Birthday Honours 2012
“Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company. For services to Drama.”
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Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company. For services to Drama.
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Knight Bachelor
Birthday Honours 2012- Role at the time
- theatre director
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- Warwickshire
“Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company. For services to Drama.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 22 times in the Birthday Honours List 2012 — about 2% of the list.
In their area
5 Knight Bachelor recipients are from Warwickshire.
What organisation were they with?
theatre director, Royal Shakespeare Company.
How widely is this recognised?
3,514 people have been recognised for Arts & Culture.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2012
Antony Brian Baldry
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Oxfordshire
“For Public and Political Service.”
Brian Walter Pomeroy
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Financial Inclusion and to the Voluntary Sector.”
Charles William Dunstone
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Founder and Chairman, Carphone Warehouse Group. For services to the Mobile Communications Industry and to charity.”
David Mcvicar
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Director. For services to Opera.”
Dr Daniel Moynihan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Chief Executive, The Harris Federation of London Schools. For services to Education.”
Dr William Haughey
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Glasgow
“For services to Business and Philanthropy.”
His Honour Judge Clive Vernon Callman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Law, Education and Charity.”
Kenneth Charles Branagh
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Berkshire
“For services to Drama and to the community in Northern Ireland.”
Peter Birkett
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Hertfordshire
“Chief Executive, Barnfield College, Luton. For services to Further Education and the Academy Movement.”
Peter Fahy
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cheshire
“Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police. For services to Policing.”
Professor James Mcdonald
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Ayrshire and Arran
“Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Strathclyde. For services to Education, Engineering and the Economy.”
Professor Michael John Howard Sterling
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Gloucestershire
“For services to Higher Education, Science and Engineering.”
Professor Richard John Evans
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. For services to Scholarship.”
Professor Robert Ian Lechler
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Vice Principal (Health), King's College London and Executive Director, King's Health Partners. For services to Academic Medicine”
Professor William Timothy Gowers
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge. For services to Mathematics.”
Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Surrey
“Philanthropist. For charitable services through the Alchemy Foundation.”
Robin Bosher
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Kent
“Lately Headteacher, Fairlawn Primary School, Haseltine Primary School and Kilmorie Primary School, Lewisham. For services to Education”
Rt Hon Malcolm Gray Bruce
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Aberdeenshire
“For Public and Political Service.”
The Right Honourable George Reid
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Stirling and Falkirk
“For services to Scottish Politics and Public Life.”
Thomas Anthony Cunningham
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cumbria
“For Public and Political Service.”
Thomas Michael Sydney Hughes-Hallett
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Chief Executive, Marie Curie Cancer Care. For services to Palliative Care.”
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Jean Irene Routley
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Backwell, Somerset
“For services to Church Music and to the community in Backwell, North Somerset”
Jennifer Rosemary Rose-Miller
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Nairn, Nairn
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Angela Jane Manson
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Lisburn, County Antrim
“For services to Youth Musical Theatre”
Rita Helen Lewis (Helen Hopkins)
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Carmarthen, Dyfed
“For services to Music and Music Education”
Paul Kitching
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Wimborne, Dorset
“Head of the Natural History Museum, Tring. For services to Museums and to the community in Tring, Hertfordshire”
Adam Joolia
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Brighton, East Sussex
“Chief Executive Officer, AudioActive. For services to Young People and to Music”
Julia Jones
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Carmarthenshire, Dyfed
“Founder and Director, Llandeilo Fawr Festival of Music. For services to Music”
Pauline Patricia Knifton Hough
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Nantwich, Cheshire
“For services to Theatre and to the community in Nantwich”
Margaret Irvine
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Birsay, Orkney
“Founder, Birsay Drama Group. For services to Drama and to the community in Orkney”
Melanie Jane Houldershaw
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Oxford, Oxfordshire
“For services to Local Theatre and Choir”
Brian Charlton Heald
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Chester, Cheshire
“For services to Music and to the community in Chester, Cheshire”
Deborah Haythorne
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive, Roundabout Dramatherapy. For services to Dramatherapy”
Shirley Henderson (Shirley McGill)
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen
“Founder, McGill School of Speech and Drama, and Director, Aberdeen Youth Music Theatre. For services to Drama”
Rex Ormonde Freeman
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to the Arts and to the community in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire”
James Breingan Fraser
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Dunblane, Stirling and Falkirk
“Chief Executive Officer, The Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust. For services to Tourism and Heritage in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park”
John Alexander Fannon
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Weymouth, Dorset
“Co-Founder, Thomas Fowell Buxton Society. For services to Heritage”
Helen Joyce Fannon
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Weymouth, Dorset
“Co-Founder, Thomas Fowell Buxton Society. For services to Heritage”
Daniel Crow
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Southampton, Hampshire
“Director, 'A Space' Arts. For services to Artists and to Arts and Heritage”
David Cottle
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Swansea, West Glamorgan
“Artistic Director, Swansea Jazz Club. For services to Jazz Music”
Rebecca Chapman
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Norwich, Norfolk
“Founder, Total Ensemble Theatre Company. For services to Inclusive Theatre”
Lynn Cedar
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Lingfield, Surrey
“Co-Founder and lately Co-Chief Executive, Roundabout Dramatherapy. For services to Dramatherapy”
Mabel Cardwell (May Cardwell)
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
“For services to Dance and to the community in Corby, Northamptonshire”
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Knight Bachelor · 2012
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2012). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2012.
Location (Warwickshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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