New Year Honours 1952
Convener of Sheriffs. KBE
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE)
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1952 with the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) · 1952
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 10 times in the New Year Honours List 1952 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1952
Alfred Louis Chick
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Ben Lewis Barnett
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“for over fifty years and Chairman of 'the Royal National Lifeboat Institution for twenty-seven years.”
Charles Dalrymple Belgrave
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Edward Hale
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George Sangster Dunnett
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Harry Finlayson Methven
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Chairman
Henry Arthur Hobson
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Lieutenant-General Francis Wogan Festing
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Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Alan Brooke Hawkins
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Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 1952
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1952 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1951.
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