Birthday Honours 2023
Melanie Welham DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
“For services to Bioscience.”
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
17 June 2023
THE KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty’s Birthday, 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:
Professor Melanie Joanne WELHAM
Executive Chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
For services to Bioscience.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64082 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to Bioscience.”
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The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 10 times in the Birthday Honours List 2023 — about 1% of the list.
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2023
London Gazette (official record), issue 64082, notice 4378052. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2023).
Published 16 June 2023.
Location (Wiltshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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