Birthday Honours 2023
Eleanor Milner-gulland DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
• Department of Biology
“For services to International Conservation.”
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London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
17 June 2023
THE KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
D.B.E.
To be Ordinary Dames Commander of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Eleanor Jane MILNER-GULLAND
Tasso Leventis Chair in Biodiversity, Department of Biology, Oxford University
For services to International Conservation.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64082 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to International Conservation.”
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How common is this award?
The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 10 times in the Birthday Honours List 2023 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
3 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Berkshire.
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Department of Biology.
How widely is this recognised?
1,438 people have been recognised for Environment & Agriculture.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2023
London Gazette (official record), issue 64082, notice 4378058. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2023).
Published 16 June 2023.
Location (Henley-on-Thames, Berkshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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