Birthday Honours 2018
Knight Bachelor · 2018
“For services to the Detection of Gravitational Waves.”
Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2013
“Chief Executive, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance and Research Professor in Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow. For services to Science.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Chief Executive, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance and Research Professor in Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow. For services to Science.
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London Gazette notice
Knights Bachelor
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
9 June 2018
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to signify her intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned:
Professor James HOUGH O.B.E.
Associate Director, Institute for Gravitational Research, University of Glasgow
For services to the Detection of Gravitational Waves.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62310 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
Location
Dunbartonshire
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Role, region and citation as recorded for each award.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 2013- Role at the time
- Chief Executive
- Region
- Dunbartonshire
“Chief Executive, Scottish Universities Physics Alliance and Research Professor in Natural Philosophy, University of Glasgow. For services to Science.”
Knight Bachelor
Birthday Honours 2018- Role at the time
- Associate Director
- Region
- Dunbartonshire
“For services to the Detection of Gravitational Waves.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 23 times in the Birthday Honours List 2018 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Associate Director, University of Glasgow.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2018
Ber Helfgott
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
Middlesex
“For services to Holocaust Remembrance and Education.”
Bernard Jenkin
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For political and public service.”
Charles Saumarez Smith
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
“For services to Art, to Architecture and to Culture in the UK.”
Christopher Dobson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
Cambridgeshire
“For services to Science and Higher Education.”
Christopher Ham
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
West Midlands
“For services to Health Policy and to Management.”
Christopher Husbands
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
South Yorkshire
“For services to Higher Education.”
David Haslam
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
Dorset
“For services to NHS Leadership.”
David John Mark Green
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For services to the Criminal Justice System.”
Douglas Flint
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
East Sussex
“For services to the Finance Industry.”
Geoffrey Tantum
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
“For services to British interests overseas.”
James Eadie
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For services to the Law and to Government.”
James Ratcliffe
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For services to Business and to Investment.”
Kazuo Ishiguro
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For services to Literature.”
Kenneth Dalglish
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
Merseyside
“For services to Football, to Charity and to the City of Liverpool.”
Lloyd Dorfman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For services to Philanthropy and the Arts.”
Mark Rowley
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
Surrey
“For services to Policing.”
Paul Preston
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
“For services to UK/Spain relations.”
Prof Leslie Colin Ebdon
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
Hertfordshire
“For services to Higher Education and to Social Mobility.”
Simon Keenlyside
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For services to Music.”
Simon Schama
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For services to History.”
Steven Cowley
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
Oxfordshire
“For services to Science and to the Development of Nuclear Fusion.”
Tim Waterstone
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2018
London
“For services to Bookselling and to charity.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2018
London Gazette (official record), issue 62310, notice 3041284. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2018).
Published 8 June 2018.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2013
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2013).
Published 15 June 2013.
Location (Dunbartonshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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