New Year Honours 2009
Martyn Murray BAKER OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Organisation: City of London Corporation
“Lately Director of Economic Development, City of London Corporation. For services to Local Government.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Lately Director of Economic Development, City of London Corporation. For services to Local Government.
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“Lately Director of Economic Development, City of London Corporation. For services to Local Government.”
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The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 232 times in the New Year Honours List 2009 — about 24% of the list.
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1,264 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from London.
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2,602 people have been recognised for Government & Public Service.
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Dundee
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Staffordshire
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London
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Bernard Lewis
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Cambridgeshire
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Somerset
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Hannah Elizabeth Whittock
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Claire Louise Healy
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Paul Felix Hughes
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Nicola Millington
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Scott Alan Dunning
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Rufus John Drabble
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“For services to British Foreign Policy, to Trade and to British Nationals Overseas.”
Ifeanyi Agboola
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Andrew Waggett
PersonOfficer Order Of The British Empire · 2026
“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Fern Horine
PersonOfficer Order Of The British Empire · 2026
“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2009
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2009). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2008.
Location (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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