New Year Honours 2017
Valentine Cunningham OBE
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
lately Professor of English Language and Literature
“Lately Professor of English Language and Literature, Corpus Christi College Oxford. For services to Scholarship and Understanding of Humanities.”
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Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
Lately Professor of English Language and Literature, Corpus Christi College Oxford. For services to Scholarship and Understanding of Humanities.
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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 Valentine David CUNNINGHAM
lately Professor of English Language and Literature, Corpus Christi College Oxford
For services to services to Scholarship and Understanding of Humanities.
Source: The London Gazette, issue 61803 · Crown copyright, Open Government Licence v3.0
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