North American Steve Schwartz responded to Deryk Barker concerning knighthood: >>... Britten, who died something like Lord Britten of Aldeburgh. > >Unless, of course, a Lordship is fundamentally different from a knighthood. Yes, it is. It has been said that the granting of a Lordship by her Majesty to Britten in his last, rather feeble year, was something of a sop. Screaming Anglophile Jane Erb