New Year Honours 2022
Jan Plessis
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Chairman
“For services to Telecommunications and Business.”
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Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
01 January 2022
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to signify her intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned:
Jan Petrus du PLESSIS
Chairman, BT Group
For services to Telecommunications and Business.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63571 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Penn, Buckinghamshire
“For services to Telecommunications and Business.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 23 times in the New Year Honours List 2022 — about 1% of the list.
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2 Knight Bachelor recipients are from Buckinghamshire.
What organisation were they with?
Chairman.
How widely is this recognised?
3,913 people have been recognised for Business & Economy.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2022
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Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2022
London Gazette (official record), issue 63571, notice 3955951. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2022).
Published 31 December 2021.
Location (Penn, Buckinghamshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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