Birthday Honours 2016
David Hamilton
Knight Bachelor
“For political and parliamentary service.”
London Gazette notice
Knights Bachelor
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
11 June 2016
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to signify her intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned:
David HAMILTON
For political and parliamentary service.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61608 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Midlothian
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“For political and parliamentary service.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 23 times in the Birthday Honours List 2016 — about 2% of the list.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2016
Alexander Fergusson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Dumfries
“For services to Politics, the Scottish Parliamentary Process and Public Life in Scotland.”
Angus Deaton
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
“For services to research in economics and international affairs.”
Anthony Cragg
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
“For services to Visual Arts and UK-German relations.”
Damon Buffini
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Surrey
“For voluntary and charitable services.”
David Clary
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
“For services to international science.”
David Grant
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Vale of Glamorgan
“For services to Engineering, Technology and Skills in the UK.”
Desmond Swayne
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Hampshire
“For political and parliamentary service.”
Douglass Turnbull
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Tyne and Wear
“For services to Health Care Research and Treatment particularly Mitochondrial Disease.”
Jeffrey Donaldson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Down
“For political service.”
John Strang
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Surrey
“For services to Medicine, Addictions and Public Health.”
Larry Siedentop
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
London
“For services to Political Science.”
Lucian Charles Grainge
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
“For services to British business and inward investment.”
Michael Craig-martin
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
London
“For services to Art.”
Paul Marshall
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
London
“For services to Education and Philanthropy.”
Peter Wood
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Surrey
“For services to UK Industry and Philanthropy.”
Philip Hulme
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
London
“For services to Technology and to Philanthropy.”
Richard Treisman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
London
“For services to Biomedical Science and to Cancer Research.”
Roderick Stewart
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Essex
“For services to Music and charity.”
Roger Scruton
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Wiltshire
“For services to Philosophy, Teaching and Public Education.”
Simon Robey
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
London
“For services to Music.”
Stanley William Wells
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
Warwickshire
“For services to Scholarship.”
Terence Keith Morgan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2016
West Midlands
“For services to UK Infrastructure, Skills and Employment.”
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Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2016
London Gazette (official record), issue 61608, notice 2551505. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2016).
Published 11 June 2016.
Location (Midlothian) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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