New Year Honours 1979
Stanley David Wilks KCB
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB)
Chief Executive • British Over- seas Trade Board
Recognised in the New Year Honours 1979 with the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
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Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) · 1979
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How common is this award?
The Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath was awarded 21 times in the New Year Honours List 1979 — about 1% of the list.
What organisation were they with?
Chief Executive, British Over- seas Trade Board.
Counts reflect the 1937–2026 honours lists in our records; earlier years are not yet included.
Honoured alongside them
Others awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the New Year Honours 1979
Alexander Brown Paterson
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Allan Geoffrey Beard
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Antony Derek Maxwell Oulton
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Denis Henry Payne
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Eric Frank Hedger
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George Girdwood Stewart
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Herbert John Dunster
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James Henry Fuller EBERLE.
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James Michael Gow
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John Angus Macbeth Mitchell
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John Howard Nelson
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John Wilfrid Bourne
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John William Weston
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Keith Alec William-Son
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Lois Audrey Pittom
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Michael David Milroy Franklin
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Richard William Longworth Wilding
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Ronald Ernest Bearing
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Samuel Frederick Radcliffe Martin
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Thomas Chalmers Hetherington
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Where this record comes from
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath · 1979
London Gazette (official record), published supplement. View the issue ↗
No gov.uk honours-list dataset covers 1979 — the published Gazette supplement is the sole source for this record.
Published 30 December 1978.
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