Editing Max Beerbohm (section)

==The Maximilian Society==
Beerbohm was knighted by [[George VI of the United Kingdom|George VI]] in 1939; it was thought that this mark of esteem had been delayed by his mockery in 1911 of the king's parents, about whom he had written a satiric verse, "Ballade Tragique a Double Refrain".<ref>{{Citation | url = http://marnie1591.blogspot.com/2013/11/ballade-tragique-double-refrain-by-sir.html | title = Ballade Tragique a Double Refrain by Sir Max Beerbohm| date = 16 November 2013}}.</ref> In August 1942, on the occasion of Beerbohm's seventieth birthday, the Maximilian Society was created by a London drama critic in his honour. It had seventy distinguished members, including [[J. B. Priestley]], [[Walter de la Mare]], [[Augustus John]], [[William Rothenstein]], [[Edward Lutyens]], [[Osbert Lancaster]], [[Siegfried Sassoon]], [[Osbert Sitwell]], [[Leonard Woolf]], [[John Betjeman]], [[Kenneth Clark]], [[E. M. Forster]], [[Graham Greene]], and [[Laurence Housman]],<ref>'The Seventy Maximilians' – Programme for the Birthday Party to Sir Max Beerbohm at the Players Theatre – The Maximilian Society, 24 August 1942– [[British Library]]</ref> and planned to add one more member on each of Beerbohm's successive birthdays. In their first meeting a banquet was held in his honour, and he was presented with seventy bottles of wine.<ref name=dict/>