New Year Honours 2025
Linda Heggs (ruth Cairnie) DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Chair • Babcock International and lately Chair
“For services to Industry.”
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London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
31 December 2024
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
D.B.E.
To be Ordinary Dames Commander of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Linda Ruth HEGGS (Ruth Cairnie)
Chair, Babcock International and lately Chair, Powerful Women Initiative
For services to Industry.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64607 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2025- Role at the time
- Chair, Babcock International and lately Chair
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- Epsom, Surrey
“For services to Industry.”
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The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 13 times in the New Year Honours List 2025 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
7 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Surrey.
What organisation were they with?
Chair, Babcock International and lately Chair.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2025
London Gazette (official record), issue 64607, notice 4782710. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2025).
Published 30 December 2024.
Location (Epsom, Surrey) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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