simultaneously sought to marginalize recent Catholic immigrants.
National sports teams of the United Kingdom is an incomplete list of sports teams representing the United Kingdom.The teams are often referred to as 'Great Britain' as they represent the United Kingdom minus Northern Ireland, the residents of which often able to choose to play for either Ireland or the UK.