On the other, with the selection of a guard of honour representing citizens from "every walk of life", there was a hint of inclusiveness, and a suggestion that state occasions are not simply an excuse for elderly gentlemen with titles like First Lord of the Powder Closet to swan about in fancy dress.
The selection of Cibber for this honour was widely seen as especially cynical coming at a time when Pope, Gay, Thomson, Ambrose Philips, and Edward Young were all in their prime.
In between, there's a selection of Scottish dedications, from chants in honour of the Foos' Scottish road-crew members to guitarist Pat Smear kicking off a cover of the Vaselines' Molly's Lips (an old favourite from Grohl and Smear's Nirvana days).
I did once have a conversation with a chap who claimed to have been a gaucho, but who had forsaken the Pampas for the Pennines; I looked for his horse outside, but there was only a bike... Sadly, John Peel died suddenly a couple of years after our garden-party encounter; the Trades Club organised a memorial evening in his honour, when a selection of his favourite music was played.
Gyllensten received a number of honours.
This is the honour of honours," said Fry. "Hay-on-Wye is way on high.
So you can imagine how much it means to me that the organisation she founded has chosen Phoenix to represent the UK on its 2016 Honour List – a biennial selection of books from each of IBBY's member countries.
As the new series of concerts begins, BBC Culture honours five wrinkly old men with a selection of their sketches – chosen by palaeontologists, zoologists, philosophers and other thinkers.
Robertson was the first selection of the 1960 NBA draft and earned Rookie of the Year honours that season with the Cincinnati Royals.
We've gathered a selection of charts showing how the list breaks down by gender, sector and type of honour.
