New Year Honours 1972
John Henry Orr OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
lately Chief Constable • Lothians and Peebles Constabulary
Organisation: Lothians and Peebles Constabulary
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1972 with the Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) · 1972
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 1972- Role at the time
- lately Chief Constable, Lothians and Peebles Constabulary
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How common is this award?
The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 290 times in the New Year Honours List 1972 — about 22% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
lately Chief Constable, Lothians and Peebles Constabulary.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 1972
- Alexander Fergus Mackain-Bremner Royal Anglian Regiment.
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
The Royal Anglian Regiment
Alan Gilbert Kennedy
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Royal Navy
Alexander d'Agapeyeff
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
President
Alexander Duncan McCOWEN
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Actor.
Alexander Martin Sellar
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Alexander Meston Milne
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Alexander Miller Stephen
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Principal
Alexander Skeffington Johnson
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
“For services to medicine.”
Alfred Pollard
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Assistant Director
Alistair Edgar Gillespie
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Alvingham
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Andrew Charles Blair
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Anthony Parker
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Anthony Rowland Guy Standing
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
“For ser- vices to British interests in Kuwait.”
Archibald Hunter
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Art History.
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Arthur George Dye
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
“For local government and social services in Cheltenham.”
Arthur Graham Harrison
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Arthur James Bettridge
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
“For services to local government and the elderly in Cheltenham.”
Arthur James Carrington
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Athole John Spalding Stewart
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
Barbara Macgregor Guest
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
“For services to charity.”
Basil Crandles Smith' Slater
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
General Medical Practitioner
Bernard Drake Scriven
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 1972
“For services to Export.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 1972
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1972 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1971.
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