New Year Honours 1972
Esmond Otho Durlacher
Knight Bachelor
“For political and public services in London.”
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Knight Bachelor · 1972
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 38 times in the New Year Honours List 1972 — about 3% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 1972
Alan Louis Charles Bullock
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“For services to Export.”
Alexander Forbes McDONALD
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“For services to Export.”
Archibald Edward Russell
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Bernard Richard Braine
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“For political and public services.”
Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis
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Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton
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Clive Wentworth Uhr
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“For services to medicine and the community.”
Cyril Rupert English
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Director General
Edward Stanley Gotch Robinson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
“For services to Numismatics and the Ashmolean Museum.”
Einar Athelstan Gordon Caroe
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
Fred Hoyle
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
G.C.B. K.C.B.
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
Gilbert James Morley Longden
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
“For political and public services.”
Harold Macdonald Steward
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Herbert Ashworth
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
Chairman
Hugh Walter Kingwell Wontner
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
John Andrew McKAY
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
John Dudley Harmer
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
“For political and public services in the South-East.”
John Howie Flint Brotherston
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
Chief Medical Officer
Joseph Foster Cairns Mayor of Belfast.
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
Justice James Kenneth Manning
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
Justice James Wicks
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
“For services-~to~" transport, charities and universities.”
Kenneth Sholl Ferrand Corley
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
“For services to Export.”
Martin Roth of Psychological Medi- cine
PersonKnight Bachelor · 1972
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Knight Bachelor · 1972
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1972 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1971.
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