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Category:Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire

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This is a category listing, which serves as an index of existing Wikipedia articles about recipients of the Order of the British Empire.
It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of all recipients.

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Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) are entitled to the prefix "Dame" when the award is substantive, not honorary.

See also Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)

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1. Order of the British Empire – There is also the related British Empire Medal, whose recipients are affiliated with, but not members of, the order. Recommendations for appointments to the Order of the British Empire were at first made on the nomination of the United Kingdom, the self-governing Dominions of the Empire, nominations continue today from Commonwealth countries that participate in recommending British honours. Most members are citizens of the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth realms that use the Imperial system of honours and awards. Honorary knighthoods are appointed to citizens of nations where the Queen is not head of state, occasionally, honorary appointees are, incorrectly, referred to as Sir or Dame – Bill Gates or Bob Geldof, for example. In particular, King George V wished to create an Order to honour many thousands of those who had served in a variety of non-combatant roles during the First World War, when first established, the Order had only one division. However, in 1918, soon after its foundation, it was divided into Military. The Orders motto is For God and the Empire, at the foundation of the Order, the Medal of the Order of the British Empire was instituted, to serve as a lower award granting recipients affiliation but not membership. In 1922, this was renamed the British Empire Medal, in addition, the BEM is awarded by the Cook Islands and by some other Commonwealth nations. The British monarch is Sovereign of the Order, and appoints all members of the Order. The next most senior member is the Grand Master, of whom there have been three, Prince Edward, the Prince of Wales, Queen Mary, and the current Grand Master, the Duke of Edinburgh. The Order is limited to 300 Knights and Dames Grand Cross,845 Knights and Dames Commander, and 8,960 Commanders. There are no limits applied to the number of members of the fourth and fifth classes. Foreign recipients, as members, do not contribute to the numbers restricted to the Order as full members do. Though men can be knighted separately from an order of chivalry, women cannot, and so the rank of Knight/Dame Commander of the Order is the lowest rank of damehood, and second-lowest of knighthood. Because of this, Dame Commander is awarded in circumstances in which a man would be created a Knight Bachelor, for example, by convention, female judges of the High Court of Justice are created Dames Commander after appointment, while male judges become Knights Bachelor. The Order has six officials, the Prelate, the Dean, the Secretary, the Registrar, the King of Arms, the Bishop of London, a senior bishop in the Church of England, serves as the Orders Prelate. The Dean of St Pauls is ex officio the Dean of the Order, the Orders King of Arms is not a member of the College of Arms, as are many other heraldic officers. From time to time, individuals are appointed to a higher grade within the Order, thereby ceasing usage of the junior post-nominal letters

2. Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn – Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Hamilton, DBE was a British aristocrat and the Duchess of Abercorn by marriage. She was a great-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales and she was born on 26 February 1869 to Charles George Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox. She married, James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton, eldest son of James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, on 1 November 1894 at St. Pauls Church and they had five children, Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia Hamilton, who married twice, firstly in 1917 Capt/Maj. Robert Orlando Rudolph Kenyon-Slaney, with whom she divorced in 1930, with her first husband she had two sons and a daughter, and with her second husband one son. Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton, who married in 1919 to Albert Edward John Spencer and they had a son and two daughters. By their son they became grandparents of Diana, Princess of Wales, Lady Katherine Hamilton, who married in 1930 Lt-Col. Sir Reginald Henry Seymour, a descendant of the 1st Marquess of Hertford and she was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 3 May 1923. Rosalind, Duchess of Abercorn was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1936 and she was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Queens University, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 1944. She died in 1958, aged 88, the Honourable Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham Marchioness of Hamilton Her Grace The Duchess of Abercorn Her Grace The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn

3. Emma Albani – Dame Emma Albani, DBE was a leading opera soprano of the 19th century and early 20th century, and the first Canadian singer to become an international star. Her repertoire focused on the operas of Mozart, Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and she performed across Europe and North America. Albani was born Marie-Louise-Emma-Cécile Lajeunesse in Chambly, Quebec, to the professional musician Joseph Lajeunesse and his wife, Mélina Mignault. Her date of birth is given as 1 November 1847, but other authors have placed her birth in 1848 or 1850. She began her studies with her mother, and at age five her father took over her musical lessons. Her father was a proficient musician who was skilled with the violin, harp, piano and he kept her on a strong practice regimen, with as much as four hours a day of lessons on the harp and piano. The family moved to Plattsburgh, New York, in 1852, in 1856 after the death of her mother, she continued her education in a Montreal convent-school, run by the Dames du Sacré-Coeur where her father had obtained the position of Music Master. This afforded her an education than she might otherwise receive. On 24 August 1860 she and Adelina Patti were soloists in the premiere of Charles Wugk Sabatiers Cantata in Montreal which was performed in honour of the visit of the Prince of Wales. However, she was unable to finance a musical education in Quebec, where singing and acting were considered unsavoury careers for a woman. There she became a singer, an organist and teacher of singing. In 1868, she travelled to Paris, where she studied with Gilbert Duprez at the Conservatoire de Paris and she spent six months in Paris, training with Duprez. She then travelled to Italy, where she studied Italian opera singing with Francesco Lamperti, under the guidance of her elocution instructor, Signor Delorenzi, she changed her name to the simpler Emma Albani, which sounded more European. She made her debut at Messina using the surname Albani and her funds began to run low, and although her training was not yet complete she began to look for work to help support her schooling. She found a position in Messina, and her debut was on 30 March 1870, in Messina. Her debut performance was well received. They had painted it red, and the little bird rose. She returned to Milan after her contract in Messina had expired, additional work offers began to pour in

4. Louisa Aldrich-Blake – Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake, DBE was one of the first British women to enter the world of medicine. Born in Chingford, Essex, the daughter of a rector and she graduated from the Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine for Women in 1893. She went on to take the University of Londons higher degrees in Medicine and Surgery, throughout her career, Aldrich-Blake was associated with the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital, becoming senior surgeon in 1910. At the Royal Free Hospital, she was the first woman to hold the post of surgical registrar and she was the first to perform operations for cancers of the cervix and rectum. Aldrich-Blake was devoted to training students of the Royal Free Hospitals School of Medicine for Women and she became Dean of the School in 1914. In the 1925 New Years Honours List, she was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire, Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake died on 28 December 1925 from undisclosed causes. The Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake Collection is located in the Royal Free Hospitals Archives Centre, a statue of her is in Tavistock Square, London. Genesis Womens History archive index entry for Royal Free Hospital Collection, wellcome Library holdings of archive material. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Index

Order of the British Empire [videos]

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MBE as awarded in 1918

Grand Cross star of the Order of the British Empire

Close-up of an MBE from 1945 showing the "For God and the Empire"

Emma Albani [videos]

Dame Emma Albani, DBE (1 November 1847 – 3 April 1930) was a leading opera soprano of the 19th century and early 20th …

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Emma Albani at age 5

Emma Albani at the time of her debut as Amina

Emma Albani

Julie Andrews [videos]

Dame Julia Elizabeth "Julie" Andrews, (née Wells; born 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. …

Dame Julie Andrews, May 2013, in Sydney Australia.

Andrews as Eliza Doolittle meets Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins in the musical adaptation of Pygmalion, My Fair Lady

Andrews as Queen Guinevere with Richard Burton as King Arthur in the musical Camelot

Andrews in Mary Poppins (1964)

Peggy Ashcroft [videos]

Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991), commonly known as Peggy Ashcroft, was an …

Ashcroft in 1936

The Old Vic, photographed in 2012

Gielgud as Benedick

Henrietta Barnett [videos]

Dame Henrietta Octavia Weston Barnett, DBE (née Rowland; 4 May 1851 – 10 June 1936) was a notable English social …

Samuel and Henrietta Barnett portrait by Hubert von Herkomer in Toynbee Hall

Toynbee Hall 1902

Evergreen Hill, Spaniards Road

1 South Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, former home of Henrietta Barnett

Shirley Bassey [videos]

Dame Shirley Veronica Bassey, (born 8 January 1937) is a Welsh singer whose career began in the mid-1950s, best known …

Shirley Bassey (1971)

Bassey performing in West Germany in 1973

Bassey at Wembley Arena, 2006

From left to right: Sting, Debbie Harry, Lady Gaga, Sir Elton John, Dame Shirley Bassey and Bruce Springsteen at Carnegie Hall 2010

Louisa Aldrich-Blake [videos]

Dame Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake, DBE (5 August 1865 – 28 December 1925) was one of the first British women to enter …

Louisa Aldrich-Blake.

Memorial in Tavistock Square.

Louisa Brandreth Aldrich-Blake, portrait by Harry Herman Salomon commissioned by Henry Wellcome.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell [videos]

Dame Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, (born 15 July 1943) is a Northern Irish astrophysicist. As a postgraduate student, …

Bell Burnell in 2009

Susan Jocelyn Bell, June 1967

Jocelyn Bell Burnell - Composite Optical/X-ray image of the Crab Nebula, showing synchrotron emission in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula, powered by injection of magnetic fields and particles from the central pulsar.

Composite Optical/X-ray image of the Crab Nebula, showing synchrotron emission in the surrounding pulsar wind nebula, powered by injection of magnetic fields and particles from the central pulsar.

Katharine Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl [videos]

Katharine Marjory Stewart-Murray, Duchess of Atholl, DBE (née Ramsay; 6 November 1874 – 21 October 1960), known as the …

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DBE insignia

Mary Bailey (aviator) [videos]

Dame Mary Bailey, Lady Bailey, DBE (1 December 1890 – 29 July 1960), née Westenra, was an Irish aviator. — The daughter …

Mary, Lady Bailey, 1930

De Havilland Cirrus Moth

Beryl Bainbridge [videos]

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge DBE (21 November 1932 – 2 July 2010) was an English writer from Liverpool. She was …

Image: Beryl Bainbridge circa 2000

Bainbridge's grave in Highgate Cemetery

Lilian Barker [videos]

Dame Lilian Charlotte Barker, DBE, JP (1874—1955) was first British female assistant prison commissioner whose work …

Lilian Barker, right centre, surrounded by some of her women workers from the 'danger buildings' at Woolwich Arsenal, May 1918

Lilian Barker, left, supervises a group of female munitions workers using primitive remote handling equipment to work with TNT explosives at Woolwich Arsenal, May 1918

Margaret Beckett [videos]

Dame Margaret Mary Beckett, (née Jackson; born 15 January 1943) is a British Labour Party politician who has been the …

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Beckett appears with US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, following her appointment as Foreign Secretary.

Vera Baird [videos]

Dame Vera Baird (née Thomas; born 13 February 1950) is a British politician, barrister, and academic. She is currently …

Vera Baird

Baird at a 2013 Policy Exchange forum on PPCs

Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford [videos]

Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford (26 September 1865 – ca. 22 March 1937) was an English aviator and ornithologist. She …

The Duchess of Bedford

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Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn [videos]

Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, DBE (26 February 1869 – 18 January 1958; née Lady Rosalind …

The Duchess of Abercorn in 1914.

Helen Alexander (businesswoman) [videos]

Dame Helen Anne Alexander DBE (10 February 1957 - 5 August 2017) was a British businesswoman. She served as the …

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Adelaide Anderson [videos]

Dame Adelaide Mary Anderson, DBE (8 April 1863 – 28 August 1936) was a British civil servant and labour activist, …

Portrait of Adelaide Anderson, c. 1896

Joyce Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns [videos]

Joyce Anne Anelay, Baroness Anelay of St Johns (born 17 July 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician, …

Image: Joyce Anelay February 2017

Elish Angiolini [videos]

Dame Elish Frances Angiolini (née McPhilomy; born 24 June 1960) is a Scottish lawyer. She was the Lord Advocate of …

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Janet Baker [videos]

Dame Janet Abbott Baker (born 21 August 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder …

Janet Baker in 1967

Josephine Barnes [videos]

Dame Alice Josephine Mary Taylor Barnes, (18 August 1912 – 28 December 1999), known professionally as Dr Josephine …

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Doris Beale [videos]

Dame Doris Winifred Beale, & Bar (9 August 1889 – 14 January 1971) was an English nurse, and Matron-in-Chief of Queen …

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Mary Beard (classicist) [videos]

Winifred Mary Beard, (born 1 January 1955) is an English scholar and classicist. The New Yorker characterises her as …

Beard filming in Rome, 2012

Anne Begg [videos]

Dame Margaret Anne Begg DBE (born 6 December 1955) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of …

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Geraldine Andrews [videos]

Dame Geraldine Mary Andrews (born 19 April 1959), styled The Hon. Mrs Justice Andrews, is a judge of the High Court of …

Royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom