title: List of freemen of the City of Birmingham
text: # List of freemen of the City of Birmingham
  
  Below is a list of Honorary Freemen of the City of Birmingham.
  
  ## List
  
  The City of Birmingham, England has granted Honorary Freedom to individuals and military organisations since 1888. Designation as a Freeman of the City is an honorary title and, subject to a two-thirds majority of the Council, is granted to persons of distinction and those who have rendered eminent services to the City. The following have received this honour (up to 1998):
  
  | Name | Received |
  | - | - |
  | Joseph Chamberlain | 20 March 1888 |
  | Philip Henry Muntz | 23 October 1888 |
  | Thomas Avery JP | 4 October 1892 |
  | George Dixon | 4 January 1898 |
  | John Thackray Bunce | 7 March 1899 |
  | Frederick Roberts, 1st Earl Roberts | 1 January 1901 |
  | Edward Lawley Parker | 31 October 1904 |
  | Jesse Collings | 13 June 1911 |
  | William Kenrick (Birmingham MP)William Kenrick | 13 June 1911 |
  | Frances Corder Clayton | 2 July 1912 |
  | Charles Gabriel Beale Beale | 2 July 1912 |
  | Sir William Henry Bowater | 4 January 1916 |
  | William Moris Hughes | 22 May 1916 |
  | David Lloyd George | 5 February 1921 |
  | Earl Balfour | 22 June 1922 |
  | Sir George Hamilton Kenrick | 25 September 1923 |
  | Sir David Brooks | 25 September 1923 |
  | Sir Austen Chamberlain | 22 February 1926 |
  | Barrow Cadbury | 6 May 1932 |
  | Neville Chamberlain | 6 May 1932 |
  | John Henry Lloyd | 6 May 1932 |
  | Ernest Martineau | 11 July 1938 |
  | William Adlington Cadbury | 11 July 1938 |
  | Wilfred Byng Kenrick | 11 July 1938 |
  | Henry James Sayer | 11 July 1938 |
  | Jan Christiaan Smuts | 19 May 1944 |
  | Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | 31 October 1946 |
  | The Royal Warwickshire Regiment | 1946 |
  | Clement Attlee | 18 October 1947 |
  | Sir William J. Slim | 18 October 1947 |
  | Sir F. H. C. Wiltshire | 18 October 1947 |
  | H. Barrow | 12 April 1949 |
  | A. M. Howes | 16 April 1955 |
  | Sir Barry V. Jackson | 16 April 1955 |
  | Sir S. Vernon | 16 April 1955 |
  | Sir T. B. Pritchett | 7 May 1960 |
  | Sir A. Bradbeer | 7 May 1960 |
  | 268 Regiment, Royal Artillery TA | 4 June 1966 |
  | Sir Francis. F. Griffin | 2 May 1970 |
  | H. Watton | 2 May 1970 |
  | 35th Signal Regiment | 12 September 1970 |
  | E. W. Horton | 15 September 1973 |
  | E. E. Mole | 15 September 1973 |
  | Royal Regiment of Fusiliers | 7 May 1975 |
  | HMS Birmingham | 11 May 1978 |
  | Sir N. B. A. Bosworth | 4 December 1982 |
  | Sir George Adrian Hayhurst Cadbury | 4 December 1982 |
  | Julius Silverman | 4 December 1982 |
  | Queen's Own Hussars | 4 October 1983 |
  | M. A. Brown | 25 October 1986 |
  | F. M. Cocks | 25 October 1986 |
  | Sir Reginald E. Eyre | 23 February 1991 |
  | Baron Howell of Aston Manor | 23 February 1991 |
  | Sir Simon D. Rattle | 1 October 1996 |
  | Lisa Clayton | 1 October 1996 |
  | Royal British Legion (Birmingham County Branch) | 2 October 2010 |
  | Peter Hollingworth | 2011 |
  | RAF Cosford | 19 May 2018 |
  