
Birthday Honours 2012
Professor Richard John EVANS
Knight Bachelor
businessperson
“Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. For services to Scholarship.”
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Knight Bachelor
Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. For services to Scholarship.
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Knight Bachelor
Birthday Honours 2012- Role at the time
- businessperson
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- Cambridgeshire
“Regius Professor of History, University of Cambridge and President of Wolfson College, Cambridge. For services to Scholarship.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 22 times in the Birthday Honours List 2012 — about 2% of the list.
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29 Knight Bachelor recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
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businessperson.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2012
Antony Brian Baldry
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Oxfordshire
“For Public and Political Service.”
Brian Walter Pomeroy
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Financial Inclusion and to the Voluntary Sector.”
Charles William Dunstone
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Founder and Chairman, Carphone Warehouse Group. For services to the Mobile Communications Industry and to charity.”
David Mcvicar
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Director. For services to Opera.”
Dr Daniel Moynihan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Chief Executive, The Harris Federation of London Schools. For services to Education.”
Dr William Haughey
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Glasgow
“For services to Business and Philanthropy.”
His Honour Judge Clive Vernon Callman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“For services to Law, Education and Charity.”
Kenneth Charles Branagh
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Berkshire
“For services to Drama and to the community in Northern Ireland.”
Michael Boyd
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Warwickshire
“Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company. For services to Drama.”
Peter Birkett
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Hertfordshire
“Chief Executive, Barnfield College, Luton. For services to Further Education and the Academy Movement.”
Peter Fahy
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cheshire
“Chief Constable, Greater Manchester Police. For services to Policing.”
Professor James Mcdonald
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Ayrshire and Arran
“Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Strathclyde. For services to Education, Engineering and the Economy.”
Professor Michael John Howard Sterling
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Gloucestershire
“For services to Higher Education, Science and Engineering.”
Professor Robert Ian Lechler
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Vice Principal (Health), King's College London and Executive Director, King's Health Partners. For services to Academic Medicine”
Professor William Timothy Gowers
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cambridgeshire
“Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, University of Cambridge. For services to Mathematics.”
Richard Henry Simpson Stilgoe
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Surrey
“Philanthropist. For charitable services through the Alchemy Foundation.”
Robin Bosher
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Kent
“Lately Headteacher, Fairlawn Primary School, Haseltine Primary School and Kilmorie Primary School, Lewisham. For services to Education”
Rt Hon Malcolm Gray Bruce
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Aberdeenshire
“For Public and Political Service.”
The Right Honourable George Reid
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Stirling and Falkirk
“For services to Scottish Politics and Public Life.”
Thomas Anthony Cunningham
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
Cumbria
“For Public and Political Service.”
Thomas Michael Sydney Hughes-Hallett
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2012
London
“Chief Executive, Marie Curie Cancer Care. For services to Palliative Care.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2012
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2012). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2012.
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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