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When did Queen Victoria make Sir Richard Burton a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George?
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Sir Richard Burton
Richard Burton, c. 1880.
Queen Victoria made Sir Richard Burton a Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George in February 1886.1
It is important to note that this refers to the 19th-century British scholar and explorer Sir Richard Burton, rather than the 20th-century Welsh actor of the same name.213