New Year Honours 2017
Shirley Williams
Order Of The Companions Of Honour
“For services to political and public life.”
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London Gazette notice
Order of the Companions of Honour
Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood
St. James’s Palace, London SW1
31 December 2016
THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following appointments to the Order of the Companions of Honour:
To be Members:
The Right Honourable Baroness Shirley Vivian Teresa Brittain WILLIAMS
For services to political and public life.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61803 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Hertfordshire
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“For services to political and public life.”
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How common is this award?
The Order Of The Companions Of Honour was awarded 6 times in the New Year Honours List 2017.
How widely is this recognised?
4,317 people have been recognised for Government & Public Service.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Order Of The Companions Of Honour in the New Year Honours 2017
Alec Jeffreys
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Leicestershire
“For services to Medical Research and Society.”
Evelyn Glennie
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Cambridgeshire
“For services to Music.”
Helen Warnock
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London
“For services to charity and to Children with Special Educational Needs.”
Richard Eyre
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London
“For services to Drama.”
Roger Bannister
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Oxfordshire
“For services to Sport.”
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
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Gullane, East Lothian
“For services to Policing and Public Service.”
Janette Durbin
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“For Public Service.”
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“For Public Service.”
Mark
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Matthew Ellis
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Sapphire Dalton
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Charles Obazuaye
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Corby, Northamptonshire
“For Public Service.”
Michael Mitchell
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Flitwick, Bedfordshire
“For Public Service.”
Jack Emsley
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London, Greater London
“For Public Service.”
Cynthia Davis
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“For Political Service.”
Stephen Davis
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London, Greater London
“For Public Service.”
Jane Sidebottom
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“For service to British Foreign Policy.”
Claire Healy
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Nicola Millington
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Scott Dunning
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Ifeanyi Agboola
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Andrew Waggett
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Alexander Profumo
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Christopher Hammond
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“For services to British Foreign Policy.”
Merrill Powell
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London, Greater London
“For Political Service.”
Cherry Povall
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Wirrall, Merseyside
“For services to Local Government and to the Magistracy.”
Susan Parsonage
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Wokingham, Berkshire
“For services to Local Government.”
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Order Of The Companions Of Honour · 2017
London Gazette (official record), issue 61803, notice 2673508. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2017).
Published 30 December 2016.
Location (Hertfordshire) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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