Birthday Honours 2025
Keith Kirby MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
“For services to Ecology, Forestry and Woodland Management.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
For services to Ecology, Forestry and Woodland Management.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
14 June 2025
THE KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
M.B.E.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Dr. Keith James KIRBY
Honorary Visiting Researcher, Department of Biology, University of Oxford
For services to Ecology, Forestry and Woodland Management.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64759 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to Ecology, Forestry and Woodland Management.”
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How common is this award?
The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 607 times in the Birthday Honours List 2025 — about 40% of the list.
In their area
82 Member of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Oxfordshire.
How widely is this recognised?
1,911 people have been recognised for Environment & Agriculture.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2025
London Gazette (official record), issue 64759, notice 4906537. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2025).
Published 13 June 2025.
Location (Oxford, Oxfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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