Birthday Honours 1956
Edwin Briers
• Metropolitah-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company
“For charitable services in Hebburn, County Durham.”
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- Birthday Honours 1956
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- Metropolitah-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company
“For charitable services in Hebburn, County Durham.”
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How common is this award?
The was awarded 18 times in the Birthday Honours List 1956 — about 1% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Metropolitah-Cammell Carriage and Wagon Company.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the same honour in the Birthday Honours 1956
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Douglas Clarke
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“For political and public services in Stockport.”
Frederic Collins Hooper
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“For services to Government Departments.”
Geoffrey Upcott Farrant
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“For political and public services in Somerset.”
Gerard Spencer Summers
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“for Northampton, 1940-45 and for Aylesbury since 1950.”
Jean Gately
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“For services during the flooding of the Feather River.”
John Burgoyne
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“For political and public services in Luton.”
Leonard Hutton
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“For services to Cricket.”
Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Cecil Russell Moore
Person1956
“for Ayr Burgh.”
Norman Myer
Person1956
“For public and philan- thropic services in the State of Victoria.”
Ronald Lindsay Prain
Person1956
“For public services, in Northern Rhodesia.”
Stanley Graham Rowlandson
Person1956
“For political and public ser- vices in Middlesex.”
Thomas Algernon Brown
Person1956
Thomas Spurgeon Page
Person1956
“For public services in Northern Rhodesia.”
William John Anstruther-Gray
Person1956
“for North Lanarkshire, 1931-1945, and for Berwick and East Lothian since 1951.”
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Where this record comes from
· 1956
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1956 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 14 June 1956.
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