New Year Honours 2012
Professor Geoffrey William HILL
Knight Bachelor
writer
“Poet and Critic. For services to Literature.”
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“Poet and Critic. For services to Literature.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 27 times in the New Year Honours List 2012 — about 3% of the list.
In their area
29 Knight Bachelor recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
What organisation were they with?
writer.
How widely is this recognised?
3,514 people have been recognised for Arts & Culture.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2012
Andrew Witty
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Buckinghamshire
“Chief Executive Officer, GlaxoSmithKline. For services to the Economy and to the UK Pharmaceutical Industry.”
Antonio Pappano
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Music Director, Royal Opera House. For services to Music.”
Charles Lamb Allen
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.”
David Edward Reid
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Essex
“Lately Chairman, Tesco plc and Chairman, Kwik-Fit Group. For services to Business and to Charity.”
Dr John Gordon St Clair Buchanan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Surrey
“Chairman, Smith & Nephew plc. For services to Industry.”
Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“Scientist, Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology. For services to Molecular Biology.”
Geoffrey Hall
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Nottinghamshire
“Lately Principal and Chief Executive, New College Nottingham. For services to Further Education.”
George Iacobescu
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Charity, Community and the Financial Services Industry.”
Gerald Acher
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Surrey
“For charitable services.”
Herbert Douglas Ellis
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
West Midlands
“For charitable services.”
John Alexander Armitt
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Chair, Olympic Delivery Authority. For services to Engineering and Construction.”
Michael David Bear
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Lately Lord Mayor, City of London. For services to Regeneration, Charity and the City of London.”
Paul Ruddock
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Philanthropist. For services to the Arts.”
Peter Lytton Bazalgette
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“TV Producer. For services to Broadcasting.”
Professor Andre Konstantin Geim
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Greater Manchester
“Professor of Physics, University of Manchester. For services to Science.”
Professor Christopher Maxwell Snowden
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Surrey
“Vice-Chancellor, University of Surrey. For services to Engineering and to Higher Education.”
Professor Diarmaid Ninian John Macculloch
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Oxfordshire
“Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford. For services to Scholarship.”
Professor John Gerald Patrick Sissons
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“Regius Professor of Physic, University of Cambridge. For services to Research and Education in Clinical Medicine.”
Professor Konstantin Novoselov
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Greater Manchester
“Professor of Physics, University of Manchester. For services to Science.”
Professor Mark Brian Pepys
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Professor of Medicine and Head of Medicine Division, University College London Medical School, Royal Free Hospital. For services to Biomedicine.”
Professor Robert Tony Watson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Chief Scientific Adviser, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.”
Professor Simon Kirwan Donaldson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Middlesex
“Royal Society Professor of Mathematics, Imperial College London. For services to Mathematics.”
Professor Stephen Robert Bloom
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Head, Division of Diabetes and Endocrinology, Imperial College London. For services to Medical Science.”
Robert Russell
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Essex
“For public service.”
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Jean Irene Routley
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Backwell, Somerset
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Jennifer Rosemary Rose-Miller
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Nairn, Nairn
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Angela Jane Manson
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Lisburn, County Antrim
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Rita Helen Lewis (Helen Hopkins)
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Carmarthen, Dyfed
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Paul Kitching
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Wimborne, Dorset
“Head of the Natural History Museum, Tring. For services to Museums and to the community in Tring, Hertfordshire”
Adam Joolia
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Brighton, East Sussex
“Chief Executive Officer, AudioActive. For services to Young People and to Music”
Julia Jones
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Carmarthenshire, Dyfed
“Founder and Director, Llandeilo Fawr Festival of Music. For services to Music”
Pauline Patricia Knifton Hough
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Nantwich, Cheshire
“For services to Theatre and to the community in Nantwich”
Margaret Irvine
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Birsay, Orkney
“Founder, Birsay Drama Group. For services to Drama and to the community in Orkney”
Melanie Jane Houldershaw
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Oxford, Oxfordshire
“For services to Local Theatre and Choir”
Brian Charlton Heald
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Chester, Cheshire
“For services to Music and to the community in Chester, Cheshire”
Deborah Haythorne
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
London, Greater London
“Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive, Roundabout Dramatherapy. For services to Dramatherapy”
Shirley Henderson (Shirley McGill)
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen
“Founder, McGill School of Speech and Drama, and Director, Aberdeen Youth Music Theatre. For services to Drama”
Rex Ormonde Freeman
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to the Arts and to the community in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire”
James Breingan Fraser
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Dunblane, Stirling and Falkirk
“Chief Executive Officer, The Steamship Sir Walter Scott Trust. For services to Tourism and Heritage in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park”
John Alexander Fannon
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Weymouth, Dorset
“Co-Founder, Thomas Fowell Buxton Society. For services to Heritage”
Helen Joyce Fannon
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Weymouth, Dorset
“Co-Founder, Thomas Fowell Buxton Society. For services to Heritage”
Daniel Crow
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Southampton, Hampshire
“Director, 'A Space' Arts. For services to Artists and to Arts and Heritage”
David Cottle
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Swansea, West Glamorgan
“Artistic Director, Swansea Jazz Club. For services to Jazz Music”
Rebecca Chapman
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Norwich, Norfolk
“Founder, Total Ensemble Theatre Company. For services to Inclusive Theatre”
Lynn Cedar
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Lingfield, Surrey
“Co-Founder and lately Co-Chief Executive, Roundabout Dramatherapy. For services to Dramatherapy”
Mabel Cardwell (May Cardwell)
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Market Harborough, Leicestershire
“For services to Dance and to the community in Corby, Northamptonshire”
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Knight Bachelor · 2012
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2012). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2011.
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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