New Year Honours 2024
Lee Mcdonough CB
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Director General • Net Zero
Organisation: Net Zero
“For services to Energy and Climate.”
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London Gazette notice
Order of the Bath
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
30 December 2023
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotion in, and appointments to, the Most Honourable Order of the Bath:
C.B.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or Companions, of the said Most Honourable Order:
Lee McDONOUGH
Director General, Net Zero, Nuclear and International, Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
For services to Energy and Climate.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64269 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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New Year Honours 2024- Role at the time
- Director General, Net Zero
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- London, Greater London
“For services to Energy and Climate.”
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How common is this award?
The Companion of the Order of the Bath was awarded 17 times in the New Year Honours List 2024 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
70 Companion of the Order of the Bath recipients are from Greater London.
What organisation were they with?
Director General, Net Zero.
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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Brendan Threlfall
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“For Public Service.”
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James Morley
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John Robert Mead
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Jonathan Marron
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London, Greater London
“For services to Public Health.”
Kenneth Thomson
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Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh
“For Public Service.”
Kevin Copsey
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Liam Laurence Smyth
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London, Greater London
“For services to Parliament.”
Neil O’connor
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Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
“For services to Building Safety.”
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Lechlade, Gloucestershire
“For Public Service.”
Ruth Hannant
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Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
“For Public Service.”
Simon Millhouse
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London, Greater London
“For services to Defence.”
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Lisa Clare Pinney
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Newark, Nottinghamshire
“For services to the Environment.”
Stephen Andrew Smith
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Oxford, Oxfordshire
“For services to Climate Science.”
Michael Cooper
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Swindon, Wiltshire
“For services to Charity and to Sustainability.”
Stephen Jess
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Bangor, County Down
“For services to Agriculture in Northern Ireland.”
Adrian Isaac
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Boston, Lincolnshire
“For services to the Environment.”
Philip Stocker
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Badminton, Gloucestershire
“For services to Farming and to Animal Welfare.”
Caterina Goodhart
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London, Greater London
“For services to Conservation and Heritage Crafts.”
Ian Glendinning
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Magherafelt, County Londonderry
“For services to Country Sports and to Conservation.”
Camilla Fyfe (milly Fyfe)
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Northampton, Northamptonshire
“For services to Farmers and to Family Nutrition.”
Alison Field
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Winchester, Hampshire
“For services to Forestry.”
Mary Colwell
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Bristol, City of Bristol
“For services to Nature.”
Matthew Lindsey-clark
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Doynton, Gloucestershire
“For services to Horticulture and to Philanthropy.”
Sarah Chimbwandira
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Bordon, Hampshire
“For services to the Environment.”
Margaret Boanas
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London, Greater London
“For services to the Meat Sector, to Trade and to Promoting Opportunities for Women.”
Wesley Aston
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Armagh, County Armagh
“For services to Agriculture.”
Maitland Mackie
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Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
“For services to Farming, to Business Innovation and to Sustainability.”
Margaret Haynes
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Chichester, West Sussex
“For services to Education, to Sustainability, to the Environment and to the community in West Sussex.”
Daniel Horn-phathanothai
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“For services to International Development and tackling Climate Change.”
Alexander Rhodes
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“For services to Global Conservation.”
Jon Wheatley
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Somerset
“For services to Horticulture and to Charity.”
Donald Starritt
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Crumlin, County Antrim
“For services to Road Safety and to Environmental Protection.”
Professor Pearson
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Boston, Lincolnshire
“For services to Agricultural Innovation and Education.”
Josephine Lavelle
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Worthing, West Sussex
“For services to Forestry.”
Alistair Jinks
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Coleraine, County Londonderry
“For services to the Environment and to the Economy.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Companion of the Order of the Bath · 2024
London Gazette (official record), issue 64269, notice 4519287. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2024).
Published 29 December 2023.
Location (London, Greater London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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