New Year Honours 2009
Peter Norman HOLDEN MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Organisation: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
“Lately Head of People Engagement Department, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. For services to Nature Conservation.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Lately Head of People Engagement Department, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. For services to Nature Conservation.
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“Lately Head of People Engagement Department, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. For services to Nature Conservation.”
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“Lately Head of People Engagement Department, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. For services to Nature Conservation.”
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The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 598 times in the New Year Honours List 2009 — about 63% of the list.
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150 Member of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Bedfordshire.
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How widely is this recognised?
1,110 people have been recognised for Environment & Agriculture.
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Newbridge on Wye, Powys
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Caterina Goodhart
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London, Greater London
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Witney, Oxfordshire
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Doynton, Gloucestershire
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Bordon, Hampshire
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Member 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 (Bedfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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