List of Freedom of the City recipients

The Freedom of the City is an honour bestowed by a city council upon a person (or persons) to whom the city wishes to pay tribute. In medieval times, the title of "freeman" would entitle the bearer to special privileges, such as the right to vote or own property, but few of these privileges are still relevant today; in contemporary society, the granting of the Freedom of the City is seen more as a symbolic gesture. In some countries, esteemed individuals are instead awarded the Key to the City, which usually takes the form of an ornamental key. Other places have their own, unique local variants, such as the white Stetson hats awarded by the Canadian city of Calgary.

Some recipients of the Freedom of the City (or the Key to the City) are local residents who are held in high regard by the community; others are visiting celebrities or dignitaries. This list only includes notable recipients.

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Albania

Tirana

• 1995: Norman Wisdom ^[1]

Argentina

Córdoba

• April 29, 2013: Sébastien Loeb, rally driver ^[2]

Australia

Australian Capital Territory

Canberra

• September 1981: Peter Allen, songwriter and entertainer ^[3]
• July 1983: Robert de Castella, marathon runner ^[3]
• September 1987: Canberra Raiders, rugby league team ^[3]
• August 1988: Canberra Cannons, basketball team ^[3]
• September 1989: Canberra Raiders, rugby league team ^[3]
• June 1997: ACT Brumbies, rugby union team ^[3]
• November 1999: Wallabies, Australia's national rugby union team ^[3]
• 2000: Canberra Capitals, women's basketball league team
• October 2000: Australia's Paralympic team ^[3]
• September 7, 2004: Petria Thomas, Olympic swimmer, and Katrina Powell, Olympic field hockey player ^[4]
• October 19, 2004: Mick Keelty, Commissioner of the Australian Federal Police ^[5]
• December 2005: Michael Rogers and Oenone Wood, cyclists ^[3]
• April 1, 2006: Scout Association of Australia, ACT Branch, in recognition of the branch's 25th anniversary ^[6]
• September 6, 2006: Jason Croker, rugby league footballer ^[7]
• October 5, 2007: Carrie Graf, basketball coach ^[8]
• February 23, 2012: Canberra United FC, women's football team ^[9]

New South Wales

Blacktown

• October 27, 2010: Fabrice Lapierre, long jumper ^[10]

Dubbo

• April 28, 2012: Andrew Scipione, Commissioner of the New South Wales Police Force ^[11]

Gosford

• May 7, 2012: Central Coast Mariners FC ^[12]
• September 8, 2012: Tom Slingsby, sailor ^[13]
• October 17, 2012: Liesl Tesch, wheelchair basketball player and sailor ^[14]

Parramatta

• June 20, 2010: Betty Cuthbert, athlete ^[15]
• February 17, 2011: Nathan Cayless, rugby league footballer ^[16]

Rockdale

• March 19, 2011: Altiyan Childs, singer-songwriter.^[17] Childs' key was revoked in 2012, after he was found guilty of driving under the influence of drugs.^[18]

Shellharbour

• 2006: Karen Murphy, bowls player ^[19]
• December 17, 2008: Brett Stibners, wheelchair basketball player ^[20]
• August 26, 2012: David Smith, sprint canoer ^[21]

Sydney

• May 24, 1967: John Cadwallader, on behalf of the Bank of New South Wales ^[22]
• August 24, 1971: Evonne Goolagong Cawley, tennis player ^[23]
• January 8, 1987: Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist ^[24]
• 1998: Jørn Utzon, architect of the Sydney Opera House ^[25]
• October 3, 2000: Australia's Olympic team ^[26]
• May 15, 2003: Sydney Kings, basketball team ^[27]
• December 10, 2003: Aung San Suu Kyi, political prisoner ^[28]
• December 17, 2003: Nicole Kidman, actress ^[29]
• September 15, 2004: Australia's Olympic team ^[30]
• September 30, 2005: Sydney Swans, Australian rules football team ^[31]
• September 15, 2008: Australia's Olympic team ^[32]
• September 30, 2008: Australia's Paralympic team ^[33]
• July 10, 2011: Lady Gaga, singer ^[34]
• August 21, 2012: Australia's Olympic team ^[35]
• November 9, 2012: Australia's Paralympic team ^[36]

Wollongong

• October 17, 1987: Wayne Gardner, Grand Prix motorcycle racer ^[37]
• April 2, 2006: Kerryn McCann, marathon runner ^[38]
• October 4, 2010: St. George Illawarra Dragons, rugby league football club ^[39]
• March 25, 2012: Mat Campbell, basketball player ^[40]

Queensland

Brisbane

• 1985: Brisbane Bullets, basketball team ^[41]
• 1992: Leroy Loggins, basketball player ^[41]
• 1992: Brisbane Broncos, rugby league team ^[42]
• 1998: Clem Jones, 8th Lord Mayor of Brisbane ^[43]
• 1998: Mick Doohan, Grand Prix motorcycle racer ^[42]
• 1999: Australian Wallabies, national rugby union team ^[42]
• 1999: Pat Rafter, tennis player ^[42]
• 1999: Vicki Wilson, netball player ^[42]
• 2000: Queensland Bulls, cricket team ^[42]
• 2001: Brisbane Lions, Australian rules football club ^[42]
• 2002: Steven Bradbury, speed skater ^[42]
• 2004: Queensland athletes from Australia's Olympic team ^[42]
• 2006: Queensland athletes competing in the 2006 Commonwealth Games ^[42]
• 2006: Queensland athletes from Australia's Winter Olympic team ^[42]
• 2008: Leigh Matthews, Australian rules footballer ^[42]
• September 19, 2008: Australia's Olympic team ^[44]
• September 29, 2008: Queensland athletes from Australia's Paralympic team ^[45]
• June 18, 2010: Jude Munro, former CEO of Brisbane City Council ^[46]
• March 15, 2011: Brisbane Roar FC ^[42]
• May 25, 2011: Queensland Firebirds, netball team ^[47]
• July 11, 2011: Queensland Reds, rugby union team ^[48]
• September 4, 2011: Darren Lockyer, rugby player ^[49]
• August 24, 2012: Australia's Olympic team ^[50]

Bundaberg

• December 10, 2010: Allan Davis, cyclist ^[51]

Gold Coast

• August 30, 2008: Five athletes who won medals in the 2008 Olympics – Lyndsie Fogarty, sprint canoer; Lara Davenport, swimmer; Duncan Free, rower; Emma Snowsill, triathlete; and Ken Wallace, sprint canoer ^[52]
• September 19, 2011: Sam Stosur, tennis player, and Sally Pearson, hurdler ^[53]

Ipswich

• June 18, 2011: Shane Watson, cricketer ^[54]

Logan City

• October 2008: Christopher Scott, Paralympic cyclist ^[55]
• October 17, 2012: Eleven athletes who competed in the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics – Jesse Ross, boxer; Mitch Larkin, swimmer; Samantha Reid, synchronized swimmer; Frankie Owen, synchronized swimmer; Damon Kelly, weightlifter; Genevieve LaCaze, steeplechaser; Alicia Coutts, swimmer; Bill Latham, basketball player; Lyndsie Fogarty, sprint canoer; Mitchell Watt, long jumper; and Torita Isaac, track-and-field athlete ^[56]

South Australia

Adelaide

• July 5, 1988: Pelé, footballer ^[57]
• November 1990: Cher, an American singer and actress, was awarded the Key to Adelaide after she performed at the 1990 Australian Grand Prix. In April 2012, the key was sold on eBay for US$95,900, causing city officials in Adelaide to express their disappointment. Cher was equally upset, explaining on Twitter that her office "fkd up".^[58]
• December 7, 1993: John Fitzgerald, tennis player ^[59]
• February 18, 2004: J. M. Coetzee, author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ^[60]
• October 25, 2004: Rupert Murdoch, media mogul ^[61]
• February 7, 2009: Adelaide United FC ^[62]
• June 30, 2010: Cheong Liew, chef ^[63]
• January 11, 2012: Lance Armstrong, cyclist, was granted the Key to the City in recognition of his efforts to promote the previous year's Tour Down Under. Adelaide's mayor, Stephen Yarwood, visited Armstrong's hometown of Austin, Texas to personally present him with the Key, but Armstrong was in Mexico at the time, so the Key was sent to him by courier instead.^[64] On October 30, 2012, Adelaide City Council announced that Armstrong would be stripped of this honour (although the key would not be physically retrieved), after he was found guilty by the United States Anti-Doping Agency of using performance-enhancing drugs throughout his career.^[65]

Mount Gambier

• May 16, 2006: Josip Skoko, soccer player ^[66]

Port Lincoln

• 1982: Dean Lukin, weightlifter ^[67]
• November 12, 2003: Tony Šantić, thoroughbred racer, and his second wife, Christine ^[68][69]

Tasmania

Launceston

• November 16, 2012: Daniel Geale, boxer ^[70]

Victoria

Ballarat

• May 2, 2001: Steve Moneghetti, long-distance runner ^[71]

Colac

• May 7, 1983: Cliff Young, winner of the first Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon ^[72]

Geelong

• October 3, 2007: Geelong Football Club ^[73]
• November 30, 2011: Cadel Evans, cyclist and Tour de France winner ^[74]

Hawthorn

• September 30, 2008: Hawthorn Football Club ^[75]

Horsham

• September 21, 2012: Jannik Blair, wheelchair basketball player ^[76]

Melbourne

Freedom of the City recipients:

• December 3, 1956: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ^[77]
• November 8, 1958: William Slim, 13th Governor-General of Australia ^[78]
• March 28, 1963: Dallas Brooks, 19th Governor of Victoria ^[79]
• 1966: Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia ^[80]
• July 28, 1969: Richard Casey, 16th Governor-General of Australia ^[81]

Key to the City recipients:

• July 18, 1987: Pat Cash, tennis player ^[82]
• April 29, 2003: Elisabeth Murdoch, philanthropist ^[83]
• August 23, 2006: Dame Edna Everage, a character created by Barry Humphries ^[84]
• September 1, 2006: The Seekers, pop group ^[85]
• April 9, 2010: Lou Richards, Australian rules footballer ^[86]

Mildura

• January 26, 2008: Leigh Adams, motorcycle speedway rider ^[87]

Canada

Keys to the City are awarded in Brampton, Burnaby, Mississauga, Toronto, Winnipeg, Windsor, and Vancouver. Winnipeg also offers honorary citizenship, while Calgary's ceremony is the White Hat Ceremony.

China

Haikou

• September 5, 2010: Graeme Sawyer, Lord Mayor of Darwin, Australia (Haikou's sister city) ^[88][89]

Colombia

Bogotá

• March 30, 1994: Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana ^[90]
• March 8, 2000: Abderrahmane Youssoufi, Prime Minister of Morocco ^[91]
• April 24, 2000: David de Ferranti, World Bank vicepresident ^[92]
• July 12, 2000: Nicolás Léoz, President of CONMEBOL ^[93]
• April 5, 2001: Vicente Fox, President of Mexico ^[94]
• May 3, 2001: Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela ^[95]
• November 11, 2003: Ricardo Maduro, President of Honduras ^[96]
• December 2, 2003: Jorge Batlle Ibáñez, President of Uruguay ^[97]
• March 29, 2004: Chavela Vargas, Mexican singer ^[98]
• April 14, 2004: Alejandro Toledo, President of Peru ^[99]
• July 21, 2004: Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain ^[100]
• October 11, 2004: Didier Borotra, Member of the Senate of France ^[101]
• November 16, 2004: Óscar Berger, President of Guatemala ^[102]
• March 30, 2005: José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain ^[103]
• September 1, 2005: Ricardo Lagos, President of Chile ^[104]
• November 4, 2005: Leonel Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic ^[105]
• December 13, 2005: Lula da Silva, President of Brazil ^[106]
• March 12, 2007: Horst Köhler, President of Germany ^[107]
• March 17, 2008: Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany ^[108]
• May 27, 2009: Felipe de Borbón, Prince of Asturias ^[109]
• August 13, 2009: Felipe Calderón, President of Mexico ^[110]
• August 15, 2009: Hilary Duff, American actress and singer ^[111]
• March 23, 2010: Oscar Arias, President of Costa Rica ^[112]
• July 9, 2010: Princess Haya of Jordan ^[113]
• October 10, 2011: Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian National Authority ^[114]
• November 24, 2011: Susana Villarán, Mayor of Lima ^[115]
• March 14, 2012: Evo Morales, President of Bolivia ^[116]

Costa Rica

San José

• June 3, 2013: Xi Jinping, President of China ^[117]

Jamaica

Kingston

• January 17, 1953: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[118][119]
• 1963: Carole Crawford, winner of the 1963 Miss World contest ^[120]
• June 21, 1965: Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights activist ^[121]
• 1987: Louise Bennett-Coverley, poet ^[122]
• August 5, 2002: Olusegun Obasanjo, President of Nigeria, and Bharrat Jagdeo, President of Guyana ^[123]
• June 30, 2003: Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa ^[124]
• November 27, 2004: Herb McKenley, Olympic athlete ^[125]
• October 16, 2006: Gladys Bustamante, women's rights activist and wife of former Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante ^[126]
• August 10, 2008: The Jamaican branch of the Salvation Army ^[127]
• October 3, 2008: Eight gold-medalists from the Jamaican team at the 2008 Summer Olympics: Usain Bolt, Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Melaine Walker, Veronica Campbell-Brown, Dwight Thomas, Michael Frater, Nesta Carter, and Asafa Powell ^[128][129]
• August 17, 2012: Marcus Garvey, journalist and orator (posthumously) ^[130]

Japan

Tokyo

• October 1953: Leo Durocher, manager of the New York Giants baseball team ^[131]
• May 31, 1955: Helen Keller, deafblind author and political activist ^[132]
• May 30, 1963: John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth ^[133]
• August 15, 1966: Edwin O. Reischauer, United States Ambassador to Japan ^[134]

Mauritius

Port Louis

• June 1, 2013: Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA ^[135]

Morocco

Rabat

• July 18, 2013: Juan Carlos I, King of Spain ^[136]

Portugal

Lisbon

↑ - "Approved by unanimous votes"

• November 15, 2001: Fernando de la Rúa, 48th President of Argentina ↑ ^[137]
• May 28, 2008: Harald V, King of Norway ↑ ^[138]
• December 2, 2009: Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile ↑
• May 11, 2010: Pope Benedict XVI ↑ ^[139]
• June 20, 2013: Martin Schulz, President of the European Parliament ↑ ^[140]
• September 20, 2013: Taur Matan Ruak, President of East Timor ↑ ^[141]

Ireland

Cork

1710 – 1841^[142]

• July 24, 1723: William O'Brien, 4th Earl of Inchiquin
• June 24, 1728: Thomas Pitt, 1st Earl of Londonderry
• June 8, 1732: Edward Southwell, Principal Secretary of State for Ireland
• July 27, 1732: John Boyle, 5th Earl of Cork and Orrery
• January 20, 1736: Jonathan Swift, satirist, author, poet and cleric
• May 17, 1736: Robert Clayton, Bishop of Cork and Ross
• March 16, 1740: John Bowes, Attorney-General for Ireland
• August 18, 1743: Richard Mounteney, baron of the exchequer
• January 1, 1745: Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
• July 14, 1752: James FitzGerald, 20th Earl of Kildare
• July 27, 1752: Peter Warren, Royal Navy officer
• May 29, 1755: Henry Seymour Conway, Chief Secretary for Ireland
• December 24, 1756: William Blakeney, soldier and 1st Baron Blakeney
• April 28, 1757: Alexander Colville, captain of HMS Northumberland
• April 28, 1757: William Holburne, captain of HMS Newark
• April 11, 1759: John Hely-Hutchinson, statesman
• December 17, 1759: William Pitt, Secretary of State for the Southern Department
• May 22, 1761: Charles Lucas, MP for Dublin City
• August 26, 1761: Francis Andrews, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin
• March 10, 1762: Richard Aston, Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas
• April 27, 1762: Godfrey Lill, MP for Fore
• May 23, 1764: William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne
• December 19, 1765: Richard Longfield, MP for Charleville
• December 19, 1765: Richard Townsend, MP for Cork County
• May 18, 1767: Studholme Hodgson, army general
• October 9, 1767: Eyre Massey, lieutenant-colonel
• March 7, 1769: Francis Mathew, MP for Tipperary
• March 7, 1769: Arthur Pomeroy, MP for Kildare County
• March 7, 1769: Barry Yelverton, barrister
• August 16, 1769: Sir Lucius O'Brien, MP for Clare
• September 29, 1769: George Macartney, Chief Secretary for Ireland
• October 23, 1770: John Beresford, MP for County Waterford
• October 23, 1770: George Beresford, 2nd Earl of Tyrone
• July 26, 1771: James Hewitt, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• September 20, 1771: Henry Temple, 2nd Viscount Palmerston
• January 6, 1773: John Blaquiere, Chief Secretary for Ireland
• September 5, 1775: Charles Jenkinson, 1st Earl of Liverpool
• April 1, 1778: George Ogle, MP for Wexford County
• May 5, 1778: Flower Mocher, Commander-in-Chief in Munster
• January 18, 1780: Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough
• June 5, 1782: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
• November 15, 1782: John Jervis, captain of HMS Foudroyant
• December 18, 1782: George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Earl and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• April 1, 1783: Walter Hussey Burgh, statesman and judge
• September 25, 1783: Robert Henley, 2nd Earl of Northington
• September 25, 1783: Hugh Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland
• September 25, 1783: Thomas Pelham, Chief Secretary for Ireland
• December 30, 1784: Charles Manners, 4th Duke of Rutland
• December 30, 1784: Alexander Schomberg, captain of HMS Dorset
• August 28, 1787: John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk
• July 29, 1788: John Townsend, MP for Dingle
• July 7, 1789: William Foster, Bishop of Cork and Ross
• January 23, 1790: Robert Hobart, Chief Secretary for Ireland
• February 19, 1790: John Toler, Solicitor-General for Ireland
• February 19, 1790: Arthur Wolfe, Attorney-General for Ireland
• July 6, 1790: William Bennet, Bishop of Cork and Ross
• February 8, 1791: John Philpot Curran, MP for Rathcormack
• June 18, 1793: John Hely-Hutchinson, 2nd Earl of Donoughmore
• September 1, 1793: William Downes, 1st Baron Downes
• November 24, 1794: Arthur Hill, 2nd Marquess of Downshire
• July 8, 1796: Amelius Beauclerk, captain of HMS Dryad
• July 8, 1796: Thomas Byam Martin, captain of HMS Santa Margarita
• July 8, 1796: Thomas Williams, captain of HMS Unicorn
• July 16, 1796: Charles Jones, captain of HMS Doris
• December 30, 1796: Francis Moylan, Bishop of Cork
• January 22, 1798: Ralph Abercromby, soldier, politician and Commander-in-Chief of Ireland
• September 27, 1798: Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland
• October 16, 1798: Charles Vereker, MP for Limerick City
• October 17, 1798: Gerard Lake, Commander-in-Chief of India
• September 5, 1800: Charles Lennox, army general
• December 10, 1816: Henry Sheehy Keating, British Army officer
• June 10, 1838: Richard Roberts, captain of SS Sirius, the first steamship to cross from Europe to America

1887 – present^[143]

• July 15, 1887: Patrick Collins, lawyer and member of the United States Congress
• January 10, 1902: John Redmond, leader of the Irish Parliamentary Party
• August 29, 1902: Patrick Francis Moran, Archbishop of Sydney ^[144]
• September 5, 1902: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist
• November 24, 1904: Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa, Irish nationalist
• June 22, 1906: Douglas Hyde, journalist and Irish language scholar
• June 12, 1908: Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
• May 21, 1909: Matthew Cummings, President of the Ancient Order of Hibernians
• October 20, 1911: Redmond John Barry, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• May 10, 1912: Peadar Ua Laoghaire, writer and Catholic priest
• April 25, 1913: Ignatius O'Brien, Lord Chancellor of Ireland
• January 10, 1919: Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
• August 6, 1920: Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne
• August 27, 1920: Robert Spence, Archbishop of Adelaide
• July 16, 1930: Paschal Robinson, papal nuncio to Ireland
• September 8, 1948: Seán T. O'Kelly, second President of Ireland
• June 16, 1953: John D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
• August 26, 1958: Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston
• August 13, 1962: Michael Browne, Cardinal and Master of the Order of Preachers
• June 28, 1963: John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
• June 16, 1965: William Conway, Cardinal and Primate of All Ireland
• March 31, 1973: Éamon de Valera, 3rd President of Ireland
• December 4, 1973: Timothy Manning, Cardinal and Archbishop of Los Angeles
• April 28, 1978: Aloys Fleischmann, composer, conductor and professor
• March 16, 1985: Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ^[145]
• February 23, 1991: Mary Robinson, 7th President of Ireland
• May 8, 2004: John Hume, founding member of the Social Democratic and Labour Party and recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• June 14, 2005: Sonia O'Sullivan, Olympic medal-winning athlete, and Roy Keane, footballer and manager ^[146]
• May 30, 2006: Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland ^[147]
• June 2, 2007: Michael Flatley, dancer ^[148]
• June 20, 2008: Albert Reynolds, former Taoiseach, and John Major, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[149]
• June 11, 2010: Peter Barry, politician and businessman ^[150]
• May 27, 2011: Seán Óg Ó hAilpín, hurler and Gaelic footballer ^[151]
• April 24, 2014: Michael D. Higgins, President of Ireland.^[152]

Dublin

Galway

Notable recipients of the Freedom of Galway include:^[153]

• August 31, 1939: Douglas Hyde, 1st President of Ireland
• October 3, 1946: Éamon de Valera, political figure
• December 13, 1950: Seán T. O'Kelly, 2nd President of Ireland
• February 1, 1954: Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain
• October 26, 1957: John D'Alton, Cardinal and Primate of All Ireland
• June 23, 1961: Paolo Marella, Cardinal
• July 30, 1962: Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Mayor of New York City
• June 29, 1963: John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
• August 15, 1965: Richard Cushing, Cardinal ^[153]
• August 15, 1965: William Conway, Cardinal and Primate of All Ireland
• August 20, 1973: Michael Browne, Bishop of Galway
• September 30, 1979: John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church
• June 16, 1983: Paulo Evaristo Arns, Cardinal
• June 2, 1984: Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States ^[154]
• December 19, 1995: Colm Ó hEocha, scientist and president of University College Galway
• May 12, 1999: Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States (1993-2001) ^[155]
• June 18, 1999: John Hume, second leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party
• May 20, 2000: Christy O'Connor Jnr, golfer
• June 28, 2003: Richard M. Daley, longest-serving Mayor of Chicago
• June 16, 2005: Aung Sang Suu Kyi, political prisoner
• June 15, 2006: Garry Hynes, theatre director ^[156]
• May 11, 2012: Michael D. Higgins, 9th President of Ireland ^[157]

Kilkenny

• 1906: Douglas Hyde, Irish language scholar ^[158]
• November 3, 1910: Ellen Cuffe, Countess of Desart ^[159]
• March 12, 1917: George Noble Plunkett, MP and Irish nationalist ^[160]
• August 1947: John Charles McQuaid, Archbishop of Dublin ^[161]
• November 22, 2008: Brian Cody, hurling manager, and Seamus Pattison, former Ceann Comhairle ^[162]
• May 19, 2009: Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland ^[163]

Limerick

Several recipients of the Freedom of Limerick in the years 1900 to 1902 were Boers – Britain's enemy during the Second Boer War. Limerick's city council, at the time composed mostly of Irish nationalists, sympathised with the Boers, and in an expression of solidarity, granted the Freedom to three Boer generals (Louis Botha, Christiaan de Wet, and Koos de la Rey), the presidents of two Boer-ruled countries (Paul Kruger and Martinus Theunis Steyn), and Captain William O'Donnell, an Irish-born soldier fighting on the side of the Boers. None of these six men visited Limerick to have the Freedom officially conferred upon them, and their names are therefore absent from the roll of freemen.^[164][165]

Other notable recipients of the Freedom of Limerick include:^[166][167]

• January 1, 1877: Isaac Butt and Richard O'Shaughnessy, MPs for Limerick City
• July 14, 1880: Charles Stuart Parnell, MP
• 1881: John Dillon, MP ^[168][169]
• April 14, 1884: Michael Davitt, social campaigner, Edmund Dwyer Grey, MP for Carlow County, and Charles Dawson, MP for Carlow Borough^[170]
• October 4, 1886: William Gladstone, MP for Midlothian
• June 13, 1887: William O'Brien, MP for North East Cork
• January 2, 1888: Timothy Daniel Sullivan, author of the national hymn "God Save Ireland" ^[168][169]
• February 3, 1888: George Robinson, 1st Marquess of Ripon
• February 3, 1888: John Morley, MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne
• June 8, 1894: Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, wife of the Governor General of Canada
• June 14, 1894: Michael Logue, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
• March 2, 1899: Tom Clarke, revolutionary leader
• June 16, 1900: Thomas Myles, President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• December 13, 1900: Maud Gonne, Irish nationalist and revolutionary
• 1900: Paul Kruger, President of the South African Republic
• September 4, 1902: Louis Botha, Christiaan de Wet, and Koos de la Rey, Boer generals, and Martinus Theunis Steyn, President of the Orange Free State
• October 20, 1903: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist ^[171]
• October 2, 1908: Joseph O'Mara, opera singer ^[172]
• December 7, 1908: Windham Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven. His name was struck from the roll on May 2, 1918, after he spoke out in support of conscription during the First World War; the City Council voted to posthumously restore the honour in July 2007.^[173]
• June 5, 1909: Douglas Hyde, founder and president of the Gaelic League
• August 3, 1916: Edward Thomas O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick
• September 5, 1918: Kathleen Clarke, founding member of Cumann na mBan, Eoin MacNeill, co-founder of the Gaelic League, and Éamon de Valera, leader of Sinn Féin. De Valera and Clarke did not visit Limerick to receive the Freedom in person until December 5, 1921.^[174]
• August 5, 1925: Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne
• July 21, 1928: Willem Marinus van Rossum, cardinal
• July 21, 1928: Paschal Robinson, papal nuncio to Ireland
• April 21, 1932: Richard Downey, Archbishop of Liverpool
• February 27, 1936: Dermod O'Brien, honorary president of the Royal Hibernian Academy
• March 22, 1948: Seán Keating, artist ^[175]
• March 24, 1948: Seán T. O'Kelly, 2nd President of Ireland
• September 21, 1953: John D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland
• June 25, 1954: Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Archbishop of Savannah, Georgia, and papal nuncio to Ireland
• August 15, 1962: Michael Browne, cardinal
• June 29, 1963: John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States ^[167]
• November 25, 1964: Kenneth Kaunda, 1st President of Zambia ^[176]
• April 12, 1966: William Conway, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland ^[177]
• April 2, 1970: Joseph Brendan Whelan, Bishop of Owerri ^[178]
• August 18, 1970: Robert Wyse Jackson, Bishop of Limerick ^[179]
• October 1, 1979: John Paul II, Pope of the Catholic Church, Tomás Ó Fiaich, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, Gaetano Alibrandi, papal nuncio to Ireland, and Jeremiah Newman, Bishop of Limerick ^[180]
• June 30, 1995: Edward M. Walsh, founder of the University of Limerick, Ted Russell, Mayor of Limerick, and Brendan O'Regan, pioneer of the duty-free shop concept ^[181][182]
• May 11, 2001: J. P. McManus, racehorse owner, and Bill Whelan, composer and musician ^[183][184]
• June 15, 2007: Terry Wogan, broadcaster ^[185]
• April 22, 2012: Paul O'Connell, rugby union player ^[186]

Waterford

• February 6, 1877: Isaac Butt, Irish nationalist ^[187]
• December 6, 1880: Charles Stewart Parnell, president of the Irish National Land League ^[187]
• November 1, 1881: John Dillon, Irish nationalist ^[187]
• June 18, 1886: William Ewart Gladstone, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[187]
• September 10, 1888: William O'Brien and Timothy Daniel Sullivan, Irish nationalists ^[187]
• July 8, 1889: Thomas Croke, Archbishop of Cashel ^[187]
• September 12, 1902: John Redmond, MP for Waterford City ^[188]
• October 19, 1903: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist ^[189]
• 2002: Anna Manahan, actress ^[190]

South Africa

Cape Town

• June 7, 2013: Barack Obama, U.S. President, and his wife, Michelle. The freedom scroll was accepted on their behalf by Acting U.S. Ambassador, Virginia Palmer.^[191][192]

United Kingdom

England

Bath

• March 20, 1797: Horatio Nelson, naval officer ^[193]
• July 13, 1911: Donald Smith, Canadian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom ^[194]
• 1921: Khengarji III, the Maharao of Cutch ^[195]
• July 13, 1950: Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[196]
• October 18, 1954: Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia ^[197]
• November 2004: Jason Gardener, Olympic athlete ^[198]
• June 5, 2010: Amy Williams, Olympic skeleton racer, was granted the freedom of her hometown after winning a gold medal at the 2010 Winter Olympics, becoming the first female to receive the honour in Bath.^[199]

Blackpool

• October 14, 1922: David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister ^[200]
• October 4, 1946: Winston Churchill, Leader of the Conservative Party ^[201]
• August 16, 1948: Bernard Montgomery, British Army officer ^[202]

Bracknell

• September 2013: John Nike OBE DL

Bradford

• 1973: J. B. Priestley, novelist ^[203]
• 1977: Black Dyke Mills Band, one of the world's oldest brass bands ^[204]
• June 21, 2000: David Hockney, artist ^[205]
• September 6, 2006: Brian Noble, rugby league football coach ^[206]
• November 4, 2010: Ken Morrison, former chairman of Morrisons ^[207]
• August 17, 2011: Bands of the West Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service and Bridgewater (Nova Scotia, Canada) Fire Department

Bristol

• July 9, 2013: Peter Higgs, theoretical physicist known for predicting the existence of the Higgs boson ^[208]

Bury St Edmunds

• 1996: Ian McShane, lead actor in the television series Lovejoy, filmed in and around Bury

Canterbury

• 1899: John Henniker Heaton, MP and postal reformer ^[209]
• 1921: Henry Wace, Dean of Canterbury ^[210]
• 1992: Terry Waite, hostage negotiator and former hostage ^[211]
• May 7, 2008: Robert Willis, Dean of Canterbury ^[212]
• July 6, 2011: Peter Firmin, co-founder of Smallfilms ^[213]
• July 31, 2012: Dave Lee, comedian, received the honour posthumously, having died days before the ceremony was due to take place.^[214][215]
• November 17, 2012: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury (2003-2012) ^[216]

Derby

• May 4, 2003: Brian Clough, former Derby County football manager ^[217]

Durham

• December 8, 2008: Bobby Robson, football manager, in honour of his services to football and charitable work ^[218]

Exeter

• January 16, 1900: Henry Northcote, 1st Baron Northcote, MP for Exeter 1880-99, later Governor of Bombay and Governor-General of Australia^[219]

Gateshead

• November 24, 2000: Jonathan Edwards, triple jumper ^[220]
• October 20, 2004: Brendan Foster, distance runner and founder of the Great North Run ^[221]
• October 12, 2006: Mike Neville, newsreader ^[220]
• October 12, 2006: Joyce Quin, Baroness ^[220]
• October 12, 2006: Thomas Burlison, Baron and former footballer ^[220]
• January 22, 2009: Bobby Moncur, footballer ^[222]
• February 10, 2011: David Almond, author ^[220]
• February 10, 2011: David Clelland, MP for Tyne Bridge ^[220]
• February 10, 2011: John Hall, owner of Newcastle United F.C., and his wife ^[223]
• November 8, 2011: Paul Younger, hydrogeologist and environmental engineer ^[224]
• July 24, 2012: Antony Gormley, creator of the Angel of the North sculpture ^[225]
• July 24, 2012: Alan J. Smith, founding chairman of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art ^[226]

Frome

• May 4, 2010: Jenson Button, Formula One driver, following his victory in the 2009 World Drivers' Championship ^[227]

Ipswich

• May 5, 2008: Bobby Robson, football manager ^[228]

Kingston upon Hull

• 1935: Joseph Rank, businessman ^[229][230]
• 1987: Helen Suzman, anti-apartheid activist and politician ^[231]
• June 1999: Desmond Tutu, social rights activist and Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town ^[232]

Leeds

• January 23, 1920: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig ^[233]
• October 18, 1922: David Beatty, admiral ^[234]
• October 21, 1922: Lloyd George, British Prime Minister ^[235]
• March 5, 1923: E. F. L. Wood, MP for Ripon ^[233]
• March 13, 1925: Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister, and H. H. Asquith, former Prime Minister ^[236]
• October 6, 1926: Berkeley Moynihan, surgeon, William Middlebrook, politician, and Edward Brotherton, industrialist and politician ^[233]
• September 11, 1930: Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Arthur Greenwood, Minister of Health ^[233][237]
• July 7, 1932: Mary, Princess Royal ^[238]
• July 7, 1943: H. V. Evatt, Australian Minister for External Affairs ^[239]
• October 28, 1958: Winston Churchill, former British Prime Minister ^[240]
• April 30, 2001: Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa ^[241]
• April 2004: Fanny Waterman, piano teacher ^[242]
• May 20, 2005: Jane Tomlinson, athlete and cancer sufferer ^[243]
• March 12, 2006: Alan Bennett, playwright ^[244]
• January 26, 2011: Jimi Heselden, entrepreneur and philanthropist, posthumously ^[245]

Liverpool

The Freedom of Liverpool was first conferred upon the military officer Andrew Clarke on July 7, 1886. Other recipients include four-time Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone in 1892, the Beatles in 1984, and Nelson Mandela in 1994.^[246] The Freedom of the City has also been awarded to groups of people on occasion, such as the families of the 96 Hillsborough victims,^[247] and the city of New York.^[248]

London

Anyone may apply for the Freedom of London. However, the Honorary Freedom is a much higher honor, and cannot be applied for; individuals must be invited to receive the award by the Court of Common Council. Notable recipients include William Pitt the Younger, David Livingstone, Florence Nightingale, Princess Diana, and more recently, Judi Dench, Annie Lennox, and Stephen Fry.^[249]

Manchester

• October 6, 1899: Enriqueta Augustina Rylands, founder of John Rylands Library
• June 15, 1906: William Crossley, businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament, in honour of the Stamford Park County School
• May 9, 1907: Prime Ministers Alfred Deakin (Australia), Wilfrid Laurier (Canada), and Leander Starr Jameson (Cape Colony) ^[250]
• September 12, 1918: David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister ^[251]
• December 30, 1918: Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States ^[252]
• November 5, 1926: The leaders of eight British Dominions received the Freedom of Manchester on the occasion of the 1926 Imperial Conference, along with the Maharaja of Burdwan.^[253][254] The eight heads of government in question were:
  • Stanley Baldwin (United Kingdom)
  • Stanley Bruce (Australia)
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King (Canada)
  • W. T. Cosgrave (Irish Free State)
  • Walter Stanley Monroe (Newfoundland)
  • Gordon Coates (New Zealand)
  • J. B. M. Hertzog (South Africa), in absentia
• April 8, 1930: C. P. Scott, editor of The Manchester Guardian ^[255]
• November 23, 1967: Matt Busby, football manager (Manchester United) ^[256]
• October 31, 1977: Bernard Lovell, astronomer
• 1984: Kathleen Ollerenshaw, mathematician and politician ^[257]
• February 28, 2000: Alex Ferguson, football manager (Manchester United) ^[258]
• October 10, 2007: Tony Wilson, music mogul ^[259]
• March 2, 2009: Bobby Charlton, footballer (Manchester United), for promoting the city of Manchester ^[260]
• November 2, 2009: Team GB's cycling squad at the 2008 Summer Olympics, in recognition of their seven gold medals
• October 9, 2013: Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, Nobel Prize-winning physicists known for their pioneering work on graphene ^[261]

Middlesbrough

• March 18, 2004: Steve Gibson, chairman of Middlesbrough F.C., following his team's Carling Cup victory.^[262]

Newcastle upon Tyne

Notable recipients of the Freedom of Newcastle include:^[263]

• July 18, 1901: William Watson-Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, philanthropist who donated money for the building of the new Royal Victoria Infirmary^[264]
• May 6, 1977: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States ^[265]
• January 2, 1980: Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster
• January 2, 1980: Jackie Milburn, footballer
• June 2, 1982: David Scott Cowper, first man to sail solo around the world in both directions
• April 2, 1986: Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, was granted the Freedom of Newcastle "in recognition of his services to the cause of freedom". As Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa at the time, the Freedom Scroll was accepted on his behalf by Ralph Mzamo, a representative of the African National Congress. Mandela received the Freedom in person on October 9, 1993.^[266]
• April 2, 1986: Andrei Sakharov, Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
• April 30, 1986: Bob Geldof, singer and political activist
• July 1, 1992: Peter Taylor, Lord Chief Justice of England
• May 26, 1993: Newcastle United F.C.
• April 5, 1995: Jeremy Beecham, former leader of Newcastle City Council
• October 1, 1997: Royal Shakespeare Company
• December 6, 2000: Nick Brown, politician
• December 6, 2000: Edward Short, politician
• December 6, 2000: Sage Group, enterprise software company
• December 6, 2000: Jonathan Edwards, triple jumper
• March 9, 2001: Alan Shearer, footballer ^[267]
• February 27, 2004: Jonny Wilkinson, rugby union player ^[268]
• March 2, 2005: Bobby Robson, former manager of Newcastle United F.C. ^[269]
• May 8, 2006: Harry Woolf, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales ^[270]
• July 10, 2007: Ringtons, tea manufacturer ^[271]
• October 3, 2007: Northern Rock, bank ^[272]
• November 14, 2007: Harald V, King of Norway ^[273]
• February 10, 2010: Greggs, bakery chain ^[274]

Norwich

• June 23, 1830: Samuel Bignold, businessman and politician ^[275]
• November 29, 2005: Colin Self, artist ^[276][277]
• July 25, 2006: Ove Fundin, speedway rider ^[278][279]
• December 2007: Patricia Hollis, Labour peer ^[280]
• December 18, 2009: Norfolk Constabulary ^[281]

Other recipients of the Freedom of Norwich include playwright Arthur Miller, philanthropist Robert Sainsbury (and his wife, Lisa), Anglia TV, Norwich City F.C., and Norwich Union.^[282]

Nottingham

Notable recipients of the Freedom of Nottingham include:^[283]

• November 6, 1905: William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army
• June 29, 1914: William Cavendish-Bentinck, 6th Duke of Portland
• February 19, 1917: Albert Ball, fighter pilot
• October 25, 1920: Jesse Boot, founder of the pharmacy chain Boots
• July 12, 1934: John Dane Player and William Goodacre Player, owners of tobacco manufacturer John Player & Sons
• May 3, 1965: Cecil Roberts, former editor of the Nottingham Journal
• March 17, 1976: Edward Ellis, Bishop Emeritus of Nottingham
• March 17, 1976: Doug Scott, first person to climb the south-west face of Mount Everest
• April 28, 1983: Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, ice dancers
• March 23, 1993: Brian Clough, former manager of Nottingham Forest F.C.
• February 5, 1997: Paul Smith, fashion designer
• June 6, 2008: Alan Sillitoe, author
• September 26, 2008: Colin Campbell, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham
• October 17, 2014: Carl Froch, World Boxing Champion ^[284]

Oxford

• 1802: Horatio Nelson, Royal Naval Officer
• 1900: Arthur Annesley, 11th Viscount Valentia, British Politician
• 1919: Sir Reginald Tyrwhitt, Royal Naval Officer
• 1919: David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty, Royal Naval Officer
• 1919: Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British Army Officer
• 1931: Sir Michael Sadler, British Historian
• 1951: William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, Founder of Morris Motors.
• 1953: Sir Robert Menzies, Former Prime Minister of Australia
• 1955: Alic Halford Smith, Vice Chancellor of Oxford University.
• 1955: Vivian Smith, 1st Baron Bicester, British Merchant banker.
• 1956: Clement Attlee, British Prime Minister
• 1970: Sir Basil Blackwell, Oxford Bookseller
• 1982: Olive Gibbs, Lord Mayor of Oxford
• 1997: Nelson Mandela, leader of the struggle to replace the apartheid regime and former president of South Africa.
• 1997: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese Pro Democracy Campaigner. (She Collected the award in 2012.)
• 2001: Colin Dexter, British Author
• 2002: Sir Richard Doll, British Scientist
• 2004: Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in less than four minutes.
• 2007: Philip Pullman, British Author
• 2014: Christopher Brown, British Art Historian

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Preston

• 1979: Tom Finney, footballer ^[285]
• 1997: Nick Park, creator of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit films ^[285]
• January 20, 2006: Andrew Flintoff, cricketer, for his contribution in the 2005 Ashes series ^[285]

Portsmouth

Notable recipients of the Freedom of Portsmouth include:^[286]

• 1898: Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts
• 1901: Frederick Fitzwygram, MP and Baronet
• 1921: Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• 1924: David Lloyd George, former Prime Minister
• 1926: Edward VIII, Prince of Wales
• 1927: J. E. B. Seely, 1st Baron Mottistone
• 1927: William Joynson-Hicks, Home Secretary
• July 26, 1946: Bernard Montgomery, Field Marshal ^[287]
• December 12, 1950: Winston Churchill, Leader of the Conservative Party ^[288]
• July 4, 1968: Alec Rose, amateur sailor who circumnavigated the globe ^[289]
• 1976: Louis Mountbatten, former Governor General of India
• 1979: Charles, Prince of Wales
• 1991: James Callaghan, former Prime Minister
• 1992: Diana, Princess of Wales
• 1995: Frank Judd, MP
• 2003: Milan Mandarić, business tycoon and former owner of Portsmouth F.C.
• October 28, 2008: Harry Redknapp, former Portsmouth F.C. manager, was awarded the Freedom of the City for his achievements in leading Portsmouth to the FA Cup in 2007-8. He was booed by Portsmouth fans at his award ceremony, having left the club for Tottenham Hotspur two days earlier.^[290]

Reading

• 2006: Sir John Madejski OBE DL

Salford

• January 18, 1899: Benjamin Armitage, industrialist, and Benn Levy, playwright ^[291]
• October 14, 1922: David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister ^[200]
• July 1933: Frederick Smith, industrialist and philanthropist ^[292]
• January 1960: Edward Hardy, former leader of Salford City Council ^[292]
• June 8, 1965: L. S. Lowry, artist ^[293]
• November 2004: Peter Maxwell Davies, composer and conductor ^[292]
• November 30, 2005: Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa ^[294]
• January 7, 2010: Ryan Giggs, Manchester United footballer, for his "exceptional contribution" to the city ^[295]

Sheffield

• December 18, 1929: Ramsay MacDonald, British Prime Minister ^[296]
• November 6, 1930: R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada ^[297]
• March 5, 1951: Winston S. Churchill, Former British Prime Minister ^[298]
• February 7, 1979: James Callaghan, British Prime Minister ^[299]
• October 8, 1992: Steven Bellamy, Sheffield Sportsman of the decade.
• February 6, 2006: Sebastian Coe, former athlete who headed London's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics ^[300]
• February 8, 2006: Michael Vaughan, cricket captain, for his contribution in the 2005 Ashes series ^[300][301]
• March 8, 2006: Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner, in recognition of her non-violent work against the military dictatorship in Burma ^[302]
• October 29, 2009: The Lindsay String Quartet ^[303]
• March 26, 2013: Jessica Ennis, heptathlete, after winning a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics ^[304]

Southampton

• January 3, 1901: Frederick Roberts, Field Marshal ^[305]
• July 12, 1902: Herbert Kitchener, army general ^[306]
• November 9, 1923: David Lloyd George, former British Prime Minister ^[307]
• April 2, 2001: Ted Bates, former player and manager of Southampton F.C. ^[308]
• September 19, 2007: Lawrie McMenemy, former manager of Southampton F.C. ^[309]

Sunderland

• August 14, 1907: John Lambton, 3rd Earl of Durham ^[310]
• October 13, 1909: Andrew Carnegie, industrialist ^[310]
• June 29, 1911: Frank Wilson, Premier of Western Australia ^[310]
• August 10, 1921: Samuel Storey, politician ^[310]
• August 10, 1921: Robert Appleby Bartram, shipbuilder ^[310]
• November 9, 1932: John Priestman, shipbuilder ^[310]
• March 20, 1959: Jack Lawson, politician ^[310]
• January 21, 1974: Bob Stokoe, manager of Sunderland AFC ^[310]
• January 21, 1974: Sunderland Association Football Club ^[310]
• February 4, 1982: Frederick Willey, politician ^[310]
• February 4, 1982: Thomas Urwin, politician ^[310]
• October 14, 1989: Kate Adie, broadcaster ^[310]
• June 6, 2006: Tom Cowie, transport entrepreneur ^[310]
• June 6, 2006: Denise Robertson, broadcaster ^[310]
• July 12, 2007: David Puttnam, film producer ^[310]
• November 11, 2013: Joel Batteux, mayor of Saint-Nazaire, France ^[311]
• November 11, 2013: Niall Quinn, footballer ^[311]

Wolverhampton

Honorary freemen of Wolverhampton include British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, army officer Douglas Haig, and athlete Denise Lewis.^[312]

York

• 1482: John Kendal, secretary to King Richard III ^[313]
• 1827: Duke of Wellington
• 1952: Mary, Princess Royal ^[313]
• 1989: Katharine, Duchess of Kent ^[313]
• June 25, 2002: John Barry, composer ^[314]
• July 13, 2002: Judi Dench, actress ^[314]
• 2003: Berwick Kaler, actor and theater director ^[313]
• 2006: Ronald Urwick Cooke, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of York ^[313]

Isle of Man

Douglas

• May 29, 1924: Edward Stanley, twice Secretary of State for War ^[315]
• July 23, 1929: Hall Caine, author ^[316]
• May 13, 1948: Bernard Montgomery, army officer ^[315]
• July 23, 1957: Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister ^[315]
• January 28, 1998: Norman Wisdom, comic actor ^[315]
• February 20, 1998: Jack Corrin, First Deemster ^[315]
• August 15, 2001: Henry Callow, Second Deemster ^[315]
• April 9, 2003: Charles Kerruish, former Speaker of the House of Keys ^[315][317]
• April 9, 2003: Geoff Duke, motorcycle racer ^[315][317]
• July 10, 2009: The Bee Gees, pop group ^[318]
• April 14, 2011: Mark Cavendish, cyclist ^[319]

Northern Ireland

Armagh

• 2007: Lord Eames, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland 1986-2006.

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Belfast

• May 8, 2013: Mary Peters, Olympic gold medal winner ^[320]
• November 15, 2013. Van Morrison, musician ^[321]

Scotland

Aberdeen

Dundee

• October 14, 1834: John Lambton, Earl of Durham^[322]
• July 13, 1875: Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada ^[323]
• April 15, 1884: Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery ^[324]
• November 13, 1885: George Campbell, Duke of Argyll ^[325]
• November 13, 1895: Thomas F. Bayard, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom ^[326]
• September 28, 1899: Arthur Balfour, First Lord of the Treasury ^[327]
• October 24, 1902: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist ^[328]
• November 2, 1906: Whitelaw Reid, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom ^[329]
• January 30, 1913: H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[330]
• May 15, 1919: Douglas Haig, Field-Marshal ^[331]
• September 1919: David Beatty, Admiral of the Fleet ^[332]
• September 9, 1924: Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[333]
• August 27, 1947: Henry Hallett Dale, President of the British Association ^[334]
• September 2008: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese political prisoner, was granted the Freedom of Dundee in recognition of her achievements in promoting democracy. As Suu Kyi was under house arrest at the time, the award was accepted on her behalf by Anna Roberts, director of Burma Campaign UK.^[335]

Edinburgh

Notable recipients of the Freedom of Edinburgh include:^[336]

• November 16, 1808: Samuel Hood, Rear Admiral ^[337]
• December 22, 1813: Thomas Coutts, banker
• January 5, 1814: Walter Scott, novelist and playwright ^[338]
• January 5, 1814: George Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie ^[338]
• February 23, 1814: David Boyle, Lord Justice Clerk
• March 2, 1814: Robert Jenkinson, Earl of Liverpool
• March 2, 1814: Henry Addington, Viscount Sidmouth
• March 2, 1814: Robert Stewart, British Foreign Secretary
• March 2, 1814: Nicholas Vansittart, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• March 23, 1814: George Boyle, Earl of Glasgow
• March 23, 1814: William Johnstone Hope, admiral
• January 25, 1815: John Crichton-Stuart, industrialist
• February 8, 1815: John Hope, army officer
• September 10, 1817: Thomas Charles Hope, professor of chemistry
• November 26, 1817: Charles Colville, army officer
• August 5, 1818: Grand Duke Michael Pavlovich of Russia ^[339]
• August 29, 1821: Nikolaus II, Prince Esterházy
• October 24, 1821: Robert Otway, admiral
• September 10, 1823: John Beresford, admiral
• September 1, 1824: James Maitland, Earl of Lauderdale
• April 5, 1825: Henry Brougham, Baron Brougham and Vaux ^[340]
• September 14, 1825: Charles II, Duke of Brunswick, and his brother, William ^[341]
• October 5, 1825: Robert Gifford, lawyer, judge and politician
• July 26, 1826: James McGrigor, Director-General of the Army Medical Services
• October 14, 1829: David Wilkie, artist
• June 24, 1834: James Abercromby, barrister
• June 24, 1834: John Campbell, Attorney General for England and Wales
• September 13, 1834: Five members of the British Science Association:^[342]
  • Thomas Brisbane, the Association's president
  • François Arago, Perpetual Secretary of the French Academy of Sciences
  • Gerrit Moll, Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Utrecht
  • John Dalton, known for his pioneering research into atomic theory and colour blindness
  • Robert Brown, Vice-President of the Linnean Society of London
• September 15, 1834: Charles Grey, British Prime Minister ^[343]
• December 8, 1835: Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Polish noble
• August 16, 1837: John Spencer, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
• August 22, 1837: Joseph Hume, surgeon and MP
• September 6, 1838: Astley Cooper, Sergeant Surgeon to the Queen ^[344]
• October 23, 1838: Andrew Rutherfurd, Solicitor General for Scotland
• June 4, 1839: Thomas Babington Macaulay, politician and historian
• June 29, 1841: Charles Dickens, author
• June 29, 1841: William Gibson-Craig, MP
• September 14, 1842: Albert, Prince Consort ^[345]
• September 14, 1842: Walter Montagu Douglas Scott, Duke of Buccleuch ^[345]
• September 14, 1842: Robert Peel, British Prime Minister ^[345]
• September 14, 1842: George Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen ^[345]
• January 19, 1843: Richard Cobden, free trade advocate and founder of the Anti-Corn Law League
• October 8, 1844: Justus von Liebig, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Giessen
• April 14, 1845: Henry Pottinger, former Governor of Hong Kong
• November 3, 1845: John Russell, Leader of the Whigs ^[346]
• December 4, 1845: Charles Napier, admiral ^[347]
• June 6, 1846: George Thompson, abolitionist and human rights lecturer ^[348]
• August 15, 1849: Sir James Duke, Lord Mayor of London ^[349]
• July 1, 1850: Hugh Gough, army officer ^[350]
• April 4, 1853: George Howard, Earl of Carlisle
• September 27, 1853: William Ewart Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• September 30, 1854: William Molesworth, First Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings
• July 21, 1856: James Broun-Ramsay, Marquess of Dalhousie
• January 13, 1857: James Moncreiff, 1st Baron Moncreiff, Lord Advocate of Scotland
• September 21, 1857: David Livingstone, explorer
• September 29, 1858: David Roberts, painter
• July 11, 1861: James Hope Grant, Lieutenant-General
• April 1, 1863: Henry John Temple, First Lord of the Treasury
• April 11, 1864: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general
• May 17, 1866: Prince Alfred
• July 18, 1867: William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist
• October 30, 1867: Benjamin Disraeli, Chancellor of the Exchequer ^[351]
• September 16, 1868: Robert Napier, Lieutenant-General ^[352]
• November 3, 1868: John Bright, orator and free trade advocate ^[353]
• October 26, 1869: James Young Simpson, Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh
• January 15, 1874: Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist
• November 6, 1875: William Edward Forster, former Vice-President of the Committee on Education
• December 18, 1875: Edward Stanley, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
• August 31, 1877: Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States
• April 13, 1878: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury
• November 27, 1882: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury
• July 21, 1883: Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery
• August 5, 1885: John Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen
• May 6, 1886: Albert Victor, Prince of Wales
• June 7, 1887: Schomberg Kerr, Marquess of Lothian
• July 8, 1887: Andrew Carnegie, industrialist ^[354]
• June 11, 1890: Henry Morton Stanley, explorer
• August 20, 1891: Daniel Wilson, academic
• October 3, 1893: George, Duke of York and Earl of Inverness
• November 18, 1893: Frederick Roberts, army officer
• December 22, 1893: Victor Bruce, Earl of Elgin and Kincardine
• July 10, 1895: John Hope, Earl of Hopetoun
• December 11, 1896: John Ritchie Findlay, newspaper owner who funded the construction of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
• October 22, 1897: William McEwan, MP and brewer
• June 15, 1898: Garnet Wolseley, army officer ^[355]
• June 15, 1898: Joseph Lister, surgeon ^[355]
• November 29, 1898: Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
• November 29, 1898: Herbert Kitchener, army officer
• July 6, 1899: Edward, Prince of Wales
• July 26, 1902: Five heads of state:
  • Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada
  • Edmund Barton, 1st Prime Minister of Australia
  • Richard Seddon, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Albert Henry Hime, Prime Minister of Natal
  • Robert Bond, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
• April 15, 1903: Alexander Bruce, Lord Balfour of Burleigh
• December 4, 1903: Donald Smith, philanthropist
• March 21, 1904: Joseph Hodges Choate, lawyer and diplomat
• May 6, 1905: Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn
• May 22, 1905: Donald Mackay, Lord Reay
• May 22, 1905: Flora Stevenson, social reformer
• July 6, 1905: George White, army officer
• October 19, 1905: Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• May 10, 1907: Four heads of state:
  • Alfred Deakin, Prime Minister of Australia
  • Joseph Ward, Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Leander Starr Jameson, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony
  • Louis Botha, Prime Minister of the Transvaal
• October 30, 1907: Henry Campbell-Bannerman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• December 10, 1909: William Turner, anatomist and Principal of the University of Edinburgh
• December 10, 1909: Alexander Whyte, clergyman
• December 20, 1910: H. H. Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• April 28, 1911: Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, former Viceroy and Governor-General of India
• July 7, 1911: Andrew Fisher, Prime Minister of Australia, and Edward Morris, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
• April 18, 1912: John Sinclair, Secretary for Scotland
• November 2, 1912: Richard Haldane, Lord Chancellor, and Andrew Murray, Lord Justice General
• April 26, 1916: Billy Hughes, Prime Minister of Australia
• November 20, 1916: William Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand
• April 11, 1917: Robert Borden, Prime Minister of Canada, Jan Smuts, Minister for Defence of South Africa, and Ganga Singh, Maharaja of Bikaner ^[356]
• November 2, 1917: Walter Hines Page, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom ^[357]
• May 24, 1918: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[358]
• January 25, 1919: David Beatty, admiral ^[359]
• May 28, 1919: Douglas Haig, army officer
• June 24, 1919: Charles Edward Price, politician
• July 24, 1919: Edward, Prince of Wales
• November 29, 1920: Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone ^[360]
• July 18, 1921: Arthur Meighen, Prime Minister of Canada
• March 12, 1923: Robert Horne, former Chancellor of the Exchequer
• September 28, 1923: Ronald Munro Ferguson, Secretary for Scotland
• October 29, 1923: Robert Cranston, former Lord Provost of Edinburgh ^[361]
• October 29, 1923: Wallace Williamson, minister ^[361]
• July 14, 1924: Adolphe Max, Mayor of Brussels
• May 28, 1925: Ramsay MacDonald, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[362]
• July 25, 1925: Prince Henry
• June 7, 1926: Stanley Baldwin, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[363]
• October 9, 1926: Albert, Duke of York and Earl of Inverness
• November 24, 1926: Bijoy Chand Mahtab, Maharaja of Burdwan Raj, and four heads of state:^[364]
  • William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada
  • Stanley Bruce, Prime Minister of Australia
  • Gordon Coates, Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Walter Stanley Monroe, Prime Minister of Newfoundland
• September 7, 1927: Alanson B. Houghton, US Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• November 24, 1927: Harry Lauder, entertainer
• September 21, 1928: John Stewart-Murray, Duke of Atholl ^[365]
• September 21, 1928: John Gilmour, politician ^[365]
• September 21, 1928: Ishbel Hamilton-Gordon, philanthropist and advocate of women's interests ^[365]
• April 18, 1929: James Alfred Ewing, physicist and engineer
• July 19, 1929: William Adamson, Secretary of State for Scotland
• July 19, 1929: J. M. Barrie, creator of Peter Pan
• September 17, 1930: Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood
• November 19, 1930: R. B. Bennett, 11th Prime Minister of Canada, James Scullin, 9th Prime Minister of Australia, and George Forbes, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand
• January 9, 1931: Hamidullah Khan, Nawab of Bhopal, and V. S. Srinivasa Sastri, Indian politician
• July 3, 1931: Alexander Cambridge, Governor-General of the Union of South Africa ^[366]
• June 19, 1934: Freeman Freeman-Thomas, 22nd Viceroy and Governor-General of India, and his wife, Marie Freeman-Thomas
• May 20, 1935: George, Duke of Kent
• June 10, 1935: Bhupinder Singh, Maharaja of Patiala, Joseph Lyons, 10th Prime Minister of Australia, and John Buchan, 15th Governor General of Canada ^[367]
• September 30, 1935: Louise Whitfield Carnegie, philanthropist
• December 1, 1936: Elizabeth, Duchess of York ^[368]
• April 28, 1937: Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ^[369]
• April 19, 1938: Walter Elliot, Secretary of State for Scotland
• April 19, 1938: Hugh Macmillan, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary
• April 21, 1939: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., American Ambassador to Great Britain
• October 9, 1941: John Gilbert Winant, American Ambassaddor to Great Britain ^[370]
• October 12, 1942: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[371]
• May 12, 1944: Peter Fraser, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand
• May 12, 1944: Tom Johnston, Secretary of State for Scotland, and John Anderson, Chancellor of the Exchequer ^[372]
• October 3, 1944: Victor Hope, former Viceroy of India
• February 15, 1946: Andrew Cunningham, Admiral of the Fleet, Harold Alexander, Field Marshal, and Arthur Tedder, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
• March 6, 1946: Bernard Montgomery, Field Marshal
• October 3, 1946: Dwight D. Eisenhower, General of the Army
• July 16, 1947: Princess Elizabeth ^[373]
• November 18, 1948: Robert Menzies, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
• March 1, 1949: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• August 21, 1950: Lewis Williams Douglas, U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• January 18, 1954: Louis Mountbatten, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, and his wife, Edwina Mountbatten ^[374]
• February 28, 1957: Thomas Corbett, Baron Rowallan
• October 17, 1962: Olav V of Norway
• August 23, 1965: Yehudi Menuhin, violinist and conductor ^[375]
• April 3, 1969: Alec Douglas-Home, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[376]
• June 11, 1991: Sean Connery, actor
• September 16, 2012: Chris Hoy, Olympic cyclist ^[377]

Glasgow

• September 1, 1808: Edward Jenner, pioneer of the smallpox vaccine ^[378]
• November 23, 1808: William Cathcart, soldier and diplomatist ^[337]
• November 23, 1808: Samuel Hood, Rear Admiral ^[337]
• 1809: James Neild, campaigner for prison reform ^[379]
• 1826: George Hay, Marquess of Tweeddale ^[380]
• October 29, 1834: John Lambton, Earl of Durham ^[381]
• November 24, 1836: William Bentinck, MP for Glasgow ^[382]
• January 11, 1843: Richard Cobden, leading member of the Anti-Corn Law League ^[383]
• October 13, 1844: Justus von Liebig, chemistry professor ^[384]
• July 1, 1856: Colin Campbell, British Army officer ^[385]
• September 1858: David Livingstone, explorer ^[386]
• October 31, 1865: William Ewart Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer ^[387]
• June 3, 1870: Fox Maule-Ramsay, Earl of Dalhousie ^[388]
• August 28, 1871: Anthony Ashley-Cooper, philanthropist and social reformer ^[389]
• September 26, 1872: Robert Lowe, Chancellor of the Exchequer ^[390]
• November 20, 1873: Benjamin Disraeli, Leader of the Opposition ^[391]
• September 13, 1877: Ulysses S. Grant, 18th President of the United States ^[392]
• November 5, 1877: Spencer Cavendish, Leader of the Liberal Party ^[393]
• October 25, 1881: William Vernon Harcourt, Home Secretary ^[394]
• May 20, 1891: Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[395]
• July 28, 1893: Frederick Roberts, army officer ^[396]
• January 17, 1894: George Trevelyan, Secretary for Scotland ^[397]
• May 2, 1901: Louise, Princess Royal, and Alexander Duff, Duke of Fife ^[398]
• August 12, 1901: Alexander Bruce, Secretary for Scotland, "for his services in facilitation legislation for the city" ^[399]
• August 12, 1901: Robert William Hanbury, Minister of Agriculture, "for services rendered in connection with the effort to obtain a licence to establish a municipal telephone exchange" ^[399]
• August 12, 1901: Andrew Carnegie, philanthropist, "in recognition of his munificence" ^[399]
• April 23, 1907: George, Prince of Wales, and his wife, Mary ^[400]
• 1908: Joseph Lister, pioneer of antiseptic surgery ^[401]
• May 3, 1911: Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn ^[402]
• July 6, 1911: Herbert Kitchener, army officer, and three premiers:^[403]
  • Andrew Fisher, 5th Prime Minister of Australia
  • Joseph Ward, 17th Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • Edward Morris, 2nd Prime Minister of Newfoundland
• August 9, 1911: Louis Botha, Prime Minister of South Africa ^[404]
• August 16, 1912: Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada ^[405]
• October 8, 1913: Augustine Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, and John Stirling-Maxwell, politician ^[406]
• June 29, 1917: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[407]
• May 17, 1918: Jan Smuts, South African Minister of Defence ^[408]
• November 1919: Raymond Poincaré, President of France ^[409]
• January 4, 1921: Edward Grey, former Foreign Secretary ^[410]
• March 8, 1921: Edward, Prince of Wales ^[411]
• February 13, 1922: Archibald Douglas, Baron Blythswood; Bonar Law, MP; and James Bryce, academic (posthumously) ^[412]
• January 26, 1923: George, Duke of York ^[413]
• August 7, 1923: Princess Mary, Viscountess Lascelles ^[414]
• October 1, 1923: James Bell, former Lord Provost of Glasgow, and Thomas Lipton, businessman ^[415]
• 1924: Donald MacAlister, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow ^[416]
• May 2, 1925: Prince Henry ^[400]
• September 21, 1927: Elizabeth, Duchess of York ^[400]
• April 1928: Prince George, Duke of Kent ^[417]
• May 17, 1928: Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ^[418]
• May 7, 1929: John Gilmour, Secretary of State for Scotland ^[419]
• June 20, 1929: Marie Curie, scientist known for her research into radioactivity ^[420]
• 1929: Daniel Macaulay Stevenson, businessman and philanthropist ^[421]
• April 22, 1932: James George Frazer, social anthropologist ^[422]
• May 6, 1936: William Forgan Smith, Premier of Queensland ^[423]
• July 29, 1941: Peter Fraser, 24th Prime Minister of New Zealand ^[424]
• May 26, 1944: William Burrell, philanthropist ^[425]
• February 15, 1955: Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ^[426]
• October 19, 1961: Hector Hetherington, Principal of the University of Glasgow ^[427]
• May 26, 1971: Isaac Wolfson, businessman and philanthropist ^[428]
• June 15, 1981: Samuel Curran, physicist, and Benno Schotz, artist ^[429]
• June 16, 1981: Jim Watt, boxer ^[430]
• August 4, 1981: Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid revolutionary. As Mandela was imprisoned at the time, the Freedom was accepted on his behalf by Alex Ekwueme, Vice President of Nigeria.^[431]
• December 21, 1984: Harry McShane, socialist ^[432]
• March 24, 1986: Kenny Dalglish, player-manager of Liverpool F.C. ^[433]
• May 20, 1991: George MacLeod, minister of the Church of Scotland ^[434]
• November 8, 1999: Alex Ferguson, manager of Manchester United F.C. ^[435]
• February 23, 2007: Norman Macfarlane, businessman and philanthropist ^[436]
• March 3, 2009: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese political prisoner. The Freedom was accepted on her behalf by Dr Thuang Htun.^[437]
• August 20, 2010: Billy Connolly, comedian ^[438]

Inverness

• September 19, 1885: Joseph Chamberlain, former President of the Board of Trade ^[439]
• October 4, 1921: David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[440]
• May 17, 1929: Albert Frederick Arthur George, Duke of York ^[441]
• June 13, 1930: Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; Stanley Baldwin, former Prime Minister; and Murdoch Macdonald, civil engineer and MP for Inverness ^[442]
• June 26, 1931: Edward VIII, Prince of Wales ^[443]
• June 19, 1951: Mary, Princess Royal ^[444]
• August 7, 1953: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother ^[445]
• April 14, 1955: Tom Johnston, former Secretary of State for Scotland; Hugh MacKenzie, former Provost of Inverness; and Anthony Miers, Royal Navy officer ^[446]

Perth

Notable recipients of the Freedom of Perth include:^[447]

• 1833: Laurence Oliphant, MP for Perth
• 1835: Fox Maule, MP for Perthshire
• 1841: Robert Wallace, MP for Greenock
• September 6, 1842: Prince Albert, husband of Queen Victoria. On the same occasion, Victoria was given the Keys to the City, but she immediately returned them, claiming to be "quite satisfied that they cannot possibly be in better hands".^[448]
• 1843: Richard Cobden, MP and free trade advocate
• 1847: Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia
• 1852: John Russell, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• September 26, 1853: Henry John Temple (Lord Palmerston), Home Secretary ^[449]
• September 12, 1861: James Hope Grant, British Army general ^[450]
• 1864: Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general
• January 21, 1868: George Kinnaird, Lord Lieutenant of Perthshire, and James Hope, Royal Navy admiral ^[451]
• 1875: Alexander Mackenzie, 2nd Prime Minister of Canada
• December 1, 1879: William Ewart Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[452]
• December 8, 1896: Garnet Wolseley, Field Marshal ^[453]
• October 22, 1898: Archibald Primrose, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[454]
• October 8, 1902: Andrew Carnegie, industrialist and philanthropist ^[455]
• 1911: Andrew Murray, Lord Justice General
• September 29, 1933: John Buchan, MP for Combined Scottish Universities, and Francis Norie-Miller, insurance company manager ^[456]
• August 10, 1935: Albert Frederick Arthur George and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duke and Duchess of York ^[457]
• 1938: William Mackenzie, barrister and politician
• March 18, 1938: Arthur Kinmond Bell, Distiller and philanthropist.
• July 19, 1947: Queen Elizabeth, wife of George VI, and Archibald Wavell, British Army officer.^[458] Elizabeth had received the Freedom once before, in 1935, as the Duchess of York.
• March 27, 1948: Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[459]
• May 12, 1956: Anthony Eden, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[460]
• 1978: Neil Cameron, Marshal of the Royal Air Force
• 1982: David Kinnear Thomson, former Lord Provost of Perth
• July 6, 2012: Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip ^[461][462]

Stirling

• September 1852: John Russell, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[463]
• October 14, 1922: Douglas Haig, Field Marshal ^[464]
• August 29, 1928: Albert Frederick Arthur George and Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Duke and Duchess of York ^[465]
• September 20, 1947: Princess Elizabeth ^[466]
• October 24, 1952: Tom Johnston, former Secretary of State for Scotland ^[467]
• 1953: Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[468]
• April 3, 2009: Irvin Iffla, former cricketer with Stirling County, in recognition of his long standing commitment and contribution to the public life of the city ^[469]
• April 23, 2014: Andy Murray, tennis player, recognising his contribution to tennis both locally and nationally^[470]

Wales

Cardiff

Notable recipients of the Freedom of Cardiff include:^[471]

• August 13, 1888: Alfred Thomas, former Mayor of Cardiff
• July 6, 1889: William Ewart Gladstone, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[472]
• September 17, 1890: Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
• March 27, 1891: Henry Morton Stanley, journalist and explorer
• January 26, 1894: Frederick Roberts, army officer
• September 28, 1895: Edward James Reed, former MP for Cardiff
• June 27, 1896: Albert Edward, Prince of Wales
• June 3, 1897: Robert Windsor-Clive, former Mayor of Cardiff
• December 2, 1897: Herbert Kitchener, army officer
• May 29, 1903: Robert Baden-Powell, army officer
• March 10, 1905: William Lewis, coal mining magnate
• June 29, 1905: George, Prince of Wales
• June 24, 1908: David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer
• October 25, 1909: Godfrey Morgan, army officer and politician
• March 24, 1916: Billy Hughes, 7th Prime Minister of Australia ^[473]
• October 27, 1916: David Alfred Thomas, industrialist and politician
• May 8, 1917: William Massey, 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand ^[474]
• October 27, 1917: Jan Smuts, South African Minister for Defence
• July 24, 1918: Robert Borden, 8th Prime Minister of Canada ^[475]
• June 26, 1919: Edward, Prince of Wales
• October 22, 1926: Prince Albert, Duke of York
• March 26, 1928: William Reardon Smith and William Tatem, shipowners
• October 25, 1932: Prince George, Duke of Kent
• March 5, 1934: John Sankey, Lord Chancellor ^[476]
• October 26, 1936: Ivor Windsor-Clive, Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, and William Morris, motor manufacturer
• May 27, 1948: Princess Elizabeth
• July 16, 1948: Winston Churchill, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• December 1, 1954: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
• October 26, 1956: Gwilym Lloyd George, Home Secretary
• July 6, 1969: Charles, Prince of Wales ^[477]
• March 16, 1975: James Callaghan, Foreign Secretary, and George Thomas, former Secretary of State for Wales
• October 29, 1981: Diana, Princess of Wales
• June 2, 1982: Pope John Paul II ^[478]
• January 29, 1985: Cennydd Traherne, Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Glamorgan
• January 25, 1993: Philip Dunleavy, former Lord Mayor of Cardiff
• June 16, 1998: Nelson Mandela, former South Africa President and anti-apartheid activist ^[479]
• December 4, 2000: Cledwyn Hughes, former Secretary of State for Wales ^[480]
• November 27, 2003: Tanni Grey-Thompson, Paralympic wheelchair racer, and Colin Jackson, Olympic athlete ^[481]
• April 12, 2006: Tasker Watkins, former president of the WRU and Glamorgan Wanderers ^[482]
• 2012: Dame Shirley Bassey, international singer born in Cardiff ^[483]

Newport

• September 25, 1945: Bernard Montgomery, Field Marshal ^[484]
• August 17, 2013: Newport County Association Football Club ^[485][486]

Swansea

• October 3, 1892: Henry Morton Stanley, journalist and explorer ^[487]
• December 21, 1901: Archibald Primrose, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ^[488]
• 1948: Bernard Montgomery, army officer ^[489]
• August 11, 1995: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States ^[490]
• March 4, 2002: John Charles, footballer with Leeds United and Juventus ^[491]
• July 31, 2010: Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury ^[492]

Other recipients of the Freedom of Swansea include Charles, Prince of Wales, James Callaghan, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Alan Williams, MP for Swansea West.^[490]

United States

Viscount Cornbury was the first to receive the Freedom of the City of New York in 1702,^[493] and in 1871, Chicago handed out its earliest known Freedom to Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.^[494]

Among the more unusual recipients of Keys to the City are Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (Detroit, 1980), Sam Born, for inventing a machine that mechanically inserted sticks into lollipops (San Francisco, 1916), and Scarlett's Magic (Corona, 2010), a cat listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as World's Tallest Cat.

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