Birthday Honours 2012
Education
Knight Bachelor
Recognised in the Birthday Honours 2012 with the Knight Bachelor.
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 27 times in the Birthday Honours List 2012 — about 2% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2012
Alchemy Foundation. Roger Gordon Fry
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“For services to UK education internationally and UK/Spain cultural relations.”
Antony Brian Baldry
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Oxfordshire
“For Public and Political Service.”
Brian Walter Pomeroy
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Financial Inclusion and to the Voluntary Sector.”
Charles William Dunstone
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London
“Founder and Chairman, Carphone Warehouse Group. For services to the Mobile Communications Industry and to charity.”
David Mcvicar
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London
“Director. For services to Opera.”
Dr Daniel Moynihan
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London
“Chief Executive, The Harris Federation of London Schools. For services to Education.”
Dr William Haughey
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Glasgow
“For services to Business and Philanthropy.”
His Honour Judge Clive Vernon Callman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Law, Education and Charity.”
Kenneth Charles Branagh
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Berkshire
“For services to Drama and to the community in Northern Ireland.”
Michael Birt
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“For services to the Crown and the community in Jersey.”
Michael Boyd
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Warwickshire
“Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company. For services to Drama.”
Peter Birkett
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Hertfordshire
“Chief Executive, Barnfield College, Luton. For services to Further Education and the Academy Movement.”
Peter Fahy
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Cheshire
“Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police. For services to Policing.”
Professor James Mcdonald
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Ayrshire and Arran
“Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Strathclyde. For services to Education, Engineering and the Economy.”
Professor Michael John Howard Sterling
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Gloucestershire
“For services to Higher Education, Science and Engineering.”
Professor Richard John Evans
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. For services to Scholarship.”
Professor Robert Ian Lechler
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London
“Vice Principal (Health), King's College London and Executive Director, King's Health Partners. For services to Academic Medicine”
Professor William Timothy Gowers
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Cambridgeshire
“Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge. For services to Mathematics.”
Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe
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Surrey
“Philanthropist. For charitable services through the Alchemy Foundation.”
Richard William Ground
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“For services to justice in Bermuda.”
Robin Bosher
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Kent
“Lately Headteacher, Fairlawn Primary School, Haseltine Primary School and Kilmorie Primary School, Lewisham. For services to Education”
Rt Hon Malcolm Gray Bruce
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Aberdeenshire
“For Public and Political Service.”
The Right Honourable George Reid
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Stirling and Falkirk
“For services to Scottish Politics and Public Life.”
Thomas Anthony Cunningham
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Cumbria
“For Public and Political Service.”
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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 15 June 2012.
Retrieved from the London Gazette on 3 July 2026.
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