Peter Jones received a CBE for services to business and young people in 2009.
The honour recognised Jones's work as an entrepreneur and his involvement with initiatives supporting young people and enterprise. He is best known to television audiences as the only original Dragon to remain on the regular British panel throughout the programme's run.
Jones's business career has included interests in communications, technology, property and consumer ventures. His television role made him a prominent public advocate of entrepreneurship, but the CBE was an official national honour rather than a prize awarded by Dragon's Den.
The year is easy to confuse with the dates of other Dragons' appointments or honours. The specific distinction here is Jones's 2009 CBE, announced in the United Kingdom's honours system. A CBE is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, one level below a knighthood within that order.