Orders, decorations, monuments, and honours

Main article: Honours of Winston Churchill

Coat of arms of Winston Churchill

In addition to the honour of a state funeral, Churchill received a wide range of awards and other
honours, including the following, chronologically:

 Churchill was appointed to the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1907.[664]
 He received the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1922.[665]
 He was awarded the Territorial Decoration for his long service in the Territorial Army in
1924.[666]
 Churchill was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1941.[665]
 In 1941, he was appointed to the Privy Council of Canada.[667]
 In 1945, while Churchill was mentioned by Halvdan Koht as one of seven appropriate
candidates for the Nobel Prize in Peace, the nomination went to Cordell Hull.[668]
 He received the Order of Merit in 1946.[665]
 In 1953, he was knighted in the Order of the Garter.[665]
 In 1963, Churchill was named an Honorary Citizen of the United States by Public Law 88-
6/H.R. 4374 (approved/enacted 9 April 1963).[669][670]
 On 29 November 1995, during a visit to the United Kingdom, President Bill Clinton of the
United States announced to both Houses of Parliament that an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer
would be named the USS Winston S. Churchill. This was the first United States warship to
be named after an Englishman since the end of the American Revolution.[671]
 In a BBC poll of the "100 Greatest Britons" in 2002, he was proclaimed "The Greatest of
Them All" based on approximately a million votes from BBC viewers.[672] Churchill was also
rated as one of the most influential leaders in history by TIME.[673]