New Year Honours 2022
Professor Christopher John MacRae Whitty KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Organisation: Department for International Development
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath · 2022
“For services to Public Health.”
Companion of the Order of the Bath · 2015
“Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development. For public and voluntary service to Tropical Medicine in the UK and Africa.”
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Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB)
Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development. For public and voluntary service to Tropical Medicine in the UK and Africa.
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London Gazette notice
Order of the Bath
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
01 January 2022
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotion in, and appointments to, the Most Honourable Order of the Bath:
K.C.B.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commander, of the said Most Honourable Order:
Professor Christopher John MacRae WHITTY C.B.
Chief Medical Officer for England
For services to Public Health.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63571 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Companion of the Order of the Bath
New Year Honours 2015- Region
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“Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for International Development. For public and voluntary service to Tropical Medicine in the UK and Africa.”
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
New Year Honours 2022- Region
- London, Greater London
“For services to Public Health.”
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath · 2022
London Gazette (official record), issue 63571, notice 3955983. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2022).
Published 31 December 2021.
Companion of the Order of the Bath · 2015
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2015).
Published 1 January 2015.
Location (London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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