Birthday Honours 2015
Rt Hon Simon Henry Ward HUGHES
Knight Bachelor
“Lately Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark. For public and political service.”
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Lately Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark. For public and political service.
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“Lately Member of Parliament for Bermondsey and Old Southwark. For public and political service.”
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The Knight Bachelor was awarded 29 times in the Birthday Honours List 2015 — about 2% of the list.
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164 Knight Bachelor recipients are from London.
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Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Bachelor in the Birthday Honours 2015
Adrian Edwin White
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Surrey
“For services to International Trade and Investment.”
Andreas Whittam
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“For public service, particularly to the Church of England.”
Bernard Peter Gray
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Oxfordshire
“Chief of Defence Materiel, Ministry of Defence. For public service, particularly to Defence.”
Ciaran Gearoid Devane
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Lately Chief Executive, Macmillan Cancer Support. For services to Cancer Patients.”
Dr James Loy Macmillan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Glasgow
“Composer and Conductor. For services to Music.”
Dr Karl William Pamp Jenkins
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Composer. For services to Composing and Crossing Musical Genres.”
Dr Kevan Arthur Collins
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Chief Executive, Education Endowment Foundation. For services to Education.”
Dr Nicholas Beaver Penny
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Director, National Gallery. For services to the Arts.”
Dr Philip Henry Montgomery Campbell
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Editor in Chief, Nature. For services to Science.”
Francis Mcloughlin
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Principal, City and Islington College and Chair, Commission on Adult Vocational Teaching and Learning. For services to Further Education.”
Gareth Owen Edwards
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Mid Glamorgan
“For services to Sport and for charitable services.”
Gary Keith Verity
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
North Yorkshire
“Chief Executive, Welcome to Yorkshire. For services to Tourism and the Tour De France Grand Depart 2014.”
George Ivan Morrison
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Down
“For services to the Music Industry and to Tourism in Northern Ireland.”
Henry Angest
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“National Treasurer, Conservative Party. For political service.”
Iain Macleod Mcmillan
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Stirling and Falkirk
“For services to the Scottish Economy.”
Lenworth George Henry
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Actor and Comedian. For services to Drama and charity.”
Michael Lawrence Davis
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Chair, Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission. For services to Holocaust Commemoration and Education.”
Nicholas John Weller
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
West Yorkshire
“Executive Principal, Dixons Academies, Bradford. For services to Education.”
Patrick Head
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“Lately Director, Williams Hybrid Power Ltd. For services to Motorsport.”
Paul Stephen Kenny
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
London
“General Secretary, GMB Union. For service to Trade Unions.”
Professor Charles Peter Downes
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Fife
“Principal and Vice-Chancellor, University of Dundee. For services to Higher Education and Life Sciences.”
Professor Harshad Kumar Dharamshi Bhadeshia
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Cambridgeshire
“Tata Steel Professor of Metallurgy, University of Cambridge. For services to Science and Technology.”
Professor Ian Vincent Derrick Weller
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Lincolnshire
“Emeritus Professor of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Department of Infection and Population Health. For services to HIV Research.”
Professor Munir Hussein Pirmohamed
PersonKnight Bachelor · 2015
Merseyside
“David Weatherall, Chair of Medicine, University of Liverpool. For services to Medicine.”
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Knight Bachelor · 2015
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (Birthday Honours List 2015). No individual Gazette notice has been matched to this record yet.
Published 14 June 2015.
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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