New Year Honours 2010
Philip BRITTON MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
“Headmaster, Boys' Division, Bolton School. For services to Physics.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Headmaster, Boys' Division, Bolton School. For services to Physics.
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“Headmaster, Boys' Division, Bolton School. For services to Physics.”
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The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 615 times in the New Year Honours List 2010 — about 63% of the list.
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538 Member of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Greater Manchester.
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2010
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2010). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2009.
Location (Greater Manchester) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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