Birthday Honours 2024
Peter Clarkson CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Director • Cambridge Engineering Design Centre and Co-Director
“For services to Engineering and Design.”
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
15 June 2024
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:
C.B.E.
To be Ordinary Commanders of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Peter John CLARKSON FREng.
Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre and Co-Director, Cambridge Public Health, University of Cambridge
For services to Engineering and Design.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64423 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to Engineering and Design.”
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The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 97 times in the Birthday Honours List 2024 — about 7% of the list.
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33 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
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Director, Cambridge Engineering Design Centre and Co-Director.
How widely is this recognised?
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2024
London Gazette (official record), issue 64423, notice 4644796. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2024).
Published 14 June 2024.
Location (Cambridge, Cambridgeshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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