P.G. Wodehouse Receives Knighthood

P.G. Wodehouse Receives Knighthood
P.G. Wodehouse: A Centenary Celebration, 1881–1981
Edited by James H. Heineman and Donald R. Bensen
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981
P.G. Wodehouse Collection
Gift of Elliott Milstein
Special Collections and University Archives

A month before his death, Wodehouse was awarded a knighthood of the Order of the British Empire.  Between 1967 and 1974, the award had been proposed twice but was not successful.  In 1974, British Prime Minister Harold Wilson intervened, and the award was announced in January 1975.