Birthday Honours 2012
Charles William Dunstone
Knight Bachelor
Founder and Chairman • Carphone Warehouse Group
“For services to the Mobile Communications Industry and to charity.”
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Knight Bachelor
For services to the Mobile Communications Industry and to charity.
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Knight Bachelor
Birthday Honours 2012- Role at the time
- Founder and Chairman, Carphone Warehouse Group
- Region
- London
“For services to the Mobile Communications Industry and to charity.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 22 times in the Birthday Honours List 2012 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Founder and Chairman, Carphone Warehouse Group.
How widely is this recognised?
16,371 people have been recognised for Community & Voluntary Service.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2012
Antony Brian Baldry
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Oxfordshire
“For Public and Political Service.”
Brian Walter Pomeroy
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
Daniel Moynihan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
Chief Executive
David McVicar
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Opera.”
His Honour Judge Clive Vernon Callman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Law, Education and Charity.”
James McDonald
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Ayrshire and Arran
Principal and Vice Chancellor
Kenneth Charles Branagh
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Berkshire
“For services to Drama and to the community in Northern Ireland.”
Michael Boyd
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Warwickshire
“For services to Drama.”
Michael John Howard Sterling
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Gloucestershire
Peter Birkett
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Hertfordshire
“For services to Further Education and the Academy Movement.”
Peter Fahy
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cheshire
“For services to Policing.”
Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Surrey
Richard John Evans
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“For services to Scholarship.”
Richard William Ground
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
“For services to justice in Bermuda.”
Robert Ian Lechler
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Academic Medicine.”
Robin Bosher
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Kent
“For services to Education.”
Roger Gordon Fry
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
“For services to UK education internationally and UK/Spain cultural relations.”
Thomas Anthony Cunningham
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cumbria
“For Public and Political Service.”
Thomas Michael Sydney Hughes-Hallett
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
Chief Executive
William Haughey
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Glasgow
“For services to Business and Philanthropy.”
William Timothy Gowers
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“For services to Mathematics.”
In the same field
Others recognised for Community & Voluntary Service
Across the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records, 16,371 people have been recognised for Community & Voluntary Service. See the full list →
Alexander Gibson
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Brentwood, Essex
“For Charitable Service.”
Michael Cooper
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Swindon, Wiltshire
“For services to Charity and to Sustainability.”
Alison Hickman
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to the community in Sierra Leone.”
Charles Entwisle
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to Charity and to Vulnerable People in Mallorca.”
Hazel Tomkins
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Glasgow, City of Glasgow
“For Charitable Service.”
Steven Thompson
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Liverpool, Merseyside
“For services to Rugby Union Football and to the community in Crosby, Merseyside.”
Carole Stevens
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Swansea, West Glamorgan
“For services to Animal Welfare and to the community in Swansea, West Glamorgan.”
Ian Scott
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
North Ronaldsay, Orkney
“For services to Art and to the community in North Ronaldsay, Orkney.”
Adrian Richards
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Ferryhill, County Durham
“For services to the community in Chester-le-Street, County Durham.”
Derek Reid
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Glasgow, City of Glasgow
“For services to Suicide Awareness and to the community in Castlemilk, Glasgow.”
Sheila Pheely
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Stirling, Stirling and Falkirk
“For Voluntary Service.”
Susan Price
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“For Charitable Service.”
Dharmesh Mistry
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Leeds, West Yorkshire
“For services to Policing and to the community in Bradford and Leeds.”
Hitesh Mehta
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Coventry, West Midlands
“For services to Policing, to Charity and to Volunteering in Coventry, West Midlands.”
Isabella Jenney
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Rushden, Northamptonshire
“For services to the community in East Northamptonshire.”
Lyndsay Howden
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Grimsby, Lincolnshire
“For services to the British Red Cross and to the community in Humberside.”
Margaret Irvine
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Birsay, Orkney
“For services to Drama and to the community in Orkney.”
Christopher Hailey (christopher Hailey-norris)
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
York, North Yorkshire
“For services to Charity and to the community in Yorkshire.”
Elizabeth Greig
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Stoke on Trent, Staffordshire
“For services to the community in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire.”
Jamie Goddard
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Chepstow, Gwent
“For services to Education, to Charity and to Young People.”
Wendy Ford
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Shrewsbury, Shropshire
“For services to Charity and to Young People.”
Audrey Flannagan
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Glasgow, City of Glasgow
“For services to the community in Glasgow.”
Susan Falconer
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Mountain Ash, Mid Glamorgan
“For services to the community in Blackwood, Caerphilly.”
Mary Dumigan
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire and Arran
“For voluntary services to the community in Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2012
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2012).
Published 16 June 2012.
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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