Birthday Honours 2015
Alexander Moinet POOTS CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Organisation: Manchester International Festival
“Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director, Manchester International Festival. For services to the Arts.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director, Manchester International Festival. For services to the Arts.
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“Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director, Manchester International Festival. For services to the Arts.”
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“Chief Executive Officer and Artistic Director, Manchester International Festival. For services to the Arts.”
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The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 113 times in the Birthday Honours List 2015 — about 9% of the list.
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707 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from London.
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How widely is this recognised?
3,514 people have been recognised for Arts & Culture.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2015
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2015). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2015.
Location (London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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