Queen's Birthday Honours list 2015
15 Jun 2015 11:04 AM
Recipients of the Queen’s Birthday Honours in Scotland
In Scotland there are 104 recipients in the Queen's Birthday Honours.
A Damehood has been awarded to:
- Anne Glover CBE FRSE for services to science. Anne was Chief Scientific Adviser for the Scottish Government (2006–2011), where she championed Scotland’s reputation as a science nation. She went on to be the first-ever Chief Scientific Adviser to the President of the European Commission in 2011
Those awarded a Knighthood are:
- Peter Downes OBE FRSE for services to higher education and life sciences. Peter is one of the UK’s most distinguished bio-scientists. Among his many achievements, he identified the role of lithium in treating manic depression
- James MacMillan CBE for services to music. James is a pre-eminent contemporary Scottish musician, and one of the world’s most renowned choral and orchestral composers
Commanders of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) include:
- Graham Caie for services to education and research in Britain and Europe and to native languages
- John Matheson for services to healthcare
- Christina Ann Potter for services to education
- Lena Wilson for services to economic development in Scotland
Officers of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) include:
- Sandra Burke for services to economic development and social care in Scotland
- Ian Darling for voluntary services to the conservation of wild birds and land management in Scotland
- Peter Dawson for services to sport
- Ann Maxwell for charitable services to the treatment and care of epilepsy in children
- John Welsh for public service in Ayrshire
Among those made Members of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) are:
- Georgina Logan for services to sport in Scotland
- Blair Macnaughton for services to tartan weaving and kilt making in Scotland
- Catriona Morrison for services to sport and voluntary service in Scotland
- John Muir for services to victims of crime and crime prevention
- Gladys Ogilvie-Shepherd for services to animal welfare and veterinary education
- Aileen Paterson for services to children’s literature
- Hugh Ramsay for services to the preservation of the Clydesdale horse breed
- James Taylor for services to sport and charity
- Michael Walton for services to raising awareness of oral cancer in the medical and dental professions
Among those to become a Medallist of the Order of the British Empire (BEM) are:
- Maryann Booker for voluntary service to the children’s hearings system in Scotland and Riding for the Disabled in Aberdeenshire
- Donald Grant for services to meteorology through the Voluntary Weather Observing Network
- John Muir DL JP for voluntary service in Orkney
- Peter Reilly for services to the community in Saltcoats, Ayrshire
The full Queen’s Birthday 2015 Honours list is attached, and a separate news release on awards of the Queen’s Police, Fire and Ambulance Service Medals in Scotland is also being issued by the Scottish Government.
Information about the Honours process is available on the Direct Gov website.