New Year Honours 2012
Mark Vincent James CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Chief Executive • Carmarthenshire County Council
Organisation: Carmarthenshire County Council
“For services to Local Government in Wales.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) · 2012
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Carmarthenshire
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2012- Role at the time
- Chief Executive, Carmarthenshire County Council
- Region
- Carmarthenshire
“For services to Local Government in Wales.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 106 times in the New Year Honours List 2012 — about 9% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Chief Executive, Carmarthenshire County Council.
How widely is this recognised?
4,317 people have been recognised for Government & Public Service.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2012
Andrew Burnett
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London
“For services to the British Museum and Numismatics.”
Andrew Dutton Mason
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Andrew Marles
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Monmouthshire
“For services to the Fire and Rescue Service.”
Andrew Oliver Tyler
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Wiltshire
Chief Operating Officer
Andrew Sentence
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Essex
“For services to the Economy.”
Andrew William Brown
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Cornwall
“For services to the Advertising Industry.”
Anthony Charles Burton
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London
“For services to Theatre.”
Bryan Samuel Jackson
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Derbyshire
“For services to Manufacturing, the East Midlands Region and the East Midlands Regional Development Agency.”
Catherine Elizabeth Bell
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Down
Charles Giles Clarke
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Somerset
“For services to Cricket.”
Charles William Holroyd
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Cheshire
“For services to Young People and to the community in the North West.”
Clare Juliet Fowler
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London
“For services to Uro- Neurology.”
Clive Vivian Leopold James
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London
“For services to Literature and the Media.”
Dannie Abse
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London
David Anthony Hirst Shaw
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late Royal Regiment of Artillery
David Charles Richmond
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David John Hall
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London
“For services to the Financial Services Industry.”
David Jonathan Flint
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Oxfordshire
“For services to Business and Science.”
David Phillips
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Surrey
“For services to Chemistry.”
Denise Coates
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Cheshire
“For services to the community and Business.”
Dinesh Kumar Makhan Lai Bhugra
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London
“For services to Psychiatry.”
Edwin Davies
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Isle of Man
“For charitable services.”
Eileen Munro of Social Policy
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London
“For services to Children and Families.”
Eileen Thornton
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Merseyside
“For services to Healthcare Education and Training.”
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“For Public Service.”
Christian Philip Hollier Turner
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Lynn Brown
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Gullane, East Lothian
“For services to Policing and Public Service.”
Janette Durbin
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“For Public Service.”
Glynne Jones
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“For Public Service.”
Mark
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Matthew Ellis
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Sapphire Dalton
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Charles Obazuaye
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Corby, Northamptonshire
“For Public Service.”
Michael Mitchell
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Flitwick, Bedfordshire
“For Public Service.”
Jack Emsley
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London, Greater London
“For Public Service.”
Cynthia Davis
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Faversham, Kent
“For Political Service.”
Stephen Davis
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London, Greater London
“For Public Service.”
Jane Sidebottom
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“For service to British Foreign Policy.”
Claire Healy
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Nicola Millington
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Scott Dunning
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Ifeanyi Agboola
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Andrew Waggett
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Alexander Profumo
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Christopher Hammond
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Merrill Powell
PersonMember Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
London, Greater London
“For Political Service.”
Cherry Povall
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Wirrall, Merseyside
“For services to Local Government and to the Magistracy.”
Susan Parsonage
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Wokingham, Berkshire
“For services to Local Government.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2012
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2012).
Published 31 December 2011.
Location (Carmarthenshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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