New Year Honours 2017
Simon Frith OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
“For services to Higher Education and Popular Music.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
For services to Higher Education and Popular Music.
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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
31 December 2016
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:
O.B.E.
To be Ordinary Officers of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order
Professor Simon Webster FRITH
Tovey Professor of Music, University of Edinburgh
For services to Higher Education and Popular Music.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61803 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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Northumberland
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“For services to Higher Education and Popular Music.”
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How common is this award?
The Officer of the Order of the British Empire was awarded 262 times in the New Year Honours List 2017 — about 18% of the list.
How widely is this recognised?
5,862 people have been recognised for Education.
Counts reflect the 2000–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the New Year Honours 2017
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London
“For services to Improving Public Engagement with Parliament and voluntary service to the community in London.”
Ailsa Rutter
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Tyne and Wear
“For services to Tobacco Control.”
Alastair Graham
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Alastair Whitehead
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London
“For public service and voluntary services to Policing.”
Alexander Fox
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West Yorkshire
“For services to Social Care.”
Alexander Wyle
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“For services to the Introduction of the Scottish Legal System in Schools..”
Alice Walpole
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“For services to British Diplomacy.”
Alison Baum
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London
“For services to Tackling Child Health Inequalities.”
Alison Beane
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Isle of Wight
“For services to Education.”
Alison Kervin
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Surrey
“For services to Sports Journalism.”
Alison Spurway
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Glasgow
“For services to Girlguiding and charity.”
Alistair Adams
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Amanda Foister
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Oxfordshire
“For services to Young People.”
Amanda Nobbs (mrs. Mullarkey)
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Surrey
“For services to Flood and Coastal Risk Management and Environment Protection.”
Aminatta Forna
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London
“For services to Literature.”
Andrew Booth
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“For services to children’s education in Cambodia.”
Andrew Garner
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Andrew Gudgeon
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Andrew Heywood
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Andrew Triggs-Hodge
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“For services to Rowing.”
Andrew Young
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East Sussex
“For services to Pension Policy and Pensioners.”
Angela Cox
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West Yorkshire
“For services to Education.”
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Stephen Thurston Munby
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Shelagh Jane Legrave
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Chichester, West Sussex
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Rachael Ross
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Hinton Daubnay, Hampshire
“For services to Education, to Policy and to People with Down Syndrome.”
Debra Gray
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Dronfield, Derbyshire
“For services to Further Education.”
William Smith
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Witney, Oxfordshire
“For services to Education.”
Dawn Tinley
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Keri Scott
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“For services to Education in Gibraltar.”
Glenda Mctaggart
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Catherine Grove
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Julia Downey
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Barbara Connell
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Diane Willson
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“For services to the Education Community in Bognor Regis, West Sussex.”
Caroline Tyerman
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Durham, County Durham
“For services to Education.”
Patricia Wells
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London, Greater London
“For services to Early Years in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.”
Alison Turner
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London, Greater London
“For services to the Learning Disabled and Neurodiverse Community.”
Louise Sutherland
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Leatherhead, Surrey
“For services to Early Years.”
Peter Scobie
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Newtownards, County Down
“For services to Higher Education.”
Audrey Moore
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Limavady, County Londonderry
“For voluntary services to Special Education.”
Fiona Mccullough
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Tamworth, Staffordshire
“For services to Education and Outreach.”
Rita Lewis (helen Hopkins)
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Carmarthen, Dyfed
“For services to Music and Music Education.”
Iraklis Kolokotronis
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London, Greater London
“For services to the Early Years.”
Fiona Knight
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Corwen, Clwyd
“For services to People with Learning Disabilities and to Autistic People.”
Eleanor Keeley
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London, Greater London
“For services to Education.”
Source & provenance
Where this record comes from
Officer of the Order of the British Empire · 2017
London Gazette (official record), issue 61803, notice 2673756. View the official notice ↗
Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list (New Year Honours List 2017).
Published 30 December 2016.
Location (Northumberland) comes from the Cabinet Office / gov.uk published honours list, not the Gazette notice, which records no recipient home location.
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