Editing Alec McCowen (section)

==Honours==
He was appointed Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] (OBE) in the 1972 [[New Year Honours]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/45554/supplements/11 |title=Viewing Page 11 of Issue 45554 |work=The London Gazette |date=31 December 1971 |access-date=1 March 2012}}</ref> and promoted to Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the [[1986 New Year Honours]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/13018 |title=Alec McCowen &#124; BFI |publisher=British Film Institute |date=2 July 2015 |access-date=10 August 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925150659/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/13018 |archive-date=25 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 2 May 2017, McCowen was accorded a memorial service at [[St Paul's, Covent Garden|St. Paul's Church in Covent Garden]] (known as "the actors' church"), conducted by the Reverend Simon Grigg. McCowen's nephew, Reverend Nigel Mumford, read an affectionate remembrance from McCowen's sister Jean Mumford's memoirs titled "Childhood memories of Pantos". The tribute was read by [[Penelope Wilton|Dame Penelope Wilton]], followed by a tribute from the playwright [[Christopher Hampton]]. [[Rebecca Trehearn]] sang "Bill" from ''[[Show Boat]]'', which was followed by a tribute from the theatre critic [[Michael Billington (critic)|Michael Billington]] and a tribute by the actor [[Malcolm Sinclair (actor)|Malcolm Sinclair]]. After final prayers a plaque to McCowen was dedicated by Grigg to the left of the altar.{{citation needed|date=October 2017}}