New Year Honours 2021
Richard Brown MBE
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
Co-Chair
“For services to People with Disabilities and to the community in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire.”
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Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE)
For services to People with Disabilities and to the community in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire.
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Order of the British Empire
Civil Division
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
31 December 2020
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following promotions in, and appointments to, the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire:
M.B.E.
To be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order:
Richard Christopher BROWN
Co-chair, Ataxia UK
For services to People with Disabilities and to the community in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 63218 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to People with Disabilities and to the community in Middle Barton, Oxfordshire.”
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The Member of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 608 times in the New Year Honours List 2021 — about 38% of the list.
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82 Member of the Order of the British Empire recipients are from Oxfordshire.
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Co-Chair.
How widely is this recognised?
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Member of the Order of the British Empire · 2021
London Gazette (official record), issue 63218, notice 3703787. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2021).
Published 30 December 2020.
Location (Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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