20 Brits Who Refused Knighthood and Other Honors (Photos)
NO SIR
From David Bowie to C. S. Lewis, see who didn’t want to be called ‘Sir.’
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David Bowie
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Roald Dahl
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Evelyn Waugh
Mark Gerson / Camera Press-Retna
John Lennon
Richard Drew / AP Photo
Alfred Hitchcock
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Doris Lessing
Martin Cleaver / AP Photo
Paul Dirac
Boyer Viollet / Getty Images
Francis Crick
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Lucien Freud
Dominic Lipinski / Landov
John Cleese
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Vanessa Redgrave
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L.S. Lowry
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Benjamin Zephaniah
Cambridge Jones / Getty Images
Michael Winner
Keith Hamshere / Getty Images
C.S. Lewis
John Chillingworth / Getty Images
Trevor Howard
Michael Ochs Archives / Gerry Images
Graham Greene
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Jon Snow
MJ Kim / Getty Images
Aldous Huxley
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