HONORARY FREEMAN
OF THE CITY AND COUNTY OF CARDIFF
Alderman Andrew Fulton (Mayor, 1834-35)
31 March 1886
Alfred Thomas Esquire (Lord Pontypridd)
(Mayor 1880-81)
13 August 1888
The Rt Hon William Ewart Gladstone MP
6 July 1889
His Royal Highness Albert Victor Christian
Edward, Duke of Clarence and Avondale
17 Sept 1890
Sir Henry
M Stanley
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27 March 1891
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The Rt Hon David Evans
(Lord Mayor of London 1881-82)
1 July 1892
General The Rt Hon Lord Roberts
26 Jan 1894
Sir Edward James Reed, Knight Commander
of the Bach, MP
28 Sept 1895
His Royal Highness Albert Edward,
The Prince of Wales, Knight of the Garter
27 June 1896
The Rt Hon Robert George Windsor-Clive,
Lord Windsor, PC, Lord Lieutenant County
of Glamorgan (Mayor 1895-96)
3 June 1897
Alderman David Jones, JP (Mayor 1888-89)
18 April 1898
Major General The Rt Hon Lord Kitchener
2 Dec 1897
Lord Baden Powell
29 May 1903
Sir William Thomas Lewis, Bart, KCVO
(Lord Merthyr of Senghenydd)
10 March 1905
His Royal Highness George Frederick Ernest
29 June 1905
Albert The Prince of Wales, KG (King George V)
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The Rt Hon O. Lloyd George, MP
24 June 1908
The Rt Hon Viscount Tredegar
25 October 1909
Alderman Francis John Bearan, JP
(Mayor 1901-02)
10 October 1910
Charles Thompson, Esquire of Penhill Close,
Llandaff
Sir William James Thomas, Kt
28 Oct 1912
12 April 1915
The Rt Hon Williams Morris Hughes
24 March 1916
The Rt Hon Baron Rhondda of Llanwern. MA, Dt 27 Oct 1916
The Rt Hon Massey
8 May 1917
General The Rt Hon Jan Christian,
Smuts, PC, KC, MP
27 Oct 1917
The Rt Hon Sir Robert Laird Borden
24 July 1918
The Maharaja of Patiala
24 July 1918
His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales, KG
(Duke of Windsor)
26 June 1919
Joseph Larke, Wheasley, Esquire,
Town Clerk 1879-1919
13 Oct 1919
Alderman Sir Charles Hayward Bird, Kt, CBE, JP
(Lord Mayor 1910-11)
5 July 1923
His Royal Highness Prince Albert Frederick
22 Oct 1926
Arthur George, Duke of York, KG (King George VI)
The Rt Hon Lord Glanely
26 March 1928
Sir William Reardon Smith, Bart
26 March 1928
Ex-Alderman Herbert Metford Thompson, LLD, JP
14 April 1930
Lord Davies of Llandinam, MA, LLD
26 Oct 1931
Alderman Sir Illtyd Thomas, Kt, JP, OL
26 Oct 1931
His Royal Highness Prince George Edward
Alexander Edmond, GCVO, KG (Duke of Kent)
25 Oct 1932
The Rt Hon John Viscount Sankey of Moreton, PC,
CBE, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain.
5 March 1934
Sir Goscombe John, RA
26 Oct 1936
The Rt Hon The Earl of Plymouth, PC
26 Oct 1936
The Rt Hon Lord Nuffield of Nuffield, OBE, DCL 15 Oct 1937
The Rt Hon Lord Portal of Laverstoke, DSO, MVO
15 Oct 1937
Welch Regiment
10 June 1944
Alderman F.H. Turnbull, OBE, JP
10 Feb 1947
Alderman R.G. Hill-Snook
10 Feb 1947
Her Royal Highness The Princess Elizabeth
Alexandra Mary (HM The Queen)
27 May 1948
The Rt Hon Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, 16 July 1948
CH, MP (Sir Winston, L.S, KG, OM, CH, MP)
Alderman Sir William Richard Williams, JP
11 May 1954
Alderman Sir Herbert Hiles, MBE, JP
11 May 1954
HRH Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, KG
1 Dec 1954
The Rt Hon Gwilym Lloyd-George, TD, JP, MP
(Viscount Tenby of Bulford)
26 Oct 1956
Her Majesties Welsh Regiment of Foot Guards
27 April 1957
The Royal Regiment of Wales
11 June 1969
HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
5 July 1969
The Royal Welch Fusiliers
7 November 1973
The Rt Hon James Callaghan, MP
16 March 1975
The Rt Hon Viscount Tonypandy, George Thomas 16 March 1975
HRH The Princess of Wales
29 Oct 1981
His Holiness Pope John Paul II
2 June 1982
The 1st The Queen’s Dragoon Guards
29 July 1985
Sir Cenydd Treherne, KG, TD, MA, LLD, JP
29 Jan 1985
Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Glamorgan
HMS Cardiff
3 February 1988
Mr Philip Dunleavy, CBE, JP
25 Jan 1993
The National Union of Mine Workers
(South Wales Area)
1 April 1995
Nelson Mandela
16 June 1998
Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos
4 Dec 2000
The Merchant Navy Association (Wales)
3 September 2001
Tanni Grey Thomson, OBE
27 November 2003
Colin Jackson, CBE
27 November 2003
Sir Tasker Watkins VC, GBE, PC, DL
12 April 2006
Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE
23 February 2012
203 Welsh Field Hospital
21st April 2014
Her Majesty’s Ship Dragon
18th May 2014