New Year Honours 2005
Brian Howard Harrison
Knight Bachelor
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“For services to Scholarship.”
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“For services to Scholarship.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 24 times in the New Year Honours List 2005 — about 2% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2005
Alan Jeffrey Jones
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to the Automotive Industry.”
Andrew Paul Haines
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Medicine.”
Basil Spyridonos Markesinis
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to international legal relations.”
Clive John Bourne
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
Clive William John Granger
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to economics.”
David Veness
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to the Police.”
Derek Wanless
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For public service.”
Desmond Rea
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to the Police.”
Digby Marritt Jones
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Business.”
James Cressee Elphinstone Underwood
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Medicine.”
John Hartley Lawton
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Ecological Science.”
John Stuart Vickers
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For public service.”
Jonathan Michael
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to the NHS.”
Mark John Spurgeon Allen
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
Matthew Clive Pinsent
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Sport.”
Mervyn Kay Pedelty
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Business and to Charity.”
Michael John Tomlinson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“for Hackney Schools.”
Peter James Ogden
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Education.”
Richard John Staite
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Education.”
Robert Gerard Finch
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to the City of London.”
Robert Rees Davies
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to History.”
Robert Walker Kerslake
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Local Government.”
Roger Spencer Jones
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2005
“For services to Business and Training in Wales.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2005
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 2005 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 31 December 2004.
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