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20 answers for: Who was the first English actor to be knighted?
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HENRYIRVINGWho was the first English actor to be knighted?
ALLOWPermit English actor to ignore lead (5)
ORLANDOBLOOMEnglish actor to flourish following location of Disney World (7,5)
THISDUBSFORYOUShout to one about to be knighted?
KNEELBarge over knight, and prepare to be knighted? (5)
OLIVIERWho was the first actor to be elevated to a life peerage, which allowed him to sit in the House of Lords? (Last name only.)
KNELTLowered oneself to the ground in order to be knighted
JACKHOBBSThe first cricketer to be knighted (4,5)
MATTHEWSStanley _, the only footballer to be knighted while still playing the sport (8)
NEILKNEELRequest to a soon-to-be-knighted Simon?
PURCELLBaroque musician dubbed "Orpheus Britannicus" who became the organist for Westminster Abbey around the age of 20 and composed the first English opera, Dido and Aeneas (7)
BYRONJohn ___, 1st Baron, the leader of Royalist forces against the Parliamentarians in the 1644 Battle of Nantwich during the First English Civil War (5)
DRAKESea captain and explorer who commanded the Golden Hind on the first English circumnavigation of the Earth (5)
CLARENDON1st Earl of -; title of Edward Hyde, chief advisor to Charles I during the First English Civil War who was Chancellor of Oxford University from 1660-67 (9)
JOHNFLORIOAuthor of the first English translation of Boccacio, and the first comprehensive Italian-English dictionary (1598)
BRONZELucy, the first English footballer to win the UEFA Women's Player of the Year Award (6)
STARRLatest Beatle to be knighted
KNEELEDPrepared to be knighted
KNEELINGPreparing to be knighted
KNEELSPrepares to be knighted