Deryk Barker replies to Richard Pennycuick:
>>Some knights always insist on signing themselves Sir. I remember Sir
>>Adrian Boult would occasionally write to Gramophone, but he never used
>>his title. I suspect Vernon Handley is cast in the same mould. And I
>>still don't know why he's known as Tod.
>
>And Vaughan Williams (and Britten?) turned one down.
Vaughan Williams but not Britten, who died something like Lord Britten
of Aldeburgh.
Unless, of course, a Lordship is fundamentally different from a knighthood.
North American Steve Schwartz