New Year Honours 2019
Richard Alston
Knight Bachelor
“For services to Dance.”
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Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
29 December 2018
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to signify her intention of conferring the honour of Knighthood upon the undermentioned:
Richard John William ALSTON C.B.E.
Dancer and Choreographer
For services to Dance.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 62507 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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“For services to Dance.”
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How common is this award?
The Knight Bachelor was awarded 20 times in the New Year Honours List 2019 — about 1% of the list.
How widely is this recognised?
4,039 people have been recognised for Arts & Culture.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the New Year Honours 2019
Alan Campbell
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Tyne and Wear
“For political service.”
Alastair Nathan Cook
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Bedfordshire
“For services to Cricket.”
Alexander Halliday
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Abroad
“For services to Science and Innovation.”
David Klenerman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Cambridgeshire
“For services to Science and to the Development of High Speed DNA Sequencing Technology.”
Donald Brydon
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
London
“For services to Business and to charity.”
Gary Streeter
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Devon
“For political and public service.”
Ian Blatchford
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
London
“For services to Cultural Education.”
James Leigh-pemberton
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
London
“For services to Financial Services, to British Industry and to Government.”
James Mackey
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Northumberland
“For services to Health in England and to the community in North Tyneside and Northumberland.”
Jeremy Farrar
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Oxfordshire
“For services to Global Health.”
John Lewis
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Dorset
“For services to the Arts and to Philanthropy.”
John Redwood
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Berkshire
“For political and public service.”
Jonathan Montgomery
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Hampshire
“For services to Bioethics and to Healthcare Law.”
Melvyn Greaves
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
London
“For services to Childhood Leukaemia Research.”
Patrick Vallance
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
London
“For services to Open Clinical Science.”
Philip Pullman
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Oxfordshire
“For services to Literature.”
Prof Michael Anthony John Ferguson
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Dundee
“For services to Science.”
Roy Alexander Stone
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Essex
“For parliamentary and public service.”
William Blackledge Beaumont
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2019
Lancashire
“For services to Rugby Union Football.”
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Others recognised for Arts & Culture
Across the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records, 4,039 people have been recognised for Arts & Culture. See the full list →
Malorie Blackman
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
London, Greater London
“For services to Literature.”
Julia Catherine Donaldson
PersonDame Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Horsham, West Sussex
“For services to Literature.”
Cerys Matthews
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Bourne End, Buckinghamshire
“For services to Music.”
Jonathan Davies
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Swansea, West Glamorgan
“For services to People with Cancer and to Broadcasting.”
Mukesh Sharma
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Newtownabbey, County Antrim
“For services to Heritage.”
Alice Coote
PersonCommander Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Suffolk
“For services to the Arts.”
Gabrielle Logan
PersonOfficer Of The Order Of The British Empire · 2026
Buckinghamshire
“For services to Sports Broadcasting and to Charity.”
Daniel Calvert
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
“For services to the Culinary Arts in Japan and to UK/Japan Culinary Relations.”
Richard Starrs
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Stockton on Tees, North Yorkshire
“For services to Heritage.”
Jennifer Rose-miller
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Nairn, Nairn
“For services to Local Heritage and to the community in Nairnshire.”
Rita Lewis (helen Hopkins)
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Carmarthen, Dyfed
“For services to Music and Music Education.”
Paul Kitching
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Wimborne, Dorset
“For services to Museums and to the community in Tring, Hertfordshire.”
Adam Joolia
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Brighton, East Sussex
“For services to Young People and to Music.”
Julia Jones
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Carmarthenshire, Dyfed
“For services to Music.”
Pauline Hough
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Nantwich, Cheshire
“For services to Theatre and to the community in Nantwich.”
Margaret Irvine
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Birsay, Orkney
“For services to Drama and to the community in Orkney.”
Melanie Houldershaw
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Oxford, Oxfordshire
“For services to Local Theatre and Choir.”
Brian Heald
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Chester, Cheshire
“For services to Music and to the community in Chester, Cheshire.”
Shirley Henderson (shirley Mcgill)
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Aberdeen, City of Aberdeen
“For services to Drama.”
Rex Freeman
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
“For services to the Arts and to the community in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire.”
James Fraser
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Dunblane, Stirling and Falkirk
“For services to Tourism and Heritage in the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.”
John Fannon
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Weymouth, Dorset
“For services to Heritage.”
Helen Fannon
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Weymouth, Dorset
“For services to Heritage.”
Daniel Crow
PersonBritish Empire Medal · 2026
Southampton, Hampshire
“For services to Artists and to Arts and Heritage.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2019
London Gazette (official record), issue 62507, notice 3175802. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2019).
Published 28 December 2018.
Location (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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