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Terrence Higgins Trust founders ‘deeply honoured’ by Queen’s birthday gong
‘.Rupert Whitaker and Martyn Butler are among the recipients of the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for 2022.The pair, co-founders of the Terrence Higgins Trust, have been awarded OBEs for services to charity and public health.The charity marks its 40th anniversary this year.It was named after Terry Higgins, the first named person to die of an AIDS-related illness in the UK on July 4, 1982. This led his partner Rupert and their friend Martyn to create the Trust in his honour.The charity has since been credited with ‘altering the course of the HIV epidemic’.Mr Whitaker said: ‘I’m deeply honoured for my work to be recognised in this way.