Editing Huddersfield (section)

==List of civic honours and freedoms==
Thirty-four people and one military ([[infantry]]) regiment have been granted the Freedom of Huddersfield, between 1889 and 1973.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/you-kmc/mayor/mayormain.shtml |title=Mayor of Kirklees |access-date=24 September 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071101084438/http://www.kirklees.gov.uk/you-kmc/MAYOR/mayormain.shtml |archive-date=1 November 2007 }} Source information supplied by Sally Greenwood at the Mayor's Office (mayors.office@kirklees.gov.uk)</ref>
*Wright Mellor JP DL – (25 September 1889)
*Henry Frederick Beaumont JP DL – (28 August 1894)
*Lt Col [[Albert Rollit|Sir Albert Kaye Rollit]] LLD DLC LittD JP DL – (28 August 1894)
*James Nield Sykes JP – (12 March 1895)
*[[Joseph Woodhead]] JP – (28 October 1898)
*Sir [[Joseph Crosland]] Knt JP DL – (28 October 1898)
*Major Charles Brook – (23 May 1901)
*Major Harold Wilson – (23 May 1901)
*Sir Thomas Brooke Bart JP DL – (25 July 1906)
*Rev Robert Bruce MA DD – (25 July 1906)
*William Brooke JP – (15 October 1913)
*John Sykes JP – (15 October 1913)
*William Henry Jessop JP – (18 September 1918)
*Earnest Woodhead MA JP – (18 September 1918)
*George Thomson JP – (18 September 1918)
*Benjamin Broadbent CBE MA JP – (18 September 1918)
*John Arthur Brooke MA JP – (18 September 1918)
*James Edward Willans JP – (18 September 1918)
*Admiral of the Fleet [[David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty|Earl Beatty]] GCB OM GCVO DSO – (24 July 1920)
*The Rt Hon [[H. H. Asquith]] Earl of Oxford and Asquith, and Viscount Asquith – (6 November 1925)
*Sir William Pick Raynor Knt JP – (17 December 1926)
*Wilfrid Dawson JP – (25 July 1934)
*Rowland Mitchell JP – (25 July 1934)
*James Albert Woolven JP Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur – (25 July 1934)
*Sir [[Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein|Bernard Law Montgomery]] Field-Marshal GCB DSO – (26 October 1945)
*Joseph Barlow JP – (23 June 1949)
*[[Duke of Wellington's Regiment|Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)]] – (2 July 1952)
*Sidney Kaye LLB – (19 November 1957)
*Alderman Arthur Gardiner OBE JP – (11 October 1960)
*Alderman Harry Andrew Bennie Gray CBE JP – (11 October 1960)
*Sir [[Malcolm Sargent]] MusD(Dunelm) MusD(Oxon)(Hons) LLD(Liverpool) Hon RAM Hon FRCO FRCM FRSA – (13 October 1961)
*The Rt Hon [[Harold Wilson]] OBE MP Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury – (1 March 1968)
*Alderman Douglas Graham CBE – (5 March 1973)
*Alderman Reginald Harmley MBE JP – (5 March 1973)
*Alderman Clifford Stephenson – (5 March 1973)

[[File:Freedom Scroll DWR Huddersfield (RLH).JPG|thumb|right|upright|DWR Freedom Scroll]]
On 2 July 1952, in recognition of historic ties and links with the [[The Duke of Wellington's Regiment|Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)]], the Huddersfield County Borough had conferred on the regiment the Freedom of the Town. This gave the regiment the right to march through the town with 'flags flying, bands playing and bayonets fixed'. Many of the town and district's male residents had served in the regiment during its long history. This right was technically lost when merged with Dewsbury to form Kirklees MBC. On 25 March 1979, the latter gave the Freedom of Kirklees to the 3rd battalion of the Yorkshire Volunteers; this being the Duke of Wellington's [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]] unit.

[[File:Yorkshire Regiment, Freedom of Huddersfield(RLH)2008-10-25.JPG|thumb|right|upright|Conferring the Freedom of Huddersfield on the [[Yorkshire Regiment]] 25 October 2008]]
When the 'Dukes' were amalgamated with the [[Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire]] and the [[The Green Howards|Green Howards]]' to form the [[Yorkshire Regiment]] on 6 June 2006 the right to march became extinct. The Regiment requested a resumed right to march. The right given by Kirklees to the 3rd battalion of the Yorkshire Volunteers did not permit any transfer to heirs or successors and effectively ceased when the battalion was amalgamated into the [[East and West Riding Regiment]] (since 2006 being the Yorkshire Regiment's 4th Battalion). Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council amended the original 'Freedom' and transferred it to the Yorkshire Regiment, at a Freedom parade on 25 October 2008.