
Birthday Honours 2017
Professor David CLARK OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Organisation: University of Glasgow
“Wellcome Trust Investigator, University of Glasgow. For services to Education in Dumfries and Galloway and Research into End of Life Care.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Wellcome Trust Investigator, University of Glasgow. For services to Education in Dumfries and Galloway and Research into End of Life Care.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
17 June 2017
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
O.B.E.
To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor David CLARK
Wellcome Trust Investigator, University of Glasgow
For services to Education in Dumfries and Galloway and Research into End of Life Care.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61961 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 262 times in the Birthday Honours List 2017 — about 16% of the list.
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7 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Dumfries.
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2017
London Gazette (official record), issue 61961, notice 2804245. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2017).
Published 14 June 2017.
Location (Dumfries) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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