Birthday Honours 2024
Professor Judith Irene PETTS DBE
- Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Vice-Chancellor
“Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth. For services to Higher Education and to Sustainability”
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
Lately Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. For services to Scientific Research.
View London Gazette noticeDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth. For services to Higher Education and to Sustainability
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London Gazette notice
Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
15 June 2024
THE KING has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of His Majesty’s Birthday, to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
D.B.E.
To be Ordinary Dames Commander of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Judith Irene PETTS C.B.E.
Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth
For services to Higher Education and to Sustainability.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64423 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Commander of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2012- Role at the time
- Vice-Chancellor
- Region
- Seaton, Hampshire
“Lately Member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. For services to Scientific Research.”
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 2024- Role at the time
- Vice-Chancellor
- Region
- Seaton, Devon
“Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth. For services to Higher Education and to Sustainability”
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“Vice-Chancellor, University of Plymouth. For services to Higher Education and to Sustainability”
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How common is this award?
The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 19 times in the Birthday Honours List 2024 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
3 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Devon.
What organisation were they with?
Vice-Chancellor.
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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Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 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.
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2024
London Gazette (official record), issue 64423, notice 4644774. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2024).
Published 14 June 2024.
Location (Seaton, Hampshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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