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
Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary on August 20, 1949, the new order was disestablished. Following the collapse of the Communist regime in Hungary in 1989 a new order, known as "Order of Merit of Hungary"' (), was established. Though it has a similar appearance, this is a new order and not a re-establishment of the previous order. Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary The Order of Merit of the Kingdom of Hungary () was established on 14 June 1922 by Miklós Horthy the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary. On 23 December 1935 it was transformed into an official distinction. Since then if