1. Order of Merit (Ukraine) III degree.

2. The winners are ranked in order of merit.

3. This victory helped him finish 38th on the Order of Merit.

4. In 1906, Ōyama was awarded the Order of Merit by King Edward VII.

5. He received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1952.

6. He finished in 86th place on the tour's Order of Merit in his rookie season.

7. The Order of Merit is the highest civilian honour that can be conferred on someone.

8. The monarch alone appoints members of the Order of the Garter, the Order of the Thistle, the Royal Victorian Order and the Order of Merit.

9. In the King's Birthday Honours of 9 June 1949, Russell was awarded the Order of Merit, and the following year he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

10. When he was given the Order of Merit, George VI was affable but slightly embarrassed at decorating a former jailbird, saying, "You have sometimes behaved in a manner that would not do if generally adopted".