List of the awards

BARONESS

Dame Audrey Caroline Emerton, DBE, DL chief officer, Care in the Community and co-chairman, medical board, St John Ambulance, chairman, Brighton Health Care NHS Trust.

PRIVY COUNSELLORS

David Michael Davis, MP for Boothferry and Minister of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Eric Forth, MP for Mid Worcestershire and Minister of State, Department for Education and Employment; John Michael Jack, MP for Fylde and Financial Secretary to Treasury; The Hon Sir Angus James Bruce Ogilvy, KCVO, trustee of the Prince's Trust and chairman of the Prince's Youth Business Trust Advisory Council; Miss Ann Noreen Widdecombe, MP for Maidstone and Minister of State, Home Office.

KNIGHTS BACHELOR

Alan Ayckbourn, CBE, playwright, for services to the theatre; Jack Mervyn Frank Baer, for services to the art trade; Nicholas Brian Baker, MP for Dorset North, for political service; Alec Victor Bedser, CBE, for services to cricket; Thomas Leon Blundell, FRS for services to the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and to scientific research; Alan Peter Budd, Chief Economic Adviser to Treasury and head of Government Economic Service; Peter John Davis, chairman, National Advisory Council for Education and Training Targets, for services to training and to industry; Simon James Day, for political and public service; Geoffrey James Dear, QPM, DL, Inspector of Constabulary, for services to the police; Richard Charles Hastings Eyre, CBE artistic director, Royal National Theatre, for services to drama.

David Harrison, CBE Master, Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, for services to education and to nuclear safety; John Smith Harvie, CBE for political and public service; Robert Baynes Horton, chairman, Railtrack plc, for services to the railway industry; Gordon Minto Hourston, chairman, Armed Forces Pay Review Body, for services to the armed forces and to industry; Michael Nicholas Howard Jenkins, OBE chairman, Futures and Options Association and the London Clearing House, for services to the finance industry; John Martin Kirby Laing, CBE, DL, chairman, John Laing plc, for services to the construction industry; James Paul McCartney, MBE, musician, for services to music; Professor Samuel Roy Meadow for services to paediatrics and to the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health; Graeme David William Odgers, chairman, Monopolies and Mergers Commission, for services to industry; Herman

George Ouseley, chairman, Commission for Racial Equality, for services to community relations and local government.

John Michael Pickard, chairman, London Docklands Development Corporation, for services to urban regeneration; Brian Mansel Richards, CBE executive chairman, Peptide Therapeutics Ltd, for services to the biotechnology industry; John David Rowland, chairman, Lloyd's of London, for services to the insurance industry; Cyril David Townsend, MP for Bexleyheath, for political service; Professor Guenter Heinz Treitel, QC former Vinerian Professor of English Law, University of Oxford, for services to law; The Hon Miles Rawstron Walker, CBE, lately Chief Minister, Isle of Man Government, for services to the government of the Isle of Man; Ronald Matthew Watson, CBE leader, Conservative group, Association of Metropolitan Authorities, for services to local government; William Henry Weston Wells, regional chairman, South Thames NHS Executive, for services to health care; Raymond William Whitney, OBE MP

for Wycombe, for political service; John Basil Zochonis, DL, for political and public service.

CH

Alfred Leslie Rowse, for services to history and literature.

ORDER OF THE BATH

KNIGHT GRAND CROSS

(GCB)

Sir Anthony Michael William Battishill, KCB, chairman, Board of Inland Revenue.

KNIGHT COMMANDER

(KCB)

Richard Thomas James Wilson, CB, Permanent Under Secretary, Home Office.

COMPANIONS (CB)

Miss Elizabeth Ann Chant, chief executive, Child Support Agency, Department of Social Security; George Michael Devereau, former chief executive, Central Office of Information; David James Essery, head of Group 1, Home Department, Scottish Office; David Gibson, for public service; Brian Richard Hawtin, former assistant under secretary (Home and Overseas), Ministry of Defence; David Alan Hogg, Deputy Treasury Solicitor, Treasury Solicitor's Department; Robin Berry Janvrin, CVO, deputy private secretary to the Queen; James McQuaid, chief scientist, Health and Safety Executive, Department of the Environment; Arthur John Pryor, former head, Competition Policy Division, Department of Trade and Industry; Stephen Arthur Robson, director, Finance Regulation and Industry directorate, Treasury; Terence Anthony Rochester, chief highway engineer, the Highways Agency, Department of Transport; Professor

Clive Harrod Smee, chief economic adviser and director of operational research, Department of Health; Christopher Camplin Wilcock, former head, Nuclear Power Privatisation Team, Department of Trade and Industry; Philip Wood, OBE, director, Roads and Local Transport, Department of Transport; Joseph Roger Woolman, legal adviser and solicitor, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

ORDER OF ST MICHAEL & ST GEORGE

COMPANION (CMG)

Roger George Bowers, OBE, assistant director general, British Council.

KNIGHT GRAND CROSS

(GCMG)

Sir (Arthur) John Coles KCMG, Permanent Under-Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

KNIGHTS COMMANDER

(KCMG)

The Hon David Alwyn Gore-Booth CMG, British High Commissioner, New Delhi; Michael Hastings Jay CMG, HM Ambassador, Paris.

COMPANIONS (CMG)

Maj Gen Patrick Guy Brooking CB, MBE for services to UK German relations in Berlin; Anthony Joyce Cary, counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; John-Donovan Nelson dalla Rosa Clibborn, counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Antony Ford, former counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Miss Maureen Elizabeth MacGlashan, HM Ambassador, Holy See; David Trulock Ricks OBE, former director, British Council, France; Hilary Nicholas Hugh Synnott, former minister, British High Commission, New Delhi.

ROYAL VICTORIAN ORDER

KNIGHTS GRAND CROSS

(GCVO)

Capt Sir Alastair Sturgis Aird, KCVO, private secretary and Comptroller to the Queen and Queen Mother; General Sir Geoffrey Richard Desmond Fitzpatrick, GCB, DSO, MBE, MC Gold Stick.

KNIGHT COMMANDER

(KCVO)

John Luke Lowther, CBE, Lord Lieutenant of Northamptonshire.

COMMANDERS (CVO)

The Lady Elizabeth Georgina Alice Cavendish, LVO, extra lady in waiting to Princess Margaret; Richard Byron Caws, CBE, former Crown Estate Commissioner; Philip Stephen Gilbert, OBE, broadcaster; Sir George Trevor Holdsworth, trustee, the Duke of Edinburgh's Award.

LIEUTENANTS (LVO)

Capt Robert Neil Blair, RN, private secretary to the Duke of York and Princess Alexandra; Hamish Blair, Senior Executive Officer, Scottish Office; Laurence Albert Brown, for services to the Royal Collection; Donald Reeve Buttress, surveyor of the fabric, Westminster Abbey; Bernard Joseph Frahm, MVO, for services to the Crown on royal visits to New Zealand; Cdr Thomas Dixon Laidlaw, QPM, Metropolitan Police; Leonora Mary The Countess of Lichfield, extra lady in waiting to the Princess Royal; Allan Arthur Percival, former press secretary to the Prince of Wales; Alexander Hay Sutherland, chief publicity officer, Scottish Office.

MEMBERS (MVO)

Miss Christian Mary Bailey, curator to the Prince of Wales; Frederick Booth, chief heraldic painter, College of Arms; Miss Ann Teresa Brown, MBE, former British Overseas Trade Board; Matthew Nicholas Butler, former assistant private secretary to the Prince of Wales; Miss Pamela Margaret Clark, deputy registrar, Royal Archives, Windsor Castle; Reginald Elliott, Higher Executive Officer, Crown Estate, Windsor; Mrs Valerie Winifred Hampton, personal secretary to Princess Alexandra, the Hon Lady Ogilvy; Miss Claire Elizabeth Hunter-Craig, secretary, household of the Duke of Edinburgh; Chief Yeoman Warder Norman William Jackson, Tower of London; Alexander Masson, head gamekeeper, Balmoral Estate; John Ronald Pepper, formerly of Collingwood and Company Limited; Inspector Stephen Lionel Robinson, Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department, Metropolitan Police; Miss Eileen Margaret Sly, formerly

the Westminster Abbey Trust; William Albert Stewart, head warden, Palace of Holyroodhouse; Mrs Prudence Sarah Sutcliffe, assistant curator of the print room, Windsor Castle; Lt Col Patrick John Tabor, former equerry to the Prince of Wales.

ORDER OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE

KNIGHT GRAND CROSS

(GBE)

Henry Shanks, The Rt Hon Baron Keith Of Kinkel, former Lord of Appeal in Ordinary.

KNIGHTS COMMANDER

(KBE)

The Rt Hon Baron Thomas Alexander Fermor Hesketh, for political service.

DAMES COMMANDER

(DBE)

Miss Rachael Mary Dyche, CBE, for political service; Mrs Deirdre Joan Hine, Chief Medical Officer, Welsh Office, for services to medicine; Mrs Barbara Jean Lyon Mills, QC, Director of Public Prosecutions; Miss Bridget Margaret Ogilvie, director, Wellcome Trust, for services to science; The Hon Rosanna Wong Yick-ming, JP, for public and community service, Hong Kong.

COMMANDERS (CBE)

John Edwin Adshead, for services to the National Training Awards and to vocational training; Nicholas Kenneth Alston, assistant secretary, Ministry of Defence; Anthony Au-Yeung Fu, OBE, JP, Commissioner of Inland Revenue, Hong Kong; Haider Hatim Tyebjee Barma ISO, JP, Secretary for Transport, Hong Kong; Michael Day Beaumont, OBE, for political and public service; Arthur John Armstrong Bell, for political and public service; Alastair John Bellingham, Professor of Haematology, King's College Hospital School of Medicine and Dentistry, for services to medicine and to the Royal College of Pathologists; Professor Sushantha Kumar Bhattacharya, Professor of Manufacturing Systems Engineering, University of Warwick, for services to industry and technology; Donald Leslie Brown, Counsellor (Management), New York; John David Stuart Brown, MBE, for political and public service; Christopher John Skidmore

Burd, for services to the forestry industry.

David Thomas Burke, expert special adviser on the environment, Department of the Environment; David Adam Cairns, music critic, The Sunday Times, for services to music; David Wilkinson Cawthra, former director, infrastructure services privatisation, British Railways Board, for services to the railway industry; Mrs Honor Mary Ruth Chapman, partner, Jones Lang Wootton, for services to the property industry; William Herman MacKillop Clark, former head, operational re-organisation division, Crown Prosecution Service; Mrs Stella Rosemary Clarke, DL, for services to the community in Bristol; Owen JD Clarke, Controller, Scotland, Board of Inland Revenue; The Hon Betty St Clair Clay, for services to Guiding; John Brian Clayton, chairman, Bridon plc, for services to industry and exports; Donald Thomas Younger Curry, chairman, Meat and Livestock Commission, for services to agriculture; William Wentworth

Daniel, for services for industrial relations.

Edward Charles Dart, research and development director, Zeneca Seeds, for services to industry and to science; Nicholas Dampier Deakin, for services to the Commission on the Future of the Voluntary Sector; Anthony Albert Denton, chairman, Noble Denton International Ltd, for services to engineering; Roger Joseph Dickens, DL, deputy UK senior partner, KPMG, for services to industry in the West Midlands; Mrs Judith Donovan, chair, Bradford and District Training and Enterprise Council, for services to training; Mrs Olga Lindholm Driver, senior partner, Aiking Driver Partnership, for services to ACAS and to industrial relations; Francis Cuthbert Duffy, for services to architecture; Professor John Edwin Enderby, FRS, former HO Wills Professor of Physics, University of Bristol, for services to physics; Professor Henry John Evans, for services to medical research; James Stuart Fair, chairman, Dundee

Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, for services to health care; Kenneth Fang Hung. OBE, JP, for services to industry in Hong Kong.

Jonathan Farquharson, former legal commissioner, Charity Commission; Thomas Hugh Francis Farrell, TD, DL pro-chancellor and chairman of council, University of Hull, for services to higher education; David Geoffrey Nigel Filkin, secretary, Association of District Councils, for services to local government; Stanley Fishman, president, Cinema Exhibitors' Association, for services to the film industry; Frederick Forsyth, writer, for services to literature; Michael John Ernest Frye, chief executive, B Elliott plc, for services to business; Professor Charles Albert Eric Goodhart, Professor of Banking and Finance, London School of Economics, for services to monetary economics; Peter James Grant, chairman, Highlands and Islands Airport Ltd, for services to industry; Paul Frederick Gribble, for political service; Ewan William Harper, for services to the Church of England; Derek James Harrington, deputy

chairman and chief executive, Port of Felixstowe Ltd, and director, Hutchinson International Port Holdings, for services to the ports industry.

Peregrine Andrew Morny Cavendish Marquess of Hartington, former senior steward of the Jockey Club and chairman, British Horse Racing Board, for services to horse racing; David Hewitt, for services to the community; Miss Pamela Jean Hibbs, OBE, chief nurse and director of quality assurance, Royal Hospitals NHS Trust, London, for services to health care; Arthur Derek Hill, for services to art; Mrs Jenny Hughes, OBE, chairman, Riverside Mental Health NHS Trust, for services to health; Michael Peter Frank Ingham, OBE, for services to British exports to Europe; Kenneth Wesley Jarrold, director of human and corporate resources, NHS Executive, Department of Health; Clive Lawson Jones, lately secretary-general, European Energy Conferences; George MacDonald Kennedy, chairman, Smiths Industries Medical Systems, for services to the health care industry and exports; Cecil Gordon Knight, OBE, head teacher,

Small Heath School, Birmingham, for services to education; John Landerer, AM, for services to legal education and UK-Australian relations.

Thomas Peter Ruffell Laslett, for services to the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure; Robert Noyes Lawton, for services to agriculture in Wessex; Simon Timothy Lee, for political service; Martyn John Dudley Lewis, chair, Drive for Youth and Youthnet UK, for services to young people and to the hospice movement; Francis David Lindley Loy, former chairman, Provincial Stipendiary Magistrates' Association; John Lumsden, chief executive, Motherwell Bridge Group, for services to the engineering industry; Thomas George Mackey, for services to urban regeneration; Colin Barry Manchip, former director, Immigration Service (Enforcement), Home Office; Mrs Brenda Mary McLaughlin, for services to the community and health care; Mrs Elizabeth Mary McLoughlin, head of civilian management (policy), Ministry of Defence; James David Frederick Miller, chairman, Scottish Qualification

Authority, for services to education; Dominic Charles Bernard Morris, former deputy head, Policy Unit; Richard Brian Mouatt, former Chief Dental Officer, Department of Health.

Professor John Joseph Murray, Professor of Child Dental Health, University of Newcastle, for services to dental health; Joseph Reynold O'Neal, OBE, for public and community service in the British Virgin Islands; Raymond Godfrey Owen, OBE, for public service in Wales, especially to the police; George Hubbard Makgill the Viscount of Oxfuird, Bt, for political service; David John Parker, consultant cardiac surgeon, St George's Hospital, London, for services to medicine; Roderick Sayers Paul, former chairman, British Water, for services to the water industry and exports; Professor John Pitkeathly Ian Percy, chairman, Accounts Commission for Scotland, for services to accounting and local authorities; Rupert Perry, president and chief executive officer, EMI Europe, for services to the recording industry; Miss Anna Bridget Plowden, for conservation services to museums; Christopher Bernard Poole,

for political service; Andrew Popat, for political service; David Edwin Potter, chairman and chief executive, Psion plc, for services to the manufacturing industry.

Bernard Albert Price, county clerk and chief executive, Staffordshire County Council, for services to local government; Col John Richard George Putnam, TD, for services to the Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association in South-east England; John Anthony Ransford, former honorary secretary, Association of Directors of Social Services, for services to social work; Steven Geoffrey Redgrave, MBE, for services to rowing; Timothy John Rix, for services to publishing; Dermot James Roaf, for political and public service; James Donald Robson, DL, leader, Durham County Council, for services to local government; Kenneth Vivian Rose, for services to journalism and literature; Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, TD, for charitable services; Francis Arthur David Rush, head of development and staffing, Board of Customs and Excise; Professor Anthony Seaton, Professor of Environmental and Occupational

Medicine, University of Aberdeen, and honorary consultant physician, Lothian and Grampian Health Boards, for services to medicine.

Professor Robert Gray Robin Shanks, for services to medicine; Mark Hebberton Sheldon, for services to the legal profession; Edward George Sherrin, producer and director, for services to drama and to broadcasting; Colin John Graham Shillington, MBE, DL for services to the dairy industry and for public service; Sydney Frederick Shore, chairman of trustees, Independent Living Funds, for services to disabled people; James William Sinclair, Grade 5, Scottish Office; Roger Singleton, senior director, Barnardo's, for services to young people; Baden Henry Skitt, BEM, QPM Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police, for services to the police; Kevin Smith, managing director, business operations, British Aerospace plc, for services to the defence industry; Mrs Vera Stringer, for political service; Harry Taylor, member, Board of Banking Supervision, for services to banking; Brian Keith Thomas, chairman,

Cardiff Business Club and Mount Stuart Group, for services to business and to the community in Wales.

David Robin Bibby Thompson, TD, former deputy chairman, Board of the Development Commission, for services to business in rural areas; Mrs Rosemary Edith Robertson Thomson, OBE, former chairman, Magistrates' Association, for services to the magistracy; John Tomlinson, opera singer, for services to music; Hugh William Try, chairman, Construction Industry Training Board, for services to the construction industry; Derek Tullett, president, Tullett and Tokyo Forex International Ltd, for services to the finance industry; Frank Vaughan OBE, DL for services to the NABC Clubs for Young People; The Very Rev James Leslie Weatherhead, former principal clerk, General Assembly of the Church of Scotland and chairman, Church Leaders Forum, for services to ecumenical relations and for public service; Oswald Stephen Wheatley, chairman, the Sports Council for Wales, for services to sport; Professor John Gwynn

Williams, for services to the National Library of Wales; Gregory Paul Winter, for services to science; Andrew Wood, for public service; David Alan Wood, former head of information technology and project manager, Labour market system project, Department for Education and Employment; Mrs Anne Wright, vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive, University of Sunderland, for services to higher education.

OFFICERS (OBE)

Mrs Mavis Ainsworth, former director, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam University, for services to education; Edward Aldridge, DL, member, Moray Council, for services to local government; Graeme Yorkston Alexander, chief executive officer, Devro International plc, for services to the food industry; Anthony Paul Allen, county trading standards officer, East Sussex County Council, for services to trading standards and to consumer protection; Ian George Allen, Valuation Principal, Board of Inland Revenue; Mrs Elizabeth Anne Allen, former director of nursing, North West Anglia Healthcare Trust, for services to health care; William Claude Allington, for political and public service; Professor Richard Edward Allsop, Professor of Transport Studies, University College London, for services to traffic management and road safety; John Victor Ronald Anderson, for political service; D Michael

Archer, for services to the Advisory Board for Redundant Churches; Mrs Norma Alice Cox Astwood, Vice-President, The Senate, Bermuda; John D Ault, chair, Corporation of Yeovil College, for services to education.

David Bailey, director of development, London Underground Ltd, for services to public transport in London; Professor Andrew David Bain, board member, Scottish Enterprise, for services to the Scottish economy; Edward John Meldrum Ball, former director, Oil Companies International Marine Forum, for services to maritime safety to the environment; Mrs Helen Rae Bamber, for services to the care of the victims of torture; Professor Howard Anthony Barnes, senior scientist, Unilever Research, for services to science and technology; Mrs Alison Mary Hore Bastard, for services to the magistracy in South Devon; Mrs Elizabeth Mary Bavidge, co-chair, Women's National Commission, for services to women's issues; The Very Rev Trevor Randall Beeson, for services to the Church of England, particularly as Dean of Winchester Cathedral; Hugh Richard Belshaw, former finance director, Oxfam, for charitable services;

Professor Martin Biddle, for services to the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England; Robin Edgar Birley, DL, director, Vindolanda Trust, for services to conservation.

Miss Cilla Black, for services to entertainment; David Blackburn, Senior Management Pay Band 2, the Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment; Peter Kenneth Blair, managing director, Racal Research Ltd, for services to the radar industry; Victor Harold Blake, founder chairman, the London Underwriting Centre (LUC), for services to the insurance industry; Charles Conrad Blakey, RD, chairman, Kent Probation Committee, for services to the rehabilitation of offenders; Ian James Blakey, director general, British Iron and Steel Producers' Association, for services to industry; Mrs Jennifer Blunt, for services to medical research ethics; Christopher Arthur Booy, chief executive, Symonds Group Ltd, for services to the Ministry of Defence; Geoffrey Malcolm Bray, chairman, Kazakh and Uzbek British Trade and Industry Councils, for services to export; Patrick Brenan, finance director,

Minories Finance Ltd, for services to banking; Mrs Linda Broadhead, Senior Management Pay Band 2, the Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment; Mrs Rosemary Anne Brown, member, Occupational Pensions Board, for services to pensions legislation.

Mrs Gilberte-Marie Brunsdon-Lenaerts, for services to Anglo-Belgian relations; Mrs Barbara Kathleen Bryant, Grade 7, Department of Social Security; Keith Patrick Burke, managing director, Dana Spicer Europe Ltd, Dana Corporation, for services to industry and the environment; David Burnett, for services to the development and application of biochemistry to health care; William John Burnison, for public service; David John Franklin Burton, Director, British Council, Jordan; The Honourable William McKeeva Bush, JP, Minister of Community Development, Sports, Women's and Youth Affairs and Culture, Cayman Islands; Derek Harold Calam, member and vice chairman, British Pharmacopoeia Commission, for services to the control of medicines; Miss Libby Campbell, executive director, nursing and quality, West Lothian NHS Trust, for services to health care; Dennis Duncan Carmichael, honorary treasurer, Lawn

Tennis Association, for services to lawn tennis; Miss Enid Castle, former principal, Cheltenham Ladies' College, for services to education.

Jonathan Joseph Chadwick, secretary to the Imperial War Museum; Alfred Chappory, BEM, For services to sport in Gibraltar; Christopher Charlton, director, Cromford Mill Project, Derbyshire, for services to conservation; Chen Din-hwa, for charitable and community services in Hong Kong; Professor Dennis Child, for services to deaf people; Edward Samuel Childs, executive producer, Carlton UK Television, for services to television broadcasting; Brian James Clark, principal specialist inspector, Health and Safety Executive, Department of the Environment; Harold Clarke, district inspector, Board of Inland Revenue; Michael Robert Clarkson Webb, for services to the community in Surrey; Seamus Anthony Close, for public service; Mrs Christine Coates, director, Coates Engineering (International Ltd), for services to economic development in North-west England; Miss Joan Henrietta Collins, for services

to drama; Mrs Paulene Mary Collins, for services to legal education; Charles John Cooper, principal professional and technology officer, Ministry of Defence; Commodore George Richard Cooper, RD, chief of operations, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, for services to the RNLI.

Derek MacDonald Cooper, for services to radio broadcasting; Michael John Cooper, Principal, British School in the Netherlands; David Leonard Court, for services to tourism in East Anglia; William Montgomerie Courtauld, for services to British commercial interests in Hong Kong; The Hon Jurat John Alexander Gore Coutanche, former Jurat, Royal Court of Jersey, for services to the community; Thomas Eddie Cowin, lately director, British Council, Ghana; Sqn Ldr Robert Frederick Craig, RAF (Retd), former Grade 7, Ministry of Defence; Anthony Campbell Crombie, deputy head of Mission, Belgrade; Adrian Robert Currie, QFSM, Chief Fire Officer, Devon Fire and Rescue Service, for services to the fire service; Professor John Darby, for services to community relations; William Roch Davies, former director, Welsh Centre for International Affairs, for humanitarian services; Peter Denley, for services to the

rehabilitation of offenders; Brian Charles Dice, for services to British Waterways; James Dick, director of social work services, Highland Council, for services to social work.

Mrs Elizabeth Ann Dodsworth, for political service; Mrs Margaret Duddy, for political and public service; Andrew Nicholas Duff, for political service; Sister Mary Vincent Duggan, for services to education; Miss Helen Simpson Dunsmore, for services to higher education; Neil Durden-Smith, for charitable services; Albert John Edwards, MBE, AFM, for services to 31 Squadron Royal Air Force Association; Henry Ashley Edwards, consultant anaesthetist, Ysbyty Gwynedd, for services to the Welsh Medical Committee; The Rev John Gisborne Charteris Eldrid, for services to the Samaritans; Geoffrey Kenyon Elliott, for services to forestry and to wood science; Robert William Elliott, chairman and director, Wiltshire and Swindon Users' Network and chairman, the Jumbulance Group, for services to disabled people in Wiltshire; David John Ellis, Grade 6, Ministry of Defence; Andrew James Erving, Grade 7, Foreign

and Commonwealth Office; George Stanley Etchells, member, Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council, for services to local government; Eric Magnus Eunson, former general manager, power system development, National Grid Company plc, for services to the electricity industry; David Roger Evans, for services to agriculture in Wales.

David Roger Evans, for services to agriculture in Wales; Gwynne Howard Neill Evans, former Grade 6, Department for Education and Employment; John Ivan Ellis Farmer, honorary show director, All England Jumping Course, Hickstead, for services to show jumping; William Harold Faulkner, head teacher, Montrose Academy, for services to education; David Alan Fawcett, for humanitarian services in the Caribbean; Ronald Paul Feeney, Governor 2, Stafford Prison; Professor Christine Elizabeth Fell, Professor of Early English Studies, University of Nottingham, for services to Early English; John Ronald Fenner, chairman, British Urban Regeneration Association, for services to urban regeneration; William James Ferguson, DL, former vice-chairman, Scottish Agricultural College, for services to agriculture and education; Mrs Thelma Fisher, director, National Family Mediation, for services to the community;

David Fleming, for services to museums; Douglas Munro Fleming, GP, Birmingham, for services to medicine; George Malcolm Fordy, chairman and chief executive, FT Construction Group, for services to the building industry; Michael Hartley Foulds, member, Chartered Association of Certified Accountants, for services to accountancy.

Maj Roy Sutherland Fox, for services to the Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association in Suffolk; Stephen Giles Frankiss, Grade 6, Department of Transport; Christopher Tom Franklin, for services to British musical interests in France; Mrs Jacqueline Dorothy Fuller, officer in charge, Board of Inland Revenue; Robert Alan Gailey, for services to museums and galleries; William Alistair Galston, former chief inspector, Gaming Board of Great Britain; John Frederick Gibson, secretary scientific, Royal Society of Chemistry, for services to chemistry; Mrs Thelma Joyce Gillen, Grade 7, Ministry of Defence; Robert John Gladwell, for services to British commercial and aerospace interests in the United States; Michael John Goodman, senior group leader, Pulse Power Research AWE Aldermaston, for services to the defence industry; Gerard Graham, for services to the community in Tyne and Wear;

William Grant, MBE, for services to environmental protection and the arts; Frederick Howard Green, education adviser, National Association of Independent and non-Maintained Schools, for services to special needs education; Colin Ayton Greenhalgh, principal, Hills Road Sixth Form College, Cambridge, for services to education.

Ian Gregg, chairman, River Tweed Commissioners and Tweed Foundation, for services to salmon and trout fishing; Vernon Charles Grove, administrator, Wales and Chester circuit, Lord Chancellor's Department; Rex Farrow Gyngell, DL, for political and public service; Arthur Barry Haines, chair, aerodynamics group, Royal Aeronautical Society, for services to aerodynamics; Mrs Eunice Hanna, for political service; Stuart Wreford Harbinson, JP, permanent Hong Kong representative to the World Trade Organisation, Geneva; Lt Col Grattan Herbert Hart, DL, for services to the Royal British Legion in Sussex; Robert James Hasson, Assistant Controller (Collection and Personnel), Board of Inland Revenue; Anthony Roger Heath, for services to the administration of justice; Jennifer Mary Toresen Lady Hemingford, for services to the community in Hemingford Abbots, Cambridgeshire, and to the British Red Cross Society;

Desmond Charles Henley, embalmer, for services in the aftermath of disasters; Damon Graham Hill, for services to motor racing; John William Hoaen, Grade 7, Department of Trade and Industry.

Mrs Margaret Edith Hobrough, principal and chief executive, Godalming Sixth Form College, Surrey, for services to education; Brig David Hendry Hodge, DL, for services to the Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association in the North of England; The Rev Roger Graham Holloway, for services to export; John Hood, for services to industry; John Trevor Hopkins, headmaster, Bishop Stopford School, Kettering, Northamptonshire, for services to education; David Christopher Hopkinson, former director of housing, Great Grimsby Borough Council, for services to housing and to local government; Miss Christiana Valerie Horrocks, former Grade 7, Department of Health; John Anthony Howley, QPM, former deputy assistant commissioner, Metropolitan Police, for services to the police; Brian Joseph Hunt, senior professional and technology superintending grade, Ministry of Defence.

Frank George Henry Hunt, Grade 7, Department of Trade and Industry; Edward Graham Hutchinson, for charitable services; Mrs Jane Iris Isbister, former chairman, Forth Valley Health Board, for services to health care; Professor Kenneth Henderson Jack, Emeritus Professor, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Honorary Professor, University of Wales, Swansea, for services to science; David Richard Jenkins, finance director, Sony Manufacturing Company (UK), for services to industry in Wales; Peter Anthony Jenner, lately Editor, Nato Review; Frederick Albert Jennings, chairman, Midlands Regional Fisheries Advisory Committee, for services to fisheries policy; Terence Maxfield Jobling, former veterinary officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; David Lawrence Johnston, director general, National Inspection Council for Electrical Installation Contracting, for services to electrical safety;

David Henry Marshall Jones, former Grade 6, the Benefits Agency, Department of Social Security; Derek Jones, former head, libraries and art services, Richmond upon Thames, for services to librarianship; Mrs Linda Edwina Jones, principal scientific officer, the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence.

Miss Leela Kapila, consultant paediatric surgeon, University Hospital, Nottingham, for services to medicine; Fergal Patrick Keane, BBC foreign correspondent, for services to television journalism; John Kelly, for services to agriculture and banking; Masood Husain Khan, for services to British business in South-east Asia; John Charles King, chief executive, security facilities executive, Cabinet Office (Office of Public Service); John Kirkham, former Grade 6, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food; Glen Kirton, for services to association football, particularly Euro 96; John Worsley Knagg, director, British Council English Language Centre, Singapore; Lam Shiu-kum, for services to medicine in Hong Kong; Miss Alice Elizabeth Audrey Lamb, for services to education; Mrs Penelope Lambert, for services to the Board of Visitors, Whitemoor Prison; Mrs Shelly Lau Lee Lai-kuen, JP, Director of

Home Affairs, Hong Kong; Gerald John Laving, for services to British business interests and the community in Russia; Rance Lee Pui-Leung, JP, for public and community service in Hong Kong.

Michael John Leech, principal, Stevenson College, Edinburgh, for services to education; Edmund Kwong Ho Leung, for services to engineering in Hong Kong; Kenneth Lewis, chairman, Horizon NHS Trust, for services to health care; Miss Ann Molyneux Lewis, former president, Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, for services to the pharmacy profession; Timothy Lewis, for services to the police; Ian Stanley Cash Linney, for services to the community in Nottinghamshire; James Logan, for services to aviation; Angus Victor Peck MacKay, physician superintendent, Argyll and Bute Hospital, for services to medicine; William Alexander Lee MacKay, vice chairman, management and human resources committee, Association of District Councils, for services to local government; Lt Col John Pierce Margarson, TD, for services to Soldiers', Sailors', and Airmens' Families Association in Clwyd; Professor Mary

Tara Marshall, director, Dementia Services Development Centre, University of Stirling, former director, Age Concern Scotland, for services to elderly people.

Jurek Martin, Washington Bureau Chief, Financial Times; Arthur Gordon Mason, research manager, Digi-Media Vision Ltd, for services to the broadcasting industry; Duncan Stuart Matthews, head of innovation and growth unit, National Westminster Bank plc, for services to banking and to industry; Kenneth McAlpine, DL, for services to the English Vineyard Association and to English wine; James McIntosh McCabe, MBE, for political service; Andrew Duncan McCracken, former principal officer, Howdenhall/St Katharine's Centre, Edinburgh, for services to child care; David Alexander McCubbin, for services to people with learning disabilities; Professor Damien Gerard McDonnell, senior principal scientific officer, the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence; James Dobbie McFarlane, former major projects director, engineering division, Nuclear Electric plc, for services to the nuclear

electric industry; William McGinnis, DL, for services to the sheet metal industry and industry; Roger McGough, poet, for services to poetry; Mrs Helen Frances McGrath, president, National Union of Knitwear, Footwear and Apparel Trades, for services to industrial relations.

Patrick Joseph McGuinness, lately First Secretary, British Embassy, Abu Dhabi; Stuart McKenzie, for services to the Sea Cadet Corps southern area; Donald McNeill, former chief executive, South Ayrshire Hospitals NHS Trust, for services to health care; Professor David Alan Redpath Michie, artist, for services to art; Miss Jean Monro, for services to interior design; Charles Edward Moody, deputy chief executive, Engineering and Marine Training Authority, for services to training; Derek William Charles Morgan, for public service in Wales; Mrs Patricia Morris, for political service; John Robin Mulholland, agricultural estates manager, Crown Estate Commissioners; Herbert Neville Nahapiet, chief executive, UK Detention Services, for services to engineering and the construction industry; Robert Livingston Nelson, director, Dounreay, UKAEA, for services to the nuclear industry; Malcolm Terence Newman,

Range E, Treasury; Evelyn Hugh Norie, for services to British business interests in Hong Kong; Miss Joan Mary North, for political and public service; Miss Jean Nugent, nursing director, St Helier Hospital, Carshalton, Surrey, for services to health care; Geoffrey James Osborne, former Grade 7, Department of the Environment.

Alfred David Owen, trustee, Community Development Foundation, for services to the community in the West Midlands; Anthony Frederick Parker, former courts administrator, Lord Chancellor's Department; Mrs Pamela Margaret Parker, vice-president, All England Women's Hockey Association, for services to hockey; Alan Edward Parkinson, officer in charge, Board of Inland Revenue; David Romer Paton, for services to the community in Aberdeen; Professor Christopher Charles Payne, chief executive, Horticulture Research International, for services to horticultural research; Miss Ann Philippa Pearce, (Mrs Christie) author, for services to children's literature; Mrs Anne Pegington, secretary, Royal College of Nursing's Welsh Board, for services to nursing in Wales; Howard Wesley Petch, Principal, Bishop Burton College, for services to agricultural education; George Redmond Pollard, head teacher, St Thomas

More Catholic High School, Crewe, Cheshire, for services to education; David Geraint Price-Thomas, former under secretary (Wales), Council of Welsh Districts, for services to local government in Wales; Mrs Anne Prior, former courts administrator, Lord Chancellor's Department.

Professor Vincent Bruce Proudfoot, former general secretary, Royal Society of Edinburgh, for services to learning; Robert Harvey Quick, professional and technology superintending grade, Ministry of Defence; Capt David Lawson Rattray, commanding officer, fishery protection vessel Norn. Norman Turnbull Renfrew, chairman, Perth Housing Association, for services to the Housing Association movement and the community in Perth; Josef Lionel Rich, chairman, General Dental Services Committee, British Dental Association, for services to dentistry; Miss Shirley Jane Richards, former GP, Exeter, Devon, for services to medicine; Alan Richardson, JP, director, Accounting Services, Hong Kong; John Matthew Richardson, director, Lancashire Area West Training and Enterprise Council, for services to education and training; Edward Anthony Richmond, for political and public service; Mrs Sally Dawn Ridley-Day,

for political and public service; Mrs Anna Ritchie, member, Ancient Monuments Board for Scotland, for services to archaeology; Michael Collingwood Roberts, for services to energy efficiency.

Stanley Desmond Roberts, for services to medicine; Peter Daniel Rossdale, for services to equine veterinary science; Miss Sarah Caroline Rowland Jones, LVO, lately First Secretary, British Embassy, Budapest; Rolf Schild, for public and industrial services; Peter Segger, chairman, MD Organic Farm Foods (Wales) Ltd, for services to organic horticulture; Mrs Louisa Anne Service, for services to music and to young people; David Shalev, for services to architecture; John Martin Shaw, director of planning and transportation, Norfolk County Council, for services to local government; William Francis Sheridan, head of international policy, Forestry Commission; Francis Edward Shields, MBE, former chief executive, National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs, for services to the Young Farmers Club movement; Ian Skipper, for charitable services; Brian William Smith, former head of operations, Securities

and Investments Board, for services to financial regulation; Clifford John Smith, for services to the newspaper industry and to the community in Lincolnshire.

Dennis Alfred Smith, former network director, southern division, Central Office of Information; John Stanley Walter Smith, head of corporate services group, Board of Customs and Excise; Ian Nelson Sneddon, chairman, Central Scotland Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities, for services to the employment of disabled people; Kenneth Speakman, former pollution inspector, Environment Agency, for services to environmental protection; Francis Richard Stanhope, for services to the Royal Air Force Association; Robert Russell Steedman, former member, Royal Fine Art Commission for Scotland, for services to the built environment in Scotland; Michael John Steere, for services to British engineering in Norway; Mrs Susan Elizabeth Stockley, chairman, National Executive of the National Federation of Women's Institutes, for services to the Women's Institute movement; John Howard Stoner,

regional general manager, National Rivers Authority (Welsh Region), for services to the environment in Wales; Robert Thomas Dursley Stott, for services to the British Red Cross Society on the Isle of Man; Ian Robert Strachan, JP, Director of Social Welfare, Hong Kong; Mrs June Street, executive manager, Dacorum Council for Voluntary Service, for services to the community; Richard Kenneth Swan, for services to tourism; Geoffrey Trevor Theobald, for political and public service.

Mrs Joan Margaret Elizabeth Thompson, TD, for public service; Kenneth Trench, chairman, Maxwell Pensioners' Action Group, for services to pensions legislation; Michael Victor Upson, TD, former Grade 6, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Derek Eustace Murray Walker, director, Worldware, for services to public awareness of aid issues; Professor Herbert Wallace, for services to the community; Robert Wallace, for services to British commercial interests overseas; Trevor Ward, former head of aerodrome standards department, Civil Aviation Authority, for services to aviation; Hugh Ingram Watson, QPM, commandant, Scottish Police College; Mrs Kathleen Watson, business requirements analyst, Board of Inland Revenue; Anthony Barton Wells, for services to the family justice system; Patrick Whinney, DSC president, Guernsey Cheshire Home Foundation, for services to the community; Mrs Annarosa Whitehead, for

services to the Women's Transport Service (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry); John Charles Williams, secretary and chief executive, Institution of Electrical Engineers, for services to electrical engineering; Michael David Williams, Rabbi to the Copernic Community in Paris; William Gwyn Williams, for services to library and information services in Wales; George Norman Wilson, vice-chairman, Peak Park Joint Planning Board,, for services to local government.

Miss Monica Wilson, for services to disabled people; Mrs Primrose Eileen Wilson, for services to conservation; Anthony Webbe Winkle, for services to the construction industry in Scotland; David Wong Shou-yeh, JP, for services to business and the community, Hong Kong; The Hon Samuel Wong Ping-wai, MBE, JP, for public services, Hong Kong; Samuel Derek Woods, for public service; William John Woods, for services to community health care in Brazil; Raymond Wu Wai-yung, for services to psychiatric rehabilitation in Hong Kong; Mrs Helen Yu Lai Ching-ping, JP, Director of Education, Hong Kong.

MEMBERS (MBE)

Miss Bathsheba Abse, curator, Keats-Shelley Memorial House, Rome; Kenneth Elliott Ackerley, for services to physically handicapped people; Graham Clifford Adams, storekeeper, manufacturing division, Rolls-Royce and Associates plc, for services to the automobile industry; Kenneth Adams -Morgan, for Political Service; William Aitken, for services to the community in Aberdeen; Mrs Anne Aldred, revenue assistant, Board of Inland Revenue; Richard John Alibone, senior professional technical officer, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Duncan Brierton Allan, Second Secretary, British Embassy, Moscow; Lt Cdr Peter Douglas Allen, RN, retired officer 2, Ministry of Defence; Mrs Yashwanti Chandrakant Amlani, for services to community relations in Bristol; Mrs Ann McCall Amos, personal secretary, Ministry of Defence; John Elwyn Anderson, for services to the community, particularly lifesaving, in South Wales;

Mrs Dorothy Anderson, administrative officer, Department of Social Security; Royan Stuart Anderson, constable, operational support unit, British Transport Police, for services to public transport; Timothy John Anderson, sergeant, Derbyshire Constabulary, for services to the police; Mrs Jean Armstrong del Bianco, for services to British cultural interests in Venice.

Edmund Robert Askey, for services to tourism in Blackpool; Charles Keith Atkinson, for services to young people in Nottinghamshire and rowing; Mrs Elizabeth Atkinson, member, Northumberland County Council, for services to local government; Mrs Marjorie Oxnard Atkinson, for services to the community on the Pennywell Estate Sunderland, Tyne and Wear; Au Chi-lau, JP, for services to civil engineering in Hong Kong; Mrs Peggy Baerlein, for services to the Lister Hospital Hertfordshire; Mrs Beryl Bailey, Support Grade Band 1, Home Office; Peter Edwin Bailey, former senior doorkeeper, House of Lords; Albert John Baker, for services to war pensions committees in London; Christopher Rodney Baker, Honorary Consul, Dunkirk; Mrs Elsie Evelyn Baker, for services to the Girls' Brigade on Guernsey; Kenneth Walter Ball, former honorary secretary, British Transport Pensioners' Federation, for services to

the railway industry; Jack Bonner Barlow, for services to local councils in the former South Glamorgan and to the community in Sully; Mrs Sigrid Geraldine Wells Barnes, for charitable services in the Falkland Islands; Andrew Brown Barr, for services to the Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution and to the Essex Agricultural Society.

Dennis Gordon Bartholomew, for services to the community in Whiston, South Yorkshire; Haydn Sydney Bateman, auxiliary coastguard-in-charge, St Govans, Dyfed, for services to safety at sea; Derek Baum, for services to the Association of Jewish ex-Servicemen and Women; Donald James MacDonald Beaton, Shepherd, Roslin Institute, for services to scientific research; Mrs Mary Loveday Beazley, for services to the community in Wormley, Hertfordshire; Mrs Marian Beckett, assistant caretaker, Priestley College, Warrington, Cheshire, for services to education; Howard Philip Bell, honorary liaison officer (eastern region), Royal National Lifeboat Institution, for services to the RNLI; Mrs Clarice Mary Bennett, for services to the British Red Cross Society in Norfolk; Mrs Thelma Berry, for services to the Norfolk Foster Care Association; Mrs Janet Bershers, British Vice-Consul, Chicago; David Wyn Bevan,

for services to industrial relations in Wales; Mrs Mary Winifred Bevan, for services to the NSPCC in Merthyr Tydfil; Mrs Deirdre Bevis, administrative officer, Ministry of Defence; Fred Billingsley, higher professional and technology officer, Ministry of Defence; Mrs Anthea Billington, secretary to the managing director, Britannia Airways Ltd, for services to the aviation industry.

Miss Margaret Elizabeth Bingham, for services to tourism; Kenneth Geoffrey Birch, British Vice-Consul, Zurich; Miss Jean Shirley Bird, Range B, Treasury; Edward John Birkett, for services to the community in Canning Town, London; Brian Anthony Blackshaw, sub-divisional officer, West Mercia Special Constabulary, for services to the police; Mrs Mary Elizabeth Bloomer, for services to the community; Mrs Christine Boddy, for political service; William Charles Boddy, founder and editor, Motor Sport, for services to sports journalism; Mrs Barbara May Bolton, for services to the community in the area of Manningtree Essex; Mrs Celia Ruth Bonham Christie, founder and life president, Triumph Over Phobia, for services to the community; Mrs Margaret Helena Booth, for political service; Mrs Patricia Mary Bottrill, department head (ambulatory care), Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, for services

to health care; Mrs Ruth Olive Boult, for services to the community in Messingham South Humberside; John Basil Boursot, for services to zoology in El Salvador; Keith Du Brettargh Bowen, for services to disabled people in Leeds; Arthur Thomas Bowley, for services to the community in Brecon Powys; The Rev Father William Boyd, officiating chaplain, British Forces Rheindahlen, for services to the Armed Forces.

John James Brady, for services to the Employment Service in Hebburn, Tyne and Wear; John Michael Brannon, chairman, PMI Food Group UK Foster Refrigerator Group of Companies, for services to exports; William Bratty, for charitable services to the community in

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Perth; Mrs Barbara Brewster, personal secretary, Board of Inland Revenue; Mrs Jean Brinkworth, for services to Guiding, particularly the Ranger Section, in the former South Glamorgan; Mrs Margaret Aline Jessica Brockbank, for services to the community in Bournemouth; Wilfred Brockway, for services to the community in Fontmell Magna,Dorset; Cyril Albert Broom, for services to legal education; Jack Watson Brown, for political and public service; John Stuart Brown, GP, Larkfield, Kent, for services to medicine; Mrs Barbara Brown, for political service; Ronald Ezekiel Browne, member, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, for services to local government; Roger Ian Bryant, for services to the community in Martlesham, Suffolk; Brian Francis Bryceland, senior executive officer, Department of Social Security.

Cyril Percy Bunn, for services to journalism in Cornwall; Mrs Christine Doroth Burges, for services to young people in Edenbridge, Kent; John Christopher Burne, voluntary observer, Meteorological Office, Kent; Mrs Patricia Rose Burnett, for services to service families in Hereford; Mrs Susan Marilyn Burns, for services to the Rela Goldhill Lodge London and to young disabled people; Herbert Roy Butler, for services to the community in Frome, Somerset; William Anthony Butler, for political service; Maxwell Charles Cadmore, for services to health care in Swansea; Walter Rounsfell Cairns, former literature director, Scottish Arts Council, for services to literature; William Martin Calderbank, for services to the engineering industry; Joseph Graham Campbell, for services to the community; Reginald John Cann, former maintenance supervisor, Crown Estate Commissioners; Harold Canning, chairman, Wolverhampton

and Walsall Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities, for services to the employment of disabled people; Mrs Pamela Kathleen Cannon, revenue typist, Board of Inland Revenue; Peter Andrew Carruthers, for services to sport for people with disabilities; Mrs Mary Shane Casement, for services to the rehabilitation of offenders; Allan Lewis Chambers, for services to agriculture.

Derek Chambers, senior investigation officer, Board of Customs and Excise; Mrs Eileen Dorothy Chambers, member, Board of Visitors, Drake Hall Prison and Young Offenders' Institution, for services to prisoner welfare; Chan Kim-to, for public service in Hong Kong; Chan Kong-sang, for public service in Hong Kong; John Theng Keong Chan, executive officer, Department of Health; Stephen Victor Chandler, constable, Metropolitan Police, for services to the police; Capt Kandiah Chandran, former chief executive, Presentation Housing Association, for services to the Housing Association movement; Mrs Josephine Chang Siao Fong-fong, for services to the performing arts in Hong Kong; Peter Chau Cham-chiu, QPM, CPM, Assistant Commissioner (Auxiliary), Royal Hong Kong Police; Dipakkumar Govindji Chauhan, for services to community relations in Tameside, Manchester; Mrs Maureen Anne Chesterton, British Vice-Consul,

Lima; Mrs Angela Cheung Wong Wan Yiu, JP, for services to education and hospital administration in Hong Kong; Michael Chik Wah-wai, Assistant Commissioner, Customs and Excise, Hong Kong; Charles Peter Chivers, for services to the community in Cuddington, Cheshire; Alan Leslie Chorley, former treasurer, Access Committee for England, for services to disabled people.

William Christie, DFM, for services to the Royal Air Forces Association; Alan Ernest Clark, senior executive officer, Acas, Department of Trade and Industry; John Clark, design engineer, Royal Observatory, Edinburgh, for services to astronomy; Mrs Audrey Clark, former superintendent registrar, Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council, for services to the community; Miss Joan Clarke, general assistant, dining hall, Worcester College of Higher Education, for services to education; Robert Clarke, Trident boat manager, VSEL, for services to the defence industry; Stephen Harold Henry Clarke, for services to archaeology in Monmouth; Miss Margaret Winifred Clarkson, for services to Carlisle Cathedral; Mrs Phyllis Mary Coates, for services to the community in Shere, Surrey; Mrs Elizabeth Cochrane, for services to War Pensions Committees; Mrs June Elizabeth Coleman, for services to the community in

Bath; Allan Barratt Collins, general assistant, Tesco, Sutton, Surrey, for services to food retailing; John Frederick Collis, constable, Metropolitan Police, for services to the police; Leonard Conaway, for services to the community in Cumbria; Miss Allison Gardner Cook, for political and public service.

Joseph John Cooke, mayor's office, Lincoln City Council, for services to local government; Mrs Dorothy Mary Cooke, for services to the community in Leicester; Mrs Kathleen Roberta Joyce Cooper, for services to the St John Ambulance Brigade; Mrs Mary Matilda Cooper, BEM, for services to nursing and welfare, Montserrat; Tony Corfield, national co-ordinator, National Health and Safety Groups Council, for services to health and safety; Ronald Stanley Cornwell, for services to the community in Crawley, West Sussex; Miss Mary Barbar Corrall, former senior executive officer, Board of Customs and Excise; Miss Myrna Jean Corrie, principal, farm secretarial business and president, Scottish Young Farmers' Association, for services to farming; Colin Cotton, for services to the Royal Naval Sailing Association; Henry Cottrell, former butler, Dorneywood Trust, for services to government hospitality; Mrs

Olwen Jessie Couldridge, secretary, Park Primary School, Newham, London, for services to education; Derek Coulthard, senior executive officer, Department of Social Security.

Roger Brian Courtney, for services to the homeless; Mrs Eileen Frances Coutts, for services to the Sea Cadet Corps in East London; Derrick Stanley Cox, head chef, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, for services to higher education; Mrs Veronica Mary Coxon, for services to WRVS in Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands; Miss Freda Elizabeth Moody Craig, for services to golf; Miss Jacqueline Ainslie Diana Craig, for services to the Gurkha Welfare Trusts; Mrs Sheila Elizabeth Craine, for services to the community in Merseyside; Mrs Hilda Blanche Le Cras, for services to horse driving for the Disabled and to the Royal British Legion on Guernsey; Miss Nicola Jane Crews, for services to the handicapped in Indonesia; Stephen James Croad, former head of record, national buildings, Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England; Eric Kenneth Crompton, business development manager, Matra Marconi

Space UK Ltd, for services to the space industry; Mrs June Pamela Cromwell, technician, Southern Water, for services to the water industry; The Rev Hugh Geoffrey Cross, for services to ecumenical relations in Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire; Joaquim Jose Cubertino, head waiter, catering department, St Thomas' Hospital, London, for services to health care.

Frederick Ernest Cullen, administrative assistant, the Benefits Agency, Department of Social Security; The Rev Richard Cullington, TD, former officiating chaplain, RAF St Mawgan, for services to the RAF; Mrs Kathleen Curnock, for services to voluntary services; Charles Starr Curry, editor, New Milton Advertiser and Lymington Times, for services to journalism in Hampshire; Gerald Cutcliffe, wildlife ranger, Forestry Commission; Miss Margaret D'Arcy, actress, for services to drama; Mrs Rose D'Costa, personal secretary, Department of Transport; Peter Aubrey Victor D'Costa, higher executive officer, Department of the Environment.

John Christopher Dale, managing director, John Dale Ltd, for services to industry in Wales; Mrs Mary Margaret Dalligan, former home care worker, London Borough of Southwark, for services to the community; Miss Celeste Dandeker, artistic director, CandoCo, for services to dance and to disabled people; Peter Daniel, chairman, Ridgemond Training, Stevenage, Hertfordshire, for services to training and young people; Wasim Darr, president, UK Islamic Mission (southern region), for services to community relations; Mrs Irene Joyce Davies, for services to the community in Pantymwyn Flintshire; Mrs Joyce Mary Davies, for services to the British Red Cross Society in Shropshire; Miss Catherine Elizabeth Dawson, chief administrative dental officer, Grampian Health Board, for services to dentistry; Geoffrey Michael Day, for services to the oil industry; Simon Patrick Dell, Constable, Devon and Cornwall

Constabulary, for services to the police; William Ernest Denny, for services to Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association in Warwickshire; Royland Charles Derham, general secretary, the T S Vindicatrix Association, for services to the Merchant Navy.

Mrs Joyce Muriel Dewey, for services to the community in Lymington Hampshire; Frederick Gains Dobson, for services to the Ex-Service Fellowship Centres; Mrs Ingrid Julia Dodd, for political services; John Doherty, for services to disabled ex-servicemen and women; Maurice Francis Donaghy, assistant controller, the Stamp Office, Board of Inland Revenue; Mrs Hilda Donaldson, for services to education; Mrs Margaret Agnes Donaldson, for services to the WRVS in Llanelli Dyfed; Mrs Teresa Doonan, for services to the Glazert Activity Group Lennox Castle Hospital, Glasgow; Mrs Marina Duckmanton, Management Pay Band 4, the Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment; James Duncan, for services to the Scout Association in Scotland; Denis Durno, DL GP, Portlethen, Aberdeenshire, for services to medicine; Eric Anthony Dyer, welfare officer, National Grid Company plc, for services to personnel

management; Mrs Elizabeth Stella Dyke, for services to the community in Sherborne Dorset; Miss Pamela Elaine Earl, higher executive officer, Crown Prosecution Service.

Miss Mary Jean Easter, clerical assistant, Wiltshire Constabulary, for services to the police; Mrs Daphne Viola Edginton, for services to the community in Milton-under-Wychwood Oxfordshire; Geoffrey Stephen Edwards, managing director, Oxley Developments Company Ltd, for services to industry; Harry Allen Edwards, for services to the Anglers' Conservation Association; Michael Edwards, administrative officer, Department for Education and Employment; Miss Pauline Edwards, Divisional Commandant, Special Constabulary, Dorset Police, for services to the police; Brendan William Laurence Egan, for services to the British School, Manila; Miss Margaret M Eglington, former conductor, Billingham String Orchestra and Billingham Friday Choir, Cleveland Peripatetic Music Service, for services to music education; James Murray Elliot, former chairman, Scout Association, East Sussex, for services to Scouting;

Brian Henry Ellis, founder, Vision Aid Overseas, for charitable services.

Miss Pauline Ann Ellis, for services to the community in Derby; Mrs Margaret Elsworth, for services to education and health South Africa; Harry Emerson, for services to the community in Stockton-on-Tees Cleveland; John Barrymore Eustice, for services to the disabled Botswana; Mrs Elizabeth Margaret Evans, for services to the community particularly disabled people, in Llanelli, Dyfed; Ian Kenmure Evans-Gordon, for political service; Mrs Shirley Everett, newsvendor, for services to the community in Westminster, London; Mrs Doris Mabel Eves, for services to the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Farnborough Hampshire; George Fitton Exley, honorary secretary, Scarborough Lifeboat Station, for services to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution; Mrs Ellen Branker Farmer, president, Old Paisley Society, for services to conservation; Mrs Margaret Winifred Farmer, for services to the Royal British Legion

in Sevenoaks Kent; Eric Arnold Faux, for services to disabled people in Birmingham; Miss Valerie Ann Fea, former executive secretary, the School Library Association, for services to librarianship and to young people; Mrs Heather Duncan Findlay, local Officer 2, the Benefits Agency, Department of Social Security.

Nina Mary Miss Fineron, former typist, Department of Social Security; Millar Henry Finlay, Divisional Officer, (Special Constabulary), Flintshire Division, North Wales Police, for services to the police; Miss Isabel H Finlay, former chiropodist, Glasgow, for services to health care; Mrs Olwen Finlay, for services to physiotherapy; Mrs Evelyn May Fisher, for services to netball in Coventry; Mrs Myra Caroline Fisher, for services to the community in Paulsgrove Portsmouth, Hampshire; Bernard Joseph Fitzsimmons, for public service; Michael Robert Flegg, catering manager, Nottingham City Hospital, for services to health care; The Reverend Father Anthony Fleming, for charitable and welfare services to the community in Orissa India; Mrs Iris Mary Fletcher, for services to the community in Crowborough East Sussex; Mrs Dorothy Christine Flynn, for services to young people in Winchester Hampshire;

Thomas William Foley, warder supervisor, National Gallery; Miss Patricia Folland, for services to young people in South Shields Tyne and Wear; Mrs Pauline Anne Force, school secretary, Oakfield County Primary Junior School, Dartford, Kent, for services to education.

James Paton Hunter Ford, team leader/instructor, steelwork, Yarrow Shipbuilders Ltd, for services to the shipbuilding industry; Robert Peter Ford, sorter, Parcelforce, East Midlands, for services to the Post Office and to industrial relations; Audley Moraise Forrester, interchange manager, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive, for services to public transport; John Robert Fortnam, group purchase manager, Aerospace Group, Rolls-Royce plc, for services to the aerospace industry; Alfred Foster, founder, African Leprosy Aid, for charitable services; John Christopher Foxley, water supply manager, Southern Water, for services to the water industry; Mrs Annis Grace Campbell Frackelton, for services to family care in Edinburgh; Michael William Thomas Freeman, Inspector, Lincolnshire Constabulary, for services to the community; Mrs Lesley Margaret Freeman, Range D, Her Majesty's Treasury;

Denzil Kingson Freeth, for services to the Church of England in London; Mrs Patricia Froomberg, for services to disabled people; Mrs Norah Fryer, for services to elderly people in Church Lawton Cheshire; Michael Fuller, laboratory services manager, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, for services to biology; Edward Frank Gale, for political service; Richard Gallagher, for services to the community in Aberdeen.

Frank Charles Gamble, Director, British Red Cross Society, Bermuda; Miss Lucy Gannon, writer, for services to television drama; Richard Ian Gardner, for services to the police; Christopher Garratt, for services to the British community in Brussels; Arthur Buchan Geddes, sector officer, the Coastguard Agency, Department of Transport; Arthur Samuel George, school Crossing patrol, Portsmouth, Hampshire, for services to road safety; James Alexander George, Administrative Officer, Ministry of Defence; Graham James Gibb, leader, Grampian Police and Braemar Mountain Rescue Teams, for services to mountain rescue; Martin Fraser Gibson, for services to the British community in Uruguay; Miss Alison Gray Gibson, temporary project manager, Royal Mail, Edinburgh, for services to the Post Office; Miss Valerie Gibson, for services to the Right to Peace and Quiet Campaign; Sydney Gibson, secretary, Fergusons

Lane Tenants Association, for services to the community in Scotswood, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Mrs Joan Giddings, former office administrator, British App