New Year Honours 2021
Lewis Hamilton
Knight Bachelor
“For services to Motorsports.”
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London Gazette notice
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Overseas and International List
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
31 December 2020
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to signify her intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned:
Lewis Carl Davidson HAMILTON M.B.E.
Formula One Racing Driver
For services to Motorsports.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63218 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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The Knight Bachelor was awarded 18 times in the New Year Honours List 2021 — about 1% of the list.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2021
Charles Cox
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Tavistock, Devon
“For parliamentary and political service.”
Christopher Le Brun
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
London, Greater London
“For services to the Arts.”
David Lewis
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
London, Greater London
“For services to the Food Industry and to Business.”
David Pearson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire
“For services to Health and Social Care Integration.”
David Stuart
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Kidlington, Oxfordshire
“For services to Medical Research and to the Scientific Community.”
David Thompson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Stockport, Greater Manchester
“For services to Policing.”
Dieter Helm
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Bampton, Oxfordshire
“For services to the Environment, to Energy and to Utilities Policy.”
Francis Mccormac
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Stirling, Stirling and Falkirk
“For services to Education and to the Economy.”
Graham Vick
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
London, Greater London
“For services to Music and to the Regions.”
Guy Weston
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
London, Greater London
“For services to Philanthropy and to Charity.”
Peter Wanless
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Sevenoaks, Kent
“For services to Children, to Young People and to the Charitable Sector.”
Richard Atkins
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Exeter, Devon
“For services to Further Education.”
Robert Chote
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
London, Greater London
“For services to Fiscal Policy and to the Economy.”
Roger Alexander Deakins
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
“For services to Film.”
Simon Baron-cohen
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to People with Autism.”
Stephen Deuchar
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
Westwell, Kent
“For services to the Arts.”
Thomas
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2021
“For public and political service.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2021
London Gazette (official record), issue 63218, notice 3703125. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2021).
Published 30 December 2020.
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