Investiture at Buckingham
Palace on Tuesday, 4th March 2008 at 11 a.m.
BUCKINGHAM PALACE
News Release issued by The Government News Network on 27 February 2008
THE ROYAL
VICTORIAN ORDER
To receive the Honour of Knighthood and to be a Knight Commander:-
Sir Philip Wroughton
KNIGHT BACHELOR
To receive the Honour of Knighthood:-
Professor Sir Alexander Markham
THE MOST HONOURABLE ORDER OF THE BATH
To be Companions:-
Civil Division:-
Mr. Anthony Inglese
Mr. David Lavery
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
To be Commanders:-
Military Division:-
Air Commodore David Tonks, Royal Air Force
Air Commodore Matthew Wiles, Royal Air Force
Civil Division:-
Evelyn Collins
Helen, Mrs. Weir
Mr. Robert Braithwaite
Mr. Andrew Cameron
The Right Reverend Charles Caruana
Mr. Selwyn Image
Mr. Peter Jones
Dr. Brian Woods-Scawen
THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER
To be a Lieutenant:-
Mr. Edward Griffiths
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
To be Officers:-
Military Division:-
Lieutenant Colonel Peter Balls, The Rifles
Civil Division:-
Lynette, Mrs. Barnes
Sandie, Mrs. Dixie
Margaret, Mrs. Gildea
Jennifer Gray
Miss Diana Mason
Heather Maxwell
Mr. George Alagiah Broadcaster and Author. For services to Journalism.
Dr. David Barnardo
Mr. Thomas Boyd
Professor Philip Dyer
Mr. Michael Gilbert
Dr. Michael Grainger
Dr. John Harcup
Mr. Ryan Jervis
Mr. Amir Kabal
Mr. Jamie Martin
Mr. Ross Reed
Mr. Carl Reuter
Mr. Michael Scott
Professor Geoffrey Southworth
Mr. Alan Walker
THE ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER
To be Members:-
Miss Karen Ashworth
Mr. Peter May
THE MOST EXCELLENT ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE
To be Members:-
Military Division:-
Warrant Officer Class 1 Norman Hall, Royal Marines
Major Thomas Aitken, The Parachute Regiment
Captain Stuart Beattie, Coldstream Guards
Warrant Officer Class 2 Stephen Morea, Adjutant General's
Corps, Staff and Personnel Support Branch
Squadron Leader Mark Abrahams, Royal Air Force
Corporal Neil Ward, Royal Air Force
Civil Division:-
Margaret, Mrs. Beard
Miss Janet Brightwell
Jean, Mrs. Byers
Elizabeth, Mrs. Chambers
Vivien, Mrs. Crouch School Nurse. For services to Healthcare in Bath
63yrs old (Limpley Stoke, Wiltshire)
For the last 27 years she has worked as a school nurse in the
Bath area. She ensures that young people are aware of and can
access confidential guidance on sexual health issues. One of her
innovative approaches was opening up the way for girls, at one
school, to access emergency contraception through establishing a
drop-in clinic linked to a local GP practice. She works alongside
schools, young people and parents to promote and develop effective
programmes of sex and relationships education to allow young
people to make informed decisions. She has received an award from
the Queen's Nursing Institute for creating a board game that
can be used as a teaching aid. She is frequently invited to speak
at, or participate in, national meetings and conferences. The
Social Exclusion Unit commended her in their report on teenage
pregnancy, and she now sits on the Independent Advisory Group to
the Cabinet Office on teenage pregnancy. She is a trustee for the
Brook Advisory Service which promotes the rights and needs of
young people in sexual health.
Patricia Culling
Margaret, Mrs. Hayward
Ann, Mrs. Head
Miss Valerie Ives
Sian, Mrs. Jones
Barbara, Mrs. Lancaster
Comfort, Mrs. Momoh Female Genital Mutilation/Public Health
Specialist, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation
Trust. For services to Women's Healthcare
Women's Healthcare
45yrs old (Barnet, London)
She is a nationally and internationally renowned midwife whose
specialist focus is Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). She is
employed at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, where she has
established and runs the African Well Women's Clinic (AWWC),
which is a support service for women and girls. The clinic is an
example of best practice and a model centre of excellence, where
minor procedures are also offered to women who would like to have
their circumcision reversed. Her work in the AWWC is extremely
successful in terms of health outcomes for mothers. The referrals
to the clinic are from healthcare practitioners, women, their
families and friends. She is a positive role model for all
practitioners and strives to raise the quality of treatment
delivery, needs-led maternity care and improvements in
women's health. She works with women and their families who
have complex needs, including refugees and asylum seekers. She
makes a difference in the lives of the women she sees. She is the
only FGM specialist in the UK, and is the author of one of the
country's first textbooks on FGM in which she shares her
expertise with other health professionals across the country and
enables them to understand the issues more fully. She has also won
several prizes and awards including the Emma Humphreys Memorial
Prize Award in 2006 and more recently the Florence Nightingale
Scholarship/Travel Award to carry out comparative research about
sexual health and FGM in Africa.
Miss Mary Penny
Muriel, Mrs. Poisson For charitable services in Jersey
62yrs old (Jersey, Channel Islands)
She is best known in the parish of St John as the lollipop lady
who has shepherded generations of children safely across a busy
main road for over 24 years, whatever the weather. She has worked
tirelessly within the community on numerous charity projects,
often with children as the main focus. In more recent years she
has raised thousands of pounds and given hours of pleasure to the
older members of the parish by running a weekly bingo session. The
annual Christmas party would not be the same without her, as the
array of raffle prizes and presents that she manages to get
individuals and companies to donate is quite staggering. She has
been the backbone of numerous entries to Jersey's biggest
festival, the Battle of Flowers, entering award-winning floats for
over 30 years by acquiring sponsorship and organising fundraising
to ensure that the floats were always of the highest quality. For
over two decades she has not only collected around the parish for
both the poppy appeal and Christian Aid week but also arranged
rotas and commandeered help to ensure that no address is ever
missed. Her selfless commitment, dedication and devotion to the
community, in particular to children and senior citizens, sets her
apart from her contemporaries.
Joyce, Mrs. Smith For services to Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol
67yrs old (Downend, Bristol)
In 1987 the owner of the Arnos Vale Cemetery intended to sell the
land for large-scale redevelopment. In response she founded the
Friends of Arnos Vale Cemetery to fight the owner and claim the
land for the public. The site contains 50,000 graves (known),
150,000 burials (paupers), 120,000 cremations, as well as four
Grade II listed buildings and 25 Grade II listed monuments. As
secretary to the Friends of Arnos Vale Cemetery, she has over a
period of 20 years been working on a full-time and unpaid basis,
often seven days a week, writing letters, organising petitions,
filling in forms, organising fundraising fairs and keeping minutes
of meetings. In addition, she organises the volunteers to clean
and maintain graves. Relatives pay a nominal fee for the service,
whilst she makes the tea for the volunteers who work on the day.
In 2005 she relinquished her trusteeship to concentrate on
managing and organising the Friends, which has around 500 members
many of whom are also abroad. Her stalwart support of her husband
(who is chair of the Trust) has recently resulted in the winning
of a £4.8m Heritage Lottery Fund grant for a regeneration
programme that includes restoration work to the historic buildings
and monuments, landscaping and the creation of educational, family
history and community facilities.
Kathryn Vincent
Mr. John Allen
Dr. David Aston
Mr. Martin Bradley
Mr. David Bradshaw
Mr. Peter Chambers
Mr. Euton Daley
Mr. Raymond Drayton
Mr. Mervyn Dunlop
Mr. Arthur Flux
Mr. Charles Flynn
Dr. Peter Ford
Mr. Michael Godrich
Mr. David Goldsmith
Mr. Thomas Gorringe
Mr. Martin Hall
Mr. William Johnston
Mr. Alan Lancaster
Mr. David Lathrope
Mr. Paul Manning
Mr. George Mawhinney
Firefighter David Newton, Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service
Mr. John Oaker
Mr. Michael Reynolds
Dr. Peter Tate
The Reverend Canon Owen Spencer-Thomas
Mr. John Thornley
Detective Chief Inspector Robert Vinson, Kent Police
THE ROYAL VICTORIAN MEDAL (SILVER)
To be Decorated:-
Mr. Kenneth Giles
THE QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL
To be Decorated:-
Constable Joseph Holness, Kent Police
THE QUEEN'S FIRE SERVICE MEDAL
To be Decorated:-
Chief Fire Officer David Webb, Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service
FOR HIS ACTIONS DURING A TERRORIST ATTACK IN LONDON ON 21ST JULY 2005
THE QUEEN'S GALLANTRY MEDAL
To be Decorated:-
Watch Manager Angus Campbell, London Fire Brigade
FOR THEIR ACTIONS DURING A TERRORIST ATTACK IN LONDON ON 29TH
JUNE 2007
THE QUEEN'S GALLANTRY MEDAL
To be Decorated:-
Mr. Paul Humphrey, Explosives Officer, Metropolitan Police
THE QUEEN'S COMMENDATION FOR BRAVERY
Mr. Gary Wright, Explosives Officer, Metropolitan Police
FOR HIS ACTIONS DURING A TERRORIST ATTACK AT GLASGOW AIRPORT ON
30TH JUNE 2007
THE QUEEN'S GALLANTRY MEDAL
To be Decorated:-
Mr. John Smeaton