Birthday Honours 2018
Professor Winifred Mary BEARD DBE
- Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
- Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Professor of Classics
Organisation: University of Cambridge
“Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge. For services to the Study of Classical Civilisation.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge. For services to Classical Scholarship.
View London Gazette noticeDame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge. For services to the Study of Classical Civilisation.
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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
9 June 2018
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased, on the occasion of the Celebration of Her 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 Winifred Mary BEARD O.B.E.
Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge
For services to the Study of Classical Civilisation.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62310 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire
New Year Honours 2013- Role at the time
- Professor of Classics
- Region
- Cambridgeshire
“Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge. For services to Classical Scholarship.”
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Birthday Honours 2018- Role at the time
- Professor of Classics
- Region
- Cambridgeshire
“Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge. For services to the Study of Classical Civilisation.”
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“Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge. For services to the Study of Classical Civilisation.”
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How common is this award?
The Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 11 times in the Birthday Honours List 2018 — about 1% of the list.
In their area
15 Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Cambridgeshire.
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Professor of Classics, University of Cambridge.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Birthday Honours 2018
Angela Ruth McLEAN
PersonDame Commander Order Of The British Empire · 2018
Oxfordshire
“Professor of Mathematical Biology, University of Oxford. For services to Mathematical Biology and Scientific Advice for Government.”
Dr Frances Carolyn Saunders
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Somerset
“For services to Science and Engineering.”
Eleanor Fulton Laing
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Essex
“Member of Parliament for Epping Forest. For political and public service.”
Emma Thompson
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London
“Actress. For services to Drama.”
Jane Elizabeth Dacre
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London
“President, The Royal College of Physicians. For services to Medicine and Medical Education.”
Janet Vitmayer
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London
“Lately Chief Executive and Director, Horniman Museum. For services to Museums and Diversity.”
Louise Joyce Ellman
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Merseyside
“Member of Parliament for Liverpool Riverside. For Parliamentary and Political Services.”
Moya Marguerite Greene
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Buckinghamshire
“Chief Executive, Royal Mail plc. For services to Business and the Postal Sector.”
Stella Manzie
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Leicestershire
“Interim Chief Executive, Birmingham City Council. For services to Local Government.”
Susan Hill
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West Midlands
“Chief Scientific Officer, NHS England. For services to the 100,000 Genome Project and to NHS Genomic Medicine.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 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.
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire · 2018
London Gazette (official record), issue 62310, notice 3041470. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2018).
Published 8 June 2018.
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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