New Year Honours 2012
“For services to Industry.”
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London Gazette page
Knight Bachelor · 2012
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Surrey
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Role, region and citation as recorded for each award.
Knight Bachelor
New Year Honours 2012- Role at the time
- Smith & Nephew plc
- Region
- Surrey
“For services to Industry.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 25 times in the New Year Honours List 2012 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
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 New Year Honours 2012
Andre Konstantin Geim of Physics
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Greater Manchester
“For services to Science.”
Antonio Pappano
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Music.”
Brian Mellor Greenwood
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
“For services to malaria research in Africa.”
Charles Lamb Allen
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.”
Christopher Maxwell Snowden
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Surrey
“For services to Engineering and to Higher Education.”
David Edward Reid
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Essex
“For services to Business and to Charity.”
Geoffrey Hall
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Nottinghamshire
“For services to Further Education.”
Geoffrey William Hill
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“For services to Literature.”
George Iacobescu
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Charity, Community and the Financial Services Industry.”
Gerald Acher
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Surrey
“For charitable services.”
Herbert Douglas Ellis
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
West Midlands
“For charitable services.”
John Alexander Armitt
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Engineering and Construction.”
John Gerald Patrick Sissons
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“For services to Research and Education in Clinical Medicine.”
Konstantin Novoselov of Physics
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Greater Manchester
“For services to Science.”
Mark Brian Pepys
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Biomedicine.”
Michael David Bear
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Regeneration, Charity and the City of London.”
Paul Ruddock
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to the Arts.”
Peter Lytton Bazalgette
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Broadcasting.”
Robert Russell
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Essex
“For public service.”
Rodney Malcolm Aldridge
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Young People.”
Roger James Gale
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Kent
“For public and political services.”
Simon Kirwan Donaldson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Middlesex
“For services to Mathematics.”
Stephen Robert Bloom
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Medical Science.”
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“For services to Molecular Biology.”
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 (New Year Honours List 2012).
Published 31 December 2011.
Location (Surrey) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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