New Year Honours 1998
Giles Patrick Stretton Downes CVO
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
Partner • Sidell Gibson Partnership
“For services in connection with the restoration of the fire damage at Windsor Castle.”
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
For services in connection with the restoration of the fire damage at Windsor Castle.
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
New Year Honours 1998- Role at the time
- Partner, Sidell Gibson Partnership
“For services in connection with the restoration of the fire damage at Windsor Castle.”
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
“For services in connection with the restoration of the fire damage at Windsor Castle.”
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Giles Patrick Stretton Downes
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO)
“For services in connection with the restoration of the fire damage at Windsor Castle.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Royal Victorian Order was awarded 10 times in the New Year Honours List 1998 — about 1% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Partner, Sidell Gibson Partnership.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in the New Year Honours 1998
Anthony Charles McClure Mather
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Charles Roderick Curwen
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Diana Marion Farnham
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Hugh Ashley Roberts
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Malcolm Cyril Pinchin
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Miles Garth Hunt-Davis
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Robert James Maxwell
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Susan Richenda Elton
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Thomas Armitage Hall
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Commander of the Royal Victorian Order · 1998
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1998 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1997.
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