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