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Petition update, 19 May 2009

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We believe that it is only proper and consistent with Britain's position on the issue of Mugabe's tyranny in Zimbabwe that he be stripped of this award of chivalry, as advised by the UK Foreign Affairs Select Committee in 2003.

This would be in accordance with the 1847 statute allowing those "convicted of treason, cowardice, felony, or any infamous crime derogatory to his honour as a knight or gentleman... [to be] degraded from the Order by a special ordinance signed by the sovereign".

To have Robert Mugabe as a knight of our realm is a poor reflection on the award and this should not continue.

Current signatories

Tomas Thurogood - Hyde, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• Luke Montague
• Faris
• Michael Davies
• david
• David Marshall
• Jordan
• Alaina Norris
• Dick King
• S King
• James Murdoch
• Richard Herstell
• david wightman
• dp
• Richard Marshall
• Sean Delaney
• Scott Sweeney
• TED LEWENDON
• Edward Rice
• Jo Thurogood
• Patrick Robson
• Becky
• Michael Holmes
• Russell Dawson
• Emma Coffey
• David Hulme
• Richard Yates
• Daniel McGurty
• Erin Tregurtha
• Luke Gardner
• Melvin Wagstaff
• Steve Bassett
• Philip Glover
• Stuart Catt
• Ben Parish
• James
• Amy Killen
• Simon Hobson
• ian brocklebank
• Jenni Thompson
• Graham Tattersall
• K Stanley
• Nat Queen
• Nathan Longhurst
• Adam Hawes
• thomas higgins
• V Mcghee
• bob rayner
• J Lyons
• Alan Baldridge
• Alan Reilly
• Elaine Hall
• N King
• David Wilding
• Robert John Tilley
• Godfrey Ralph Owen
• DONALD MARTIN
• James Ashworth
• Jason McAtamney
• Arlene Elizabeth Floyd
• David Smith
• Allan Jackson
• Alexander Nikolas Grace
• Nikki Collingwood PGCE (Dip SpLD)
• P E G COPE
• E Sanders
• Abdullah Rhodes-Taylor
• Jennifer Nilsen-Nygaard
• lorraine ann smith
• Daniel Miller
• Gary Russell
• Sean Richard Hill
• TIM MAHONEY
• Sandra Eachus
• Martin Jonathan Nicholls
• Michael Anthony Sorfleet
• Felix Sorfleet
• Jacqueline Sorfleet
• Anne Coulson
• Adrian Redgers
• Belinda Wilson
• Sarah Brown
• JAMES VINCENT BEECH
• Stephen John Parker
• Alison Nock
• Deborah Nock
• John Coueslant
• kevin harris
• Jon Bray
• Christiane Cantzler
• Derek Smith
• Ian Hancock
• C. Bungey
• Chris Davies
• patricia nicholson
• Colin Smith
• Lynne Feddon
• J RICHARDS
• Michael Parfitt
• Martin Layton
• Louise Philp
• Neil Ferguson
• Robert Richardson
• James Nicolson
• RAYMOND F. BRUSOKAS
• Diana Mitchell
• Dr Maggie Canvin
• Clive Wright
• Francisco Peres
• Neil Rubin
• Angela Bray
• Bryan Faulds
• Roland Browne
• James Green
• Jack Lawrence
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• Victoria Groves
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• Nick Bewley
• Siddharth Mehlwal
• Kenneth Wilford
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• Kevin Bingham
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• richard colquhoun
• Melanie Falconer
• David M. Brown
• Richard simpson
• Wayne Tipton
• Jamie Clarke
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• Philip Saxton
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• Gregory Hill O'Connor
• Richard Rowan-Robinson
• Kate Willie
• Tony Langham.Mr
• Anthony Thorpe
• Nick Radford
• Cheryl Hill
• colin mills
• Gavin Cliffe
• Brian Dalton
• Louise Earlam
• JESSICA ANDERSON
• christopher ward
• Peter Venables, BSc,MA,CCC.
• Sarah Vesty
• Colin Farrell
• Alfred E Elwell
• Roger Prince
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• Catherine Henderson
• SIMON BURCH
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• christopher Moore
• Chris Westgarth
• Roland Browne
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• Gregory Mills
• ben arrowsmith
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• James Hicks
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• Ross Chmiel
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• Annemarie Kelly
• Jane Watson
• gail Hanrahan
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• Matthew Francis Hobbs
• jonathan oakland
• clare hockley
• David Hughes
• Stephen Baker
• Aaron Hunt
• Albert Leach
• mary kirkman
• Nellie English
• Anselm Plummer
• John Fulford
• Barbara Little
• Nadia Woodhouse
• Rob Levy
• Martha Adam
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• Kevin Barry
• Matthew Rice
• Michelle Brighten
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• Corin Thorpe
• Hannah Farr
• zimbo
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• Hannah Marston
• Carrie Powell
• Pamela Thompson
• Yvonne Palmer
• Peter Grist
• Bryony Thorpe
• Holly Vincent
• martin williams
• Nicola Doyle
• Katharine shepherdson
• Fraser Darroch
• Alex Head
• Miriam Fine
• Robert Cross
• jenifer clark
• David Jordan
• Chris
• Kenneth George McAulay
• Richard Hyde
• Simon Humphries
• James Humphreys
• Robert Pountney
• Mariela Morano
• steve gilks (SKLIG)
• Oliver Cole
• Toby Howard
• Phillip Goddard
• Dominic Ballinger
• Helen Paynter
• Tyler Dougan
• Mark Brown
• Geoffrey Wallis
• Mark Cheesman
• Karen Dolder
• angela gardner
• Steven Sanderson
• Helen Wilson
• Barbara Corcoran
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• David Heron
• Jonathan Seal
• geoffrey sutton
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• fiona keeble
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• Kathyrn Ross
• Claire Alford
• Barbara McLennan
• Angela Clark
• Mike Nix
• Stephen Mellen
• Ruth E Myerscough-Jackopson
• Chris Barton
• Lewis Brimblecombe
• Timothy Woodford
• Tracy Fields
• Abigail Frymann
• Peter Clack
• David Dring
• Paul Barton
• Robbie Mason
• Dan Knight
• David Curran
• Jonathan Moore
• Will Davies
• Jill Tickle
• S. Newton
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• andrew evans
• Anna Dejaegher
• Andrew RAlphs
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• Mark Middlemiss
• Sue Hudson
• Joanne Chapman
• Karl Sutaria
• Roberta Johnson
• ben sprigg
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• Sarah Louise Wilkes
• Emma Johnson
• tracy stevenson
• Jack Peter warren
• Joanne Clay
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• George Ingleson
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• Isabel Sherman
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• Jason Johnson
• Westy
• ANDY RIGBY
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• Lesley Cashell
• Jonathan Parker
• clare davies
• Will Barnes
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• Max Isham
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• Ben Jesty
• David Wood
• Kate Ferry
• N.Ferreira
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• Gary McGregor
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• Simon Eccles
• D Bucknall
• Brian Kelly
• Jayne Riley, that Mugabe is a knight is outragous
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• Alexandra Pratt
• Stephen Smith
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• Anthony Bennett
• winnie mangwende
• Mr. M P Dodds
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• Peter Burkimsher