Birthday Honours 2010
John Douglas ORR CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Past President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. For services to Medicine.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Past President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. For services to Medicine.
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“Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Past President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. For services to Medicine.”
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“Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Past President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. For services to Medicine.”
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“Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Past President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. For services to Medicine.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and Past President, Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. For services to Medicine.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 104 times in the Birthday Honours List 2010 — about 11% of the list.
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75 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Edinburgh.
How widely is this recognised?
4,271 people have been recognised for Health & Social Care.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2010
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2010). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2010.
Location (Edinburgh) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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