Why honour people for doing their jobs?

I WAS incensed to learn that Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, is in line to be honoured with a ‘full’ knighthood now that he has become a UK citizen – instead of the honorary knighthood he would have received as a Canadian citizen.

But I question why he (and any other public servant, for that matter) should be rewarded with any form of honour simply for doing the jobs

they are well rewarded for doing anyway.

Honours should be reserved for those who go above and beyond what is normally expected of them, such as people who for little or no financial reward devote a great deal of time to raising money for charities, or make some remarkable discovery or breakthrough in a particular field of human endeavour.

But I will not be holding my breath that there will be any meaningful reform of the system anytime soon.

Robert Readman Bournemouth, Dorset