Birthday Honours 2013
Professor Graham Lytton FURNISS OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Organisation: School of Oriental and African Studies
“Professor of African Language Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies. For services to Higher Education and Scholarship.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Professor of African Language Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies. For services to Higher Education and Scholarship.
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“Professor of African Language Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies. For services to Higher Education and Scholarship.”
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“Professor of African Language Literature, School of Oriental and African Studies. For services to Higher Education and Scholarship.”
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The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 224 times in the Birthday Honours List 2013 — about 19% of the list.
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64 Officer of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Middlesex.
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How widely is this recognised?
4,959 people have been recognised for Education.
Counts reflect the 2008–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
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Aberdeenshire
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Somerset
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2013
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2013). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2013.
Location (Middlesex) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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