New Year Honours 2024
Ruth Miskin DBE
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Children?s Reading Expert
“Children's Reading Expert, Read Write Inc. For services to Education”
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Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE)
Children's Reading Expert, Read Write Inc. For services to Education
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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
30 December 2023
THE KING has been graciously pleased 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:
Ruth Elizabeth MISKIN C.B.E.
Children’s Reading Expert, Read Write Inc
For services to Education.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 64269 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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