ORDER OF THE
BRITISH EMPIRE
MEMBERS (MBE)
Mrs Kathleen Grace Aaronricks, for services to the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Association in Canterbury, Kent; Mrs Margaret Irene Adair, for services to tourism; Alan Adams, superintendent, Marshall of Cambridge Aerospace Ltd, for services to the defence industry and to training; George Mervyn Adams, former chief janitor/security officer, Glasgow Caledonian University, for services to higher education; Mrs Irene Emily Adkins, for services to young people in Rugby, Warwickshire; Sulakshan Kumar Aeri, surveyor, London Airports, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Mrs Joyce Margaret Aldridge, for services to the community in Woodcote, South Oxfordshire; Mrs Gloria Linda Alldridge, manager, Welsh National Poisons Unit, for services to health and safety in Wales and in West England; Miss Vivienne Anderson, for services to the community; Alan Sydney Anthony, for services to the quarrying industry;
Matthew David Anthony, for services to agriculture; Thomas Gwyn Anthony, for services to agriculture; Michael Antony Frank Ashfield, chairman, India Research Group, for services to export; Mrs Jennifer Dorothy Backshell, for services to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; Mrs Beryl Joan Baddeley, for services to Scouting and to the community in Willenhall Wolverhampton; Mrs Sandra Mary Baddeley, museum administrator, Royal Doulton plc, for services to the china industry; Myles Wayne Bagnall, director, Bagnall Group Ltd, for services to the building industry; David Thomas Bailey, Management Pay Band 6, Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment; Mrs Gillian Mary Baker, for services to Salisbury-Sudan Medical Link; James Baldock, former Support Grade 2, Department of the Environment; Mrs Patricia Mary Barber, senior personal secretary, Treasury Solicitor's
Department; Dominic Barclay, vice-chairman, Dumfries and Galloway Health Council, for services to the community in Kirconnel; Daniel Barr, for services to Scouting in Dunfermline Fife; Roger Stanley Barton, former health, safety and security manager, Essex and Suffolk Water, for services to the water industry; Mrs Iris Bateman, former Administrative Officer, Department of the Environment; Philip James Bates, former Acting Chief Fire Officer, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service, for services to the Fire Service; Mrs Indira Batra, for services to the Asian community in Hyndburn Lancashire; Mrs Susan Helen Frances Batten, for services to the community particularly the RNLI in Sherborne, Dorset; Walter Freeman Beattie, inspector, Fishmongers' Company, for services to salmon fisheries in Scotland; Miss Julia Victoria Beck, for services to the community in Lancaster; Miss Mary Brookhouse Belcher,
for services to the Institute of Agricultural Secretaries and Administrators; Arthur Edward Irving Bell, chairman, Westerkirk Parish Library Trust, for services to the community in Langholm, Dumfries; Roy Malcolm Bell, manager, Signal and Telecommunications, Railtrack plc, for services to the railway industry; Mrs Violet Isabella Bell, for services to the community; Mrs Violet Bertha Bellamy, administrative officer, Companies House, Department of Trade and Industry; Mrs Cynthia Betty Joan Bennett, for services to the West Dorset Accordion Group; John Albert Bennett, secretary general, Association of Independent Research and Technology Organisation, for services to the technology industry; Robert William Bertram, Assistant Divisional Officer, Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade, for services to the fire service and for humanitarian services in Romania; John Billington, for services to the Friends
of Preston Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Lancashire; Mrs Mary Isobel Birney, administrative officer, Ministry of Defence; The Rev Canon Neville Black, for services to the community in Liverpool Merseyside; Mrs Susan Peggy Blackett, for services to the International League for the Protection of Horses; Simon Paul Blagden, chairman, Quante Group UK, for services to export; Paul Mervyn Blake, for services to the Acorn Trust Canterbury, Kent; Jack Ralph Blanchfield, for scientific services to the food industry; John Cairns Boag, for services to the community; Harry Foster Verity Bolland, for services to the community in Malham North Yorkshire; George Bolton, for services to the coal mining industry in Scotland; John Alfred Booth, manager, maintenance (mechanical), Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd, for services to the defence industry; Mrs Serena Botterman, for services to the community particularly Young
People, in Greater Manchester; Richard Edward
Bowater, honorary secretary, Society
of Clerks of Valuation Tribunals,
for services to valuation tribunals; George Bowers, for services to the Boys Brigade in West Yorkshire; Ronald James Bowker, for services to young people in Croydon Surrey; Mrs Marie Patricia Boyle, for public service; Duncan Grant Bradshaw, senior technican, University of Paisley, for services to education and to Scouting; Eric Bradshaw, for services to the War Pensions Committee in Liverpool Merseyside; Col John Albert Brake, former Retired Officer 1, Ministry of Defence; Miss Joy Marion Brame, BEM for services to the Bomber Command Association; Mrs Margaret Audrey Brian, for services to the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Cambridge; Mrs Dorothy Brockie, Support Grade 3, Scottish Office; Mrs Valerie Brodie, head, School of Performing Arts, Rugby College, Warwickshire, for services to education; Mrs Hazel Brooke, executive director, Scottish Cot Death Trust, for charitable services; Mrs Edna
Barbara Brooks, former higher executive officer, Overseas Development Administration; George William Brooks, For services to the community in Sandbach Cheshire; Mrs Wendy Lorraine Broome, head of road safety, Hertfordshire County Council, for services to road safety; Mrs Dorothy Blanche Brown, for services to the Soldier's Sailors' and Airmen's Association in Shropshire; James Patrick Brown, for services to the community in South West London; Mrs Kathleen Brown, personal secretary, Department of Social Security; Mrs Jean Margaret Bryden, chairman, Edinburgh headway Group, for services to health care; Mrs Isobel Brydie, for services to the Livingston Development Corporation; The Rev Canon James Frederick Buckett, for services to the community on the Isle of Wight; Capt Roy Malcolm Bullen, former harbourmaster, Jersey, for services to the community; Derek George Burman, former Senior Professional
and Technology Officer, Ministry of Defence; Maj Robert Mackenzie Burnett, for services to the Army Parachute Association; Robert Harold Burns, for services to the dairy industry; Mrs Mary Butlin, customer service manager, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Miss Pamela Mary Cain, for services to the community in Perth; Mrs Patricia Rosemary Carpenter, Administrative Officer. Ministry of Defence; Daniel Benedict Carron, chairman, MRI Scanner Appeal, Grimsby Hospital, for services to health care; Debabrata Chakraborti, consultant psychiatrist, King's Lynn, Norfolk, for services to medicine; Norman Chalmers, caretaker, Taymouth Castle, Kenmore, for services to conservation; Ronald McPherson Chalmers, master baker, for services to the baking industry in Aberdeenshire; Mrs Mary Jane Chambers, for services to the community in Thamesmead London; Mrs Christine Charlton, for services to the community
in Tollerton York; Mrs Margaret Olive Chilcott, for services to the WRVS in Swansea; Mrs Margaret Child, for services to Relate in Lowestoft Suffolk and Great Yarmouth, Norfolk; Mrs Janet Chilvers, Administrative Officer, Ministry of Defence; John William Chipperfield, for services to journalism and to the community in Oxford; Robert Lowe Christie, former director of television, Grampian Television plc, for services to broadcasting; Tony Luk Wah Chu, president, North East Chinese Association, for services to community relations; Thomas William Churchill, for services to disabled mineworkers; John Henry Clapson, ambulance paramedic, Deal, Kent, for services to health care; Miss Constance Enid Clark, for services to the Royal Air Forces Association in Sussex; David Alexander Clark, former Chief Superintendent, national secretary, Police Superintendents' Association of England and Wales, for
services to the police; Miss Linda Geraldine Clark, for services to the environment; Peter Clark, field engineer, for humanitarian services in the former Yugoslavia; Miss Marjorie Sybil Cleaver, member, Housing Centre Trust, for services to housing; Robert Clement, for services to the community in Bongate Darlington, County Durham; John William Cload, key keeper, Martello Tower, for services to conservation; Miss Deanna Coates, for services to air rifle shooting for people with disabilities; Mrs Madeline Avis Coffin, ward manager, Grantham Hospital NHS Trust, Lincolnshire, for services to health care; Mrs Hilda Cohen, for services to magistracy in Cardiff; Mrs Mary Conlon, for services to children with disabilities; Mrs Jeanette Joan Connor, personal secretary, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; David Eliot Cook, specialist investigator, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Raymond Cook,
leader, Rushcliffe Borough Council, for services to the community in Rushcliffe, Nottinghamshire; Ernest William Cooke, for services to the community in Alphington Devon; John Wallace Cormack, lecturer in Mathematics, Cardonald College, for services to education; Stephen Anthony Costello, for services to education and training; Vanda Alexandra Clare Lady Cotterell, for charitable services to the community in Hereford and Worcester; Mrs Evonne Leonora Von Heussen-Countryman, for services to the victims of stalking and harassment; Sister Mary Anthony Coyle, headteacher, St. Patrick's Primary School, Greenock, for services to education; Stephen Willard Cracknell, Detective Constable, Metropolitan Police, for services to the police; Andrew Crawford, for services to education; Sister Winifred Mary Crawford, sessional chaplaincy assistant Her Majesty's Prison Blundeston, for services to prisoner
welfare; John William Croft, for services to the Lower Wensleydale Young Farmers Club, North Yorkshire; Mrs Edith Crook, former receptionist and telephonist, for services to the North British Housing Association; Mrs Margaret Crosbie, for services to tourism in Dumfries and Galloway; Leonard George Crump, train crew manager, London underground Ltd, for services to public transport in London; Michael Joseph Cullen, for public service; Mrs Bridget Cumiskey, chief housing benefits officer, London Borough of Camden, for services to housing; The Rev Ian Samuel Currie, chairman, Victim Support Scotland, for charitable services; Ronald Curry, cinema projectionist, for services to film history and the community in Doncaster; Clifford Roy Cuthbert, for services to the Royal Air Forces Association in Wales. James Dalgleish, Planning Foreman, Scottish Office; Mrs Esther Mary Daly, Support Grade 2, Department
of the Environment; Mrs Laurette Valentine Danson, for services to the Soldiers' Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association in Clywd; Miss Sheena Mairi McKinnon Darroch, former Executive Officer, UK Passport Agency, Home Office; Mrs Christine Marigold Davenport, for charitable services to the community in the West Midlands; Brian Wemyss Davidson, deputy director, Outer Area, Commonwealth War Graves Commission; John Stanley Davies, for services to the Fishguard Music Festival; Meirion Wyn Davies, former conservator, Mid Wales, Forestry Commission; Robert William Davies, director of international marketing, Target Technology Ltd, for services to the unmanned air vehicle industry; Alfred Davis, rail operator, Great North Eastern Railway Ltd, for services to public transport; Mrs Caroline Lissa Angelo Davis, former arboriculturist, Department of the Environment; Mrs Elizabeth Mary Davis, for
services to the community in Rugeley Staffordshire; Mrs Yvonne Dawe, national training programmes manager, Remploy, for services to training and to disabled people in Gwent; Charles Dawson, fisherman, for services to the Fishing Industry in Northumberland; John Arnold Dayer, for services to the community in Droitwich Spa Hereford and Worcester; Mrs Elizabeth Deacon, for services to the community in Tow Law County Durham; Mrs Marjorie Dean, former personal secretary, Her Majesty's Prison Bullingdon; William Coull Deas, for services to the Scottish Fisheries Museum Anstruther, Fife; Michael John Dene, for services to the community on Guernsey Channel Islands; Leslie Alan Dennis, tourist guide, for services to tourism in South East England; Albert Duncan Dewar, trustee, Menzies Charitable Trust, for services to building conservation; Mrs Anna Graham Dobson, district organiser, WRVS in Midlothian,
for services to the community; Harold Dodds, for services to the dairy industry; Mrs Margaretta Fidelis Doran, for services to the arts; Mrs Joanne Dormer, for services to the community in North East London; Mrs Dorothy Dowling, for services to the National Blood Service; Tony William Edwin Downes, former group director, environmental engineering, Varity Perkins Group Ltd, for services to technology; William Drummond, Superintendent, Fife Constabulary, for services to the police; Mrs Mary Geary Dudgeon, for services to the community in Sutherland; Mrs Winifred Stewart Duncan, former Higher Executive Officer, Department of Social Security; The Rev Canon John Barry Eardley, Diocesan director of education, Church of England Diocese of Coventry, for services to education; Mrs Joan Eden, former secretary to the director, planning and transportation, Leicestershire County Council, for services
to local government; Cyril Edgar, for services to the Army Cadet Force Northumberland; Paul Martin Edwards, vice-president, and general manager UK operations, Genzyme, for services to the biotechnology industry; Vernon John Tamplin Edwards, Town Clerk, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, for services to the community; Ronald Eric Eley, for services to the Clydach Hospital League of Friends Swansea; Miss Ann Rosa Elton, Macmillan Nurse, St. Peter's Hospital NHS Trust, Surrey, for services to health care; Mrs Joy Freda Epton, for services to the Girls Friendly Society; Mrs Lynne Avril Evans, for services to archery; Mrs Marcia Gloria Davies Ewart, headteacher, The Drive Primary School, Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, for services to education; Sister Mary Carmel Fanning, for services to education; Stanley Thomas Fearne, Administrative Officer, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Miss Janice Finestone, for humanitarian
services in Croatia; Mrs Ethel Fisher, for services to the community in Seaton Cumbria; Stanley Fitches, for services to the British Red Cross Society; Frederick William Flemen, Inspector, Immigration Service, Home Office; Peter George Fletcher, for services to the British Nuclear Test Veterans' Association; Dennis Newton Flower, former operations director, Confederation of Passenger Transport UK, for services to public transport; Miss Valerie Jane Fone, chief accountant, central board of finance, for services to the Church of England; Maj James Andrew Forsythe, TD for services to maritime conservation; Mrs Elsie Margarete Fountain, administrative assistant, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Thomas Arthur Benjamin France, for services to the Afro-Caribbean community in Leeds; Malcolm Franks, chief executive, British Quality Foundation, for services to industry; Miss Ruth Harriet Frizzelle,
for services to the community in Maulden Bedfordshire; Mrs Patricia Agnes Gardiner, former senior personal secretary, Department of Health; Terence Peter Gardner, Sgt, Dyfed-Powys Police, for services to the community in Dyfed; David Frederick Gaskell, consultant psychiatrist, Argyll and Bute NHS Trust, for services to medicine; Mrs Pauline Cynthia George, for services to the community in Kettering Northamptonshire; David Getty, for services to the Fire Service; Mrs Avrille Mary Gibberd, for services to Relate in Basingstoke Hampshire; Miss Anne Grosvenor Gibbs, for services to the British Polio Fellowship in Wolverhampton and the West Midlands; Gerald Glanville, for services to elderly people in Thorveton Devon; Mrs Lesley Scott Dent Glasser, director, Science and Technology Regional Organisation, North Scotland, for services to science and engineering; Richard John Goodridge, postman, for
services to the Post Office and to the community in Carmarthen, Dyfed; Mrs Patricia Mary Gordon, for services to the community in Skye and Lochalsh; Mrs Cassandra Paxton Graham, personal executive secretary, Department of Social Security; David Alexander Grant, managing director, Highland Stoneware, for services to the tableware industry; James Melville Arthur Gray, for services to the community in Linlithgow West Lothian; Ernest Wilfred Gray, general manager, Palatine Products, for services to the employment of disabled people; John Howard Green, for services to the Pahar Trust; Miss Patricia Honor Greene, (Mrs Richardson) Actor, for services to radio drama; Albert Frederick James Greenwood, butler, Senior Common Room, for services to Trinity College, University of Oxford; Robert Greig, chairman, Whitfield Crime Prevention Panel, for services to the community in Dundee; Bertram John Grey,
for services to the Bekonscot Model Village Buckinghamshire; Edwin Richard Griffiths, for services to the Royal British Legion in York; Colin Grimshaw, member, Board of Visitors, Her Majesty's Prison Leeds, for services to prisoner welfare; Christopher John Grove, for services to the West Midlands Police Choir; James John Gunning, honorary treasurer, British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association, for services to the ex-service community. Mrs Beattie Hackett, for services to tourism at Westminster Abbey London; Mrs Barbara June Hall, Division Commissioner for Guiding, Gosport, Hampshire, for services to Guiding; Mrs Elizabeth Ann Fosbroke Hall, chairperson, Hampshire Mencap Societies, for services to young people; Terence Hall, chair of governors, Audenshaw High School, Tameside, Manchester, for services to education; James Hallows, for services to the Royal British Legion in Chester; Mrs Nancy
Hamer, typist, Lord Chancellor's Department; James Douglas Hamilton, strategic weapon fire control equipment consultant, GEC Marconi Simulation and Training, for services to the defence industry; Mrs Mary Hancock, school crossing patrol, Birmingham Common, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, for services to road safety; William Vincent Hanley, deputy managing director, TNT Express (UK) Ltd, for services to the freight industry; Horace Leslie Harbottle, for services to the community in Minster-in-Thanet Kent; Mrs Marlene Hargrave, for services to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council in South East England; James Hargreaves, chief executive, Training 2000 Ltd, Blackburn, Lancashire, for services to training; James Harrigan, chairman, Glasgow Association of Family Support Groups, for services to the prevention of drug misuse; Mrs Ada Gertrude Ellen Harris, for services to elderly people in Minehead Somerset;
Jeffery John Harris, business manager, Electro-Optical Systems, Avimo Ltd, for services to the defence industry; Mrs Vivienne Harris, for services to journalism and to the community in Manchester; Terence James Harrison, for services to sport for people with disabilities in the East Midlands; Terence George Harrop, advisory and inspection manager, Cheshire local Education Authority, for services to education; Miss Avril Daphne Hart, assistant curator, Victoria and Albert Museum; Miss Marie Hartley, for services to the culture and history of Yorkshire; Miss Gillian Avila Hartnoll, former head of library and information services, British Film Institute, for services to film and television culture and to the film industry; Mrs Betty Nanette Hatton, for services to the Engineering Council; Mrs Susan Parke-Hatton, Principal Fire Control Officer, Lancashire County Fire Brigade, for services to
the Fire Service; Roy Lawrence Hawkridge, for services to the community in Highgate and South Ruislip, Middlesex; Kenneth John Haydon, for services to war disabled people; John Michael Hayman, former Chief Commandant, Leicestershire Special Constabulary, for services to the police; Kenneth James Headspeath, farm manager, Glengorm Estate, for services to agriculture; Arthur William Healey, revenue collector customer service, Seeboard plc, for services to the electricity industry and to the community in Kent; Raymond Hedgecock, for services to the Submarine Old Comrades' Association in Merseyside; Professor Stanley Heptinstall, for services to the community in Bramcote Nottinghamshire; Michael John Rowland Heron, director, employment policy, British Footwear Association, for services to the footwear industry; Mrs Bertha Heyes, for services to the League of Friends St. Helens Hospital, Merseyside;
Stanley Hill, for services to the Royal Tank Regiment Association and to the Territorial Army in Nottingham; Frank Hilton, works convenor, dynamics division, BAe plc, for services to the defence industry; Mrs Karen Maria Hilton, for services to ballroom dancing; Marcus Edward Hilton, for services to ballroom dancing; David Hiorns, production manager, Bruntingthorpe Gravels, for services to the quarrying industry; Robert George Hitchings, quality assurance manager, Remploy, for services to the employment of disabled people in Bristol; Christopher Beauchamp Hobart, for services to the community particularly young people, in Oxfordshire; Charles Arthur Hogg, former director, NEWVOL (North East Wales Voluntary Services Council), for services to the community in Clwyd; Miss Anne Holmes, for services to music in Grimsby Lincolnshire; Richard Holmes, for services to the Royal British Legion; Mrs
Muriel Semple Holroyd, clinical nurse manager, Greater Glasgow Health Board, for services to health care; Mrs Margaret Joan Hood, for services to the British Red Cross Society in East Sussex; Mrs Doreen Frances How, administrative officer, Highways Agency, Department of Transport; Mrs Margaret Anita Howells, for services to the Citizens' Advice Bureau in Radnor Powys; Mrs Ethel Maud Huggard, for charitable services in South Wales; Mrs Margaret Humes, for services to health care; Mrs Elizabeth Junia Humphreys, for services to elderly people; Mrs Myrtle Joan Hurrell, for services to the National Schizophrenia Fellowship in Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire; Mrs Patricia Hutchinson, for services to the Citizens' Advice Bureau movement; Miss Joan Alicia Ingilby, for services to the culture and history of Yorkshire; Nikos Ioannides, former chief security force police officer, Ministry of Defence;
Mrs Carolyn Margery Ireland, for services to the Alzheimer's Disease Society in Guildford Surrey; Peter Jackman, for services to the Royal Star and Garter Home Richmond, Surrey; Denis William Jackson, former office services supervisor, British Waterways, for services to British Waterways; Michael Charles Jackson, superintendent, Essex Police, for services to the police and to the community in Harlow; Charles Frederick Jago, for services to the Ex-prisoners of War Association; Mrs Shirley James, for charitable services to the community in Aberdare South Wales; Lester Percy Jarvis, for services to the elderly and disabled people and to the Royal British Legion in Tingewick Buckingham; Mrs Cynthia Jeffery, school crossing patrol warden, Devon County Council, for services to road safety; Margaret McCarter Jervis, for services to the community in the Rhondda Valley; Mrs Sarah Janet Johnston, manager,
Dover Counselling Centre, for services to the shipping industry and to counselling; David Johnstone, linesman, Scottish Hydro-Electric, for services to the electricity industry; Mrs Irene Gillan Joly, for services to the Hampshire Probation Service; John Thomas Henry Jones, for services to Coventry and Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Maurice Jones, former director, Leicester Victims of Crime Support Scheme, for services to victim support; Thomas Owen Jones, for services to local government in Wales; Robert Stanley Jordan, door keeper, 10 Downing Street; Barry Richard Joyce, for services to architectural conservation in Derbyshire; Kanwarjit Singh Juj, sub-post master, for services to the Post Office and for charitable services in London; Bernard Kashket, tailor, for services to the armed forces; Mrs Lilian Kearns, for services to the community on the Johnson Fold Estate Bolton,
Lancashire; Mrs Helen Ruth Kegie, for services to the Housing Association movement in South East Wales; Mrs Dorothy Margaret Kelly, for charitable service to the community on the Isle of Man; Patrick Joseph Kelly, driver, Ministry of Defence; Peter Gordon Kelly, GP, Gloucestershire, for services to medicine; Mrs Avis Anne Kennedy, personal assistant to the director, Northumbria region, National Trust, for services to conservation; Josephine Kennedy, for services to childminding in Scotland; Mrs Jean Gilchrist Keppie, for services to the Guide Association; George William Kerrison, for services to the community in North Elmham Norfolk; Mrs Pamela Glennis Kerry, personnel manager, Her Majesty's Treasury; Joseph Kersh, for services to the South Shields Kidney Research Fund; Mrs Hazel Janice Brownlie-Kind, Higher Executive Officer, Her Majesty's Young Offenders' Institution Feltham; Mrs Lesley
Diane King, headteacher, St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Grant Maintained Primary School, Aldershot, Hampshire, for services to education; James Kinnin, Coxswain, Ramsey Lifeboat, Isle of Man, for services to safety at sea; Peter Evert Kinton, county vice-president, Greater London South West, Scout Association, for services to Scouting; Mrs Joan Margaret Kirby, For services to the community in Leatherhead Surrey; Miss Jennifer Maureen Lansdown, assistant accountant, House of Lords; Jack Donald Lavers, for services to the community in Newchurch Isle of Wight; Peter Oliver Lavery, for public service; Samuel John Lavery, former Senior Executive Officer, Department of Social Security; David Lea, former member, north east regional board, Scottish Natural Heritage, for services to the environment; Herbert Lealman, for services to the community in Huttons Ambo Yorkshire; Mrs Pamela Anne Lee, for services
to riding in the countryside; John Michael Leeder, chairman, Diss Crime Prevention Panel, Norfolk, for services to crime prevention; W Richard Leese, for services to the community in Trent Vale Staffordshire; Miss Bronwen Lewis, for services to the Save the Children Fund in Iraq; Thomas Ridley Lewis, member, Sefton Metropolitan Borough Council, for services to the community in Sefton, Merseyside; Mrs Sheelagh Mary Linton, for services to the Cancer Research Campaign in Girvan Ayrshire; Eric Littler, for services to the Boys Brigade in St. Helen's Merseyside; Vernon Llewellyn, for services to the community in Rhiwbina Cardiff; Graham Malcolm Lloyd, investment administration manager, Smiths Industries plc, for services to pension investment; William James Logan, for services to education; Mrs Margaret Mary Loran, for services to business and to the community in Cheshire; Geoffrey Donald Lord,
for services to the community in Piddlehinton Dorset; Mrs Helen Dawson Love, for services to the community in Motherwell and Wishaw; Anthony Lowe, former director, Merseyside Training and Enterprise Council, for services to training and to industry; Charles Brian Lowe, for services to architecture; Norman Lowe, for services to Post Office and Civil Service Sanatorium Society; Mrs Barbara Joan Lowndes, for services to the Community Association Movement; Geoffrey Loyd, for services to the speciality food and drink industry; Mrs Amy Elizabeth Luce, for services to music on Jersey Channel Islands; George Rodney Lurring, for services to the police. Angus MacDonald, for services to agricultural journalism; Mrs Judith Mary MacDonald, local Officer 1, Department of Social Security; Mrs Margaret Jean Macdonald, consultant ophthalmologist and clinical director, Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline,
for services to medicine; William Robert MacKenzie, crofter, for services to agriculture; Alastair Ian MacLean, retained sub-officer, Strathclyde Fire Brigade, for services to fire Service and to community; John Patrick MacLean, coxswain mechanic, Oban Lifeboat, for services to safety at sea; John MacLeod, for services to the Skye Mountain Rescue Team; Richard Lloyd McMillan, roadman for the A82 from Inverness to Fort Augustus, for services to road safety and to the environment; Faye Macrory, midwife, for services to Health Care in Manchester; Thomas Angus Mack, DL, for services to the Scout Association in Menstrie, Clackmannan; Melvin Magnall, for services to the community in Bury Greater Manchester; William Stanley Magowan, for services to the Association of British Travel Agents in North West England; Malachy Raymond Mahon, for services to economic development; John Cyril Malfait, for
services to cricket in Northamptonshire; Richard Henry Keeling Mann, former fish biologist, Institute of Freshwater Ecology, for services to fish ecology; Father Francis Maple, for charitable services; Alan Edward Marks, finance business manager, the National Grid Company plc, for services to the electricity industry; Gerald Marley, secretary, Campsie Black Watch Football Club, for services to youth football in Scotland; Roy Cyril Massey, organist, Hereford Cathedral, for services to music; Mrs Irene Matthew, lately higher executive officer, Welsh Office; George Anthony Matthews, electrical foreman, VSEL, for services to the defence industry; Mrs Marion Appleby-Matthews, president, Tamworth Ladies' Lifeboat Guild, Staffordshire; Robert Matthews, auxiliary coastguard in charge, Her Majesty's Coastguard, for services to safety at sea; Joseph Mattiello, for services to the community in Newton
South Aston Birmingham; Mrs Joyce Mary Maxwell, for services to the War Widows' Association; Paul Yogi Mayer, for services to the Bradians Association and to Young People; Mrs Jean Katherine Bundy McCallum, for services to the Sheltered Housing and Workshop Project in North East England; Mrs Audrey McClean, for services to Education; Mrs Margaret Stewart McConnell, for services to the Arthritis and Rheumatism Council in Scotland; William Charles McConnell, for services to Local History and to the community; Mrs Lila McCoy, for services to the community; Ian Gordon McCreath, for services to the community in Berwick-upon-Tweed Northumberland; George Moodie McCrone, Divisional Cdr, Cumbria Constabulary, for services to the police; Patrick McDermott, for services to young people; William Joseph Speedy McDowell, for services to education; Mrs Jean McEvoy, for services to prisoner welfare at Her
Majesty's Prison Preston; George McFall, for services to elderly people; James Alexander McKinnell, pensions policy director, Railways Pension Trustee Company Ltd, for services to the railway industry; Mrs Mary Helen McKinney, for services to the British Diabetic Association; Miss Catherine Williamina Harvie McLachlan, former administrative officer, Health and Safety Executive, Department of the Environment; Mrs Margaret Tait McLaren, for services to the community in Newtonmore Inverness; Mrs Bridget Rachel McMurray, for services to the Not Forgotten Association; Francis Michael McNamara, former management pay band 2, employment service, Department for Education and Employment; John Kennedy McSherrie, member, Freetown Society, Kingston-upon-Hull, for services to the community in Hull; John McVitty, for public service; Mrs Jeanne Mellor, pay band 8, employment service, Department for Education
and Employment; Mrs Claudette Rosanne Meredith, for services to Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, and Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire; Miss Alice Middleton officer-in-charge, Warwick House Respite Care Centre, Birmingham, for services to health care; Brian Middleton, former member, Sutton on Sea Town Council, Lincolnshire, for services to local government and to the community; Miss Carole Ann Middleton, for services to dietetics; Mrs Barbara Joyce Miles, for services to the community in Meadowlands Cambridge; Keith Millanaise, former support grade 2, Home Office; John George Lindsay Milne, head of training, Approved Driving Instructors National Joint Council, for services to driving and to road safety; Mrs Yvonne Victoria Milne, president, UK Rett Syndrome Association, for services to health care; Mrs Jeannette Mitchell, supervisor, Milldam coffee
shop, University of Portsmouth, Hampshire, for services to education; Mrs Alison Moffat, for services to elderly people and to british Red Cross in Berwickshire; Miss Pamela Moffatt, Chair, the advisory panel to London Committee on Accessible Transport, for services to Mobility of Disabled People; Govindaraj Mohan, general medical practitioner, Suffolk, for services to medicine; George William Guthrie Montgomery, for services to the Donaldson Trust Edinburgh and to deaf people; David Harry George Moody, former controller, vehicle inspection services, the Freight Transport Association, for services to the freight industry; Ian Jeremy Moore, constable, Avon and Somerset Constabulary, for services to the community and to the police; Geoffrey Moralee, for services to music in Lincoln; Wilfrid Farrington Moreton, For services to Campanology; Mrs Margaret Morgan, headteacher, Cornist Park County
Primary School, Flint, for services to education; Raymond Stanley Morgan, former managing director, SIMS Medical Distribution Ltd, for services to export; Richard Morgan, for services to the community in the Rhondda Valley; Mrs Eileen Gertrude Morley, for services to the community in Fetcham Surrey; Paul Morron, assistant director of social work, Criminal Justice Services, City of Glasgow, for services to social care provision; Miss June-Etta Morris, secretary to the director, CAMPUS University of Salford, for services to education and to the community; Douglas Morrison, forwarder operator, Forestry Commission; Frank Mortimer, for services to disabled people in Southampton Hampshire; Miss Diana Priscilla Moule, day care services manager, Glanrhyd Hospital, Bridgend, for services to nursing in Wales; Kevin Brian Mulhern, for services to broadcasting for disabled people; Mrs Joyce Winifred
Munden, publications officer, Institute of Arable Crop Research, for services to arable crop research; James Buckley Murphy, for services to the St. John Ambulance Brigade in Wales; Brian Murray, pay band 8, employment service, Department for Education and Employment; William Neill, for services to Association Football and for charitable services; Robert Ferguson Nelson, operations manager, vehicle inspectorate executive agency, Department of Transport; Miss Mary Josephine Newing, executive editor, Dental Practice, for services to the dental profession; Mrs Marion Irene Newns, former senior personal secretary, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Mrs Valerie Mary Newton, for humanitarian services in Eastern Europe; William Rex Newton, for humanitarian services in Eastern Europe; Andrew Sinclair Nicol, member, Lochaber Mountain Rescue Association, for services to mountain rescue; Miss Margaret
Marion Craig Nisbet, for services to the community and to ladies hockey in Essex; Mrs Tryphena Amelia Clarke Nixon, musical director, New Kilpatrick Singers, Glasgow, for services to music; arthur Norburn, for services to Rotherham Hospitals South Yorkshire; Mrs Doreen Norris, paediatric senior staff nurse, Lewisham Hospitals Trust, London, for services to health care; Francis John North, former chief clerk, Romford County Court, Lord Chancellor's Department; Brian Michael O'Boyle, senior professional and technology officer, House of Commons; Father Eamonn O'Brien, for services to the community; Wilfred John O'Reilly, for services to Short Track Speed Skating; Mrs Alison Mary Oldland, for services to the Living Paintings Trust; Mrs Irene Jean Orr, auxiliary nurse, Department of Clinical Oncology, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, for services to Health Care; Thomas George Osmond, for services
to Wildlife Conservation in Berkshire; Mrs Dora Margaret Pain, for services to the community in Wollaton Nottinghamshire; Mrs Maureen Beatrice Pallett, personal secretary, government office for the West Midlands, Department of Trade and Industry; Mrs Ethna Palmer, for services to industry; Nalinikant Tribhovandas Pandya, for services to the community in Brent London; Roland John Parker, for services to the community particularly Sport, in Pudsey, West Yorkshire; James Swithin Parkes, for services to Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme in the Midlands; Robert Parkinson, Officer, Safety and Analytical Services, British Nuclear Fuels plc, for services to Employee Relations; Mrs Lily Parrington, for services to community in Great Glen Leicestershire; Mrs Patricia Anne Parry, administrative officer, Ministry of Defence; Mrs Jean Margaret Patchett, chief steward, Ministry of Defence; Ian Richard Paterson,
estate manager, Surrey Police, for services to the Police; Francis Joseph Patiniott, general medical practitioner, Cheshire, for services to Medicine; Bernard Patterson, for services to the Sea Cadet Corps in Birmingham; Miss Alma S Pawson, for services to the community in Braemar Aberdeenshire; Miss Patricia Pearce, cabin services director, British Airways, for charitable services; Edwin Pearson, Member, East Rudham Parish Council, Norfolk, for services to the community; Derek Pereira, Senior Engineering Officer, British Airways, for charitable services; Mrs Mary Langley Perrens, for services to the W.R.V.S. in East Sussex; David Cyril Perry, for services to the community in Rochford Essex; Kenneth Carol Perryman, QFSM for services to the Regional Burns Centre, Pinderfields Hospital, Wakefield; Edward John Peterson, for services to Baseball in Wales; David Alan Petherbridge, for services
to Judo; David John Pettitt, manager, business support, Lloyd's of London, for services to the insurance industry; John Edward Pickworth, chief surveyor, ordnance survey, Department of the Environment; Eric Allen Pinhorne, higher industrial craftsman, Her Majesty's Prison Kingston; Mrs Patricia Ponniah, administrative officer, Home Office; Mrs Patricia Hilda Pope, former school crossing patrol, Handbridge, Chester, for services to road safety; John Godfrey Porter, chairman, Witham Third District Internal Drainage Board, for services to land drainage in Lincolnshire; Joseph Potts, for services to forestry in North England; James Frederick Horace Powell, DSM for services to the Sea Cadet Corps in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear; John Sidney Powell, voluntary observer, Swansea, for services to the Meterological Office; Donald Frederick Powley, for services to the British Limbless Ex-Servicemen's Association
in Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft Norfolk; Barry Price, former senior prison officer, Her Majesty's Prison Shrewsbury; Miss Vivienne Lola Price, for services to the National Children's Orchestra; Christopher Robert Privett, senior professional and technology officer, Ministry of Defence; Victor Ernest Pullen, for charitable services in Dorchester Dorset; Mrs Mollie Purse, for services to the community in Evercreech Somerset; John Kinross Purser, for services to the community in Middlesex and Surrey; Alfred Brian Quinn, for services to the probation service in Powys. Harold Vernon Radcliffe, voluntary observer, Nottinghamshire, for services to the Meteorological Office; Mrs Joyce Eileen Radley, for services to the community in Market Lavington Wiltshire; John Ramage, convenor, Scottish Association of Health Councils, for services to health care; Robert Ramsey, for services to the Post Office;
Douglas Philip Rayfield, for services to the Royal National Institute for the Blind in Surrey; Vincent Rea, founder and former director, Bede Gallery, Jarrow, for services to the community in Tyne and Wear; Kenneth Stanley Read, Senior Executive Officer, Department for Education and Employment; Arthur William Redwood, for charitable services in Porthcawl South Wales; Mrs Mary Ann Redwood, for charitable services in Porthcawl Mid Glamorgan; William James Rees, for services in the community in Brecon Powys; Mrs Brenda Winifred Reid, general secretary, Bexley Churches Housing Association, for services to the Housing Association Movement; John Andrew Reid, jockey, for services to horse racing; Robert Albert Revels, for services to the police; Mrs Peronelle Imogen Richards, for services to the community in Oxford; Mrs Barbara Mary Roberts, former office manager, Port Talbot Magistrates' Court,
for services to the magistracy; David Stanley Roberts, for services to young people in Denbigh; Elwyn Rowland Roberts, trade marks agent, Elwyn Roberts and Co, for services to trade marks; Trevor Roberts, for services to the community in Truro Cornwall; Clifford Barrie Robinson, Senior Divisional Officer, Nottinghamshire Police, for services to the police; Mrs Joan Valerie Robinson, Executive Officer, Department of Social Security; Derek Rogers, head gardener, Northern College for Residential Adult Education, Wentworth Castle, for services to education and to horticulture; Philip Anthony Rogers, Senior Executive Officer, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Mrs Patricia Harwood Roome, for services to King's Lynn Hospitals Norfolk; Mrs Esther Rosenquit, for services to the Jewish community in Brighton and Hove East Sussex; Francis Charlton Ross, Professional and Technology Officer, Ministry of
Defence; Mrs Dora Mary Rosser, for services to hockey in Wales; Sydney Brian Rousell, for services to the Friends of All Saints' Church Sutton Bingham, Somerset; Nigel Rowe, for services to Devonport Management Ltd and to the defence industry; Dennis John Rowley, for services to the Immigration Detention Centre Campsfield House, Oxfordshire; Mrs Sheila Blanche Roy, for services to the Children's Society in Harrow Middlesex; Mrs Edwina Esther Roylance, for services to the community in Gotham Nottinghamshire; Mrs Barbara Jane Ruffell, member, OFWAT Eastern Customer Service Committee, for services to water consumers; Mrs Jeanie Morton Sandison, founder and curator, Tingwall Agricultural Museum, for services to museums and to the community on Shetland; Frank Sansom, for services to the community in Middleton Manchester; Mrs Joyce Ethel May Saunders, organiser, Bath Blind Club and Blind Handicap
Club, for services to blind people; Mrs Lily Alice Florence Saunders, former messenger, Ministry of Defence; Thomas Brian Saunders, D1-Regional manager, Department of Social Security; Raymond Laurence Scott, operations manager, British Telecommunications plc, for services to the telecommunications industry; William Scott, business development manager, Nexus (Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive), for services to public transport in Tyne and Wear; Stephen John Sebire, for services to the community in Congleton Cheshire; Mrs Elizabeth Anne Shadrick, for services to the community in Bradworthy Devon; Mrs Joan Shannon, Local Officer 2, Department of Social Security; Raymond Sharp, head, Hartford Manor County Primary School, Northwich, Cheshire, for services to education; Frank Denton Shaw, for services to the community in Penrith Cumbria; Kevin Benedict Sheehy, for services to the Police;
David Robert Shepherd, umpire, for services to cricket; Mrs Margaret Hamilton Shepherd, for services to elderly people in Leicester; Alfred Sherwin, for services to the Sunshine Hour Swimming Club; James Shorrock, milkman, for services to the dairy industry in Preston, Lancashire; Mrs Marion Fraser Sinclair, Nursery Nurse, Haddington Nursery School, East Lothian, for services to young people; Peter Brian Skews, Station Officer (Retained), Cornwall County Fire Brigade, for services to the Fire Service; Mrs Jean Marion Sleeth, for services to the Salvation Army and to the community; Miss Anne Smallwood, secretary to the Vice-Chancellor, University of Oxford, for services to higher education; Ernest Smedley, Area Officer, Warwickshire Special Constabulary, for services to the police; David Victor-Smith, for services to the Farnham Youth Choir Surrey; Mrs Margaret Lilian Smith, for services to
Oxfam in Liverpool Merseyside; Stanley Henry Smith, for services to the community and to nature conservation in Louth Lincolnshire; William Smith, Assistant Regional Superintendent of Works, Scottish Office; Miss Winifred Margaret Smith, for services to the community in Wetheringsett Suffolk; Eric Sydney Snoxell, member, South Bedfordshire District Council, for services to the community in Caddington, South Bedfordshire; Cecil John Sparrow, sub-post master, for services to the Post Office and to the community in Laxfield, Suffolk; Mrs Margot Sreberny, for services to the community in Finsbury Park London; Anthony John Stagg, senior scientific officer, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence; Christopher John Stagg, Constable, Metropolitan Police, for services to the police and to the community; Mrs Jean Margaret Stanford, for services to the WRVS in the West Midlands;
Roy Staniforth, leader, Wales Methodist Youth Club, Sheffield, Yorkshire, for services to young people; Mrs Jean Helen Steele, former Valuation Executive, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; David Peter Stephens, for services to the Air Training Corps Cornwall; John W W Stevenson, for services to the community in Glasgow; John Anthony Stewart, for public services; Andrew George Strachan, Constable, Tayside Police, for services to the police and to the community; Ian Strong, director, Yorkshire Rural Community Council, for services to the rural community in Yorkshire; Mrs Julia Strout, senior personal secretary, Cabinet Office; David William Sully, former Station Officer (Retained), Somerset Fire Brigade, for services to the Fire Service; Miss June Ann Summers, personal secretary, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Reginald Eli Sutton, for services to the community in Oundle Northamptonshire;
Maurice James Swaffer, for services to the community in Great Chart Kent; Miss Meera Syal, actress and writer, for services to drama; William Tagg, for services to information technology education; Mrs Ada Tapling, for services to the community in Woking Surrey; Mrs Pamela Carol Tarsey, for services to the British Red Cross Society in Lincolnshire; Brian Stanley Taylor, for services to the community in Thurrock Essex; Joseph Owen Taylor, Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence; Philip William Thomas, for services to the north eastern counties Amateur Boxing Association; Miss Jenefred Elizabeth Thompson, Administrative Officer, Department of Social Security; Keith Thompson, for services to the community in Salisbury Wiltshire; Mrs Winfred Maud Tidbury, for services to the community in High Wycombe Buckinghamshire; John Tiffney, for services to local government and to environmental health;
Ian Denis Todd, Chief Commandant, Metropolitan Special Constabulary, for services to the police; Arthur Topping, for services to the community particularly Scouting in Golborne, Cheshire; Mrs Susan Carol Torr, for services to adult literacy; Mrs Kitty Lois Trewern, home help, Cornwall County Council, for services to the community; Mrs Margaret Rita Tucker, Support manager 1, Department for Education and Employment; Anthony Herbert Turner, for services to the community in Lincolnshire; Arthur Thomas Turner, case worker, Her Majesty's Board of Inland Revenue; Raymond Wallace Goulter Turner, for services to the community in Islington London; Ralph Goodwin Vaughan Venables, for services to motor cycle journalism; Frank Leslie Vickerman, for services to the community in Irchester Northamptonshire; Mrs Joan Edith Vincent, for services to the community in Fleet Hampshire; Fred Waddington, for services
to the Slaidburn Young Farmers' Club Lancashire; Robert Frederick John Wainwright, Volunteer Leading Firefighter, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, for services to the Fire Service; Mrs Doreen Wake, caretaker, University of Lincolnshire and Humberside, for services to education; Mrs Catherine Cumpstie Walker, for services to the Leonard Cheshire Foundation; George Alvin Walker, for services to the defence industry; Mrs Margaret Walker, chief speech and language therapist, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London, for services to health care; Mrs Kalliope Wareham, for charitable services in Coventry; Graham Arthur Hamilton Warner, aircraft Restorer, for services to aircraft restoration; Mrs Florence Mary Warrack, chairman, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Volunteers, for services to health care; Mrs Delia Ann Waskett, Experimental Worker Grade 1, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency,
Ministry of Defence; John Kinnear Waterhouse, for services to disaster relief and to engineering; Miss Judith Elizabeth Frances Waters, former Chief Welfare Officer, Crown Prosecution Service; Arthur Vincent Reid Watson, for services to local government and to the community in Kincardineshire and Deeside; William Joseph Weatherley, for services to John Kirk House Battersea, London; Leonard Thomas Weaver, honorary archivist, Harwich, Essex, for services to local history and to the community since 1945; Mrs Coralie Joyce Webber, student admissions and financial guidance manager, Highbury College, Portsmouth, Hampshire, for services to education; James Webster, farm manager, Snaigow Estates, for services to agriculture and to the community in Blairgowrie, Perthshire; Charles Leslie Collison Weedon, former chauffeur to the Lt Governor, Guernsey, Channel Islands; The Rev Canon Edward Arthur Wells,
for services to the community in Ipswich Suffolk; Paul Welsh, entertainments officer, Elstree and Borehamwood Town Council, for services to film preservation and history; Mrs Sheila Whalley, for services to the community in St Helens Merseyside; James Barry White, for services to journalism; Anthony Charles Frederick Whitehead, for services to the Terrence Higgins Trust; Mrs Sandra Louise Whitehead, for services to Dowty Aerospace Propellers; Albert James Sayce Williams, for services to young people and to science in Mid and West Wales; Anthony Carey Williams, for services to industry in Wales; John Herbert Williams, honorary secretary, Porthcawl Lifeboat Station, Mid Glamorgan, for services to the RNLI; John Hywel Williams, for services to young people and to music in Llanelli Dyfed; Mrs Margaret Lynne Williams, senior nurse, Prince Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil, for services to health
care in Wales; Mrs Rita Williams, former school cook, Neath Abbey Infant School, for services to education and to the community; Mrs Ruth Emily Anne Williams, foster carer, Walsall, for services to young people; Mrs Valerie Ann Williams, Higher Executive Officer, Ministry of Defence; Miss Eira Wilson, Administrative Officer, Companies House, Department of Trade and Industry; John Watters Wilson, honorary treasurer, Maidstone Community Support Centre, Kent, for services to the community; Maurice Johnston Wilson, for services to the exhibitions industry; Brian Malcolm Withington, regulations manager, B G plc, for services to the gas industry; Christopher Wolley, anti-smuggling manager, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; Tony Wood, sector officer, Coastguard Agency, Department of Transport; Mrs Joan Richardson Woodhouse, Support Grade 1, Department of Social Security; Mrs Sylvia Rosina May Woods,
former school crossing patrol officer, Wiltshire County Council, for services to road safety; Richard Elms Worsell, auxiliary coastguard, Her Majesty's Coastguard, Birling Gap, Sussex, for services to safety at sea; Mrs Helena Margaret Wright, for services to Save the Children Fund in Tyne and Wear; Mrs Joyce Veronica Wyatt, receptionist/telephonist, Her Majesty's Customs and Excise; John Richard Yarwood, director of reconstruction, Mostar, for humanitarian services in the former Yugoslavia; Mrs Constance Jean Young, Support manager 3, Department of the Environment.
QUEEN'S POLICE MEDAL
Charles Austin Milne, Deputy Commandant, Scottish Police College; John Douglas Welsh, MBE, Assistant Chief Constable, Strathclyde Police.
QUEEN'S FIRE
SERVICE MEDAL
David Anthony Clark, Assistant Firemaster, Fife Fire and Rescue Service; Andrew Russell, Firemaster, Dumfries and Galloway Fire Brigade; John Chapman Gray Tait, Sub Officer, Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade.
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