ORDER OF THE

BRITISH EMPIRE

MEMBERS (MBE)

Mrs Allison Elizabeth Adams, head of Glenwood Campus, Langside College, Glasgow for services to education; Alexander Addison, former GP, Douglas, Lanarkshire, for services to medicine; Michael Robert Aitchison, air movements logistician, for humanitarian services in the former Yugoslavia; Miss Angela Jean Allen, script supervisor/continuity girl, for services to the film industry; Sgt Alan Allwood, Nottinghamshire Constabulary; David Anderson, director of sales (Africa), Massey Ferguson Group, for services to export; David Anderson, catering manager Grade III, Northern Ireland Office; Peter John Andrew, for services to mountain rescue; Mrs Marion Dorothy Lilian Andrews, for voluntary services to St George's Hospital, Tooting.

Mrs Doris Angel, for services to the community in Manchester; Albert John Annis, for services to the Royal British Legion and Air Training Corps in Pershore, Worcestershire; Mrs Jane Apedaile, for services to the community in Abbeystead, Lancaster; Charles John Arch, for services to Welsh agriculture; Kenneth Arthur Armson, former signaller, Edge Hill signalbox, Railtrack; Ian Archibald Armstrong, chairman, South Tyne Committee for the Employment of People with Disabilities; Mrs Jane Armstrong, Church youth and community worker, Durham County Council.

Myles Spencer Arnfield, chairman, Marple and District Committee for Cancer Relief and Research; for charitable services; Mrs Madeleine Arnold, chairman of governors, La Retraite Roman Catholic Girls School, Lambeth, London; Colin William Gadsby Ash, financial analyst, the National Grid Company; Ijaz Ashraf, for services to race relations in Central Scotland; Miss Kathleen Mary Atkinson, former higher scientific officer, Institute of Freshwater Ecology; David Bainbridge, former manager, Ashley House Voluntary Managed Approved Hostel, Bristol; Mrs Doris Mabel Bainbridge, for services to the community in Appleby, Cumbria.

Stephen Baines, for political and public service; William Alexander Baird, chairman, Portpatrick Station Branch, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, for services to the RNLI; Anthony Leonard Baker, Support Manager III, Northern Ireland Office; The Rev Douglas William James Bale, for services to the community in Cardiff; Mrs Marguerita Balfour, for services to the community in Fortrose and Rosemarkie, Ross-shire; Mrs Margaret Rose Banks, for services to The Guide Association; Noel Berry Banks, for services to WaterAid; Charles Bannister, for services to the community in Harrow, Middlesex; Mrs Anne Voss-Bark, for services to Tourism in Devon; David Eric Barker, farmer, for services to conservation in East Anglia

Steven Kenneth Edward Barnes, convoy leader, for humanitarian services in the former Yugoslavia; Mrs Valerie A Barrie, headteacher, Ettrick Primary School, for services to education; Mrs Barbara Barrowclough, administrative officer, MoD; Adrian Barton, Auxiliary in Charge, HM Coastguard, Ventnor, Isle of Wight; Mrs Rosemary Bashford, for services to training and development; David Joseph Batten, messenger, MoD; Mrs Violet Bawler, for services to the community in Curry Mallet, Taunton, Somerset; Mrs Jane Violet Johnston Baxter, for services to road safety in Tayside; George Fraser Beaton, roads foreman, Forestry Commission; George Beck, ship manager, Swan Hunter Shipbuilders.

James Andrew Begg, GP, Ayr, for services to medicine and to the community; Joan Patricia Bury Henderson-Begg, former chairman, Sharnbrook House Residential Club WRVS; Kenneth William Bell, regional treasurer, Yorkshire and Humberside Energy Management Groups; Frank Walter Bennett, chairman, Royal Air Forces Association, Eastern Area; Robert Frederick Bennett, for PC, British Transport Police; David Michael Bird, senior executive officer, Royal Courts of Justice, Lord Chancellor's Department; Mrs Rita Bird, Head Housemaid, House of Lords; Mrs Elaine Lilian Birtwistle, Local Officer 2, Department of Social Security; Mrs Hazel Patricia Bishop, for services to the Pony Club

Mrs Joan Bishop, former administrative officer, Department for Education and Employment; John William Bishop, Operational Fire Officer and Non-Operational Station Officer, London Fire and Civil Defence Authority; Alexander Blair, former vice-chairman, Kelso Community Council, for services to the community in Roxburghshire; Brian Robert Blake, for services to VE Day commemorations; Mrs Hazel Boardman, HIV Prevention Co-ordinator, Blackpool, Lancashire; Alan David Boland, health and safety manager, British Steel.

Mrs Elizabeth Margaret Bomphray, divisional public relations manager, WRVS Scotland, for services to the community; Mrs Annette Laraine Booth, for services to the community in Froyle, Hampshire; Miss Maureen Anne Booth, senior scientist, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution; Mrs Margaret Rennie Webb-Bowen, for services to the WRVS in Edinburgh; Mrs Sarah Bardsley Bracher, for services to the Friends of Kent Churches; Miss Susan Brailsford, for charitable services in Nottinghamshire; Paul Thomas Clifford Brenham, for services to Scouting; Mrs Gladys Briggs, chairman, management committee, Sea Cadet Corps, Keighley; Lincoln Patrick Briggs, retail manager's assistant, Thames Trains, British Railways.

Raymond Philip Briggs, for services to social work in Leicestershire; Gus (Ernest Charles) Britton, researcher, Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport; Mrs Flora Paris Brodie, former charge nurse, acute medical ward, St John's Hospital, Livingston, West Lothian, for services to health care; Mrs Iris Margaret Brookes, honorary secretary, Cannock and Burntwood branch, Royal National Lifeboat Institution; William Brown, for services to fisheries management and conservation in Scotland; Mrs Oriel Elizabeth Brownjohn, personal secretary, Ministry of Defence; Mrs Beryl Simpson Bruce, Support Grade II, Her Majesty's Prison Featherstone; Stephen Anthony Brunt, for services to sport for people with disabilities.

Norman Cuthbert Bryning, for services to the community in Northallerton, North Yorkshire; Alan Buckingham, force statistics officer and Special Constable, Thames Valley Police; Mrs Joan Bullock, for services to economic regeneration; John William Burgess, member, Sheringham Lifeboat Station Branch Committee; Cyril Burke, health care assistant trainee, Maudsley Hospital, London; Mrs Lyn Rosemarie Burke, assistant manager, Chamber of Shipping, for services to the VE/VJ Day Commemorations; Edwin Burrows, former member, Wycombe District Council.

Mrs Eileen Esther Bush, vice-president and trustee, British Red Cross Society, Greater Manchester; Charles Henry Byatt, for charitable services to the community in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire; Mrs Irene Cameron, for services to St Julian's High School, Gwent; John Cameron, industrial foreman, Department of the Environment; John Murdoch Cameron, for services to the Boys' Brigade in Dumbartonshire; Robert Sutherland Campbell, for charitable services; Miss Sheila Bennett Leslie Cant, for services to mentally handicapped people in Renfrew; Charles James Carey, for services to the Life Saving Society in Essex; Gordon Wilson Carmichael, former Chief Superintendent, Strathclyde Police, for services to the police; Cecil Carson, for services to the police.

Ian Caskie, area controller, Glasgow South, Strathclyde Water, for services to the water industry; Thomas Cassidy, for services to the community in Uddingston, Lanarkshire; Darminder Singh Chadha, principal water resources planner, Dales Area, Northumbria and Yorkshire Region; Alan Chandler, former director general, UK Provision Trade Federation; Miss Juliet Mary Chaplin, branch support officer, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association; Mrs June Irene Charlick, for services to hospital play services; Arthur William Chase, for services to the community in Lechlade, Gloucestershire; Mrs Violet Gwendoline Chater, school crossing patrol, Bedfordshire County Council; Keith Bamkin Chell, TD for political service; Ah Soo Chen, for services to community relations in north-east England.

John Morrison Childs, DL former chairman, Great Ouse Local Flood Defence Committee; Rory Chisholm, production manager, Harrier II, British Aerospace Defence; Miss Jean Clark, for charitable services to the legal profession; Mrs Sheila Lesley Clarke, for political service; Edward Cleary, for services to the rehabilitation of offenders; Mrs Jan Clements, for services to the Northern Children's Book Festival; Charles Walton Richard Rumney Coard, treasurer and caseworker, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, Castle Morpeth, Northumberland; Mrs Edna Diana Cole, for services to young people in Newhaven, East Sussex; Mrs Erica Ann Cole, chief librarian, Kemsing Village Library, Kent.

Frederick Stanley Cole, for services to young people in Newhaven, East Sussex; Mrs Catherine Condon, Support Grade I, Department of the Environment; Thomas Connolly, field engineer, for humanitarian services in the former Yugoslavia; Ronald Cook, former regional manager north, industrial and wholesale division, Esso Petroleum Company; Mrs Brigid Cooper, warden, Ryefield Sheltered Accommodation for the Elderly, Lancashire; Mrs Maire Cooper, for services to homeless people in London; Mrs Barbara Lesley Copestake, for services to the magistracy; Mrs Gladice Beatrice Copping, for services to the community in Sherborne, Dorset; Miss Mary Baron Coppock, for services to the War Pensions Welfare Service.

Nicolas de Bazille Corbin, for services to church conservation in Norfolk; John Craigie Corsie, blacksmith, for services to the agricultural community in Orkney; Mrs Ruth Elizabeth Gertrude Cranfield, for services to the magistracy and to victim support in County Durham; Mrs Ruth Wishart Cribbes, auxiliary, Middlemuir School, Lenzie, for services to special education; Mrs Caroline Florence Crimp, for services to the Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital; Maj Robert Henry GUN Cuninghame, former Retired Officer 2, MoD; Mrs Ita Cymerman, director, Agudas Israel Housing Association, for services to housing; Gurdev Singh Dahele, Higher Executive Officer, Department for Education and Employment.

William John Davies, for services to League of Friends, West Glamorgan; Derek Arthur Dean, head porter, University of Leeds; Peter Robert Dee, for services to the community in Rye, Sussex; Mrs Kathryn Susan Delpak, unit superintendent physiotherapist, Gwent Community NHS Trust; Mrs Alice Dent, journalist, Surrey Advertiser; Ronald Denyer, former mobile driver assistant, West Sussex County Council Library Services; Miss Margaret Deverell, welfare officer, British Red Cross Society, Bedfordshire; Thomas Patrick Dickinson, driver and operator, Cleanaway.

Eric William Dixon, former member, Scarborough Borough Council; Mrs Joyce Mary Elson Dixon, former member, Rushcliffe Borough Council; The Hon Mrs Karen Dixon, for services to equestrianism; Michael Spencer Hardisty Dobson, former Principal Community Education Officer, North Yorkshire Local Education Authority; Kenneth Douglas, Principal Prison Officer, Her Majesty's Prison Stafford; James Edward Drew, member, Tipton City Challenge Partnership Board; Mrs Dominica Duffy, deputy manager (refectory), Blackpool and Fylde College; Francis Patrick Dunne, for services to the community.

Mrs Rose Dunnigan, volunteer diversional and social therapist, Vale of Leven District General Hospital, for services to health care in Dumbartonshire; Mrs Shirley Elizabeth Dyer, for services to swimming; Stuart Edmond, former chairman, management committee, Sea Cadet Corps, Inverness; Mrs Diana Margery Edwards, senior executive officer, Ministry of Defence; Donald Edwards, for services to the Gwent Victim Support Scheme; Jonathan David Edwards, for services to athletics; Ronald Edward Endean, former Higher Executive Officer, MAFF; Richard James English, for political service; Arthur Harry John Eplett, for services to the community in Fowey, Cornwall; Miss Margaret Ervine, for services to agriculture.

Charles Fear, voluntary observer, Meteorological Office, Wells, Somerset; Mrs Jessie Helen Ferguson, for services to the Wigtownshire Rugby Football Club, Stranraer; Mrs Margaret Ferguson, for political service; Mrs Moira Ferguson, former national executive officer, Scottish Pre-School Play Association; Ian Hamilton Findlay, former site manager, Upper Teesdale National Nature Reserve; David James Firmstone, senior art adviser, Cheshire County Council; Kevin Fisher, Sub-Officer (retained), West Yorkshire Fire and Civil Defence Authority; Jim Fisk, clematis breeder and grower, for services to horticulture.

Mrs Dilys Fletcher, chairwoman, Higginshaw Village Estate Management Board, Oldham; John Fletcher, former Higher Executive Officer, Department of Social Security; Robert Dowler Kingsley Foster, for services to the police; Mrs Ruth Winston-Fox, for services to the community in Enfield, London; Keith Frederick Frampton, light plater, Vosper Thornycroft (UK); Donald Fraser, engineer, Skye Bridge, for services to transport in Scotland; John Alexander Fraser, former Retained Sub-Officer, Highland and Islands Fire Brigade, for services to the Fire Service; Mrs Elizabeth Winn Freeman, for services to the community in Richmond, North Yorkshire.

Frank Frith, former production director, British Rail Maintenance; Mrs Edith Frodsham, Senior Executive Officer, Department for Education and Employment; David Harold Arthur Fry, former production manager (wastewater) Essex, Anglian Water; Miss Moira Gallagher, for services to athletics for people with disabilities; Mrs Natalie Jean Gallagher, Support Manager III, Ministry of Defence; William Henry Francis Geer, former Senior Executive Officer, Department for Education and Employment; Mrs Sheila Hart Geraghty, former administrator, student affairs, Lincoln's Inn; William David Gibb, former managing director, Clyde Marine Training.

John Arthur Gibson, for services to the community in Rochford, Essex; Kevin Gilbride, for services to education; John Joseph Gill, hydrometric officer, Thames Region, National Rivers Authority; Ronald Geoffrey Gilligan, higher class operator, Yorkshire Water; Mrs Ann Gleed, for services to the community in West Yorkshire; Mrs Jacqueline Elizabeth Glennon, palantypist, Merseyside Police; Mrs Susan Elizabeth Goble, former Support Grade I, Her Majesty's Treasury; Mrs Maisie Goldstone, for charitable services to the Friends of the Welsh National Opera.

Miss Julie Goodyear, actress, for services to television drama; Victor Salvador Gower, for services to tourism in London; David Ian Grant, veterinary director, RSPCA Harmsworth Hospital; Donald Currie Grant, artist, for charitable services to animal welfare worldwide; John Robert Green, member, War Pensions Committee, in East Anglia; Maynard Green, for services to the community in Daventry, Northamptonshire; Mrs Sheila Margaret Greenfield, former Headteacher, Townsend Church of England School, St Albans; Ronald Geoffrey Greenland, Specialist Fire Officer, United Bristol Hospitals NHS Trust; David Alfred Gregg, for services to road safety.

Arthur Harold Griffin, journalist and author; Mrs Kay Jeanette Gwyneth Griffiths, for services to young people and to the community in South Glamorgan; Mrs Laura Elsie Groom, for services to the Goodmayes Hospital, Essex; Mrs Eveline Gunn, messing store manager, NAAFI; Mrs Betty Violet Gunningham, former matron, King Edward VII Hospital, Guernsey; Miss Sheila Rosemarie Hale, for political service; Mrs Maureen Hall, secretary to the chairman and chief executive, Scottish & Newcastle, for services to the brewing industry; Ronald Hamill, for services to the railway industry.

Agnew Hamilton, for services to the community; Miss Margaret Elizabeth Hammond, former Social Security Officer 2B, Social Security Agency, Department of Health and Social Services; Mrs Eileen Lilian Hance, for services to the community in Chelmsford, Essex; Edwin Showler Hannath, national secretary, Normandy Veterans' Association; Mrs Daisy Margaret Hanshaw, chairwoman, League of Friends, Highlands Hospital, London; Mrs Audrey Kathleen Hardcastle, Revenue Officer, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Miss Elizabeth Anne Harding, former Administrative Officer, Ministry of Defence; John Frewen Harman, council member, Western Division, Institute of Advanced Motorists; Mrs Frances Ann Harper, Revenue Executive, Inland Revenue; Mrs Margaret Anne Harries, for services to the Whitchurch Youth Club, Cardiff; Clifford Stanley Harrington, chairman and trustee, National Reye's Syndrome Foundation UK; Thomas Paul Harris, for services to the community and to Christian Aid in Silsoe, Bedford.

Albert William Frank Hartnell, for services to the community in Dawlish, Devon; Alexander Hastie, fish merchant, Tyne and Wear; Cecil Robert Hawker, director, Safety and Environment, Exploration and Production, British Gas; Peter James Ferrer Hawkins, field director, Save the Children, Angola; Mrs Mary Florence Hawley, for charitable services to the community in Sheffield, South Yorkshire; Mrs Agnes Hay, administrative officer, Companies House Agency, Department of Trade and Industry; David William Head, Senior Professional and Technology Officer, MoD; Lawrence Edward Heard, postman, Macclesfield; Lt Col (Rtd) Donald Knox Helm, TD coordinator, Lowland Employers' Liaison Committee, Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association.

Mrs Agnes Wilson Henderson, for services to the Citizens' Advice Bureau, Airdrie; James Gunn Henderson, editor, Northern Times, Golspie, Sutherland, for services to journalism; Miss Yvonne Elizabeth Henshaw, Headteacher, Canonbury Junior School, Islington, London; Mrs Mary Catherine Herman, administrative officer, Ministry of Defence; Derek William Heron, training officer, VSEL; Frederick John Hewitt, vice-president, St John Ambulance Brigade, Dover; Mrs Patricia Walley Hiatt, former Executive Officer, Central Statistical Office; Keith William Hickson, former GP, Walsall; Dennis William Higgins, pharmacist, for services to the community in Surbiton, Surrey; William Higgs, secretary, Scottish Prison Service Trade Union Side; Sezar Atta Hikmet, former medical officer, Immigration Detention Centre, Harmondsworth.

Henry John Hill, for services to the community in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire; Mrs Margaret Armoral Jean Hill, for voluntary services to the community in St Albans; Thomas Hudson Hillocks, specialist painter and decorator, for services to conservation in north-east Scotland; Robert Neville Hinsley, former judge's clerk, Lord Chancellor's Department; Mrs Elizabeth May Hobbins, Administrative Officer, MoD; Christopher Michael Hobson, senior librarian, Ministry of Defence; Mrs Margaret Elizabeth Hoey, typist, Lord Chancellor's Department; Mrs Susan Christine Hogg, for services to Guiding; George Richard Holkham, Brigade Field Officer, Boys' Brigade, East Sussex; Miss Louise Mary Honeyman, former executive director, London Mozart Players.

Mrs Eveline Horwood, for services to health and safety in the printing industry. Denis Ralph Howard, founder and secretary, the Yacht Charter Association; Robert Edward James Howes, Forest Officer III, Forestry Commission; Alan Douglas Hudson, director of ETSI programmes, Motorola; Alan Keith Huggins, for services to the British Philatelic Trust; Miss Dolores Joan Hughes, for services to the community of Cwm, Ebbw Vale; Ronald Hulse, county treasurer, The Royal British Legion, Cheshire; Miss Gillian Hush, former producer, features, BBC Radio; James Ralph Woollard Hyde, for services to Canterbury Cathedral; Mrs Jean Gabriel Hynard, chairwoman, Layham Parish Council, Ipswich.

David Brown Hyslop, former Leading Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, Scottish Office; Kenneth Michael Igglesden, president, Royal Air Forces Association, Bexhill-on-Sea; Peter Iles, for services to industry in Wales; Mrs Jean Aileen Jackson, for services to the community in Bramshott and Liphook, Hampshire; Mrs Joy Elizabeth Jackson, for services to the St John Ambulance Brigade; Norman Leslie Jagger, chairman, Arthritis and Rheumatism Research Council, Troon, for services to the community in Ayrshire; Mrs Esther Moyra James, for services to the community in Swindon, Wiltshire; Walter Jeffcoat, for charitable services to the community in Kettering; Jeremiah George Jessup, for charitable services in Norfolk

Malcolm Jevons, for political and public service; Mrs Christina Boyd Johnson, former Senior Executive Officer, Overseas Development Administration; Edward Austen Johnson, for services to the community in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire; Mrs Lilian Dinah Johnson, for services to the community in Hertfordshire; Mrs Pamela Emily Johnson, lacemaker, for services to lacemaking; Mrs Tina Marie Johnson, Administrative Officer, Customs and Excise; Mrs Annie Eileen Jones, for services to elderly people in Woolston, Cheshire; DC Barry Terence Jones, Metropolitan Police, for services to the police; Deiniol Gerald Clive Jones, Revenue Executive, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Mrs Edith Agnes Jones, for services to Shaw County Primary School, Essex.

Glynne Jones, musical director, Pendyrus Male Choir, for services to music; Graham William Jones, live line engineer, the National Grid Company; Lyndon Ivor Jones, for charitable services in Wales; Mrs Pauline Verna Jones, founder member, Wolverhampton Cancer Research Players; Robert Nicholas Jones, for services to Rugby Union football; Roderick Charles Jones, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence; Miss Kay Elizabeth Jordan, co-ordinator, Spitalfields Small Business Association; Peter Bernard Jordan, senior teacher and director of studies, Light Hall School, Solihull; Mrs Kathleen Patricia Judge, Administrative Officer, Central Office of Information

William Hubert Higman Julian, for services to music in Cornwall; Talivaldis Kalnars, for services to forestry; Mohammad Abdul Karim, Local Officer 2, Department of Social Security; Cecil George Norman Kavanagh, for services to the National Schizophrenia Fellowship; Alfred William Kelly, for services to Watford; Charles Reginald Kelso, for services to the shipping industry; Derek Howard Kemp, former Executive Officer, Health and Safety Executive, Department of the Environment; Mrs Ruby Kennaugh, civil defence volunteer, Isle of Man; Mrs Mary Geraldine Kerr, Support Manager III, Department of Trade and Industry; Mrs Nella Kerr, for services to the Council for Music in Hospitals

Mrs Katharine Rose Kershaw, environmental consultant to Eurotunnel; Miss Catherine Kerss, for political and public service; Jagan Nath Kharbanda, community liaison officer, Croydon; Mrs Gwenllian Anne Kidd, WRVS county organiser, Dyfed; Mrs Jean Buyers Kidd, former musical director, Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus, for services to musical education; Miss Elizabeth Smith King, Local Officer 1, Department of Social Security; Iain Donald King, project manager, security, British Railways Board; Roy Kirkpatrick, former safety officer, ICI Films; Mrs Dorothy Julia Knight, chemist, Institute of Food Research; PC Robert Knights, Constable, 2 Area, Metropolitan Police, for service to the police; Mrs May Lalkhan, Support Manager III, Department for Education and Employment.

Miss Margery Ethel Lambert, for services to the community in Hampshire; Albert George Lancaster, for services to the community; William Landles, for services to literature in the Borders; Mrs Josephine Carmen Fay Langton, for political and public service; Mrs Edith Mary Laurie, for services to the community in Perth, Kinross; Miss Faith Clokie Lawson, chairman, the Pedestrians' Association, for services to road safety and the environment; Mrs Elaine Vera Laycock, GP, Ruislip; Mrs Valerie Gresty Laycock, Administrative Officer, Ministry of Defence; Miss Winifred (Betty) Laysell, for services to Voluntary Services Overseas; William LE Breton, for political service.

Mrs Ann Patricia Leck, for services to Relate; Carl Derek Campbell Earl Leckey, former leading lockkeeper, British Waterways Board; Arthur Ledgard, for services to disabled motorists; Michael Leslie Ewart Lee, Leading Observer, Royal Observer Corps, RAF Bentley Priory; Mrs Janet Leece, Police Sgt, Isle of Man Constabulary; David Alan Lees, Senior Professional Technology Officer, Vehicle Inspectorate Executive Agency; Gordon Lemon, divisional technical manager, RMC Roadstone Products; William Pritchard Lewis, for services to Welsh amateur music; the Rev John Leonard Lines, for services to homeless people in Whitechapel, London; Ronald D Little, for services to the community in Bratton, Wiltshire; Mrs Shirley Lloyd, managing director, P E Thomas, Porthcawl, Mid-Glamorgan, for services to industry; Gordon Henry Loach, Sub-postmaster, Bridgnorth, Shropshire.

Miss Louisa Mary Loder, for services to the community in Shrewsbury, Shropshire; Mrs Audrey Jean Lootes, for services to the Fire Service College; Horace Lord, former process worker, fuel division, British Nuclear Fuels; Edwin Charles Ernest Lowe, for services to broadcasting and to snooker; Miss Elizabeth Ann Lowe, for services to the community in Pendleton, Lancashire; Mrs Dolly Luckock, volunteer shop manager, Oxfam, Tavistock; Alan Frederick Lyons, head of nursing, Broadgreen NHS Trust, Liverpool; Mrs Ivorine Delores Macdonald, Executive Officer, Customs and Excise; Donald Mackenzie, farm manager, for services to agriculture in Argyllshire; PC John Fairley Grant Macaulay, Lothian and Borders Police, for services to the police.

Brian Mack, for services to telescope design; Miss Georgina Macleod Mackenzie, Professional and Management Grade 3, Dounreay decommissioning contractors department, UKAEA, for services to the nuclear industry; Patrick Carroll Macnamara, chairman, Queen Mary's Roehampton Trust; Mrs Dorothy Amy Madeley, for services to the community in Mildenhall, Suffolk; Faridoon Madon, former chairman, Greater London Action for Racial Equality; William Patrick Magill, for services to the glazing industry; Claude Anthony Maginess, for service to the telecommunications industry; Mrs Frances Rose Mailer, principal's secretary, Glenrothes College, Fife, for services to education.

Mrs Winifred Elizabeth Ann Main, for services to cancer support in Aberdeen and north-east Scotland; Patrick Maloney, for services to the community in Blackwood, Gwent; Vivian Mannell, Local Officer 1, Department of Social Security; Mrs Alice Marlow, school crossing patrol, Leicestershire; Cyril Martin, for services to Ludlow Hospital, Shropshire; Miss Dorothy Ann Martin, Higher Executive Officer, Department for Education and Employment; Mrs Dorothy Iris Martin, for services to the National Trust in Sussex; Haydn Martin, Divisional Commandant, Special Constabulary, Derbyshire; Mrs Susan Martineau, for services to the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Exmouth; Anthony Arthur James Mason, former personal secretary, Department of the Environment.

Mrs Kathleen Rose Mason, personal secretary, Ministry of Defence; Mrs Penelope Maitland Mason, for political and public service; Ralph Blair Mason, warden, Woodlands Camp, Birmingham Boys' and Girls' Union; Mrs Rita Matcham, member, Royal British Legion, Women's Section, Canterbury; James Mathieson, Officer in Charge, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Denis Matthews, managing director, Mathbirk; Miss Margaret Maxwell, for services to architecture; Miss Kathleen Elizabeth Mayo, former assistant librarian, Atherstone Library, Warwickshire; Mrs Doreen Maytom, former senior personal secretary, Her Majesty's Treasury; Mrs Janet Cameron McCabe, principal pharmacist in drug information, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, for services to health care.

David McCallum, director of access and learner services, Motherwell College, for services to education; Mrs Priscilla Cornwallis McCausland, secretary, Medical Commission on Accident Prevention; James Hamilton McColl, for services to horticulture; Mrs Norma McConville, for services to housing; Mrs Mary Barbara McDermott, for services to the community in Portsmouth, Hampshire; Miss Isabella Crawford McDowell, for services to the community; Mrs Daphne June McGlashan, former typist, Cabinet Office; Mrs Jean Watson McGlashan, head night porter, Buchanan Arms Hotel, Drymen, for services to the hotel industry; Michael Leo McGoldrick, for services to the police.

Mrs Catriona Orr McInnes, principal teacher, computing studies, Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh, for services to education; Mrs Shirley Janet McIntosh, for services to shooting; Mrs Rosemary Buchanan McIntyre, for services to the British Red Cross Society; Neil McKechnie, member, Ross and Cromarty District Council, for services to the community in Ross-shire; Neville Desmond McKee, for services to nature conservation; Robert Mervyn McKeown, for services to the British Red Cross Society; Mrs Alice Miller McLaren, for political and public service; Norman Francis McLarnon, for services to the telecommunications industry.

Andrew McLelland, for services to the community in Castlemilk, Glasgow; Peter McNally, Senior Executive Officer, Department of Health; Graham McSweeney, honorary secretary, League of Friends, Halton General Hospital, Runcorn, Cheshire; Mrs Jean McVitty, for services to the community, particularly to tourism; Satish Chander Mehta, GP, Cheshire; Oliver Norman Menhinick, Head of Horticulture, Lackham College, Wiltshire; Alexander Peter Menzies, section supervisor, Cumbria Special Constabulary; Jeffrey Martin Middlecote, for services to the Royal Observatories; William Harold Millar, former Higher Executive Officer, Home Office; Colin Michael Millington, key packer, Premier Beverages

William Mills, watch officer, the Coastguard Agency, Department of Transport; William Frederick John Minns, for services to the community in Sparsholt, Winchester; Robert Moodie, for political service; Mrs Elizabeth Brenda Moore, former Administrative Officer, Department of Social Security; Frank Charles Morgan, for services to the community in Williton District, Taunton; Peter Gerard Morgan, chairman, management committee, Hertford Citizens' Advice Bureau; Terence Graham Morley, Sub-Officer (Retained), Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service; Barry Frederic Morris, for services to tourism in Blackpool; Peter Jackson Mortimer, TD, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, Suffolk Probation Service; Alan Frederick Mount, clerk of works/stonemason, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, for services to conservation.

Mrs Charmaine Moverley, former Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence; William George Mowat, for services to the community in Caithness; Mrs Jessie Muiry, social work assistant, Grampian Regional Council, Moray Division, for services to social work; Robert Ivan Mumford, for services to the mobility of disabled people, Bedfordshire; Miss Mary Kathleen Murby, secretary, UN Association, Church Stretton, Shropshire; Mrs Hazel Murphy, member, War Pensions Committee, Glamorgan and Gwent; Sean Brendan Murphy, headteacher, Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Primary School, Brent, Middlesex; Mrs Annie Eliza Musk, for services to the Thanet Healthcare Trust, Kent.

Christopher Robert Musson, aerial investigator, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales; Horace Myers, lately clerk, Sacriston Parish Council, Durham; Mrs Clara Nahon, for services to the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue, London; Mrs Diana Rosemary Needham, officer in charge, mother and baby unit, Browning House, Leeds; Mrs Ivy Needham, for services to the Maxwell pensioners; Douglas Arthur Nevard, head Government butler, Government Hospitality Fund, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Miss Jill Newell, senior assistant librarian, University of London; Peter Newman, for charitable services in Kent; Gerald Roy Newton, for services to the community in Rishton, Lancashire.

Harold John Nickson, trade union change representative, Babcock Thorn; Alan Ernest Nicoll, former immigration officer, Home Office; Andrew Aitken Nisbet, member, Kilmarnock and Loudoun District Council, for services to local government; Mrs Maureen Edna Noble, typist, Metropolitan Police; Gulam Kaderbhoy Noon, chairman and managing director, Noon Products; Mrs Frances Joy Norfield, Administrative Assistant, Home Office; Francis George Norman, warden, St James's Hostel, Jersey; Robert Alfred O'Bee, former member, Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council; William Gerard O'Hara, court officer, Scottish Office; John Oliver, for services to young people; Eric Oxley, for services to the nuclear industry; Desmond John Palmer, administrator, Allied Dunbar Assurance Company's Charitable Trust.

Kenneth Charles Parminter, for services to young people in West Sussex; Edward Thomas Pascoe, for services to the community in Sutton, Surrey; Mrs Jean Bower Pateman, for services to the Conservation of Highgate Cemetery, London; Alexander Paton, secretary, Glasgow Council of Tenants' Association; Laurence Richard Paton, chairman, Guide Dogs for the Blind in Formby, Merseyside; Professor Roland Arthur Paxton, for services to engineering history; Derek Arthur Payne, for services to the magistracy; Philip Andrew James Payne, Senior Professional and Technology Officer, Department of the Environment; Barry Victor Pegram, chief airworthiness engineer, BAe (Farnborough), for services to the defence industry.

Michael George Penman, occupational health, ICI Chemicals and Polymers Limited, Teesside; Mrs Ann Elizabeth Percival, superintendent physiotherapist, Harefield Hospital, Middlesex; Mrs Gaynor Phillips, for political service; Mrs Margaret Phillips, school crossing patrol, Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council; David Patrick Philpot, for services to the community in Porthcawl; Michael Stanley Pike, for services to the community in Stockcross, Berkshire; Mrs Jean Pinder, WRVS organiser, Dewsbury and District Hospital, West Yorkshire; John Frederick Pirie, for humanitarian services in Eastern Europe; DC Leslie Pitchfork, West Yorkshire Police; Miss Catherine Plater, for services to cystic fibrosis research.

Raymond Arthur Pobgee, chairman, Peterborough Victim Support Scheme; James Howard Pope, for political service; Joseph Porteous, for services to children's panels and to the Ayrshire Council on Alcohol; Norman Frederick Potter, chairman, Norwich Crime Prevention and Crimestoppers Committee, Norfolk Constabulary; Mrs Gwynna Harvey Powell, for services to the community in Anglesey; Mrs Mary Joan Power, for services to the arts in Bristol; Mrs Anne Barbara Prasad, editor, British National Formulary; David William Prebble, Higher Executive Officer, Metropolitan Police; Huw Pritchard, investigation manager, Inland Revenue; Mrs Eryl Pugh, caretaker, Churchstoke County Primary School, Powys.

John Whitfield Pugh, for services to the Porthywaen Silver Band, Oswestry, Shropshire; Mrs Constance Mary Pye, for services to the community in Burnley; Percy Quarry, for services to Scouting, Rotherham; Henry George Quinn, for services to victim support; Dennis Radford, groundsman, Exeter Cathedral; Devon; Capt John Edward Ramsdale, Head of Flight Operations (Helicopters), Civil Aviation Authority; Anthony John Heath Ray, BEM Instructional Officer 1, Royal Navy Engineering College, Ministry of Defence; Mrs Dorothy June Redfern, for services to the community in Tedburn St Mary, Devon; Edgar Wolston Bertram Hardsley Milne-Redhead, ISO TD for services to nature conservation; Mrs Agnes Reed, former cook, Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service; Miss Elizabeth Ballantine Rennie, for services to archaeology in Argyll.

Dean Richards, for services to Rugby Union football; Mrs Sylvia Violet Rickard, for services to the community in Mawnan Smith, Cornwall; Eric William Ridehalgh, former secretary, Scottish Licensed Trade Association, for services to the licensed trade; Mrs Marlene Wilson Riekie, typist, Ministry of Defence; J Hugh A Roberts, leader, Islwyn Borough Council; Peter Roberts, for services to engineering education; Mrs Elizabeth Robertson, for political and public service; Mrs Anne Gwendoline Robinson, for services to the community in Gwynedd; Mrs Jill Kathleen Robinson, for services to the community in Leeds, West Yorkshire; Paul Robinson, force co-ordinator, Special Constabulary, Merseyside Police.

James Henry Rogers, logistics officer, for humanitarian services, particularly in Rwanda; Mrs Ma

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Maj Patrick John Smart, member, Huntingdonshire District Council; Frederick Alan Porter-Smith, for services to sport for people with disabilities; Mrs Barbara Smith, voluntary group leader, St Michael's Junior, Mixed and Infants School, Bishop's Stortford; Mrs Irene Maude Smith, for services to the community in Enfield; Miss Iris Smith, administrator, British Red Cross Society, Northumbria; John Graham Smith, firefighter, Greater Manchester; Mrs Marion Elizabeth Smith, Support Grade I, Department of the Environment; Miss Olive Mary Smith, veterinary nurse; Mrs Ivy Olive Smy, senior personal secretary, Department of Social Security; Mrs Sandra South, for services to the NHS and to the community in the Highlands; Mrs Winifred Kate Sowden, for services to the community in Southampton; Julian Erwin Spindel, for services to the railway industry and to bridge engineering.

Mrs Eileen Spray, cook, Mountfield and Whatlington Church of England School, East Sussex; Mrs Margaret Evelyn Stableford, school nurse, Grays, Essex; Professor Brian Charles Hilton Steele, for services to materials science; Charles Henry Steer, former gardener 1, charge hand, Hampton Court Palace gardens; Mrs Frances Barbara Stein, non-executive director, Kings Mill Centre for Health Care Services NHS Trust; Robert Jeffrey Sterland, Chief Inspector, Derbyshire Constabulary; Rabbi Kurt Stern, for services to the community in Stamford Hill London; Robert David Stevens, general secretary, Irish Council of Churches; Mrs Hilda Elizabeth Jane Stewart, deputy world president, Associated Country Women of the World; Nicholas James Stockton, emergencies unit co-ordinator, Oxfam.

Mrs Ann Stokoe, Executive Officer, Department of Social Security; Roger Douglas Stone, for services to the community in North London; Harold Fleming Stookes, chairman, League of Friends, Gateshead; Alan Stott, foreman, refuse collection, Harrogate Borough Council; Frederick Williamson Stratford, founder, Hound Wildlife and Conservation Group, Hampshire; Ian Andrew Sykes, managing director, Nevis Range Development Company, for services to the sports industry; Mrs Stella MacQueen Sykes, Secretary, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, Lambeth; Mrs Mona Patricia Tait, for services to swimming for people with disabilities; Mrs Nancy Tait, secretary, Society for the Prevention of Asbestosis and Industrial Diseases; Mrs Thelma Mary Tanner, secretary, Wirral MENCAP, Merseyside.

Mrs Kathleen Taylor, for services to the community in Reigate; Mrs Enid Florence Temme, for services to the community in Upton upon Severn, Worcestershire; PC Derrick Thomas, Humberside Police, for services to the police; Neville Russell Thomas, former head, Middle East and Africa department, Confederation of British Industry; Thomas Glyndwr Thomas, for services to the community in Carmarthen, Dyfed; Arthur Eric Thompson, former Annunciator Superintendent, House of Commons; Douglas Thompson, member, OFWAT Northumbria customer service committee; Mrs Jean Thompson, former Support Grade I, Teachers Pension Agency; Mrs Ellen McKay Thomson, Local Officer 2, Department of Social Security; Andrew Thornton, chairman and managing director, Andy Thornton Architectural Antiques; Miss Patricia Labouchere Thornton, for services to the community in Alresford, Hampshire.

Jean Arthur Dennis Tooke, senior professional and technology officer, Commonwealth War Graves Commission; Mrs Wendy Patricia Trevett, general office manager, West Dorset Hospital, Dorset; Rex Allan Frank Truscott, for services to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford upon Avon, Warwickshire; William Alexander Tubman, for services to the British Red Cross Society; Kieran James Tucker, training manager, Lucas Aerospace Power Systems, for services to training; Mrs Eileen Tuff, for political and public service; William Charles Turner, Chief Commandant, Special Constabulary, Greater Manchester Police; Mrs Helen Welsh Tye, for services to the Whitchurch Hospital League of Friends, Cardiff; Miss Gillian Anne Elizabeth Tyler, former senior personal secretary, Ministry of Defence.

Leslie Alan Tyler, manager, vehicle design, Vickers Defence Systems; EdwinCharles Valler, Deputy Chief Security Officer, University of Surrey, for services to education; Andrew Veitch, member, Clydebank District Council, for services to the community in Clydebank; Thomas Peter Venters, joint divisional secretary, Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association, Blyth and Seaton Valley, Northumberland; Mrs Dawn Ethel Barbara Walker, pre vocational manager, Beneast Training Provider, for services to training for disabled people in Lancashire; Michael James Walker, motorway superintendent, Leicestershire County Council; Mrs Phyllis Wallbank, for services to homeless people; Wing Cdr Kenneth Horatio Wallis, RAF (Rtd), for services to autogyro development.

The Rev Canon Brian Walshe, for services to young people; Colin Wardman, for services to the community in Wetherby, West Yorkshire; Mrs Gladys Mary Warke, Revenue Officer, Inland Revenue; The Rev Robert Waters, former general secretary, Scottish Congregational Church; James Harold Watkins, for services to the Herefordshire Nature Trust; The Rev William James Watson, for services to equestrianism and to the community; Mrs Christine Marion Watts, secretary and project co-ordinator, Pembroke Street Estate Management Board, Plymouth; Miss Leila Webster, (Mrs Mercer), actress and singer, for services to entertainment; John Fortnum Weller, Station Warden, Royal Air Force Brawdy;Mrs Rosemary Welsh, for voluntary services to health care in Tyneside; Tony West, former second coxswain/mechanic of Lytham St Annes Lifeboat.

David John White, GP, Enfield and Haringey, London, for services to medicine; William George White, former train standards manager, south-west zone (Waterloo), Railtrack; Leon Raymond Whitmack, former administrative officer, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Mrs Ann Whitmee, Support Grade I, Her Majesty's Board of Customs and Excise; Leslie Vincent Whittle, telephonist and shorthand typist, Palatine Products; Reginald Whitwood, medical centre attendant, coal products, British Coal Corporation; Robert George Whyatt, for political service; Mrs Joan Widera, servery assistant and site supervisor, Whitstone Primary School, Devon; Trevor Wilde, for services to the community in Blaenau, Gwent; Frederick Roy Wilkinson, technology co-ordinator, St James Church of England Middle School, Bury St Edmunds; Harry Haygarth Willan, for charitable services to the community in Cumbria.

Miss Margaret Maureen Willetts, former medical secretary, Her Majesty's Prison Birmingham; Miss Beryl Wyn Williams, safety case engineer, Trawsfynydd Power Station, Nuclear Electric; David John Williams, editor, Bury Free Press, for services to journalism; Mrs Esther Elizabeth Williams, for services to the NHS in Wales; Mrs Jean Williams, for services to the Girls' Brigade in Liverpool; Mrs Joan Margaret Williams, for services to the community in South Wales; Mrs Joan Olive Williams, for services to the Girls' Brigade; Colin Joseph Willis, Special Chief Commandant, West Mercia Special Constabulary, for services to the police; Stanley William Willson, for services to the community in Birmingham; Barrie Kenneth Wilson, Executive Officer, Her Majesty's Board of Customs and Excise.

Denis Sinderson Wilson, former executive director, Lincoln Enterprise Agency; Mrs Evelyn Louise Wilso

QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL

David Anthony Beattie, Assistant Chief Constable, Grampian Police; Ian Campbell Mackinnon, Assistant Chief Constable, Strathclyde Police; Angus Bryan McIntosh, National Coordinator of Ports Policing.

QUEEN'S FIRE SERVICE

MEDAL

Allan Smith Whitton, Assistant Firemaster, Central Region Fire Brigade.