Order of the Bath Order of the Bath The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (formerly the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath) is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate medieval ceremony for appointing a knight, which involved bathing (as a symbol of purification) as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as "Knights of the Bath". George I "erected the Knights of the Bath into a regular Military Order". He did not (as is commonly believed) revive the Order of the Bath, since it had never
King George Islands King George Islands The King George Islands ("Îles du Roi Georges") is a subgroup of the Tuamotus Archipelago group in French Polynesia. The King George Islands include four atolls and one island: Tikei is the easternmost island and Ahe Atoll is the westernmost of the subgroup. The distance between them is . Unlike the atolls of the Palliser group that form a spindle from the northwest to the southeast, the King George Islands follow a mirror image pattern of grouping from southwest to the northeast. The name "King George Islands" was given to this group by British explorer John Byron,