Knight or Dame of St Andrew
Knight or Dame of St Andrew was an award within the Order of Barbados that was part of the national honours system of Barbados when the country was still a realm within the Commonwealth.
History
The Order of Barbados was instituted by Queen Elizabeth II by letters patent dated 25 July 1980. With Barbados becoming a republic on 30 November 2021, a new Order of Barbados came into force that was established with the Barbados National Honours and Decorations Act 2021 by the Parliament of Barbados on 28 October 2021, and which replaced the former Order of Barbados. Due to this, the former Order became obsolete and appointments of Knights and Dames of St. Andrew have also ceased. However, all appointments conferred prior to 30 November 2021 pursuant to the Letters Patent continue to be acknowledged as validly conferred, and with the Knights or Dames deemed to be members of the new Order.Prestige
Until Barbados ceased to be a constitutional monarchy and became a republic on 30 November 2021, Knight or Dame of St. Andrew was the highest honour given by the monarch of Barbados, and was awarded for "extraordinary and outstanding achievement and merit in service to Barbados or to humanity at large".Most recipients were invested in November during the month-long celebration of Barbadian political independence. When the country was a monarchy, the award was conferred to awardees by the office of the Governor-General of Barbados.
Styles
Conferees are styled as a Knight or Dame of St Andrew. They carry the prefix Sir or Dame, and the post-nominal letters KA or DA.Recipients
Arranged by prefix, name, post-nominal letters, date of conferral:- Sir MacDonald Blunt, KA
- Dame Elsie Payne, DA
- Sir Erskine Ward, KA
- Dame Nita Barrow, GCMG, DA, OCC
- Sir Kenneth Hunte, KA, OBE
- Sir Edwy Talma, KA, CBE
- Sir Maurice Byer, KA, OBE
- Sir Ronald Mapp, KA
- Sir Neville Osborne, KA, OBE
- Sir Donald Wiles, KA, CMG, OBE
- Sir Frank Blackman, KCVO, KA, OBE
- Senator Sir Frank Walcott, KA, OBE
- Sir Keith Donnerson Hunte, KA
- Sir Frederick Smith, KA, QC
- Sir Stanley Augustus Blanchette, KA
- Sir William Harvey Clyde Gollop, KA, MBE, JP
- Sir Kenmore Nathaniel Rhystone Husbands, KA, CBE, JP
- The Hon. Sir Douglas Percy Lynch, KA, CMG, QC
- Sir Neville Vernon Nicholls, KA
- Sir James Cliviston King, KA, OBE
- Sir John Stanley Goddard, KA
- Sir Clyde Leopold Walcott, KA, OBE, AA
- The Hon. Sir Harold Bernard St. John, KA, QC
- Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands, KA
- Dame Edna Ermyntrude Bourne, DA
- His Honour Sir Fred Winlyn Gollop, KA
- Sir Henry deBoulay Forde, KA, QC
- Sir Courtney Blackman, KA
- Sir Conrad Hunte, KA
- Sir Stephen Errol Emtage, KA
- The Rt. Hon. Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford, KA, JP
- The Rt. Rev. Sir Wilfred Denniston Wood, KA, JP
- Sir David Anthony Cathcart Simmons, KA, BCH
- Sir Aubrey Gordon Leacock, KA, CBE
- Sir Roy Cardinal Trotman, KA
- The Hon. Dame Billie Antoinette Miller, DA, BCH, MP
- Sir Richard Christopher Haynes, KA, FRCP
- The Hon. Sir Richard Lionel Cheltenham, KA, QC, JP
- Dame Olga Christine Lopes-Seale, DA, GCM, MBE, BSS
- Sir Louis Randall Tull, KA, QC, MP
- Sir Hilary McDonald Beckles, KA
- Sir Kyffin Donald Simpson, KA, CBE
- Sir Philip Marlowe Greaves, KA, QC
- Sir Maurice Athelstan King, KA, QC
- Sir Marcus deLambert Jordan, KA
- Sir Branford Mayhew Taitt, KA
- The Hon. Sir Errol Ricardo Walrond, KA
- Sir Marston Creighton Dacosta Gibson, KA
- Sir Frank Walton Alleyne, KA
- Sir Trevor Austin Carmichael, KA
- Sir Trevor Austin Hassell, KA
- Sir Charles Christopher Griffith, KA
- Sir Kenneth Rudolph Hewitt, KA, CBE, BJH
- Sir Philip Evan Serrao, KA, BCH, QC
- Dame Avisene Caesaretta Carrington, DA, SCM 9
- Sir Patterson Keith Herman Cheltenham, KA, GCM, QC
- Sir Rudyard Eggleton Carrington Lewis, KA, GCM, CVO