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 whiting George whiting is the only species nested in the genus "Sillaginodes", which itself is in the family Sillaginidae, containing all the smelt whitings. The Sillaginidae are part of the Percoidei, a suborder of the order Perciformes. The King George whiting was first officially named by Cuvier in 1829 as "Sillago punctata", based on an individual taken from King George Sound in Western Australia. In 1861, Theodore Gill created the monotypic genus "Sillaginodes" based on a number or morphological characteristics and assigned "S. punctatus" to it. A number of synonyms have been applied after the initial correct naming, apparently due to