Companion of the Order of the Bath | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-06

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00:02:09 1 History
00:02:18 1.1 Knights of the Bath
00:05:50 1.2 Foundation of the order
00:13:22 1.3 Restructuring in 1815
00:15:38 1.4 The Victorian era
00:17:54 1.5 The 20th century
00:20:02 2 Composition
00:20:12 2.1 Sovereign
00:20:37 2.2 Great Master
00:22:53 2.3 Members
00:27:21 2.4 Officers
00:30:15 3 Habit and insignia
00:35:00 4 Chapel
00:38:21 5 Precedence and privileges
00:41:14 6 Revocation
00:44:47 7 Current Knights and Dames Grand Cross
00:45:07 7.1 Knights and Dames Grand Cross
00:45:18 7.2 Honorary Knights and Dames Grand Cross
00:45:29 7.3 Honorary Knights and Dames Commander
00:45:41 8 See also



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The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never previously existed as an Order, in the sense of a body of knights who were governed by a set of statutes and whose numbers were replenished when vacancies occurred.The Order consists of the Sovereign (currently Queen Elizabeth II), the Great Master (currently The Prince of Wales), and three Classes of members:
Knight Grand Cross (GCB) or Dame Grand Cross (GCB)
Knight Commander (KCB) or Dame Commander (DCB)
Companion (CB)Members belong to either the Civil or the Military Division. Prior to 1815, the order had only a single class, Knight Companion (KB), which no longer exists. Recipients of the Order are now usually senior military officers or senior civil servants. Commonwealth citizens who are not subjects of the Queen and foreign nationals may be made Honorary Members.The Order of the Bath is the fourth-most senior of the British Orders of Chivalry, after The Most Noble Order of the Garter, The Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle, and The Most Illustrious Order of St Patrick (dormant).