New Year Honours 2024
Valerie Lund DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
“For services to Rhinology.”
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
30 December 2023
THE KING has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
D.B.E.
To be Ordinary Dames Commander of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Valerie Joan LUND C.B.E.
Emeritus Professor in Rhinology, University College London
For services to Rhinology.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64269 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to Rhinology.”
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The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 15 times in the New Year Honours List 2024 — about 1% of the list.
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7 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Surrey.
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2024
London Gazette (official record), issue 64269, notice 4519989. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2024).
Published 29 December 2023.
Location (Staines-Upon-Thames, Surrey) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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