New Year Honours 2013
John Mark Nicholas Leighton
Knight Bachelor
Director General • National Galleries of Scotland
Organisation: National Galleries of Scotland
“For services to Art.”
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Recognised for
Topics
London Gazette page
Knight Bachelor · 2013
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Location
Edinburgh
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Knight Bachelor
New Year Honours 2013- Role at the time
- Director General, National Galleries of Scotland
- Region
- Edinburgh
“For services to Art.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 25 times in the New Year Honours List 2013 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Director General, National Galleries of Scotland.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2013
Bernard Hogan-Howe
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Dorset
“For services to Policing.”
Bradley Marc Wiggins
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Lancashire
“For services to Cycling.”
Charles Benedict Ainslie
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Cornwall
“For services to Sailing.”
Christopher Stone
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West Midlands
“For services to Education.”
David Hugh Wootton Mayor of London
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Kent
“For services to Legal Business, Charity and the City of London.”
David Neil Payne
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Hampshire
“For services to Photonics Research and Applications.”
David Whitlock Tanner
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London
“For services to Rowing and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
Elizabeth Fradd
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Derbyshire
“For services to Cycling and the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.”
George Thomas Berwick
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Essex
“For services to Education.”
Hector William Hepburn Sants
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Oxfordshire
“For services to Financial Services and Regulation.”
Hew Francis Anthony Strachan
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Lanarkshire
“For services to the Ministry of Defence.”
Hossein Yassaie
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Hertfordshire
“For services to Technology and Innovation.”
Ian David Diamond
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Aberdeen
“For services to Social Science and Higher Education.”
Keith Burnett
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South Yorkshire
“For services to Science and Higher Education.”
Kenneth Henry Grange
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London
“For services to Design.”
Martin Gregory Smith
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Oxfordshire
“For charitable services to Education, the Arts and Science.”
Martin James Narey
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North Yorkshire
“For services to Vulnerable People.”
Michael Aron Heller
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London
“For charitable services.”
Nicholas Stephen Williams
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London
“For services to Education.”
Peter Gerard Hendy
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Somerset
“for London.”
Quentin Saxby Blake
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London
“For services to Illustration.”
Richard Charles Scrimgeour Shepherd
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West Midlands
“for Aldridge Brownhill.”
Robert Stephen O’Brien
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Essex
“For services to Healthcare and to the community in London.”
Simon Charles Wessely
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London
“For services to Military Healthcare and to Psychological Medicine.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2013
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2013).
Published 29 December 2012.
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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