TWO Scots captains of industry are rewarded with knighthoods in the

list.

Mr Ross Belch, who has devoted his life to shipbuilding on the Clyde,

and Mr Alistair Grant, chairman and chief executive of the Argyll food

and drinks group, become Knights Bachelor.

Mr Belch, 71, was former managing director of the Scott Lithgow yard

and was lost to shipbuilding during the years of nationalisation because

it was ''not his sort of thing.''

The self-confessed workaholic spent five years as chairman of Irvine

Development Corporation during the Ayrshire new town's most successful

period and re-emerged recently first as owner of the new Altnacraig

shipping line then as the driving force behind the buy-out and growing

success of Ferguson Shipbuilders in Port Glasgow.

He said: ''I was most surprised and deeply honoured when told about

this. I feel it is a reward for the many thousands of people who have

worked with me and still work with me in building ships.

''The atmosphere at Ferguson's is fantastic just now and I am

fortunate to have a jolly good bunch of people working with me. It is

just like the old days on the Clyde.''

Mr Grant, 54, joined the food industry after national service in the

Royal Signals and joined James Gulliver at Fine Fare in 1968 going on to

be involved in the development of the Argyll Group.

He became chief executive of the group in 1986 and took over the

chairmanship two years later.

His sense of humour was illustrated recently when he sent a special

bottle of whisky to his counterpart at Guinness after his company had

been paid #100m in compensation for the controversial takeover battle

for Distillers. It was called Old Acrimony.

The two knights lead a large and varied group of Scots who have been

honoured for their work in industry, local government, the emergency

services and sport.

Former Scottish Football League president Jack Steedman becomes a CBE,

as does Mr J. Allan Denholm, chairman of East Kilbride Development

Corporation.

Mr Denholm has been chairman of East Kilbride Development Corporation

since 1983 and the town is currently going through one of its most

successful periods of inward investment.

He said: ''This is recognition of the successful team effort that has

gone into building East Kilbride over the past 45 years and the

contribution of the town to the Scottish economy.''

Mr Denholm is president elect of the Institute of Chartered

Accountants of Scotland and a director of William Grant and sons,

distillers.

Mr Steedman was until last year president of the Scottish Football

League and has for a number of years been one of the driving forces in

the Scottish game.

He said that decision to stand down from the league was taken so that

he could concentrate on Clydebank Football Club where he is managing

director and added: ''What a good move, the team have hardly won since.

Seriously, I am both astonished and delighted at this honour.''

The former Town Clerk of Glasgow, Mr Steven Hamilton (CBE) joined the

city's corporation in 1948 after qualifying in law at Glasgow

University.

He became chief solicitor of the corpration in 1966, town clerk depute

in 1973 and the following year, with reorganisation ,was appointed

Director of Administration and Legal Services with Glasgow District

Council.

He retired as Town Clerk and Chief Executive last October and has

taken up a temporary post as Clerk and adviser to the special committee

of Western Isles Council investigating the BCCI affair.

* Mr John Hornibrook (OBE) is a director of Roche Products in Dalry

and has recently been appointed chairman of Enterprise Ayrshire, the

local enterprise company covering the county.

* Eileen McCallum (MBE) plays the part of Isabel Blair in the Scots

soap opera Take the High Road and also has a host of acting credits from

a long career inclduing her part in the original cast of the successful

Tony Roper play The Steamie.

* Mr William Rodgers (MBE) is West of Scotland treasurer for the

Scottish Conservative and Unionist Association and has spent 30 years in

the Conservative Party in Scotland. He is an accountant with Tomkins

Brothers motor traders in Glasgow.

* Mr Archibald Sharkie (MBE) has been British team leader for the

Skill Olympics which are held to test excellence in engineering

throughout the world. He is a senior lecturer at the North Glasgow

College of Engineering and helped lead his team to nine medals at the

last games in Amsterdam.

* Mr James Paton (OBE) retired as chief executive of Falkirk District

Council last summer after leading the authority from its inception. His

career in local government spanned 40 years and included spells with

Stirling County Council and Clackmannan County Council.

* Mr Ian Beaton (MBE) is assistant principal and head of electrical

and electronic engineering department at Bell College of Technology in

Hamilton.

* Mrs Ann Moore (MBE) has been the local organiser of the Cancer

Research Campaign in Shetland.

* Mrs Joan Cameron (MBE) is Provost of Bearsden and Milngavie District

Council, one of the few Conservative-run local authorities in Scotland.

A former member of Greater Glasgow Health Board, she has been one of the

driving forces behind the campaign to keep her area out of Glasgow.

* Detective Chief Superintendent John Welsh (MBE) is a former

Dunbartonshire officer and now head of Special Branch at Strathclyde

Police

* Mr William McVey (CBE) is a former assistant director of the

Scottish Prison Service who worked his way to the top of his profession

from a start at the lowest level. He joined the service in 1948 as a

prison officer. He became a principal clerk officer in 1957 and three

years later was promoted to the governor grade.

* Dorothy Dunnett (OBE) is one of Scotland's most popular authors. Her

latest book, in the Niccolo series of historical novels, Scales of Gold,

is on waiting lists at libraries throughout the country and featured

prominently in bookshop displays before Christmas.

The current saga follows her five-volume Lymond series and all of her

work is marked by meticulous research of every aspect of the lives of

her characters. An earlier work, King Herafter, identified Macbeth as

Earl Thorfinn of Orkney, and she also writes thrillers under her maiden

name Dorothy Halliday and is a working professional portrait painter.

She was born in Dunfermline and is married to writer Alastair Dunnett,

a former editor of the Daily Record and the Scotsman. She lives in

Edinburgh.

* Mr David Dean (OBE) founded Raddery School for emotionally-damaged

children near Rosemarkie on the Black Isle in 1979. He is now

vice-chairman of the Chaterhouse Group of Therapeutic Communities UK;

chairman of the Scottish Independent Special Schools Group; and Scottish

vice-chairman of the Association of Workers with Maladjusted Children.

In 1988, Mr Dean became the first Westerner to be allowed into Russian

special schools for delinquent children. Since then he has continued to

work with the Russian Federation to help develop its provision for

emotionally damaged children.

*Dr John Forbes Munro (OBE) is a consultant physician at Eastern

General Hospital, Edinburgh and Edenhall Hospital, Musselburgh. He has

had 25 years saervice in the NHS and is regarded as an outstanding

hospital specialist. He has developed a special interest in the

managementof obesity and now has an international reputation in that

field.

* Mr Ronald Martin (OBE) was former chairman of whisky production with

United Distillers, the spirits company of Guiness PLC, until he retired

last November.

He was formerly a director of DCL and now runs his own company in

Edinburgh. He is also a visiting professor at Heriot Watt University.

* Mr David Simpson (CBE) chairman and managing director of Simpson

Research Ltd is one of the founding fathers of the electronics industry

in Scotland. A native of Ceres in Fife, he began work in his father's

butcher shop. However, after service in the Royal Corps of Signals he

became a radio and radar mechanic with British Airways.

He now runs his own consultant company from East Lothian with clients

in Japan, America and Europe.

* Mrs Christine Richard, (OBE), is leader of the opposition

Conservative group in Edinburgh District Council. She has been a

councillor in Edinburgh since November, 1984.

* Findlay McQuarrie (OBE) joined the staff of the National Trust for

Scotland in May, 1961, and has been director of its West region since

the early 1980s. He is due to retire at the end of January.

* Mr Dennis Townhill (OBE) retired in June after 30 years as organist

and master of the choristers at St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral,

Edinburgh, and was honored by being made organist emeritus. His

distinguished contribution to Scottish church music was further

recognised recently when the Edinburgh society of organists made him its

honorary president.

* Mr David Flockhart (OBE) is the former director of the Scottish

Council for Voluntary Organisations. An ordained minister with the

Church of Scotland, he quit the full-time ministry to become warden of a

residential training centre. He later became a senior lecturer in the

school of community studies at Moray House College of Education.

Mr Flockhart has helped in the transition of some area's of the

council's concern to wholly independent bodies including the Scottish

Association of Citizens' Advice Bureaux and the Scottish Council on

Disability.

Ross Belch.

Eileen McCallum