Birthday Honours 2009
Higher Education. Christopher Bruce Ricks of Poetry
Knight Bachelor
“For services to Scholarship.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2009
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The Knight Bachelor was awarded 19 times in the Birthday Honours List 2009 — about 1% of the list.
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Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2009
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Christopher Frank Carandini Lee
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“For services to Drama and to Charity.”
David Charles Baulcombe
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“For services to Plant Science.”
David Forbes Hendry of Economics
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“For services to Social Science.”
Deian Rhys Hopkin
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Education and to Skills. William Ian Ridley Johnston
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“For services to the Police.”
Engineering and to Higher Education. Ian Brownlie
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“For services to public international law.”
Henry Neville Lindley Keswick
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“For services to British business interests overseas and charitable activities in the UK.”
John Garry Hawkes
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“For services to Business and to Vocational Training.”
Paul Joseph Patrick Grant
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“For services to local and national Education.”
Paul Martin Ennals
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Peter Rogers
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“For services to Local Government.”
Prof Charles Duncan Rice
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Aberdeen
“Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Aberdeen. For services to Higher Education.”
Sabaratnam Arulkumaran and Head of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and President
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“For services to Medicine.”
William Arnot Wakeham
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William George Hastings
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“For services to the Tourism Industry and to the community in Northern Ireland.”
Young People. Nicholas Alexander Faldo
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“For services to Golf.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2009
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2009).
Published 14 June 2009.
Retrieved from the London Gazette on 3 July 2026.
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