Birthday Honours 2015
Paul Kenny
Knight Bachelor
lately General Secretary
“For services to Trade Unions.”
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London Gazette notice
Knights Bachelor
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
13 June 2015
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty's Birthday, to signify her intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned:
Paul Stephen KENNY
General Secretary, GMB Union
For services to Trade Unions.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61256 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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London
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Birthday Honours 2015- Role at the time
- lately General Secretary
- Region
- London
“For services to Trade Unions.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 30 times in the Birthday Honours List 2015 — about 2% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
lately General Secretary.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2015
Adrian White
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Surrey
“For services to International Trade and Investment.”
Andreas Whittam Smith
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For public service, particularly to the Church of England.”
Bernard Gray
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Oxfordshire
“For public service, particularly to Defence.”
Charles Downes
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Fife
“For services to Higher Education and Life Sciences.”
Christopher Clark
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
“For services to British German relations.”
Ciaran Devane
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For services to Cancer Patients.”
Francis Mcloughlin
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For services to Further Education.”
Gareth Edwards
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Mid Glamorgan
“For services to Sport and for charitable services.”
Gary Verity
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
North Yorkshire
“For services to Tourism and the Tour De France Grand Depart 2014.”
George Morrison
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Down
“For services to the Music Industry and to Tourism in Northern Ireland.”
Harshad Bhadeshia
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Cambridgeshire
“For services to Science and Technology.”
Henry Angest
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For political service.”
Hussein Pirmohamed
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Merseyside
“For services to Medicine.”
Iain Mcmillan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Stirling and Falkirk
“For services to the Scottish Economy.”
Ian Weller
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Lincolnshire
“For services to HIV Research.”
James Macmillan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Glasgow
“For services to Music.”
Karl Jenkins
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For services to Composing and Crossing Musical Genres.”
Kevan Collins
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For services to Education.”
Lenworth Henry
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For services to Drama and Charity.”
Michael Davis
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For services to Holocaust Commemoration and Education.”
Naim Dangoor
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For charitable services.”
Nicholas Penny
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For services to the Arts.”
Nicholas Weller
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
West Yorkshire
“For services to Education.”
Patrick Head
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For services to Motorsport.”
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Where this record comes from
Knight Bachelor · 2015
London Gazette (official record), issue 61256, notice 2347478. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2015).
Published 13 June 2015.
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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