New Year Honours 2013
Martin Coulson SPRAY CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
company director
Organisation: Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust
“Chief Executive, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. For services to Nature Conservation.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Chief Executive, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. For services to Nature Conservation.
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New Year Honours 2013- Role at the time
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“Chief Executive, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. For services to Nature Conservation.”
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“Chief Executive, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust. For services to Nature Conservation.”
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How common is this award?
The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 103 times in the New Year Honours List 2013 — about 8% of the list.
In their area
117 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Oxfordshire.
What organisation were they with?
company director, Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.
How widely is this recognised?
1,110 people have been recognised for Environment & Agriculture.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2013
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2013). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2012.
Location (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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