Birthday Honours 2025
Professor Simon Charles WESSELY GBE
- Knight Bachelor
- Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)
Regius Professor of Psychiatry
“Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King's College London. For services to Mental Health”
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Knight Bachelor
For services to Military Healthcare and to Psychological Medicine.
View London Gazette noticeKnight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE)
Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King's College London. For services to Mental Health
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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
14 June 2025
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:
G.B.E.
To be an Ordinary Knight Grand Cross of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Professor Sir Simon Charles WESSELY F.R.S. FMedSci.
Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King’s College London
For services to Mental Health.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64759 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Knight Bachelor
New Year Honours 2013- Role at the time
- Regius Professor of Psychiatry
- Region
- London, London
“For services to Military Healthcare and to Psychological Medicine.”
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 2025- Role at the time
- Regius Professor of Psychiatry
- Region
- London, Greater London
“Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King's College London. For services to Mental Health”
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“Regius Professor of Psychiatry, King's College London. For services to Mental Health”
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The Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 1 times in the Birthday Honours List 2025.
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Regius Professor of Psychiatry.
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Knight Bachelor · 2013
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2013). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 30 December 2012.
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire · 2025
London Gazette (official record), issue 64759, notice 4905890. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2025).
Published 13 June 2025.
Location (London, London) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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