Birthday Honours 2015
Professor Christopher Aidan GILLIGAN CBE
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Organisation: University of Cambridge
“Head of Epidemiology and Modelling Group, University of Cambridge. For services to Plant Health in the field of Epidemiology.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Head of Epidemiology and Modelling Group, University of Cambridge. For services to Plant Health in the field of Epidemiology.
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“Head of Epidemiology and Modelling Group, University of Cambridge. For services to Plant Health in the field of Epidemiology.”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
“Head of Epidemiology and Modelling Group, University of Cambridge. For services to Plant Health in the field of Epidemiology.”
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The Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 113 times in the Birthday Honours List 2015 — about 9% of the list.
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83 Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2015
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2015). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2015.
Location (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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