Knight or Dame of St Andrew post-nominal letters KA (Knight of St Andrew) or DA (Dame of St Andrew). The most recipients are awarded in November during the month-long celebration of Barbadian political independence. The award is conferred to awardees by the office of the Governor-General of Barbados. Knight or Dame of St Andrew The Knight or Dame of St Andrew is an award within the Order of Barbados. The Order of Barbados was instituted by Letters Patent on July 25, 1980, as part of the Barbados National Honours and Decorations System. The Knight or Dame of St. Andrew is the highest honour given by the
St Andrew Holborn (parish) the Farringdon Without City Ward. Both parishes bore quasi-civil parish (CP) areas separate from their parochial church councils. By comparison and not to be confused St Giles in the Fields and St George Bloomsbury Ancient Parish-turned Civil Parish existed 1774-1930. St Andrew Holborn Below the Bars existed abolished as a civil parish 1767-1907. The ancient parish included most of the Holborn area to the west, bordering onto St Giles in the Fields. As such it included both Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn which rented pews in the church of St Andrew, Holborn, first mentioned according to Thornbury's "Old and New