BUCKINGHAM PALACE
News Release issued by The Government News Network on 8 November 2007
on Wednesday, 14th
November 2007 at 11 a.m.
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
To be a Dame Commander:-
Civil Division:-
Dame Mary Keegan
KNIGHT BACHELOR
To receive the Honour of Knighthood:-
Professor Sir
Christopher Bayly
THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH
To be a Companion:-
Civil Division:-
Mr. Stephen Jones
THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER
To be Commanders:-
Mr. George Marwick
Mr. Cameron Parker
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
To be Commanders:-
Military Division:-
Air Commodore
Gregory Bagwell, Royal Air Force
Civil Division:-
Felicity
Everiss
Miss Clare Marx
Dr. Graham Beastall
Mr. Leslie
Byrom
Mr. Michael Eavis Founder and Organiser, Glastonbury
Festival. For services to Music.
Colonel Robert
Groves
Professor Mayur Lakhani
Mr. Kenneth
Monplaisir
Mr. David Pretty
THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER
To be Lieutenants:-
Air Vice-Marshal David Hawkins-Leth,
Royal Air Force
Lieutenant Colonel Conway Seymour
Mr. Keith de Bellefeuille Percy to receive the insignia conferred
on his late wife, Mary, Mrs. de Bellefeuille Percy
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
To be Officers:-
Military Division:-
Wing Commander
Andrew Curtis, Royal Air Force
Civil Division:-
Parvin, Mrs. Ali Founder Director, Forum for
Advocacy, Training and Information in a Multicultural Area. For
services to Diversity.
Susan, Mrs. Devereux
Patricia
Jamieson
Judith, Mrs. Mellor
Mr. William Anderson
Mr.
John Beanland
Mr. Barry Day
Mr. David Green
Constable
David Gregory, Hampshire Constabulary
Mr. Peter
Hutchinson
Dr. Richard McMinn
Mr. James Nicholson
Mr.
Peter Sheridan, Assistant Chief Constable, Police Service of
Northern Ireland
Mr. Geoffrey Shindler
Mr. Richard Vickers
To be Members:-
Military Division:-
Warrant Officer 1st
Class Simon Hancock, Royal Navy
Lieutenant Colonel Nigel
Cullen, Royal Signals
Major Gary McGown, The Royal Regiment of
Scotland
Major Ian Scattergood, The Royal Logistic
Corps
Warrant Officer Class 1 Henry French, The Duke of
Lancaster's Regiment
Warrant Officer Class 2 Gordon
Hobbs, Royal Engineers, Territorial Army
Flight Lieutenant
David Stewart, Royal Air Force
Flight Sergeant Mark Farrell,
Royal Air Force
Civil Division:-
Kay, Mrs. Briggs
Janet, Mrs.
Brooks
Susan, Mrs. Cox
Mary, Mrs. Crane
Alexandra
Fontaine
Jeanette, Mrs. Harriman
Catherine, Mrs.
Hopkins
Margaret, Mrs. Horrell
Olwyn, Mrs. Keogh
Jean,
Mrs. Labaye
Wendy, Mrs. McLoughlin For services to Disabled
Children in Hartlepool, Cleveland
61 yrs old (HARTLEPOOL,
REDCAR AND CLEVELAND)
She has promoted specialist services for
disabled children, and instigated a number of pioneering
initiatives. She first became involved when her disabled daughter
was born. Concerned at the lack of facilities for such children,
she set up the Hartlepool Opportunity Playgroup, open to all
children with disabilities and providing support and respite for
their families. She joined Friends of Thornhill, a school for the
physically handicapped, and became one of its main fundraisers,
resulting in a specially adapted minibus and improvements to the
school. She also became a Governor of Springwell School for those
with learning difficulties and became a champion for the
Opportunity Playgroup and children from both schools. She raised
funds to initiate the Summer Playscheme for disabled children and
their siblings, which is still operating almost 30 years later.
She has put her vast skills to great use in developing a double
decker playbus which travels to deprived areas giving play
opportunities to children and advice to parents. As co-ordinator
of Hartlepool Families First, she raises around £350,000 a year
from a wide range of trusts and agencies to maintain 33 staff and
seven volunteers. Hartlepool Families First was nominated for the
GlaxoSmithKline Impact Awards 2006, and was chosen as the overall
winner and awarded £30,000 to continue its excellent work.
Mary, Mrs. Newman
Evelyn, Mrs. Paterson
Georgina, Mrs.
Scannell
Eirlys, Mrs. Thomas
Agnes, Mrs.
Thompson
Barbara, Mrs. Towe
Judy, Mrs. Woolfenden
Mr.
John Allen
Mr. Michael Uzebu-Asije Coach, Eastleigh Amateur
Boxing Club. For services to Sport
72 yrs old (EASTLEIGH,
HAMPSHIRE)
He has devoted himself on a voluntary basis to
coaching local young people at Eastleigh Amateur Boxing Club
Boxing Club for over 45 years. His service to amateur boxing is
second to none and he has made a valuable and important
contribution to his local community where he continues to guide,
encourage and inspire. Born in Nigeria, he moved to Eastleigh at
the age of 12. He joined the sports club and soon developed an
interest in boxing. He became a keen and talented boxer, winning
the British Rail Boxing Championships for five consecutive years.
He also competed at a high level internationally. In 1961 he
started coaching and gave up many hours of his time to provide
free coaching for local youth clubs. He has achieved much at this
grass-roots level of the sport - helping young people to achieve a
sense of purpose, self confidence and self respect in a sporting
context. He supports the boxers he coaches by travelling with
them to shows - as well as supporting them when they have shows at
their home venue. Eastleigh Boxing Club has a very good
reputation and is growing fast - helped in no small way by his
enthusiasm and dedication. He also coaches at other clubs in the
area, including Southampton University, whose boxers have won six
national titles under his guidance. An unassuming and hard-working
man, he has devoted much of his life to supporting children from
the area.
Mr. Peter Askham
Mr. Alan Bradbury
Mr. John
Braden
Mr. James Coyle
Professor Francis Duck
Mr.
Peter Fordham
Mr. Duncan Frame Janitor, Larbert Village
Primary School, Falkirk. For services to Education
64 yrs old
(STENHOUSEMUIR, FALKIRK)
He has been the janitor at Larbert
Village Primary School for many years. In that long and exemplary
career he has been a significant factor in ensuring that both
pupils and staff experience a welcoming, clean and safe learning
environment. His attention to detail is well-known by all and he
maintains school fabric and grounds very well indeed. He has given
unstintingly of his own time to work directly with children, for
example in coaching and organising the school football team for
many years, and with considerable success. His relationships with
staff, pupils and visitors to the school are first class and his
sense of humour is appreciated by all with whom he engages. In
addition, for 60 years he has been a loyal supporter of the local
football team, Stenhousemuir - a strong and helpful link into
community affairs which he uses to advantage in engaging with
children and parents. He is very highly regarded by staff in the
school and they are extremely concerned about how they can replace
his many talents and personality.
Mr. Christopher Green
Mr. Thomas Harper
Mr. Clifford
Harris
Mr. Douglas Holliday
Mr. Norman Holloway Chair, Pool Cancer Treatment Trust. For
charitable services in Dorset.
78 yrs old (BOURNEMOUTH,
DORSET)
He has been involved in the Poole Cancer Treatment
Trust (formerly the Scanner Appeal) since its inception in 1972,
and has been Chair for the last 19 years. Since then he has worked
selflessly and tirelessly to raise money for the purchase of
equipment associated with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
The Trust has now donated over £5m to Poole Hospital, as a result
of which the hospital has become established as a leading centre
for cancer care. Most of this vital fundraising work has been
organised single-handedly by him and he has fulfilled the tasks of
fundraiser, treasurer, secretary and chair simultaneously, and
with total dedication. His enthusiasm for the task is undiminished
and there is no doubt that without his efforts the hospital would
not be as well equipped as it is today, neither would the depth of
experience and expertise amongst clinicians, particularly in
radiology, be as great.
Mr. Stephen Johnson
Mr. David Johnston
Mr. Alexander
King
Dr. David McKinlay
Mr. David McMullan
Mr. Kenneth
Middleton Master Armourer, Firmin and Sons. For services to the
Armed Forces
55 yrs old (BIRMINGHAM, WEST MIDLANDS)
He
joined Firmin and Sons as an apprentice in 1967 and has risen to
the role of Master Armourer, providing a consistent, diligent
service to the company and its customers for 40 years in a role he
has fulfilled like his father and grandfather before him. The
company is renowned for the manufacture and supply of uniforms and
accoutrements for senior officers, Guards of Honour and Palace
Guards, as suppliers of medals and medallions and as the
world's leading manufacturer of horse furniture for Mounted
Ceremonial Troops. Founded in 1677 the company's strength
lies in its workforce of skilled craftsmen of which he is the
prime example. He has a key role in the production of the helmets
and cuirasses for the Household Cavalry Regiments, producing
products of the highest quality and which are viewed by many as
enduring icons of Great Britain. The splendour of his work is most
widely seen on the occasion of The Queen's Birthday Parade
(Trooping the Colour). He was also heavily involved when ensuring
that the officers of the Household Cavalry were all fully equipped
when undertaking their duties connected with the Lying-in-State of
The Queen Mother in 2002 when the urgent production of special
measure helmets and cuirasses fell to his skills alone, requiring
long hard hours of work to meet the requirement. His work and his
careful tutoring of those who will carry forward the skills
necessary to continue to equip the Armed Forces to such a high
standard in future is essential, exemplary and continuing.
Mr. Claude Miller
Dr. Peter Nettleton
Warrant Officer
Class 1 Roger Nicholas, The Rifles
Mr. Christopher
Pittaway
Mr. Peter Saunders
Mr. James Shera
Mr.
Stephen Stace
Mr. Michael Stanley
Mr. Ian Thompson
Mr.
Dennis Troy
Dr. Paul Twomey
Mr. Stephen Wotton For
services to Animal Welfare
50 yrs old (LANGFORD,
BRISTOL)
As a lecturer in Food Animal Science at Bath
University, he has been involved in research and training, for
animal welfare at slaughter, particularly in relation to stunning,
for over a quarter of a century. He has contributed to over 60
publications in the field of pain and welfare at slaughter of most
domestically reared animals including chicken, turkey, duck,
ostrich, cattle, sheep, pigs, trout, salmon and even eels. He has
also contributed to research and work on the welfare of animals
during transport. In addition to his impressive research
background, he has played a key role in taking the outputs from
his and colleagues' research on welfare at slaughter through
to practical implementation, either through education or the
development of new technologies. He has communicated and delivered
these outputs through an internationally renowned welfare at
slaughter training programme. The courses are excellent, the
training delivered in a manner that is inclusive, accounts for the
wide variety of educational backgrounds, and has achieved clear
benefits in improving the knowledge and skills of those with
responsibility for delivering welfare at slaughter. His dedication
to taking those very important steps forward in both developing
and disseminating slaughter research has touched the working lives
of so many involved in the daily slaughter of animals and has
certainly impacted on and benefited the welfare of many millions
of animals across the world.
The Venerable Dr. Ian Young
THE QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL
To be Decorated:-
Commander Susan Akers, Metropolitan Police
Detective Chief
Inspector Sharon Fielding, Humberside Police
Constable Anthony
Pike, Lincolnshire Police
THE QUEEN'S FIRE SERVICE MEDAL
To be Decorated:-
Deputy Chief Fire Officer Mazen Khuri,
Humberside Fire and Rescue Service
FOR SERVICES IN THE FORMER REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA
THE MOST
EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
To be a Member:-
Military Division:-
Major Michael
Farrington, The Royal Logistic Corps
FOR SERVICES IN AFGHANISTAN
THE ROYAL RED CROSS
To be an Associate:-
Lieutenant Frank Kelly, Queen
Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service
FOR SERVICES IN IRAQ
THE MILITARY CROSS
To be Decorated:-
Rifleman Jokini Sivoinauca, The Rifles
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