Question: When did the person that founded the company that acquired the Bettmann Archive receive an honour from the British crown ?

text: List of honorary British knights and dames
Business

This is an incomplete list of people who have been created honorary Knights or Dames by the British crown, as well as those who have been raised to the two comparable Orders of Chivalry (Order of Merit and Order of the Companions of Honour) and the Royal Victorian Chain, which do not carry pre-nominal styles. Use of pre-nominal styles and post-nominal initials. An honorary award is one made to a person who is not a citizen of a Commonwealth realm. He or she cannot use the pre-nominal style of 'Sir' or 'Dame', but can use the post-nominal letters (after their names), subject to the prevailing conventions in his or her own country. If such a person later acquires citizenship of a Commonwealth realm, then any honorary awards usually become substantive, and in the case of knights and dames they can begin to use the pre-nominal styles. However this is not automatic. The person must be dubbed by the Queen or Her Majesty's delegate in order to be entitled to use the pre-nominal style. If the knighthood is in an order which has a special class for honorary knighthoods, a change to a regular class of knighthoods is also required. Loss of citizenship of a British realm. Citizens of a country which was a full part of the British Empire or Commonwealth when they received the honour (i.e. who were British subjects at the time), were substantive knights or dames, not honorary. The knighthood does not become honorary, and the person may choose to use his or her title(s), after their country becomes a republic.
Name Nationality Honour Year Category notes
Angela Ahrendts United States DBE 2013 Business Chief executive of Burberry plc
Auguste-Louis-Albéric , Prince d'Arenberg France GCSI 1909 Business Member of the Institute of France , President of the Suez Canal Company
Ariyoshi Yoshiya Japan KBE tbd Business Chairman of the Japanese Shipowners Association
André Bénard France KBE 1991 Business Chairman , Eurotunnel , 1986-1994
Antonin Besse France KBE tbd Business
Ana Patricia Botín Spain DBE 2015 Business Chairman of Santander Bank
Henri Deterding Netherlands KBE 1920 Business
Sierd Sint Eriks Netherlands KBE 1961 Business Managing Director of Mullard Ltd for valuable services to British official interests
Niall FitzGerald Ireland KBE 2002 Business
Bill Gates United States KBE 2004 Business Chairman of Microsoft and Corbis and Co-Chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in recognition of his business skills and for his work on poverty reduction
Lou Gerstner United States KBE tbd Business
Paul Getty United States KBE 1987 Business Became a British national in 1997 and knighthood became substantive
Carlos Ghosn Brazil - France - Lebanon KBE 2006 Business
Cecil H. Green United States KBE 1991 Business He lost British nationality upon becoming a US citizen before 1949
Hermann Hauser Austria KBE 2015 Business
Yii Ann Hii Philippines KBE  Business Became a British national on 3 July 2012
Kazuo Inamori Japan KBE 2019 Business
Sam E. Jonah Ghana KBE 2003 Business
Kim Sang Man South Korea KBE 1981 Business Publisher
Gerrit Klijnstra Netherlands KBE 1973 Business