Posthumous Knighthood
In 2009, licensed football agent Bryan Yeubrey started a campaign to get a posthumous knighthood granted to Billy Wright. He launched a website, www.SirBillyWright.com, in tribute to the player with an archive of Billy Wright facts, statistics and photographs. Many celebrities and sporting personalities have endorsed the campaign, which now has thousands of supporters.
Read more about this topic: Billy Wright (footballer Born 1924)
Famous quotes containing the word posthumous:
“Fashion, though in a strange way, represents all manly virtue. It is virtue gone to seed: it is a kind of posthumous honor. It does not often caress the great, but the children of the great: it is a hall of the Past.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)