Record ID:
35139637 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
LC number:
  • n 50058112
Heading:
Used for:
  • Grand Priory of England
  • Order of Saint John
  • Order of St. John
Notes:
  • Not to be confused with the Knights of Malta (also known as the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, or Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem) nor with Knights of St. John [no publs. in LC data base], originally incorp. by spec. act of legislature of the State of New York, 1886, as the Roman Catholic Union of the Knights of St. John [no publs. in LC data]
  • Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 December 210, 2011 t.p. (Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem)
  • LC manual auth. cd. (The Knights of Malta Grand Priory of England [no publs. in LC data base] was dissolved in 1540; after a short reinstatement, its estates were again confiscated in 1558; revived in 1831, but not recognized by the Lt. Master in Rome as Protestant branch of order, it became in 1858 an indep. national body, active throughout British Empire. Through Royal charter of 1926, its name chgd from Grand Priory of England [no publs. in LC data base] to Grand Priory in the British Realm [no publs. in LC data base]. Through 1955 Royal charter it became The Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem; referred to also as The Order of St. John)
  • Renwick, E. D. A short history of the Order of St. John, 1958.
Local system number:
  • abv00174735
  • 000000140364
  • (AuPaJTL)241298
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC DLC DLC Uk IEN ANL VJTL
Authentication code:
  • kin