New Year Honours 1958
“For services to the blind in Kent.”
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- New Year Honours 1958
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- Central Electricity Authority
“For services to the blind in Kent.”
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How common is this award?
The was awarded 16 times in the New Year Honours List 1958 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the same honour in the New Year Honours 1958
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Person1958
“For political and public services in Sheffield.”
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Person1958
“For political and public ser- .”
Daniel Thomas Williams
Person1958
“For political and public services in Cardiff.”
Ernest Stagey
Person1958
“For political services in Liverpool.”
Foster Gotch Robinson
Person1958
“For public services in Bristol.”
Fred Parkes
Person1958
“For political and public services in Lancashire.”
George Benson
Person1958
“For public services.”
Halford Walter Lupton Reddish
Person1958
“For political and public services in Rugby.”
John Weir Russell
Person1958
“For political services in London.”
Parliament for Morpeth
Person1958
“for Farnham since 1937.”
Stanley Jaffa Harley
Person1958
“For political and public services in the Midlands.”
Steven Runciman
Person1958
“For services to Scholarship.”
William Crane
Person1958
“For public services in Nottingham.”
William George Dismore Upjohn
Person1958
“For services to Surgery.”
Yusufali Alibhai Karimjee Jivanjee
Person1958
“For public services in Tanganyika.”
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· 1958
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1958 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1957.
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