K.C.B.
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Hon. Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., and who could be heard easily over the orchestra; from Amy Broadbent as Josephine, the captain’s daughter in love with a sailor well beneath her station; and from Carla Rountree, who sang and acted the annoying Cousin Hebe with panache and exquisite timing.
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He was made a C.B. in 1871 and K.C.B. in the following year.
From Project Gutenberg
A week later he was made a K.C.B.!
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Corcoran chides her, and tells her how happy she should be when her hand is to be claimed, that very day, by the great Sir Joseph Porter, K.C.B., the First Lord of the Admiralty.
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The man who is not frightened because he cannot see the danger, is a person of weak mind—a fool—who ought to be locked up lest he walk into a well with eyes open; but the appearance of courage, or rather, as I deny the existence of the thing itself, that appearance which is thought to be courage, that is the thing will carry you through!—get you made K.C.B.,
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