Steve Schwartz responded to me concerning knighthood:

>>And Vaughan Williams (and Britten?) turned one down.
>
>Vaughan Williams but not Britten, who died something like Lord Britten
>of Aldeburgh.

Ah yes, but I think he turned down a *knighthood*. You don't have to
have one of those to become a peer.

>Unless, of course, a Lordship is fundamentally different from a knighthood.

See above.

Deryk Barker
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