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Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)

British royal order of chivalry

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem, commonly known as the Order of St John, and also known as St John International, is an order of chivalry constituted in 1888 by royal charter from Queen Victoria and dedicated to St John the Baptist.

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“Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)” enters the record as british royal order of chivalry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Order, Saint and John can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Order, Saint and John.
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“Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Order, Saint and John provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 14, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1888.

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This entry incorporates text from “Order of Saint John (chartered 1888)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.