Order Of Merit

Members of the Order of Merit pose in the music room of Buckingham Palace, where they are attending a luncheon, 17th November 1977. From left to right, (standing) Lord Todd, J. B. Priestley, Lord Hinton of Bankside, Sir Alan Lloyd Hodgkin, Sir George Edwards, Lord Penney, Sir Isaiah Berlin, Harold Macmillan, Kenneth Clark, Sir Ronald Syme, Frederick Ashton, Lord Franks. (Seated) Veronica Wedgwood, Sir William Walton, Professor Dorothy Hodgkin, Graham Sutherland, HM the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Henry Moore, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Lord Solly Zuckerman, Malcolm MacDonald. (Photo by George Freston/Fox Photos/Getty Images)