Birthday Honours 2008
Alan James Beith
Knight Bachelor
“for Berwick-upon-Tweed.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2008
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 14 times in the Birthday Honours List 2008 — about 1% of the list.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2008
Andrew James McMichael
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“For services to Medical Science.”
Business. Michael John Snyder
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Higher Education and to Regeneration in North West. Christopher Richard Watkin Edwards
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James Drummond Bone
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Leonard Raymond Fenwick
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
“For services to Healthcare and to the community in Tyne and Wear.”
Medicine. Richard John Roberts
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
“For services to molecular biology and UK science, USA.”
Moir Lockhead
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
Aberdeen
“Chief Exeutive, First Group. For services to Transport.”
Nicholas John Wald of Environmental and Preventive Medicine
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
Peter John Viggers
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
“for Gosport.”
Philip John Hunter
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
“For services to Education.”
William Desmond Sargent
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
“for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.”
William Moorcroft
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
“For services to local and national Further Education.”
William Samuel Atkinson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2008
“For services to Education and to Community Relations.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2008
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2008).
Published 14 June 2008.
Retrieved from the London Gazette on 3 July 2026.
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