New Year Honours 2008
Brian William Vickers
Knight Bachelor
Senior Fellow • School of Advanced Study
“For services to Literary Scholarship.”
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New Year Honours 2008- Role at the time
- Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study
“For services to Literary Scholarship.”
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“For services to Literary Scholarship.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 21 times in the New Year Honours List 2008 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Senior Fellow, School of Advanced Study.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2008
Alasdair Uist Macdonald
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“For services to Education.”
Alexander Fred Markham
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“For services to Medicine.”
Bruce Anthony John Ponder
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“For services to Medicine.”
Ian Gerald McAllister
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“For services to Transport.”
Ian Wilmut
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Tweeddale
“for Regenerative Medicine.”
James Meyer Sassoon
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“For services to the Finance Industry and to public service.”
John Boothman Stuttard
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“For public service.”
John Irving Bell
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“For services to Medicine.”
John James Griffen Good
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Renfrewshire
“For services to Industry in Scotland.”
John Michael Ashworth
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“For public service.”
John Stewart Savill of Experimental Medicine
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“For services to Clinical Science.”
John William Sorrell
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“For services to the Creative Industries.”
Michael Frank Harris
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“For public service.”
Michael Parkinson
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“For services to Broadcasting.”
Nicholas Roger Kenyon
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“For services to Classical Music.”
Patrick Hugh Haren
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“For services to the Electricity Industry in Northern Ireland.”
Robert Naylor
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“For services to Healthcare.”
Roger Mark Jowell
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“For services to Social Science.”
Stuart Alan Ransom Rose
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“For services to the Retail Industry and to Corporate Social Responsibility.”
Timothy Michael Martin O’Shea
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Edinburgh
“For services to Higher Education.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2008
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers this round — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 29 December 2007.
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