List of awards

Sir Michael Colin Cowdrey, CBE, Chairman, International Cricket Council 1989-1993; Field Marshal Sir Peter Inge, GCB, DL former Chief of the Defence Staff; Sir Peter Keith Levene, KBE former adviser to the Prime Minister on efficiency and effectiveness.

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OF HONOUR

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David Hockney, artist, for services to art.

KNIGHTS BACHELOR

Bryan William Baker, regional chairman, West Midlands NHS Executive, for services to health care; Professor Jack Edward Baldwin, FRS Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, University of Oxford, for services to organic chemistry; Chay Blyth, CBE, BEM for services to sailing; Ross Buckland, chief executive, Unigate plc, for services to the food industry and to the environment; Nicholas Dominic Cadbury, chairman, Cadbury Schweppes plc, for services to the food manufacturing industry; Bryan Thomas Alfred Collins, OBE, QFSM Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services, for services to the Fire Service; Roger William Cork, Lord Mayor of London, for services to the City of London and for public service; Professor John Grimley Evans, Professor of Clinical Geratology, University of Oxford, for services to medicine; Thomas Farmer, CBE, chairman and chief executive, Kwik-Fit Holdings plc, for services

to the automotive industry; Angus McFarlane McLeod Grossart, CBE, DL former chairman, board of trustees, National Galleries of Scotland, for services to the arts; John Andrew Harman, leader, Kirklees Metropolitan Council, for services to local government and to the environment; John Southwood Jennings, CBE, chairman, Shell Transport and Trading plc, for services to the oil and gas industry; Professor Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd, Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science and Master of Darwin College, University of Cambridge, for services to the history of thought; Charles Beech Gordon Masefield, for services to defence exports; Professor James Mirrlees, Professor of Political Economy, University of Cambridge, for services to economic science; Roger Arthur Carver Norrington, CBE, conductor, for services to music; Peter John O'Sullevan, CBE, for services to horse racing; Professor Narendra

Babubhai Patel, President, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and chairman, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges and Faculties, for services to medicine; Professor Gareth Gwyn Roberts, FRS Vice-Chancellor, University of Sheffield, for services to higher education; Donald Alfred Sinden, CBE, actor, for services to drama; Thomas Stoppard, CBE, playwright, for services to literature; Hugh Ridley Sykes, DL, chairman, Sheffield Development Corporation, for services to business and for charitable services; His Honour Judge Frank John White, senior judge, Central London County Court.

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(DCB)

Mrs Ann Elizabeth Bowtell, CB Permanent Secretary, Department of Social Security.

KNIGHT COMMANDER

(KCB)

Donald William Limon, CB Clerk of the House of Commons.

COMPANIONS (CB)

John Ernest Avery, Deputy Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration; Mrs Pamela Anne Denham, regional director, Government Office North East, Department of Trade and Industry; David Stanley Grundy, Forestry Commissioner, Forestry Commission; Keith Howard Jones, chief executive, Medicines Control Agency, Department of Health; Eugene McGivern, director, personal tax division, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Ronald Blackwood Spence, for public service; Clifford David Stevens, former Principal Establishment Officer, Welsh Office; Ian James Stewart, project director, Job Seekers' Allowance, Department for Education and Employment; Neil William Summerton, former director, Water and Land, Department of the Environment; David Christopher Tyte, director rationalisation, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence;

James Ashton Vallance White, Fourth Clerk at the Table and Clerk of the Judicial Office, House of Lords.

ORDER OF ST MICHAEL AND ST GEORGE

KNIGHT COMMANDER

(KCMG)

Gordon Ying Sheung Wu, managing director, Hopewell Holdings Group, for services to export.

COMPANIONS (CMG)

David Kennedy, director-general, Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Roger Stanley Mabey, director, Bovis Construction Group, for services to export; Neil Macleod McMillan, director, international communications policy, Communications and Information Industries directorate, Department of Trade and Industry; Allan Robert Willett, chairman, Willett International Ltd, for services to export.

ROYAL VICTORIAN

ORDER

KNIGHTS COMMANDER

(KCVO)

John Nigel Courtenay James, CBE, Secretary and Keeper of the Records, Duchy of Cornwall; Richard Eustace Thornton, OBE, Lord Lt of Surrey.

COMMANDERS (CVO)

Stephen James Cox, director general, Commonwealth Institute; David Alexander Cospatrick Douglas-Home the Earl of Home, CBE, for personal services; Christopher Kingston Howes, CB Second Commissioner and Chief Executive, Crown Estate; Maj Nigel Donald Peter Chamberlayne-Macdonald, LVO, OBE former Gentleman Usher to The Queen.

LIEUTENANTS (LVO)

Khalid Aziz, former chairman of the Prince's Trust in Hampshire and chairman of the Prince's Youth Business Trust, Southern Counties; John David Bond, MVO former Keeper of the Savill and Valley Gardens, Crown Estate, Windsor; Dr. John Hubert Daly Briscoe, Apothecary to the Royal Household at Windsor; Michael Thomas Chamberlayne, for personal services; Timothy John Ffytche, Surgeon-Oculist to the Royal Household; Michael Charles William Norreys Jephson, MVO Chief Clerk, Master of the Household's Department, Royal Household; Mrs Madeleine the Honourable Louloudis, assistant private secretary to the Princess Royal; John Hessel Tiltman, Director of Property Services, Royal Household.

MEMBERS (MVO)

James Duncan Baxter, former chairman of the Prince's Youth Business Trust in Cheshire (deceased: to be dated 22nd May 1997); Peter Leonard Brock, headmaster, Royal School, Great Park, Windsor; Sgt Graham Leonard Craker, Royalty Protection Department, Metropolitan Police; Richard Julian Ashton Edwards, Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, St. James's Palace; Mrs Carole Grayson, secretary, Yorkshire Survey, Duchy of Lancaster; Miss Margaret Elizabeth Green, administrator, property services, Royal Household; William Anderson Meston, secretary, Braemar Royal Highland Society; Sidney John Sampler, secretary, Royal Travel Office; Sgt David John Sharp, Royalty Protection Department, Metropolitan Police; Miss Rosemary Jetta Tiney, operational scheduling manager (longhaul), British Airways; Miss Ann Wycherley, assistant secretary, Royal Warrant Holders Association. 02 Bar to RV. Reginald Wilcock, RVM Deputy

Steward and Page of the Presence to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.

(RVM)

Malcolm Douglas Batterbee, carpenter, Sandringham Estate; Constable Robert Brooks, Royalty Protection Department, Metropolitan Police; Paul Burrell, butler to Diana, Princess of Wales; Peter Chong, chief gilder, Master of the Household's Department, Royal Household; Leonard Critchlow, assistant keeper of the Valley Gardens, Crown Estate, Windsor; Mrs Pauline Marie Dodge, senior telephone operator, Royal Household; Peter Christopher Noel Garraway, former assistant bailiff, Ascot Racecourse; Able Seaman (Missile) Stephen Ernest Hislop, HM yacht Britannia; Divisional Sgt Maj Harold Sheldon Howarth, The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard; Allan Keir, senior gardener, Palace of Holyroodhouse; John Frederick George Kluth, furniture manager, Town and County Caterers; Barrie Thomas Lovell, valet to The Duke of Edinburgh; PO Marine Engineering Mechanic (Mechanical) David Tony Rayner, HM

yacht Britannia; David Eric Stone, for services to the Royal Household; Constable Graham Kenneth Stuttard, Royalty Protection Department, Metropolitan Police; Terence Peter Sullivan, fitter, Crown Estate, Windsor; Acting Leading Seaman (Missile) David John Wharram, HM yacht Britannia.

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BRITISH EMPIRE

DAMES COMMANDER

(DBE)

Miss Cleo (Clementine) Dinah Laine, (Mrs Dankworth) OBE singer, for services to jazz Music.

KNIGHT COMMANDER

(KBE)

The Rev John Charlton Polkinghorne, FRS for services to medical ethics and to learning.

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BRITISH EMPIRE

COMMANDERS (CBE)

Professor Edward William Abel, president, Royal Society of Chemistry, for services to chemistry; James Gay Adamson, OBE, vice chairman, Financial Systems NCR, for services to the manufacturing industry; Professor Michael Farries Ashby, FRS Royal Society Research Professor, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, for services to materials science and to engineering; Miss Kamlesh Bahl, (Mrs Lakhani) chairwoman, Equal Opportunities Commission, for services to equal opportunities; Ian David Hunter Baillie, director of social work, Church of Scotland, for services to social care provision; Brian Ford Baldock, former deputy chairman, Guinness, for services to the alcoholic drinks industry; Correlli Douglas Barnett, for services to military history; Professor Thomas Martin Barratt, former Professor of Paediatric Nephrology, Institute of Child Health, London, for services to medicine;

Terence Arthur Bone, former area manager, Prison Service, Home Office; James Thomas Bowman, countertenor, for services to music; Keith James Bridge, chairman, Education Assets Board, for services to education; Professor Amyand David Buckingham, FRS Professor of Chemistry, University of Cambridge, for services to science; Basil Richard Ryland Butler, OBE, for services to the oil industry and to the Royal Academy of Engineering; Francis Anthony Armstrong Carnwath, for services to the arts and to heritage; Professor Richard Lawrance Carter, former chairman, Committee on Carcinogenicity, for services to health care; Campbell Christie, general secretary. Scottish Trades Union Congress, for services to industrial relations; Anthony Stephen Close, chairman, Health Education Authority, for services to health education; Professor Robert Donald Cohen, Professor of Medicine, St. Bartholomew's and the

Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary and Westfield College and chairman, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, for services to medicine; Timothy George Congdon, managing director, Lombard Street Research, for services to economic debate; William Peter Cooke, chairman, Housing Corporation, for services to housing; Miss Phyliss Margaret Cunningham, chief executive, the Royal Marsden NHS Trust, for services to health care; John Arthur Hugh Curry, chairman, All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club, for services to lawn tennis; Andrew Rodney Dare, for services to Milk Marque and to the dairy industry; Mrs Christine Agnes Murison Davis, chairman, Scottish Legal Aid Board, for services to the legal system; Spencer Thomas de Grey, for services to architecture; Joseph Claude Dwek, chairman, Bodycote International plc, for services to industry and to the Confederation of British Industry

in North West England; Charles Malcolm Edwards, director of contracts, surface ships, Ministry of Defence; Edwin Bruce Farmer, group managing director, Morgan Crucible Company Ltd, for services to export; Lewis Gilbert, film director, for services to the film industry; Michael John Gillingham, chairman, Advisory Board for Redundant Churches, for services to church conservation; Michael Goldstein, Vice-Chancellor, Coventry University, for services to higher education; David Grant, chairman, Technology Foresight Manufacturing, Production and Business Processes Panel, for services to technology foresight; Mrs Edna Eileen Mary Gray, OBE, chairman, London Youth Games organising board, for services to sport; Richard Gunner Greenslade, former District Judge, Gloucester County Court and president, Association of District Judges; Peter Gerard Greenwood, former chairman, Former Association of District

Councils, for services to local government; Mrs Joan Brownlow Hanham, leader of the council, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, for services to local government; Miss Barbara Fitzgerald Harvey, for services to medieval history; Robert Hawley, chief executive, British Energy plc, for services to the energy industry and to engineering; John Charles Hooper, director general, Incorporated Society of British Advertisers, for services to the advertising industry; Anthony Michell Howard, obituaries editor, The Times, for services to journalism and to broadcasting; James Alexander Inverarity, OBE, chairman, Scottish Agricultural College, for services to agriculture; Professor Arthur S Jones, Principal, Royal Agricultural College, for services to agricultural education; George Michael Sinclair Kennedy, OBE, chief music critic, The Sunday Telegraph, for services to music; Pendarell Hugh Kent,

executive director, Bank of England, for services to banking; David George Lambert, Assistant Chief Inspector, Social Services Inspectorate, Department of Health; Richard Douglas Lapthorne, finance director, British Aerospace plc, for services to the aerospace industry; Professor John Hartley Lawton, FRS director, Centre for Population Biology, for services to ecology and to the environment; Alasdair Donald MacDuff Liddell, director of planning, NHS Executive, Department of Health; Ian Malcolm David Little, AFC for services to economics; Miss Gillian Lynne, choreographer and director, for services to dance; Angus John Macdonald, executive chairman, Scottish Media Group plc, for services to broadcasting; Professor Margaret Anne MacKeith, Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Central Lancashire, for services to higher education; Archibald MacLaren, Chief Valuer Scotland, Valuation Office Agency,

Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Professor Duncan MacLennan, founding board member, Scottish Homes, for services to housing policy; Professor Norman MacKay, Dean of Postgraduate Medicine, University of Glasgow and president, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow, for services to medicine; Humfrey Jonathan Malins, trustee, Immigration Advisory Service, for services to immigration policy; Allen Short Matheson, for services to architecture; Kenneth Wilkie McKay, former head, local government current expenditure division, Scottish Office; William Patrick McLennan, AM former director, Central Statistical Office, for services to statistics and to the creation of the Office of National Statistics; Michael Michael, head, VAT and excise advisory division, Solicitor's Office, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Edward Ouri Mirzoeff, CVO executive producer, documentaries, BBC TV, for

services to broadcasting; Ian Sydney Mitchelson, former chief executive, Service Children's Education, Ministry of Defence; Professor Fabian Charles Monds, for services to economic development; Andrew Neil Morrison, QFSM Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services for Scotland, for services to the Fire Service; Russell Vernon Nathan, former chairman, Thames Valley Enterprise Training and Enterprise Council, for services to training; The Rev John Anthony Newton, for services to ecumenical relations in Liverpool Merseyside; Mrs Alison Norman, chairman, Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee, for services to health care; Francis Harry Panton, MBE, for services to nuclear affairs policy; Nicholas Wulstan Park, for services to the animated film industry; Professor Jane Anne Plant, assistant director and head, minerals, environment and geochemical surveys division, British Geological

Survey, for services to the earth sciences; Miss Zandra Lindsey Rhodes, fashion and textile designer, for services to the fashion industry; Professor Geraint Meirwyn Roberts, Dean of Medicine and head, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, University of Wales College of Medicine, for services to medicine; Kenneth George Robinson, for services to tourism; Aubrey Rose, OBE, senior vice president, Board of Deputies of British Jews, for services to community relations; Robin Guy Sequeira, former director of social services, Dorset County Council, for services to social services; Professor Richard Wright Shaw, Principal, University of Paisley and Convenor, Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, for sevices to higher education; Professor Colin John Smith, Dean, Sheffield Dental School, for services to dental education; David Charles Snell, director, Finance and Corporate Services and

deputy Chief Executive, Royal Mint; Abraham Kenneth Snowman, for services to the fine arts and for charitable services; Professor William Thomas Stearn, for services to horticulture and botany; Brian Michael Tanner, former Chief Executive, Somerset County Council, for services to local government; Francis William Taylor, QPM, DL Chief Constable, Durham Constabulary, for services to the police; Kevin Christopher Taylor, Assistant Chief Veterinary Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Robert Murray Ross Taylor, for services to medical charities; Mrs Rachel Mary Thomas, Commissioner, Countryside Commission, for services to the countryside, national parks, forestry and rural development; Terence James Thomas, chairman, North West Partnership, for services to business and to urban regeneration in North West England; John Daniel Thompson, DL, for services to health care and to the

community; Michael John Tomlinson, Director of Inspection, Office for Standards in Education; Thomas Rudolph Vyner, group deputy chairman, J. Sainsbury plc, for services to food retailing; John Howard Webb, for services to the actuarial profession; John Weston Whitaker, divisional manager, School Organisation Branch, Department of Education and Employment; James Ramsay Wilson, managing director, Appledore Shipbuilders Ltd, for services to the shipbuilding industry; Anthony George Hurst Withey, chief executive, Remploy Ltd, for services to the employment of disabled people; Christopher Mervyn Woodman, former head, highways policy and programmes division, Department of Transport; William David Woolley, former Grade 4, Fire Research Station, Building Research Establishment, Department of the Environment; Professor Harold John Wootton, former chief executive, Transport Research Laboratory, for

services to transport research; David John Wright, managing director, GKN Aerospace and Special Vehicles, for services to the defence industry; Martin Hugh Wyld, chief restorer, National Gallery.

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BRITISH EMPIRE

OFFICERS (OBE)

Gordon Dudley Adams, secretary, Commission for Local Administration in England, for services to local government; Charles Kingsley Allatt, B1 deputy Controller Business Operations, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Richard James Colin Anderson, for services to the community and to industry; Timothy Morris Angel, chairman, Angels and Bermans, for services to the theatre, film and television; Peter Arkell, for services to British-American community relations at RAF Fairford Gloucestershire; Mrs Miranda Sarah Armitage, for services to the British Red Cross Society in North Yorkshire; Michael Andrew Atherton, for services to cricket; James Attwood, for services to education in the construction industry; Roy Frederick Victor Aylott, City Engineer, Corporation of London, for services to engineering and to the City of London; David John Babb, former Grade 7, Department of Trade and Industry;

George William Baron, for services to the community on Alderney Channel Islands; Geoffrey Michael Barwell, for services to the Royal British Legion; Trevor Graham Baylis, inventor of the portable clockwork radio, for humanitarian services; Alfred James Beale, member, board of governors, Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, for services to education; Gordon George Beaumont, chairman, Evaluation Advisory Group of the review of NVQs and SVQs, for services to education; Professor Ian Crawford Benington, for services to dentistry; Michael Robert William Berry, for services to training and to tourism in Cumbria; Amir Bhatia, member, National Lottery Charities Board, for charitable services; William Howard Blackburn, for services to Franco-British legal relations; Barry John Blain, assistant project director, Home Office; Michael Bond, writer, for services to children's literature;

Professor Margaret Rosetta Brazier, chairman, Animal Procedures Committee, for services to animal welfare; Mrs Margaret Anne Bridge, Grade 6, Department of Trade and Industry; John Broadbent, chairman, National Council for Voluntary Youth Services, for services to young people; John David Brown, Grade 7, Ministry of Defence; Professor Victoria Geraldine Bruce, Professor of Psychology and deputy Principal, University of Stirling, for services to psychology; Mrs Ann Elizabeth Brum, for services to the community in Barnet, Hertfordshire; Anthony Charles Buxton, director, guns and vehicles, BAe (Royal Ordnance), for services to engineering and to the defence industry; Kenneth Cameron, member, Dumfries and Galloway Council, for services to local government; Andrew Robertson Campbell, for services to agriculture; Maurice Donaldson Cantley, former director, projects and marketing, Highland and Islands

Enterprise, for services to the Highlands and Islands; Brian Carlin, for services to industry; Rachel Elizabeth Carmichael, for services to health care in Leicestershire; Christopher Douglas Carr, audit manager, National Audit Office; Ian James Carruthers, chief executive, Dorset Health Authority, for services to health care; Alan Telfer Chape, assistant chief executive, Liverpool City Council, for services to urban regeneration; Alfred Guy Chappell, former consultant physician and clinical director of medicine, Bridgend and District NHS Trust, for services to medicine; Brian Howard Charles, former chairman, Dwr Cymru (Welsh Water), for services to the water industry; Peter Eric Gravell Charles, former Grade 7, Health and Safety Executive, Department of the Environment; Miss Josephine Alicia Churchill, for services to the National Federation of Music Societies; Alan John Clark, former Grade

6, Highways Agency, Department of Transport; Anthony John Clark, divisional head, Roslin Institute, for services to biotechnology; David John Clinch, secretary, The Open University, for services to higher education; Robert Cockburn, for services to magistracy and to the community in Rotherham South Yorkshire; Mrs Nicola Constance Cogan, physiotherapy officer, Department of Health; Professor Richard Reginald Rupert Tilleard-Cole, for services to the Oxford University Officers' Training Corps; Timothy Cook, clerk, City Parochial Foundation, for charitable services; Terry Creissen, principal, Colne Community School, Essex, for services to education; Bernard David James Crisp, for services to Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association in London; Philip Croft, for services to disabled people; Andrew Crofts, Principal Professional and Technology Officer, Ministry of Defence; Maneck Ardeshir

Sohrab Dalal, chairman, UK Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, for services to community relations; Professor Kenneth Jackson Davey, Professor of Development Administration, University of Birmingham, for services to the Know How Fund; Edward John James Davies, for services to the community in North Wales; Martin Neil Davies, Assistant Chief Constable, South Yorkshire Police, for services to the police; Mrs Sylvia Ann Davies, for services to nursing in South East Wales; Nigel Dodds, for services to local government; Cedric John Dowe, team leader, special educational needs independent team, Department for Education and Employment; Mrs Ruth Draycott, chairman, National Advisory Council of Boards of Visitors, for services to prisoner welfare; Miss Elizabeth Duffin, for services to health care; Malcolm Coit Dunlop, for services to disabled people; Alan William Duttine, co-managing director, Airedale International

Air Conditioning Ltd, for services to export; Hubert Theodor Elsasser, chief engraver, Royal Mint; Harold Meurig Evans, for services to the Welsh language and Wales; Professor Julian Evans, for services to forestry and to the Third World; Professor Robert Wallace Ewart, for services to higher education; Miss Adye Mary Fedden, (Mrs Trevelyan) painter, for services to art; Mrs Barbara Fisher, chairman of governors, Yehudi Menuhin School, Cobham, Surrey, for services to music education; Mrs Avril Fishwick, DL, for services to the community in Wigan, Greater Manchester; James John Maitland Flegg, former director of external relations, Horticulture Research International, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Alan McKay Fletcher, former Grade 7, Forestry Commission; Mrs Janis Richardson Fletcher, chairwoman, MSF Motor Group Ltd, for services to industry; Trevor David Ford, for services

to geology and cave science; Michael Foy, Grade 7, Ministry of Defence; Philip Michael Gaffney, managing director, Seescan plc, for services to the promotion of technology transfer; Paul John Gallagher, Principal, Bradford and Ilkley Community College, West Yorkshire, for services to further education; David Garlick, head, international assistance, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Christopher John McLean Gebbie, former chairman, East Sussex Drugs Advisory Council, for services to tackling drugs misuse; Vincent Michael Goodman, former principal crown prosecutor, Crown Prosecution Service; John Henry Grant, for services to agriculture; Robert Frederick Hall, QGM for services to the police; Samuel James Hall, solicitor, for services to the Ministry of Defence (Navy Department) in Scotland; Stephen Andrew Hancocks editor-in-chief FDI World Dental Press Ltd., and communications manager, General

Dental Council, for services to the dental profession; David Frederick Harper, for services to the Farmers' Overseas Action Grou. Norman David Haste, former project director, John Laing Civil Engineering, for services to the construction industry; David Farrell Helsdon, deputy collector, Southern England, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Professor Joseph Helszajn, Professor of Microwave Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, for services to engineering; Mrs Clare Elizabeth Hepworth, chairwoman, Three Rivers Housing Association, for services to social housing; Miss Angela Heylin, for services to the Prime Minister's advisory panel on the Citizen's Charter; Keith S Hodgson, controller of stamps, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Peter David Holliday, former chief executive, Admiral Homes, for services to energy efficiency; David Hook, former county engineer, Oxfordshire County Council,

for services to road safety; Maj Derek Frank Hooton, TD, DL leader, Wellingborough Borough Council, for services to the community in Northamptonshire; John William Hughes, TD for public service; Frederick William Hulton, chairman, Local Investment Fund, for services to urban regeneration; Professor John Angus Alexander Hunter, Grant Professor of Dermatology, University of Edinburgh and consultant dermatologist, Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, for services to medicine; Owen Douglas Hydes, Deputy Chief Inspector, Drinking Water Inspectorate, Department of the Environment; James Jackson, director, Alzheimer Scotland, for charitable services; Mrs Kate Jackson, director, Changing Childbirth Implementation Team, for services to midwifery; John Robert Maurice Jacobs, for services to golf; Mrs Maureen Sybil Jones, for services to WRVS in Wales; Jafferhusein Akberali Kapasi, vice president, Leicestershire

Asian Business Association, for services to business in Leicestershire; Miss Ruth Edith Julia Kaufmann, director, BBC Children in Need Appeal, for charitable services; Miss Judith Pamela Kelly, artistic director, West Yorkshire Playhouse, for services to the theatre; Michael Stanton King, surgeon, for services to surgery in developing countries; Paul Raymond King, DL, for services to the community in Norwich, Norfolk; Reginald David Kingston, for services to cancer research in Trafford Greater Manchester; Miss Dorothy Craig Kinloch, Chief Commissioner of Scotland, The Scout Association, for services to the scouting movement; Trevor Asher Kletz, for services to industrial safety; Michael Anthony Knowles, former chairman and chief executive, M W Marshall & Co. Ltd, for services to the finance industry. Alastair de Saumarez Dacre Lacy, director and international affairs adviser, Babcock Technical

Services Ltd, for services to the London Chamber of Commerce and to Export; Richard Ernest Lane, for services to Business and to the community in Bromley Kent; David Charles Frederick Latham, deputy managing director, Anglian Water International, for services to the water industry; David Lawless, lately grade 7, Overseas Development Administration; John Bryan Leck, for services to the community in North West England; Miss Audrey Mary Lees, lately chairman, Inland Waterways Amenity Advisory Council, for services to inland waterways and to planning; John Stanley Lewis, head of combustion engineering, Rolls-Royce plc, for services to aero engineering; Maurice Gilbert Joseph Lickens, for services to tourism on the Isle of Wight; John Arthur Lloyd, DL, for services to Magistracy in Swansea; Antonella The Marchioness of Lothian, for services to women's issues and for charitable services to blind

people; Roger Reynolds Lovegrove, for services to the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and to Conservation in Wales; Phillip Anthony Lowe, lately executive chairman, Yorkshire Chemicals plc, for services to the chemicals industry; John Neil Lucas, officer in charge, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Professor John Ernest Carmichael MacBeath, director, Quality in Education Centre, University of Strathclyde, for services to Education; Alistair Iain Macdonald, B2 Business Adviser, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Miss Anne Elizabeth Mace, Chief Probation Officer, West Yorkshire, for services to the Probation Service; Colin James Macey, Senior Principal, Meteorological Office, Ministry of Defence; Terry J Mahoney, DL, for services to Local Government in Wales; Neil Kenneth Maitland, former chairman, London Federation of Clubs for Young People, for services to young people;

Lt Col Philip Mantle, TD for services to Magistracy in the County of Caerphilly; Richard Henry Marriott, director, British Telecommunications plc, for services to the telecommunications industry; Paul Charles Marsh, for services to forestry; Jean Elizabeth Lady Mayhew Of Twysden, for services to community relations and to charitable causes; Terence Hugh McCartney, for services to textile industry in Northern Ireland; Miss Maeve Theresa McDonald, chairman, children's panel advisory committee, Glasgow City Council, for services to children's panels; David John McDonough, grade 6, Prison Service, Home Office; Thomas McGrath, for services to education; George Bennett McKelvie, chairman, Stirling Royal Infirmary NHS Trust, for services to health care; Malcolm McLean, former grade 6, Department of Social Security; John Percival Mellor, QSM for services to Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families

Association in West Midlands; Mrs Beryl Melvin, TD former deputy chief nursing officer, Welsh Office; Mrs Margaret Alice Merritt, former grade 7, Ministry of Defence; Eric Buchan Miller, grade 7, Scottish Office; Peter Mitchell, for services to British Motor Industry Heritage Trust; Barrie Morgan, principal professional and technology officer, Ministry of Defence; Martyn Richard Morris, headteacher, Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Lancashire, for services to education; Peter Moxon, Chief Commissioner of England (Central), Scout Association, for services to scouting; Alan Loudon Scott Munro, team leader, Marine Laboratory, Scottish Office; Denis Murray, BBC Ireland correspondent, for services to broadcasting; Miss Elizabeth Hawkins Nelson, chairman, Ecolabelling Board, for services to ecolabelling; Mrs Priscilla Jane Newell, former chairman, Maxwell Pensioners Trust; John Charles Norman,

for services to community especially the RNLI on Jersey, Channel Islands; James Kenneth Murray Oliver, for services to farming and the community in Scotland; Michael Douglas Oxnard, for services to forestry in Wales; Miss Maureen Janet Packwood, former chief executive, Weald of Kent Community NHS Trust, for services to health care and disabled people; Kirit Pathak, chairman, Pataks Spices Ltd, for services to the food industry and to export; James McIntosh Patrick, artist, for services to art; Mrs Anne Elizabeth Pearce, director, field bureaux services, National Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux, for services to Citizen's Advice Bureaux Movement; Kenneth George Pearson, technical director, Three Quays Marine Services, for services to marine safety; Professor Kenneth George Pease, Professor of Criminology, University of Huddersfield, for services to crime prevention; Michael Pender,

former Equal Opportunities and Human Resources Projects manager, Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment; Christopher William Milner Penn, former leader, Conservative group, Suffolk County Council, for services to local government; Robin Pooley, managing director, Anglian Produce Ltd, for services to agricultural marketing; Professor John George Pope, grade 6, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Neville Frederick Povey, for services to Civil Service charities; Arthur John Mason Price, chairman, Arthur Price of England, for services to the cutlery industry; Mrs Margaret Theresa Prosser, national organiser, Transport and General Workers Union, for services to industrial relations and to women's issues; Verney Watson Pugh, MBE, for services to agriculture; Philip James Pye, Dean, Faculty of Health Studies, University of Wales (Bangor), for services to nursing; Alan

Edward Ransome, for services to table tennis; Terence Leslie Rayson, former clerk of the lists, Royal Courts of Justice, Lord Chancellor's Department; David Henry Patrick Read, chief executive, JP Fruit Distributors Ltd. for services to the fruit industry; The Reverend Canon Martin Alan Reardon, general secretary, Churches Together in England, for services to ecumenism; William Reid, managing director, Brown Brothers Ltd, for services to Marine Engineering in Scotland; David Reynolds, group controller of entertainment, Yorkshire Tyne Tees TV, for services to the broadcasting industry; Kenneth Richardson, senior director, medicinal drug discovery, Pfizer Central Research, for services to scientific research; Roger Leslie Richardson, photogrammetric and specialist surveys manager, Ordnance Survey, Department of the Environment; Mrs Margaret Anne Roberts, chair of governors, Clarendon College,

Nottingham, for services to education and to the community; Mrs Gabrielle Christine Robertson, for services to Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association in Scotland; David Norman Robinson, for services to journalism and to the community in Lincolnshire; Victor Holland Robinson, architect, for services to architecture; John Michael Robotham, chairman, Institute of Advanced Motorists, for services to road safety; Robert J Rodgers, for services to education; Alan Mackenzie Rome, church architect and trustee, Churches Conservation Trust, for services to conservation; Professor John Francis Roulston, technical director. GEC Marconi Avionics Ltd, for services to airborne radar; Kenneth David Rubens, for charitable services to the Jewish community; Dominic James Stephen Savage, chief executive, British Educational Suppliers Association, for services to educational supplies industry; David

Michael Scott, for services to Almshouse Association; Mrs Letitia Josephine Scott, district manager, Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment; Harold Scrimshaw, for services to former Association of District Councils and to community in Bolsover Derbyshire; Subramaniam Shanmugam, grade 6, Highways Agency, Department of Transport; Mrs Ann Sheen, executive director of nursing, Royal Berkshire and Battle Hospitals NHS Trust, for services to health care; Miss Jane Elizabeth Siberry, grade 5, Ministry of Defence; Neil Singleton, former group director, Social Services, Cheshire County Council, for services to social work; Derek Bowman Smart, former personnel director, Nuclear Electric plc, for services to the electricity industry; Raymond Malcolm Dennis Smith, former director, central advice unit, PACE Cabinet Office (Office of Public Service); Walter Ferguson Smith, manager,

Glasgow Rangers Football Club, for services to association football; Miss Patricia Muriel Snell, chief executive, UK SKILLS, for services to skills development; Belinda Maris Crossley Lady Somerleyton, for services to British Red Cross Society in Suffolk; Professor George Somerville, director of engineering, British Cement Association, for services to civil engineering; John Brian Southern, MBE, for services to tourism, especially for Disabled People; Leslie Thomas Sparks, director of planning and architecture, Birmingham City Council, for services to regeneration; Miss Sarah Marcella Springman, for services to sport; Geoffrey William Squire, chief executive, Open Vision Technologies Ltd, for services to information technology industry; Richard John Staite, Headteacher, Beeslack Community High School, Penicuik, Midlothian, for services to Education; Malcolm John Stewart, Senior Principal

Scientific Officer, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence; David Radcliffe Stone, lately managing director, Business Development, British Steel Engineering Steels, for services to Industry in Yorkshire and Humberside; John Henry Stone, Headteacher, Bishop Vaughan Catholic Comprehensive School, Swansea, for services to Education; Graham Storey, For services to Victorian Literature; The Reverend Prebendary Alan John Tanner, Chairman, Haemophilia Society, for services to Health Care; Mrs Monica Tarring, Vice-Chairman, Council for Voluntary Action, South Lakeland, for charitable services; Brian William Tatam, lately Grade 7, Court Service, Lord Chancellor's Department; Alexander James Taylor, Chairman, Grampian Healthcare NHS Trust, for services to Health Care; Paul Burgess Taylor, Chief Executive, West Lothian NHS Trust, for services to Health Care; Mrs Winifride Mary Taylor,

DL, for services to community in London; Professor David John Tedford, emeritus professor of electrical engineering, University of Strathclyde, for services to science and engineering; Anthony John Temple, chief executive, Oldham Careers Service, Lancashire, for services to education; Roger Geraint Thomas, for services to business and culture in Wales; David Geoffrey Colin-Thome, general medical practitioner, fellow in health services management, University of Manchester and Senior Medical Officer, N.H.S.M.E. The Scottish Office, for services to medicine; Alfred Henry Thompson, chief fire officer County Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue Brigade, for services to fire service; John Alan Tidmarsh, presenter, Outlook, BBC World Service, for services to broadcasting; Francis Torbett, human resources manager, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; James Scott Tweed, former resident magistrate,

Lord Chancellor's Department; Christopher Robin Waite, chief planner (strategic development), Kent County Council, for services to planning; George Walker, former governor 2, prison service headquarters, Home Office; Peter Robin Walker, lately deputy director, Business in Europe directorate, Department of Trade and Industry; Professor David Graham Walters, for services to energy efficiency; Robert Mackay Watt, former chief inspector, Animals (Scientific Procedures) Inspectorate, Home Office; Mrs Vera M Weisfeld, President, Weisfelds plc, for services to retailing; The Reverend Malcolm Weisman, for services to Jewish communities; Terence Charles Ernest Wells, head, Environmental Management Section, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, for services to botany and Conservation; Antony Cowburn Whitaker, legal manager, Times Newspapers Ltd, for services to the newspaper industry; Ronald Anthony Whittle,

senior partner, Go Whittle Bus and Coach Company, for services to public transport; David Glyndwr Williams, managing director, Freight Group British Railways Board, for services to railways; Mrs Charlotte Clara Dallas Williamson, for services to York Health NHS Trust; Simon Casimir Wilson, curator of interpretation, Tate Gallery; David Somerville Wishart, senior legal officer, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Miss Victoria Wood, (Mrs Durham) comedian, for services to entertainment; David Frank Worrall, former grade 7, Department of Social Security; David Keith Wray, grade 7, Ministry of Defence; Robert Annesley Wright, for services to industry and to community in North East Wales; Mrs Eleanor Jane Young, for services to community in Darlington County Durham.