Anyone who behaves in a way that might bring an order, decoration or medal into disrepute may have the award revoked (cancelled).
Victoria Cross
1861: Valentine Bambrick (awarded 1858), following his conviction for assault and theft of a comrade's medals. 1861: Edward St John Daniel (awarded 1854?), following his conviction for desertion and evading court martial. 1872: Michael Murphy (awarded 1858?), following his conviction for theft. 1881: Thomas Lane (awarded 1860?), following his conviction for desertion and theft. 1884: Frederick Corbett (awarded 1882?), following his conviction for embezzlement and theft from an officer. 1895: James Collis (awarded 1881), following his conviction for bigamy. ?: James McGuire (awarded 1858), following his conviction for stealing a cow. ?: George Ravenhill (awarded 1901), following his conviction for theft.
Order of the Bath
KB
1814: Thomas Cochrane, Lord Cochrane (appointed 1809; later appointed a GCB in 1847 after the 1815 reforms)
GCB
1816: Eyre Coote (appointed 1815) 1940: Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) (appointed 1923) 1989: Nicolae Ceauşescu 2008: Robert Gabriel Mugabe (appointed 1994)
CB
1975: William George Pottinger (appointed 1972), following his conviction for corruptly receiving gifts from the architect John Poulson (CVO also revoked)
Order of the British Empire
KBE
1980: Albert Royle Henry (appointed 1974), following his conviction for electoral fraud.
DBE
2011: Jean Else (appointed 2001), following a General Teaching Council misconduct hearing banning her from running a school.
CBE
1921: Basil John Blenkinsop Coulson (appointed 1920) 1940: Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (appointed 1929), following his collaboration with Nazi Germany in the occupation of Norway. 1967: Thomas Chambers Windsor Roe (appointed 1953) 1975: John Alan Maudsley (appointed 1970) 1977: George Wilfred Newman (appointed 1966) 1990: Edmund Alexander Rouse (appointed 1987) following his conviction for bribery. 1991: Isidore Jack Lyons (appointed 1967) following his conviction for fraud; also stripped of his knighthood. 2000: John Kevin Ashcroft (appointed 1989) following his conviction for breach of fiduciary duties. 2001: Frederick Alfred John Emery-Wallis (appointed 1999), following his conviction for sexual abuse. 2005: (William) James "Jim" Speechley (appointed 1992) following his conviction for misconduct in a public office.
