Order of Merit "KMS", and the Order of Artistic Merit for Knights of Merit in Art, with the post-nominal letters "KMA". However, Sir Frederic Leighton, President of the Royal Academy, advised against the new order, primarily because of its selection process. Victoria's son, King Edward VII, eventually founded the Order of Merit on 26 June 1902 (the date for which his coronation had been originally planned) as a means to acknowledge "exceptionally meritorious service in Our Navy and Our Army, or who may have rendered exceptionally meritorious service towards the advancement of Art, Literature and Science". All modern aspects of the order were
House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis The House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Frederick Louis (German: "Haus und Verdienstorden von Herzog Peter Friedrich Ludwig") or proper German Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Frederick Louis (German: "Oldenburgische Haus- und Verdienstorden des Herzogs Peter Friedrich Ludwig") was a civil and military order of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg, a member state of the German Empire. The order was founded by Grand Duke Augustus of Oldenburg on November 27, 1838, to honor his father, Peter Frederick Louis of Oldenburg. It became obsolete in 1918 after the abdication