New Year Honours 2020
David Swiffen MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
“For services to Wellbeing and to Inter-faith dialogue in Guernsey.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
For services to Wellbeing and to Inter-faith dialogue in Guernsey.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
28 December 2019
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
M.B.E.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
David Edward de Hubie SWIFFEN
GUERNSEY, Crown Dependencies
For services to Wellbeing and to Inter-faith dialogue in Guernsey.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62866 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2020
London Gazette (official record), issue 62866, notice 3455525. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2020).
Published 27 December 2019.
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