===
Knight Bachelor=== • Professor
George Sayers Bain, President and
Vice Chancellor, The Queen's University of Belfast. For services to Higher Education and to the
Low Pay Commission. • Professor
Anthony Edward Bottoms, Criminologist. For services to the Criminal Justice System. •
Percy James Butler, C.B.E., D.L. For charitable services, especially in Hampshire. •
Neil Robert Chalmers, Director, The
Natural History Museum. For services to Museums. •
William Frederick Cotton, C.B.E., Chairman,
Meridian Broadcasting. For services to Television Broadcasting and to
Marie Curie Cancer Care. •
Donald Thomas Younger Curry, C.B.E., Chairman,
Meat and Livestock Commission. For services to the Meat and Livestock Industries. •
Graham Martin Doughty, Leader,
Derbyshire County Council. For services to Local Government. •
Joseph Anthony Dwyer, President,
Institution of Civil Engineers. For services to Liverpool Vision. •
Terence (Terry) Farrell, C.B.E., Architect. For services to Architecture and Urban Design. •
James Galway, O.B.E. For services to music. •
Christopher Charles Gent, Chief Executive,
Vodafone. For services to the Mobile Telecommunications Industry. • Professor
Robert Brian Heap, C.B.E., F.R.S. For services to Reproductive Biology and to International Science. •
Peter James Denton Job, Chief Executive,
Reuters. For services to the Information and Media Industry. • Professor
John Andrew Likierman, Managing Director, Financial Management, Reporting and Audit,
H.M. Treasury. •
Michael Nicholson Lord, Second Deputy
Chairman of Ways and Means and a Deputy Speaker. For services to Parliament. •
Frank Budge Lowe. For services to the Advertising Industry and for charitable services. • Professor
Donald Neil MacCormick, M.E.P., Q.C., Regius Professor of Public Law, University of Edinburgh. For services to Scholarship in Law. •
Terence Hedley Matthews, O.B.E. For services to Industry and to Wales. •
Ian Mills, lately Regional Chairman,
NHS Executive, London Regional Office. For services to the NHS. •
Robert Ogden, C.B.E., Chairman, Ogden Group of Companies. For charitable services in Yorkshire. •
Keith Povey, Q.P.M.,
H.M. Inspector of Constabulary. For services to the Police. •
Kevin Joseph Satchwell, Headteacher,
Thomas Telford School, Shropshire. For services to Education. •
John Young Stewart, O.B.E. For services to Motor Racing. •
Peter Vardy, Chairman, Reg Vardy plc. For services to Business and to Education in North East England. •
Robert Brian Williamson, C.B.E., Chairman,
LIFFE. For services to the Financial Services Industry. • Professor
Alan Geoffrey Wilson, Vice Chancellor,
University of Leeds. For services to Higher Education. ===
Order of the Bath===
Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) Military Division • Vice Admiral
Peter Spencer. • Lieutenant General
Anthony David Pigott, C.B.E., late
Corps of Royal Engineers.
Civil Division •
William Robert McKay, C.B.,
Clerk of the House of Commons. •
Nicholas Lionel John Montagu, C.B., chairman, H.M. Board of
Inland Revenue. •
Joseph Grant Pilling, C.B.,
Permanent Secretary,
Northern Ireland Office. •
Muir Russell,
Permanent Secretary, Scottish Executive.
Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) Military Division • Rear Admiral
Jeremy Michael de Halpert. • Rear Admiral
Iain Robert Henderson, C.B.E. • Major General
Liam Diarmuid Curran, late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • Major General
Archibald Peter Neil Currie, late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major General
Ashley Ernest George Truluck, C.B.E. (486759), late Royal Corps of Signals. • The Venerable The Archdeacon
Anthony Peter Bishop, Q.H.C., Royal Air Force. • Air Vice-Marshal
Thomas William Rimmer, O.B.E., Royal Air Force.
Civil Division • John Frederick Ballard, Director, Water and Land, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • Colin Victor Balmer, Principal Finance Officer, Ministry of Defence. • Miss Philippa Catherine Drew, Director, Education, Training, Arts and Sport, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. • Peter David Ewins, Chief Executive, Meteorological Office, Ministry of Defence. • David Clive Gowdy. For public service. •
Michael Stephen Dreese Granatt, Head, Government Information and Communication Service, Cabinet Office. • Neil Stuart McKay, Chief Operating Officer, Department of Health. • Andrew Christie Normand, Crown Agent, Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, Scottish Executive. • Peter Ray. Senior Civil Servant, Ministry of Defence. • David Maxwell Salisbury, Principal Medical Officer, Department of Health. • Stephen Wynn Boys Smith, Director General, Immigration and Nationality Directorate, Home Office. • Anita, Mrs Straker, O.B.E., Director, Key Stage 3 Strategy, Department for Education and Employment. • John McMaster Samuel Hugh Glenn Thompson, Director General, Northern Ireland Court Service, a Department of the Lord Chancellor. • Gerald David Wynn, Director of Operations, GCHQ. ===
Order of St Michael and St George===
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) •
Sir John (Olav) Kerr, K.C.M.G., Head, H.M. Diplomatic Service.
Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG) •
Graham Hugh Boyce, C.M.G., H.M. Ambassador, Cairo. •
Richard Billing Dearlove, O.B.E., Chief, Secret Intelligence Service. •
David Geoffrey Manning, C.M.G., Permanent Representative, UKDel, NATO. •
Nicholas Vernon Scheele. For services to British Motor Exports.
Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) •
Anthony John Abbott, O.B.E.,
Governor, Montserrat. • Professor
Michael Parker Banton,
UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. • Paul Michael Barrett, O.B.E. For services to
SmithKline Beecham and to Export. • Stuart Armitage Brooks, O.B.E., Counsellor,
Foreign and Commonwealth Office. • Edward Paul Ronald Cautley. For services to British Business Interests Overseas. • David John Hall, Deputy Chief Executive,
British Trade International. •
Anthony Hamilton Millard Kirk-Greene, M.B.E. For services to the History of Africa. • David Charles Hartridge, lately Director, Services Division,
World Trade Organization. For services to International Trade. • John Andrew Patrick Hill, C.B.E. For services to British Trade Overseas. • Peter Lawrence Hunt, lately H.M.
Consul-General, Istanbul. •
Gerard Anthony Lemos. For services to the
British Council. • Peter Longworth,
British High Commissioner, Harare. • Miss Kaye Wight Oliver, O.B.E.,
British High Commissioner, Maseru. • Professor
Jonathan Dermot Spence. For services to the Study of Modern China. •
Charles Richard Vernon Stagg,
H.M. Ambassador, Sofia. •
Selwyn Charles Cornelius Wheeler. For services to Broadcasting and Journalism Overseas. ===
Royal Victorian Order===
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) • Major
Sir Hew Fleetwood Hamilton-Dalrymple, Bt., K.C.V.O., Captain General, The Queen's Body Guard for Scotland,
Royal Company of Archers and
Gold Stick for Scotland.
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) •
Hugh Ashley Roberts, C.V.O., Director of the Royal Collection and Surveyor of The Queen's Works of Art.
Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) • The Reverend Professor Peter William Brunt, O.B.E., lately Physician to The Queen in Scotland. •
Graham, Baron Kirkham, chairman, Joint Funding Board, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award, and Trustee, Outward Bound Trust.
Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) • The Honourable Peter Macleod Benson, lately Auditor, Ascot Authority. • Dr William Ronald Davey, lately Physician to The Queen. • William Peter Dwerryhouse. For Personal Services. • Dr Douglas James Allan Glass, Apothecary to the Household at Balmoral. • Mary, The Lady Nicholas Gordon Lennox, Lady in Waiting to Princess Alexandra, the Honourable Lady Ogilvy. • Ian Donald McGregor, Assistant Keeper of the Privy Purse. • Juliette Mary, Mrs Woolley, Director of Fundraising, The Duke of Edinburgh's Award.
Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) • Nicholas Stewart Archer, lately Assistant Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales. • Martin David Clayton, Assistant Curator, Print Room, Royal Library, Windsor Castle. • Colonel David Wallace Cooper (Retired), lately Director of The Prince's Scottish Youth Business Trust. • Sergeant Robert Fulton, Royalty Protection Department, Metropolitan Police. • James Leonard Jackson, R.V.M.*, Armourer, Royal Collection. • John Hywel James, lately Volunteer, The Prince's Trust. • Miss Sarah Suttor Key, Physiotherapist. • Colin Francis McIntosh, President, Braemar Royal Highland Society. • Miss Joy Margaret Quested-Nowell, Milliner to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. • Stephen Martin Pocklington, Head Teacher, Sandringham and West Newton School. • Sergeant Paul Adrian Ronald Ridout, Royalty Protection Department, Metropolitan Police. • Alan Peter Ryan, Assistant Property Manager, Buckingham Palace. • Sergeant James Leonard Scottow, lately Royalty Protection Department, Metropolitan Police. • Miss Mavis Gillian Shepheard, Assistant Clerk, Oxfordshire Lieutenancy. • John Gordon (Jack) Sinclair, lately Bandleader. • Miss Rosemarie Lynn Tart, Assistant Housekeeper, Buckingham Palace. • Miss Angela Jane Wise, Personal Assistant to the Deputy Secretary, Duchy of Cornwall. ===
Royal Victorian Medal===
Royal Victorian Medal (Gold) • Edward Andrew Dodd, R.V.M., lately Gatekeeper, Balmoral Castle. • Michael Christopher Martin Sealey, R.V.M.*, Chef to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother. •
William John Stephenson Tallon, R.V.M.*, Steward to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Bar to the Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) • Raymond Allington, R.V.M., Forestry Foreman, Sandringham Estate. • Frederick George Benefer, R.V.M., Fruit Farm Manager, Sandringham Estate. • Peter Colin Farrow, R.V.M., Lorry Driver, Sandringham Estate. • Trevor Mace, R.V.M., Plumber, Sandringham Estate.
Royal Victorian Medal (Silver) • George Benjamin Bell, Foreman, Property Section, Windsor Castle. • John Reginald Clist, lately Parks Worker, Crown Estate, Windsor. • Neil Cook, Ranger, Balmoral Estate. • George William Cross, Craftsman Fitter, Crown Estate, Windsor. • James Cecil Hadden, Principal Dresser to the Knights of the Thistle. • George Herbert Laming, Carpenter, Crown Estate, Windsor. • Allan David Masson, Mechanic, Balmoral Estate. • Robert David McLean, Caretaker, Duchy of Lancaster, Cockfosters. • Gordon Monteith, lately Gardener, Balmoral Estate. • Patrick Shovelin, lately Liveried Messenger, St James's Palace. • William John Sim, Farm Grieve, Balmoral Estate. • Dennis Tomlin, lately Yeoman Bed Goer, The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard. • George Duncan Watt, Gamekeeper, Balmoral Estate. ===
Order of the Companions of Honour (CH)=== •
Sir Colin Rex Davis, C.B.E., Principal Conductor, London Symphony Orchestra. For services to Music. ===
Order of the British Empire===
Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) • Professor
Ingrid Victoria Allen (Mrs Barnes Thompson), C.B.E., D.L. For services to Medical Research. •
Miss Eileen Atkins (Mrs Shepherd), C.B.E., Actress and Writer. For services to Drama. • Wendy Patricia, Mrs Davies, Headteacher,
Selly Park Technology College for Girls, Birmingham. For services to Education. •
Karlene Cecile, Mrs Davis, General Secretary,
Royal College of Midwives. For services to Midwifery and to the NHS. • Professor
Julia Stretton Higgins, C.B.E., F.R.S., Professor of Polymer Science,
Imperial College London. For services to Science. •
Miss Sheila Marshall McKechnie, O.B.E., Director,
Consumers' Association. For services to Consumers. • Professor
Lesley Howard Rees, Director of Education,
Royal College of Physicians. For services to Medical Education. •
Dela, Mrs Smith, Headteacher, Beaumont Hill Special School, Darlington. For services to Education for Children with Special Educational Needs. • Professor
Ann Marilyn Strathern, William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. For services to Social Anthropology.
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) • The Honourable Dr
Howard Archibald Fergus, C.B.E., Former
Speaker, Legislative Council, Montserrat. • Air Marshal
Roderick Harvey Goodall, C.B., C.B.E., A.F.C.*,
Royal Air Force. • Jeffrey Russell James, C.M.G.,
British High Commissioner, Nairobi.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) Military Division • Commodore
Barry Andrew Louis Goldman. Royal Navy. • Commodore
Fabian Henry Hiscock, OBE. Royal Navy. • Group Captain Brian James Jerstice. Royal Air Force. • Group Captain Peter Rennie Ollis. Royal Air Force. • Air Commodore
Peter William David Ruddock. Royal Air Force. • Colonel Stephen Michael Andrews, MBE. Late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. • Colonel Edward Bradley Lawrence Armitstead, OBE. Late Coldstream Guards. • Colonel Anthony William King-Harman. Late Royal Regiment of Artillery. • Major-General
Murray Leslie Wildman. Late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
Civilian Division • Neville Abraham. Chairman, Groupe Chez Gerard. For services to the restaurant trade. • David Acland, DL. Lately chairman, Royal National Lifeboat Institution. For services to maritime safety. •
Mohammed Ajeeb. For services to Local Government in Bradford, West Yorkshire. • Miss Ingrid Carol Alexander. Chairman, Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work. For services to health and social care. • James Andrews. Chief executive, Glasgow City Council. For services to Local Government in Scotland. • Professor
Elizabeth Nneka Anionwu. Head, Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice,
Thames Valley University. For services to nursing. •
David Bailey. Photographer and film maker. For services to art. • Professor Rajinder Singh Bhopal. Alexander Bruce and John Usher Professor of Public Health Medicine, University of Edinburgh. For services to public health medicine. •
David James Bills. Director general, Forestry Commission. •
David Julian Bintley. Director,
Birmingham Royal Ballet. For services to dance. • Ms Joan Blaney. Board Member, Birmingham and Solihull TEC. For services to the Community Champions Fund. • Mrs Joyce Alice Bridges. Divisional manager, Urban Policy Unit, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • Walter Kenneth Brown. Principal, Liverpool Community College. For services to further education. • Judge Neil McLaren Butter, QC. Senior Circuit Judge, Central London County Court. For services to the administration of justice. •
William John Charles. For services to Association Football. • David Johnson Cohen. Trustee, David Cohen Family Charitable Trust. For charitable services, especially to the arts. • John Kevin Conway. Principal, Greenhead College, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. For services to further education. • Professor
Cary Lynn Cooper. BUPA Professor of Organisational Psychology and Health,
UMIST. For services to health and safety. •
John Cornforth. Architectural Historian. For services to the Historic Built Environment. • Mrs Paula Carolyn Diggle. Head of Savings and Pensions Policy, HM Board of Inland Revenue. • James Thomson Donaldson. Lately chief inspector, Further Education Funding Council. For services to education. • Peter Brian Ellwood. Group chief executive, Lloyds TSB Group plc. For services to banking. • John Derek Evans. Chief Conciliator, ACAS, Department of Trade and Industry. • Ms Margaret Exley. Director, Towers Perrin. For services to management in the public sector. • Eric Watt Ferguson. Head of Parliamentary and Constitutional Division, Scotland Office. • Professor
Peter John Fleming. Professor of Infant Health and Development,
University of Bristol. For services to the understanding of cot death. •
John Stanton Flemming. Member, Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. For services to Economics and to Environmental Protection. • Peter Freeman. For services to International Development. • David Gilroy. Deputy chief inspector, Social Services Inspectorate, Department of Health. • Stan Godfrey. Area director, Pensions and Overseas Benefits Directorate, Department of Social Security. •
Felicity Margaret Sue Goodey, DL. Chairman, Lowry Trust. For services to the regeneration of
Salford Quays. • Professor
Julian Mary Goodfellow. Professor, Biomolecular Science,
Birkbeck College, University of London. For services to biophysics. • David Charles Green. Executive vice-president, Freight Transport Association. For services to transport. •
Raymond Jonathan Gubbay. Managing director, Raymond Gubbay Ltd. For services to music. • Dennis George Gunn, QPM. Chief Constable, Cambridgeshire Constabulary. For services to the police. • Professor Mark Peregrine Haggard. Director, MRC Institute of Hearing Research. For services to hearing research. • John Keith Harding. Lately chief Probation Officer,
Inner London Probation Service. For services to the Probation Service. • The Rt Rev
Robert Maynard Hardy.
Bishop of Lincoln. For services to the Church of England, and to prisoners. • Ms Nicola Harwin. For services to the Women's Aid Federation of England. • Ian James Henderson. Chief executive, Land Securities plc. For services to the property industry. • Keith Ronald Hirst. Lately Chair, Sandwell TEC. For services to Education, Training and Enterprise in the Black Country. • Paul Richard Hodgkinson. Chief executive, Simons. For services to business. • Mrs Patricia Alayne Hughes. Lately chief executive, London Borough of Sutton. For services to Local Government. •
James Hunter. Chairman,
Highlands and Islands Enterprise. For services to the Highlands and Islands. • Mrs Margaret Iles. Headteacher, St Mary's and St Peter's Primary School, Teddington, Surrey. For services to education. • Christopher Richard Ivory. Lately Chair, North Yorkshire TEC and Yorkshire and Humber TECs Ltd. For services to training. • Jeffrey Louis Jay. Consultant Ophthalmologist, Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow. For services to Ophthalmology. • Miss Susan Linda Jennings. Director, National Patients Access Team. For services to the NHS. •
William Ian Ridley Johnston, QPM. Lately assistant commissioner,
Metropolitan Police Service. For services to the police. • David Harold Jones. Lately chief executive, National Grid. For services to the electricity supply industry. • Professor
Roger Mark Jowell. For services to the National Centre for Social Research. • George Bernard Kessler. Lately deputy chair, LETEC and chairman, London TEC Council. For services to skills and business development. •
Kenneth John Knight, QFSM. Chief Fire Officer,
West Midlands Fire Service. For services to the Fire Service. • Kevin Adrian Lasbury. Divisional director, Highways Agency, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. •
Christopher Frank Carandini Lee. Actor. For services to drama. • Christopher Gray Lewis. Head, Offenders and Corrections Unit, Research, Development and Statistics Directorate, Home Office. • Ms Shuna Taylor Lindsay. Leader, Airlift and Future Tanker Integrated Project Team, Ministry of Defence. •
Alastair David Lyons. For services to the
Department of Social Security. • Alasdair Uist Macdonald. Headteacher, Morpeth School, Tower Hamlets, London. For services to education. • Douglas Marr. Headteacher, Banchory Academy. For services to secondary education in Scotland. •
Michael Craig-Martin. Artist. For services to art. • Mrs Judith McLaggan. Assistant director, HM Board of Inland Revenue. •
David Rogerson Mellor, OBE. Designer. For services to design and manufacturing. •
Anthony Minghella. Writer and film director. For services to film drama. • Professor
Roger Michael Needham, FRS. Director, Cambridge
Microsoft Research Laboratory. For services to computing. • Christopher John Nicholls. Headteacher, Moulsham High School, Chelmsford, Essex. For services to education. • Hugh Peden. Collector, HM Board of Customs and Excise. • Roland John Phillips. Deputy head, Litigation Division, Treasury Solicitor's Department. • Professor
Michael Isaac Podro. Emeritus Professor of Art History and Theory,
University of Essex. For services to art history. • Nicholas Martin Prest. Chairman and chief executive, Alvis plc. For services to the defence industry. • Anthony Francis Pryor. Chairman, Devonport Management Ltd. For services to the defence industry. • Professor
William Graham Richards. Chairman of Chemistry, University of Oxford. For services to chemistry. • Jonathan Rickford. Lately project director, Company Law Review. For services to business. • John Richard Rivers. Chair, Southern Derbyshire Employer Coalition. For services to the New Deal. • Peter Rogers. Lately chief executive, ITC. For services to broadcasting. • Michael David Ross. Chief executive, Scottish Widows. For services to the financial sector in Scotland. •
Philip Charles Ruffles, FRS. Director, Engineering and Technology,
Rolls-Royce plc. For services to the aerospace and defence industries. • Mrs
Philippa Margaret Russell, OBE. Director, Council for Disabled Children. For services to disabled children and adults. • Mrs Lucianne Sawyer. President, UK Home Care Association. For services to health care. •
Richard Gilbert Saxon. Chairman,
Building Design Partnership. For services to construction procurement. • Professor Peter John Selby. Director of Clinical Research, Imperial Cancer Research Fund. For services to cancer research and cancer care. • Philip Edward Sellers. For services to accountancy and audit. • Professor Robert William Ernest Shannon. For services to economic development. • Samuel James Shields. For services to health care. • Judge Ramesh Singh. Commissioner for Racial Equality, Wales. For services to race equality. • Joseph Brian Smith. For public service. • Professor
Peter George Smith.
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For services to the Spongiform Encephalopathy Advisory Committee and to tropical disease research. • Professor Peter Ian Stanley. Lately chief executive, Central Science Laboratory, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • Professor
Elan Closs Stephens. Professor of Communications and Creative Industries,
University of Aberystwyth. For services to the Welsh language. • Graham Spencer Stirling. Lately chairman, Prosper. For services to education and training in Devon and Cornwall. • Professor Nigel Clement Halley Stott. For services to primary care and general practice medicine. • Professor
Joan Kathleen Stringer.
Principal and vice-patron,
Queen Margaret University College. For services to higher education. •
William Taylor, QPM.
HM Chief Inspector of Constabulary, Scotland. For services to the police. • Professor
Charles Tomlinson. Poet. For services to literature. • Ivor Ward. Lately head, Personnel Management Group, HM Prison Service, Home Office. • Alan Watson. Deputy Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration. • Professor
Hubert Frank Woods. For services to the
Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment. •
James Robertson Graeme Wright, DL. Lately Vice-Chancellor,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne. For services to higher education.
Diplomatic and overseas • Dr Cynthia Ruth Butlin. For services to the eradication of leprosy in India and Nepal. • Albray Victor Butterfield, MBE. For services to the community, Providenciales. •
John Charles Galliano. Fashion Designer. For services to the fashion industry. •
Neil Trevor Kaplan, QC. For services to international arbitration. • Robert Charles Lane. For services to British commercial and legal interests overseas. • Donald Malpas, OBE. For services to the British community, São Paulo. •
Dudley Stuart John Moore. For services to Anglo-American film and theatre. • Professor
Simon Michael Schama. For services to history and art criticism. • Dr Keith Mortimer Waddell, MBE. For services to the blind in Uganda. •
Googie Withers (Mrs. John McCallum), A.O. For services to British theatre, film and television. •
Theodore Zeldin. For services to literature and Anglo-French relations.
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) • Barbara Ainger, lately Chief Executive, The Housing Finance Corporation. For services to Housing. • Christopher Charles Kennedy Albiston. For services to the Police. • Mohammed Ali, Founder, Quest for Economic Development (QED). For services to South Asian communities. • Peter Riddle Allan, D. L. For services to the community, especially Business and Employment, in
North East England. • Frank Amadedon. For services to Community Relations in
Wolverhampton. • David Stuart Archbold. For services to the Transport Industry. • Allan Arnott, lately chair, Greater Peterborough TEC/ CCTE. For services to Lifelong Learning. • Professor Bernard Atkinson, Member,
BBSRC Council. For services to Biotechnology. • John Barrie Atkinson, J.P. For services to the Magistrates' Courts Service. •
Peter William Avery, Fellow of
King's College, University of Cambridge. For services to Oriental Studies. • Peter Badejo, Director, Badejo Arts. For services to Dance. • Harry James Banks. For services to Coal Mining and to the community in
County Durham. • Brigadier Neil Barclay. For services to the Army Benevolent Fund in
Shropshire. • Professor Lorraine Florence Baric, Professorial Fellow,
University of Salford. For services to Electricity Consumers. • John Edward Barnes, lately Health Emergency Planning Adviser, South East Regional Office, Department of Health. • Geoffrey Grant Fulton Barnett. For services to Voluntary Service Overseas. • Professor Robin Michael Basker. For services to Dental Education. • Mary Elizabeth La Trobe-Bateman, Director, Contemporary Applied Arts. For services to Crafts. • Syed Nawazish Bokhari, Principal,
Ernest Bevin College, Tooting, London. For services to Education. • John Garfield Bourke. For services to the Probation Service. • Geoffrey William Breeden, Community Fire Safety Officer. For services to the Fire Service and to Young People. • Michael Francis Brennan, lately Head, Adoption Section, Department of Health. • David Brodie, Founder Director, TaxAid. For services to Low Income Taxpayers. • Robert Bruce Knight Broughton, Welsh Secretary,
British Medical Association in Wales. For services to Medicine. • Patrick Dominic Bryon, Lead Assessor,
National Professional Qualification for Headship. For services to Education in
Wales. • Beatrice May Burgess, chair, Babies in Prison. For services to Prisoner Welfare. • Hugh Thomas Burnett. For services to the community in
Newhaven, East Sussex. • David Edward Church. For services to the
Richmond Society, Surrey. •
David Hamilton Clark, Director, Research and Innovation,
EPSRC. For services to Research. • Malcolm Brian Clark, lately Director,
Queen Elizabeth's Foundation for Disabled People. For services to Disabled People. • Rodney Jeremy Clark, lately Chief Executive, Sense. For services to Deafblind People. • Leslie Clegg. For services to the Footwear Industry and to the community in
Bacup, Lancashire. •
Simon Paul Clegg, Chief Executive,
British Olympic Association. For services to Sport. • Christine Mackenzie Cohen, chairman, Hampstead Heath Management Committee. For services to City Open Spaces. • John Coleman, Director, Trust for the Study of Adolescence. For services to Youth Justice. •
Pauline Collins (Mrs. Alderton), Actress. For services to Drama. • Howard John Cooper. For services to Farriery and Equine Welfare. • Dorothy Patricia Copland. For services to Education and to Charities on the
Isle of Man. • John Frederick Corrin, Headteacher, Wensleydale Middle School, Blyth, Northumberland. For services to Education. • Martin Courtis, Member, Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee. For services to Environmental Protection. • Professor
Margaret Josephine Cox, Professor of Information Technology in Education,
King's College London. For services to Education. • Milton Fitzroy Crosdale, Director, Nottingham and District Racial Equality Council. For services to Equal Opportunities. •
Barry Cryer, Writer and Broadcaster. For services to Comedy Drama. •
Peter John Dawe, Founder and Trustee, Dawe Charitable Trust. For services to the Internet Watch Foundation. • Joanne Denney, Chief Executive, Institute of Grocery Distribution. For services to the Food and Grocery Trade. • David Michael Dixon, General Medical Practitioner and chair,
NHS Alliance. For services to Primary Health Care. • Kate Doherty. For services to Education. • Mark Dowd, chair, Mersey Travel. For services to Public Transport. • Dennis Hathaway Drysdale, J.P. For services to the Hampshire Probation Committee and Board. • Marjorie Durie, lately Director, Service Development, Ayrshire and Arran Health Board. For services to Nursing and to the NHS. • Graham Patrick Dyer, Museum Curator,
Royal Mint. • Elizabeth Dorothy Earnshaw. For services to Golf. •
William Glyndwr Edmunds, Principal,
Deeside College, Flintshire. For services to Further Education. • Peter Brian Elliott, chairman, Governing Body,
Northumberland College. For services to Further Education. • Martin John Ellis. Grade B2, Defence Procurement Agency,
Ministry of Defence. • John Evans, assistant director, H.M.
Board of Inland Revenue. • John Daniel Evans, Founder, Hampshire Centre for Independent Living. For services to Disabled People. • Anne Margaret Everall, Director, Young Readers UK. For services to Children's Librarianship in
Birmingham. • Diana Jacqueline Farragher, Physiotherapy Teacher. For services to the Treatment of Chronic Facial Paralysis. • Danny Fellows, chairman, West Wales TEC. For services to Training and Employment. • John Lloret Fells, Detective Inspector,
National Criminal Intelligence Service. For services to the Police. • Henry George Fetherstonhaugh. For services to the
Forestry Commission. • Professor Charles Arthur Fewson, Professor of Microbial Biochemistry,
University of Glasgow. For services to Biological Science. • Maureen Foers, Founder, Northern Business Centre (Humber) Ltd. For services to Small Business in
Humberside. • Colin Hamish Forsyth, lately General Dental Practitioner, Rutland. For services to Dental Care for Prisoners. • Professor Robert Stewart Fowler, lately Principal and Chief Executive,
Central School of Speech and Drama. For services to Higher Education. •
Ernst Fraenkel, chairman,
Wiener Library. For services to Holocaust Scholarship. • Keith Bertram Francis, Divisional Manager, Administrative Support and Estates Management,
Office for Standards in Education. • Thomas Michael Freeman, lately Chief Executive, Horizon NHS Trust, Hertfordshire. For services to People with Learning Disabilities. • Philip Albert Friend, Equal Opportunities and Disability Consultant. For services to People with Disabilities. • Susan Garland (Mrs. Worthington), Deputy chief executive,
British Tourist Authority. For services to Tourism. • Pauline Gaunt, Head, Transport Bill Co-ordination Team, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • Anil Gholkar, Consultant Neuro-radiologist, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Trust. For services to Neurology. •
Robin Warwick Gibson, Chief Curator,
National Portrait Gallery. For services to Museums. • Trevor Greenwood. For services to Education. • Professor Robert James Gurney, Director, NERC Environmental Systems Science Centre,
University of Reading. For services to Earth Observation and to Environmental Science. • John Guy, Principal,
Farnborough Sixth Form College, Hampshire. For services to Education. • Clifford Hardcastle. For services to the community, especially Education, in
South East London. • David Wynne Harding, Grade B1, Ministry of Defence. • John Richard Harris, Senior Executive,
McCain Foods (GB) Ltd. For services to the Potato Processing Industry. • Derek Alfred Heasman, Headteacher,
Dollis Junior School, Mill Hill, London. For services to Education. • John David Hebblethwaite, Secretary, Liturgical Commission. For services to the Church of England. • Martin Henry. For services to Export and to Business. • Peter Hollis, Headteacher,
Oaklands Community School, Southampton, Hampshire. For services to Education. • Paul Hopkins, Headteacher, St. Gabriel's RC High School, Bury, Lancashire. For services to Education. • David Kingsley Hyland, Special Casework Lawyer,
Crown Prosecution Service. • Doris Ingham. For services to the Women's Section,
Royal British Legion. • Marjorie Elizabeth Jackson, Executive Nurse Director. For services to Health Care in
London. • Colin Leslie Jones, lately Secretary,
Welsh Local Government Association. For services to Local Government. • Professor Dylan Marc Jones, Professor, School of Psychology,
University of Cardiff. For services to Military Science. • Margaret Anne Jones, lately Chief Executive,
Brook. For services to Family Planning. • Richard Owen Phillips Jones, Head,
Amman Valley School, Ammanford. For services to Education. • Professor
Peter Ignaz Paul Kalmus. For services to Physics. • Kartar Singh Kathuria, Executive Member and Treasurer, Kirklees Racial Equality Council. For services to Ethnic Minority Communities in
Huddersfield and
Kirklees,
West Yorkshire. • Maurice Kench, lately chairman, Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association. For charitable services to Elderly People. • David William Andrew Kerr. For public service. • Professor Richard Ian Kitney, Professor of Biomedical Systems Engineering,
Imperial College London. For services to IT in Health Care. • Marie Knott, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Kendray Hospital, Barnsley. For services to Health Care for Elderly People. • Zara Lamont, Director, Construction Best Practice Programme. For services to the Construction Industry. • Carol Alison Laws, Headteacher, Wheatfields Junior School, St. Albans Hertfordshire. For services to the Promotion of 'Safer Routes' for School Journeys. • Josephine Laycock, Physiotherapist. For services to Incontinence Care. • Albert Barry Leese, managing director, Epichem Ltd. For services to the Defence Industry. • George Moir Leslie, managing director, George Leslie Ltd. For services to Civil Engineering and Construction. • Valerie Ellen Le Valliant, lately Director,
Jones Lang LaSalle. For services to Architecture and to the community in
East London. • Ronald William Lofthouse, lately Vice Chairman, Merseyside TEC. For services to Training. • Norman Ralph Lowe. Managing Director, Enviro Consulting. For services to the Water Industry and to Environmental Protection. • Roger Clark Lowry. For charitable services to Health Care. • John Archie Macaskill, chairman, Crofters' Commission. For services to the Highlands and to Crofting. • Sheena MacFarlane, International Vice President, Girls' Brigade. For services to the Girls' Brigade. • Henrietta Maciver, Chief Executive, Turning Point Scotland. For services to Women Offenders and Drug Misusers. • Colonel Robert Hugh MacKeith. For services to the Cadet Forces. • Angus Alexander MacKenzie. For services to Health Charities in the
Highlands. • Gordon David Mackenzie, Headteacher,
Balwearie High School, Kirkcaldy. For services to Secondary Education. • David Madden. For services to the Police. • Gilbert Madley. For services to the
Royal Air Forces Association in
North West England. • Mohinder Singh Mahi, Grade 7, OFTEL,
Department of Trade and Industry. • Anne Mary Mallinson, J.P. For services to the community in London. • Patrick Gerald Mallon. For public service. • Terence Michael Mason, J.P. For services to the Berkshire Association of Young People. • Nicholas David Maurice. For services to
OXFAM. • John Joseph Anthony McCann, Deputy Collector, H.M.
Board of Customs and Excise. •
James Allan McColl, chairman,
Clyde Blowers plc. For services to the Engineering Industry. • Kevin McCormack, lately President, Justices' Clerks' Society. For services to the Criminal Justice System. • Douglas Christopher Patrick McDougall. For services to Financial Services Regulation. •
Michael Anthony McFarlane. For services to Athletics and to the
Duke of Edinburgh's Award. • Seamus McGarvey, Business and Quality Adviser, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • John Charles McGinnis. For services to the Construction Industry. • George McGregor, lately Director of Estates, Greater Glasgow Primary Health Services NHS Trust. For services to the NHS. • Catherine Margaret McMahon, Road Safety Research Co-ordinator, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • Henry Campbell McMurray, Director,
Royal Naval Museum, Ministry of Defence. • Professor
Jane Millar. For services to Social Policy Research. • Christopher Gregory Michael Mills. For services to the Textile Industry. •
John Francis Brake Mitchell, Grade JL1,
Meteorological Office, Ministry of Defence. • Peter Morgan, lately deputy director in Wales, Employment Service,
Department for Education and Employment. • Roger Thomas Thorpe Morgan. For services to Young People in Care. •
John Walker Motson. For services to Sports Broadcasting. • Walter Mowbray, Prison Service Budget Manager, H.M. Prison Service,
Home Office. • Henry Murdoch, chairman, Environment and Land Use Committee, National Farmers' Union of Scotland. For services to Agriculture. • Rosemary Murphy, Chief Executive, National Day Nurseries Association. For services to Early Years Education. • Jurat Barbara Myles. For services to the community in
Jersey. • Andrew Nelson, Executive Chairman, IQE. For services to the Electronics Industry. •
Roy Noble, Radio Presenter. For services to the community and to Charities in Wales. •
Humphrey Thomas Norrington. For charitable services. • Michael Gordon Noyland, assistant director, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. •
Antony Stuart Nunn, Marine Underwriter. For services to the Marine Insurance Industry. • Derek Charles Oakey, Head, Branch B, Criminal Justice Division,
Lord Chancellor's Department. •
Robin Francis Leigh Oakley. For services to Political Journalism. •
Ben Okri, Writer. For services to Literature. •
Hugh Stephen Roden Orde,
Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police Service. For services to the Police. • Linda Ormiston, Opera Singer. For services to Opera. •
Wayne Otto. For services to Karate. • David Andrew Arlwydd Owen, Chief Executive,
Medical Research Council Technology. For services to Medical Research and Technology Transfer. • Peter Craig Paisley. For services to Local Government and to the community in
Glasgow. • William Brian Parker, Principal Community Education Officer, Coventry, West Midlands. For services to Education. • Professor Christine Pascal, chair, Early Childhood Education, Centre for Research in Early Childhood,
University College Worcester. For services to Early Years Education. • Naina Patel, Founder of Policy Research Institute on Aging and Ethnicity (PRIAE), For services to ethnic minority elderly in the UK and Europe. • Meena Pathak, Product Developer,
Patak Spices. For services to the Food Industry. • Ann Payne, lately Head of Manuscripts,
British Library. For services to Manuscripts Scholarship. • Fiona Natalie Peel, chair, Gwent Health Authority. For services to the NHS. •
Arlene Phillips, Choreographer. For services to Dance. • John Leigh Phillips. For services to Agriculture in Wales. • Sally Joyce Phillips. For services to Family Planning Services in
Cornwall. • Anne Pigott. For services to the
National Association of Prison Visitors. • John Joseph Pike, lately chair, Greater Nottingham TEC. For services to Education and Training. • Peter David Poore. For services to
Save the Children. • Colin Preece, Accountant,
House of Lords. • John Stephen Rowland Pugh, Head, Business Services Division, Health and Safety Executive, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • Christine Reid, Member,
North Wiltshire District Council. For services to Local Government. •
Anne Barbara Ridler, Author. For services to Literature. • John Finbar Riordan, medical director, North West London Hospitals Trust. For services to Medical Management. • Professor
Lewis Duthie Ritchie. For services to General Practice and Primary Care Medicine in
Scotland. • Colonel Alan Clive Roberts, M.B.E., D.L. For services to the community in
Leeds, West Yorkshire. • Dennis Arthur Roberts. For services to the
Royal Star and Garter Home. • Anna Robertson. For services to the
British Red Cross Society in Devon. • Edward Heron Robson, Director, Teaching Company Directorate. For services to Competitiveness. • Yvonne Rose, Governor, East Yorkshire College, East Yorkshire. For services to Further Education. • Richard Henry Sedgwick, Grade 7, Benefits Agency,
Department of Social Security. • David Shakespeare, Leader,
Buckinghamshire County Council. For services to Local Government. •
Alan Shearer. For services to Association Football. • Lilias Mulgrave Sheepshanks. For services to the
Royal Hospital School, Holbrook. • Sylvia Sheridan, Founder, Independent Media Support Ltd. For services to Broadcasting. • Arnold Joseph Simanowitz. For services to Victims of Medical Accidents. • The Very Reverend
Colin Bruce Slee,
Dean of Southwark. For services to the community. • Andrea Pamela Smith, chair, Lincolnshire Careers Guidance Services. For services to Training. • Brian Smith, Chief Executive, Lite-On Ltd. For services to Education and Training. • John Louis Charles Raymond Shurmer Smith, Dean, faculty of the Environment,
University of Portsmouth. For services to Higher Education. • Mary Catherine Smith, Founder Member and lately chair, Knowle West Against Drugs. For services to the community in
Knowle West, Bristol. • Ian Alexander Snedden, Head, Fire Services and Emergency Planning Division,
Scottish Executive. • Susan Sommers, Outreach Services Manager, Thames Reach Housing Association. For services to Homeless People in London. • William Howard Speirs. For services to Trade Relations with China. •
Ian Stark, M.B.E. For services to Equestrian Sport. •
Roger Stephenson. For services to Architecture. • John Watt Stevenson, chairman,
Scottish Dental Practice Board. For services to NHS Dental Services in Scotland. •
Moira Stuart, Presenter,
BBC. For services to News Broadcasting. • Carolyn Swain, lately Principal Manager,
Qualifications and Curriculum Authority. For services to Education. • Alan William Taylor, Area Director, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • Eric Raymond Taylor, chairman, Rehab Scotland. For services to the Rehabilitation of People with Disabilities. • John Taylor, Director, European Supply Chain,
Unilever. For services to the Chemical Industry. • John Pearce Thackray, managing director, Kapitex Healthcare Ltd. For services to the Health Care Industry. • Neil Thomason, Senior Civil Servant, Ministry of Defence. • Bernard Tidball, Editorial Supervisor of the Vote,
House of Commons. •
Anthony George Merrik, Lord Tryon, D.L. For services to the Salisbury Cathedral Trust. • Christopher Paul Turner, Principal, Brixham Community College, Devon. For services to Education. • Kenneth Vowles, executive director, UK Power Operations,
Scottish Power. For services to the Electricity Industry. • Robert James Walker, Director of Operations,
Scottish Fisheries Protection Agency, Scottish Executive. • David McDonald Warren. For services to the
North Highland College and to the community in
Thurso, Caithness. • William Ernest Warren, Head, Intelligent Client Services, PACE,
H.M. Treasury. • Robert Andrew Watson. For services to the Meat Industry. • Robert Drennan Watson, Founding Chairman, Scottish Environment Link. For services to Environmental Management. • Dermot Roger Marriott Weatherup. For services to Heritage Preservation. •
Hubert Maurice William Weedon, Guitarist. For services to Music. • David Charles Whalley. For services to Regeneration in
Barnsley, South Yorkshire. •
Kate Whiteford, Artist. For services to Art. • The Reverend Canon David John Whittington. For services to the community in
Stockton-on-Tees. • Julia Whybrew, Personnel Officer, ES Directorate, Department of Trade and Industry. • John Widdrington, Business Manager,
Vickers Defence Systems. For services to the Defence Industry. • Michael Anthony Widdrington, Senior Assembly Counsel,
National Assembly for Wales. • John Arthur Wilkinson. For services to the community in Salford, Greater Manchester. • Dennis Sidney Cyril Williams, Grade B2, Defence Procurement Agency, Ministry of Defence. • Elisabeth Evan Williams, J.P. For services to the Administration of Justice in
North East England. • Peter James Wilson, Director, Projects and Estates,
Tate Gallery. For services to Museums. • Professor Thomas Black Wilson, Principal, Glasgow College of Building and Printing. For services to Further Education. • William Thompson Wright. For services to Industry and to the community. • Keith Dunckley Yates, Chief Executive,
Stirling Council. For services to Local Government. • Paul Young, Chief Fire Officer, Devon Fire and Rescue Service. For services to the Fire Service. • Peter Andrew Young, deputy director and Chief Scientist, Home Office.
Diplomatic and overseas • Iqbal Ahmed. For services to international trade. • Ms Ann Rosemary Arnott, Director, British Council, Ethiopia. • David Thomas Baldwin, Director, British Council, Syria. • Peter Spencer Bayliff. For services to British education in The Netherlands. • Ms
Jane Mallory Birkin. For services to acting and UK-French cultural relations. • Dr.
Susan Margaret Black. For services to forensic anthropology, Kosovo. • John Douglas Bradley, lately Senior Adviser, Common External Services, European Commission. • Leslie Bricusse, Writer-Composer-Lyricist. For services to the film industry and the theatre. • Ian James Campbell. For services to UK Exports. • Patrick Anthony Connolly, Senior Management Officer, British Embassy, Peking. • Richard Ogilby Leslie Fraser Darling, Counsellor, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. • Barrie Victor Dingle. For services to British commercial interests in Indonesia. • Cecil Raymond Dismont, M.B.E. For service to the community, Bermuda. • Dr. Patrick Duncan. For services to scientific researchcoverseas. • Miss Haruko Fukuda. For services to UK-Japanesecrelations. • Noel Joseph Guckian, Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy, Tripoli. • Peter Sexty Guest. For services to British commercial interests in Korea. • Bruce Campbell Harris. For services to childcare advocacy in Latin America. • Dr. Georgina Wendy Herrmann, Director, International Merv Project, Turkmenistan. • Malcolm Geoffrey Hilson, lately High Commissioner, Vanuatu. • Nigel Mark Anthony Hubbard. For services to the community and British commercial interests in Guatemala. • Sister Barbara Denise Jaggar. For services to nursing education in Uganda. • Dominic James Robert Jermey, lately British Representative in East Timor. • Robert Jobbins, Director, World Service News andvProgramme Commissioning, BBC World Service. • John Trevor Jones. For services to exports. • Martin Gerriets Kelsey. For services to Save thevChildren in South America. • Philip Anthony Knight, British Honorary Consul-General, Antwerp. • Michael David Laidler, lately Head, EU Delegation, South Africa. • Jonathan Bailey Lewis. For services to Britishccommercial interests, Italy. • Everton Byron Merchant, Director, Audit, British Council HQ. • Willie Kong Sang Mok. For services to the welfare of ex-servicemen in Hong Kong. • John Wainwright Newman. For services to the community, St. Helena. • Bertrand Beresford Osborne, M.B.E. For public service, Montserrat. • Linford Ainsworth Pierson, J.P. For public service, Cayman Islands. • Dr. Robert Andrew Reekie, Regional Medical Officer, British High Commission, Dhaka. • George James Riches. For services to exports. • Dr. Marion Robinson. For public service, Bermuda. • Miss Marion Rosenberg. For services to the British film industry. • Michael Lloyd Ross. For services to British commercial interests in Iran. • Robin Malcolm Smeaton. For services to British interests in Spain. • Andrew Nicholas Stern. For services to British commercial interests, Nigeria. • Terence John Stone. For services to international trade. • Professor Peter Savvas Vanezis. For services to forensic pathology, Kosovo. • Diarmid James Williams, lately Head of Council Secretariat, WEU. • Dr. David Balcombe Wingate, M.B.E. For public service, Bermuda. • Michael Alan Young. For services to international human rights.
Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) • John Aitken, T.D. For services to the community in the Scottish Borders. • George Allan Alexander, Technology Teacher, Rossie Secure Unit, Montrose. For services to Craft and Design Education. •
Gerry Anderson. For services to Animation. • Derek Andrew, Managing Director-Retail, Wolverhampton and Dudley Brewery plc. For services to the Brewing Industry. • Miss
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, Singer and songwriter. For services to Music. • Charles Terence Armstrong. For services to the Fire Service. • John Harvey Ashdown. For services to Conservation in Oxford. • Marguerite Grace, Mrs. Ashley, J.P., Executive Officer, Department of Social Security. • Brian Aspen. For services to Wrestling. • Janice, Mrs. Aspinall, Acting Hospital Manager, Selby War Memorial Hospital, North Yorkshire. For services to Flood Relief. • Miss Christine Atkinson. For services to the community in Flint Mountain, Flintshire. • Angela Rosemary, Mrs. Avis. For services to Complementary Therapies in Nursing. • Victoria, Mrs. Adetimole-Babalola, lately Typing Manager, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • Ms Kate Bailey. For services to the Dundee Science Centre. • John Kibwara Atwoki Bakanoba, Member, Meltham Town Council, West Yorkshire. For services to the community. • Thomas Baker, Teacher, Red Rose Primary School, Chester-Le-Street, County Durham. For services to Education. • Kenneth Barclay. For charitable services in Penzance, Cornwall. • Stuart Lothian Barclay. For services to Swimming and Sailing for Disabled People in Scotland. • Sylvia Joyce, Mrs. Barclay, D.L. For services to Swimming and Sailing for Disabled People in Scotland. *Suzanne Louise Bardgett, Project Director, Holocaust Exhibition, Imperial War Museum. For services to Holocaust Education. • Philip Henry Barley. For services to the TGWU in the West Midlands. • Ann Penelope Storrs, Mrs. Barlow. For services to the community, especially Riding for the Disabled, in Abingdon, Oxfordshire. • Charles Barnes. For services to the community, especially the St Raphael Club for Physically Disabled People, in Saffron Walden, Essex. • Jean Doris, Mrs. Barnes. For services to the community, especially the St Raphael Club for Physically Disabled People, Saffron Walden, Essex. • Margaret Isabella Ann, Mrs. Barnes, lately Manager, Scottish Seed Potato Classification Scheme, Scottish Executive. • Ms Moyna Barnham. For services to the Prevention of Domestic Violence in Colchester, Essex. • Victoria Joanne, Mrs. Barrett, Leading Ambulancewoman, Warwickshire Ambulance Service. For services to Health Care. • Dorothy Jean, Mrs. Barton, Waitress, the Black Swan, York. For services to the Catering Trade. • Sian, Mrs. Bates, lately Deputy Chief Executive, AZTEC, London. For services to Training and Education. • Ann Veronica, Mrs. Beere, Clerk, Slindon Parish Council, West Sussex. For services to the community. • Eunice Cynthia, Mrs. M Ghie-Belgrave, Founder, Shades of Black. For services to Community Relations in Birmingham. • Susan Wemyss, Mrs. Bender, Executive Officer, Department of Social Security. • Hazel Winifred, Mrs. Benjamin. For services to Disabled People and their Carers in Wales. • Duncan Herman Berndt, Divisional Officer, Strathclyde Fire Brigade. For services to the Fire Service. • Tessa, Mrs. Berridge. For services to the League of Friends of the Royal United Hospital, Bath. • Philip Henry Berry. For services to the Llandough Hospital and the League of Friends, Vale of Glamorgan. • The Reverend Esme Christina Beswick, Founder, Joint Council of Anglo-Caribbean Churches. For services to Community Relations in London. • Bachan Singh Bhalla. For services to Community Relations in Cambridgeshire. • Ramakant Ramgopal Bhartia, General Medical Practitioner, South Yorkshire. For services to Health Care. • Leonard Ernest Bint. For services to the Day Hospital, St. George's Hospital, Hornchurch, Essex. • Iain Birrell, Director of Operations, Lang Brothers Ltd. For services to Industry. • Anthony Reginald Blake. For services to the community, especially Churches Acting Together, in Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear. • Percy John Blakey. For services to the WRVS in West Yorkshire. • Anthony Gordon Blunt, Director General, Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. For services to Deaf People. • Peter John Boland, Special Constable, Lothian and Borders Police. For services to the Police. • Joy, Mrs. Bome. For services to the community, especially Music, in Chelmsford, Essex. • John Carradale Bostock, J.P., D.L. For services to the community, especially the Magistracy, in Ripon, North Yorkshire. • Wallace Henry Bosustow, Station Officer, Porthoustock Rescue Team, Auxiliary Coastguard Service. For services to the community in Cornwall. • Sidney William Boulton. For services to the Chatterley Whitfield Colliery Museum in Staffordshire. • Michael David Box. For services to the Criminal Justice System. • Ms Valerie Box. For services to Cancerlink. • Dermot Boyle, lately Chief Executive, Refugee Arrivals Project. For services to Asylum Seekers and Refugees. *Miss Janet Bradford, Deputy Registrar (Awards and Governance), Southampton Institute of Higher Education. For services to Higher Education. • Gail Cameron, Mrs. Bridgman, medical director, Mid Essex Community and Mental Health NHS Trust. For services to Paediatrics. • Miss Julia Mary Briggs. For services to the community, especially the Children's Society, in Great Barton, Suffolk. • Diana Sylvia Henrietta, Mrs. Brimblecombe. For services to Animal Rescue Wokingham, Berkshire. • Philip William Broadhurst, musical director, Audley Male Voice Choir. For services to the community in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. • Wilfred Broadhurst. For services to the Warrington Hospital Radio Service, Cheshire. • Ernest Brodrick. For charitable services in Ryton, Tyne and Wear. • Christine Mary, Mrs. Bromwich, School Secretary, Murston Junior School, Sittingbourne, Kent. For services to Education. • Miss Betty Brown. For services to the community, especially the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, Roxburghshire. • Douglas Edward Brown, Supervisor, Highways Crew, Maidstone Borough Council. For services to Flood Relief in Yalding, Kent. • Lloyd George Brown, Prison Officer, H.M. Prison Ranby, H.M. Prison Service, Home Office. • Mary Elizabeth, Mrs. Brown. For services to the community in Powys. • Valerie, Mrs. Brown, Foster Carer. For services to the Islington Parents of Children with Special Educational Needs. • Peter William Forrest Browne, Solicitor. For services to those with Legal Disputes. • Jacqueline Sally, Mrs. Brownjohn. For services to Save the Children in Sherborne, Dorset. • John Richard Brunsdon. For services to Conservation in Glastonbury, Somerset. • Sheila Jean, Mrs. Burgess. For services to the community in Nantwich and Crewe, Cheshire. • Robert Burn, lately Caretaker, Highgate Primary School, Haringey, London. For services to Education. • Peter Burns, Facilities and Service Director, Marconi. For services to the community in Coventry, Warwickshire. • Anthony Burton. For services to Mentally Disabled People in Stroud, Gloucestershire. • Miss Margaret Ann Butler, Full Time Youth and Community Worker, Silver Felix Youth Club, Hythe, Kent. For services to Young People. • Michael John Butler, Head of Security, University of Birmingham. For services to Higher Education. • Unity Mary Nina, Mrs. Byles. For services to the community in West Meon, Hampshire. • Anne, Mrs. Byrne, Sister Midwife, The Queen Mother's Hospital, Glasgow. For services to Nursing and Midwifery. • John Byrne, Playwright. For services to Literature and the Theatre. • James Watson Campbell. For services to the Dee (Kirkcudbright) District Salmon Fishery Board. • Peter Edward Capel. For services to the Lighthouse Club. • Margaret, Mrs. Carey, J.P., Director, Inside Out Trust. For charitable services. • Margaret Frances, Mrs. Carey. For services to the National Trust of Guernsey. • Miss Rosemary Carpenter. For services to Plant Biology. • Robert Carson. For services to the Construction Industry. • Eileen Margaret Rose, Mrs. Casley. For services to the community in Wilton, Wiltshire. • Dennis Cato. For services to the Licensed Trade and to the community in Kenilworth, Warwickshire. • John William Chadwick, Community Fire Safety Officer, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Services. For services to the Fire Service. • Janet, Mrs. Champion. For services to Breast Cancer Patients in Ashford and St Peters Hospitals, Surrey. *Christopher David Channon. For services to the community, especially Disabled People, in Nottingham. • Albert John Chant, Club Leader and Honorary Treasurer, Figheldean Youth Club, Salisbury, Wiltshire. For services to Young People. • Captain John Chapman. For services to the Fishing Industry. • Lynn Christine, Mrs. Chapman, Inland Revenue Enquiry Counter Receptionist, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. *Moira, Mrs. Chapman, J.P., Lately Member, Cheshire County Council. For services to the community. • Kathleen Doris, Mrs. Charles. For services to Health Care in Llanelli. • David William Cheetham, lately Paramedic Emergency Control Manager. For services to the Greater Manchester Ambulance Service. •
Carl Steven Alfred Chinn. For services to the community, especially Local History, in the West Midlands. • Tanweer Saif Chowdhury, Grade 10 (Analyst), Metropolitan Police Service. For services to the Police. *Reginald Braithwaite Chrimes, Deputy Leader, Ellesmere Port and Neston Borough Council. For services to Local Government in Cheshire. • Richard Gilbert Clark. For services to the community in Edinburgh. • Angela, Mrs. Clarke, Driver, Ring and Ride, Honiton, Devon. For services to the community. • Patrick George Clarke, J.P. For services to the community, especially the Police, in the West Midlands. • Marjorie Marina, Mrs. Clent. For services to the community in Caynham, Shropshire. • Gemma, Mrs. Clive. For charitable services, through Turville Books, in Oxfordshire. • Jessie, Mrs. Coghill. For services to the UKAEA Constabulary. • Margaret Elizabeth Lendrum, Mrs. Cohen, General Medical Practitioner. For services to the Derby Breast Clinic. • Peter Spencer Collins. For services to Motor Cycle Racing. • Stephen Russell Collins, Relief Worker. For humanitarian services. • Graham Commons, Overhead Linesman, National Grid. For services to the Electricity Supply Industry. *Christine, Mrs. Cooper. Human Resources Administrator, Insolvency Service, Department of Trade and Industry. • Miss Denise Corby, Treat Official Correspondence Officer, Department of Health. • Joyce Edwina, Mrs. Corlett. For services to the community in the Isle of Man. • Ernestene Marsha, Mrs. Corper, Higher Executive Officer, Health and Safety Executive, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • Miss Ann Corrigal. For services to People withLearning Disabilities in Elgin, Morayshire. • Pearl Lillian Ann, Mrs. Cory. For charitable services in St. Teath, Cornwall. • George Walter Cowan, Betting and Gaming Liaison Officer, H.M. Board of Customs and Excise. • Raymond Anthony Cox. For services to the Advisory Committee on Dangerous Substances, Health and Safety Commission • Maurice Peter Coxhead. For services to Drama. Pamela Patricia, Mrs. C. For services to Elderly People in Bristol. • George Crombie. For services to the community in Great Hampden, Buckinghamshire. • Marion, Mrs. Crosbie, Member, Education Department, H.M. Prison Dartmoor. For services to the Rehabilitation of Offenders through Education. • Miss Joan Crothers. For services to the Community. Susan, Mrs. C, managing director, PGI Spearhead Exhibitions Ltd. For services to Export. • Fred Crow, Special Projects Adviser, Tyneside TEC. For services to Training. • Albert Edward Curran, Teacher, St Michael's School, Billingham, Teesside. For services to Education. • Walter George Edward Curran, Leading Fire Fighter, Defence Fire Service, Ministry of Defence. • Christopher Robert Curtis, Head of Product Technology, Hanson Quarry Products Europe. For services to the Aggregates Industry. • Nellie, Mrs. Curtis. For services to Macmillan Cancer Relief in Midhurst, Hampshire. • Theodore Alexander Gordon Dalgleish. For services to the
War Pensions Committee in Kent. • Parvin, Mrs. Damani, Multicultural Adviser, Southampton and South West Hampshire Health Authority. For services to Health Care. • Ian Arthur Darrington, musical director, Wigan Youth Jazz Orchestra. For services to Music. • Jean, Mrs. David. For services to the Citizens Advice Bureau and to the community in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan. • Lisbeth David. For services to the community in Llandaff, Cardiff. • Carwyn Rhys Davies, Postman. For charitable services in Romania. • Christopher Davies. For services to Yachting. • John Tudor Davies. For services to Music in North Wales. • Samuel Eifion Davies, assistant director, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, St David's Hospital, Carmarthenshire. For services to Health Care. • Bryan Leslie Davis, Superintendent, West Midlands Police. For services to the Police. • Jennette Margaret, Mrs. Davy, Member, Worcestershire County Council. For services to the community in Malvern. • Frances Mary, Mrs. Day. For services to OXFAM in Newport, South Wales. • Mary Elizabeth, Mrs. Dean, lately Grade E1, Ministry of Defence. • The Venerable Peter Anthony Delaney. For services to the community in the City of London. • David Richard Dellow, Station Commander (Retained), Hertfordshire Fire and Rescue Service. For services to the Fire Service. • Ms Rani Dhir. For services to Scottish Homes. • John Samuel Diggory, Assistant Supervising Officer, Cleansing, Shrewsbury and Atcham Borough Council. For services to Flood Relief. • Ms Margaret Kathleen Dight, Director, Catholic Children's Society, Nottingham. For services to Adoption. • Joan Ann, Mrs. Dillon. For services to the Labour Relations Agency. • Albert Edward Donkin, Member, Mayoral Bodyguard. For services to the City of Durham. • Alison, Mrs. Douglas, General Medical Practitioner, • John Raymond Dow, Prison Officer, H.M. Prison Ashwell, HM Prison Service, Home Office. • Sylvia, Mrs. Dow, Grade E1, Ministry of Defence. • David John Downham. For services to the community, especially the Braille Guild, in Pontefract, West Yorkshire. • Antony John Drake, Gloucestershire Area Footpath Secretary, Ramblers' Association. For services to Public Rights of Way. • David Dunbar. For services to the community, especially the St Marylebone Housing Association, London. • Edna, Mrs. Dunbar. For services to Housing for People with Special Needs. • Joan Elizabeth, Mrs. Duncan. For services to the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. • Pamela Kathleen Morton, Mrs. Duncan. For services to Children's Choral Singing in Edinburgh. • William McCartney Dunlop, B.E.M. For services to Cultural Heritage. • Alfred Noel Eagleson. For public service. • Janet, Mrs. Eagleton. For services to Sporran Making. • Miss Wendy Ebsworth, Sign Language Interpreter. For services to Music. • Victor Ecclestone, Director of Multi A, Bristol Education Authority. For services to Art in Education. • Ian Edgar. For services to the Inland Waterways Protection Society. • Major Margaret Edmondson. For services to the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Association in Portsmouth, Hampshire. • Christine, Mrs. Ellis, Switchboard Operator, Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment. • Sally Ann, Mrs. Ellison. For services to Worcester Wheels. • John Alfred Emerson. For services to the Police. • Gena, Mrs. England, Home Carer. For services to Elderly People. • James Donald Graham Evans. For services to the community in Wirral, Merseyside. • Joyce Patricia, Mrs. Glyn-Evans. For services to the British Red Cross Society in Leicestershire. • Mary Gordon, Mrs. Evans, Cleaner. For services to the National Investigation Office. • Stanley Evans. For services to the Far East Prisoners of War Association in Lancashire. • Clive Brazell Evers, chairman, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Support Network. For services to People with CJD and their Families. • John Samuel Evison. For services to the community in Hazel Grove, Cheshire. • Sandra Mary, Mrs. Ewen, Community Involvement Manager, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • Philip John Falle, Journalist, Jersey Evening Post. For services to Journalism. • Musa Moris Farhi, Writer. For services to Literature. • John Kirtley Fawell, Director, Environment Division, Warren Associates. For services to Drinking Water. *Betty, Mrs. Feasey. For services to the community, especially to the Sherington CE School, in Buckinghamshire. • Bernard James Feehan, Chief Software Engineer, Thales Aberdeen. For services to Health Care. Avionics Ltd.For services to the Defence Industry. • Eric Fell, J.P., County Adviser, Community Development in North Yorkshire. For services to Young People and to Scouting. • Valerie Margaret, Mrs. Felstead. For services to Young People and to Guiding in Barnet, London. • Patrick Ferrie. For services to Disabled Young People in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. • Rita Gillian, Mrs. Fickling, Site Agent, Farley Junior School, Luton, Bedfordshire. For services to Education. • Pamela Jane, Mrs. Fielden, lately Personal Secretary to the Dean of Westminster. For services to the Church of England. • Betty, Mrs. Fielding. For charitable services to the Children's Society in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. • Lilias, Mrs. Finlay. For services to Guiding in Scotland. • Eric Paul Flavin, Operations Manager, Royal Mail. For services to the community in Birmingham. • James Eric Fleet. For charitable services to the British Home and Hospital for Long Term Conditions. • Michael John Flown, Executive Project Manager, Vosper Thornycroft. For services to the Defence and Shipbuilding Industries. • Jennifer, Mrs. Flynn, chair, Tow Law Town Council, County Durham. For services to the community. • Bernard William Ford. For services to the Royal Air Forces Association. • Raymond Henry George Ford, Driver, First Eastern Counties Buses. For services to Trades Unions. • Madeline, Mrs. Forester. For services to the community, especially the Buckinghamshire Association for the Blind, in Princes Risborough. • Edmund Joseph Fox, Tutor, Lancashire Governors' Training Programme. For services to Education. • Jo, Mrs. Fox, Hospital Play Specialist, Great Ormond Street Hospital. For services to Health Care. • Richard William Francis, Area Manager, Environment Agency. For services to Flood Relief. • Ronald Antonio Montique Frater, Detective Constable, Northamptonshire Police. For services to the Police. • Ms Carol Freeman, development director, Sustrans. For services to Cycling. • Keith John French, Founder, French Brothers. For services to the Passenger Boat Industry. • Joan Isobel, Mrs. Frondigoun. For services to the Children's Hearings System in Glasgow. • Susan Margaret Frost, Director, Caledonian Award. For services to Young People with Special Educational Needs. • William John McCullough Fryer. For services to Local Government. • Martin Graham Funnell, Temporary Station Officer, West Sussex Fire Brigade. For services to Flood Relief. *Anne Maria, Mrs. Gaffing, Administrative Officer, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • Charanjit, Mrs. Garcha. For services to the Bi-lingual Learners Support Service, Southampton, Hampshire. *Robert Anthony Charles Gardner, Vice President, Exhibitions and Promotions, BAe Systems. For services to the Defence Industry and Aerospace Industries. • Jane Edith, Mrs. Garrett, lately Senior Executive Officer, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. • John Gartland. For services to Housing. • Timothy Gee. For services to the Devas Youth Club in Wandsworth, London. • Elizabeth, Mrs. Gibb, Co-ordinator, Adoption UK in Scotland. For services to Adoption. • Ronald Samuel Gilmour, Sector Collections Manager, Post Office. For services to the Royal Mail Community Action Team and to the community in Stirling. • Nicholas Anthony Gold. For services to the ex-Service community. • Brendan Gormley. For services to OXFAM. • Patrick Henry Grattan, Chief Executive and Secretary,Third Age Employment Network. For services to Older Workers and to the New Deal. • Barry Frank Hebblethwaite Gray, chairman, Bridlington Pier and Harbour Commissioners. For services to the Ports Industry. • Bryan Mark Gray. For services to Regeneration in Preston, Lancashire. • Benjamin Green. For services to the community, especially Music, in Tower Hamlets, London. • Gordon Green, T.D., Hotelier. For services to Tourism in Mid-Wales. • Kenneth Green. For services to the Sea Cadet Corps in Nottingham. • David John Greenwood, Headteacher, Sir John Mogg School, Detmold, Ministry of Defence. For services to Children's Education. • Dorothy, Mrs. Grey, Childminder. For services to Early Years Education in Wandsworth, London. • Joseph John Glant Griffiths, Wildlife Ranger, Forestry Commission. • Peter Arnold Griffiths, Divisional Officer, Metropolitan Police Special Constabulary. For services to the Police. • Laurence St. John Groce, Grade B1, Cabinet Office. • Lawrence James Grove, lately Crew Member, Horton and Port Eynon Inshore Lifeboat, RNLI. For services to Maritime Safety in Swansea and Gower. • Maureen, Mrs. Groves. For services to Higher Education. • Mari Wyn, Mrs. Gruffydd, Director, Carers Outreach, North West Wales. For services to Carers. • Miss Lizbeth Grundy, Director, Council for Environmental Education. For services to Sustainable Development. • Ann, Mrs. Guercio, Pay Policy Adviser, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • Edith, Mrs. Hadden. For services to the British Red Cross Society. • Flora Margaret, Mrs. Hamilton. For services to the West Coast Disabled Club, Saltcoats, Ayrshire. • Joyce, Mrs. Hannigan, Planning and Communication Assistant, Lord Chancellor's Department. • Roger Robert Reeves Hansford. For services to the community, especially Young People, in Ipswich, Suffolk. • Joan Enid, Mrs. Hardcastle. For services to the WRVS in Wolverhampton and Preston, Lancashire. • Paul Thomas Grant Harding. For services to Biological Recording. • David Dudley Hardy, Head, Messenger Service, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • Sophia Raphael, Mrs. Harkness, Teacher, Penpont Primary School, Dumfriesshire. For services to Education. • Derek George Harrington, Leader, West Bromwich Boys' Club, West Midlands. For services to Young People. • Linda Mary, Mrs. Harris, Nursery Nurse, Three Crowns Community Special School, Walsall. For services to Children with Special Educational Needs. • Ms Rossina Harris, Lecturer, Lewisham College, London. For services to the Trades Union Congress. • Colin Harrison, Administrative Officer, Department of Social Security. • Michael Derek Hartley, Project Leader, BAe Systems. For services to the Defence Industry. • Thomas William Hartley, Farm Worker. For services to Agriculture in Nottinghamshire. • Philip Ernest Harvey. Brigade Engineer and Retained Sub Officer, Hereford and Worcester Fire Brigade. For services to Flood Relief. • Derek Hastings, lately Principal Officer, H.M. Prison Lewes, H.M. Prison Service, Home Office. • Carol Ann, Mrs. Heard, Senior Personal Secretary, Department of Health. • Michael John Heath. Cartoonist, The Spectator. For services to Journalism. • Stephen Leslie Heathcote. For services to the community, especially Young People, in Armitage, Staffordshire. • Andrew Kerr Henderson, Consultant, Oban. For services to Medicine. • Iona, Mrs. Henderson. For services to Munlochy Animal Aid, Black Isle, Ross-shire • Raymond Heppell. For services to People with Autism in Cambridgeshire. • William David Reginald Herbert. For services to Local Government and to the community in Beaufort, South Wales. • Martin Robert Ward Hewlett. For services to the community, especially the Administration of Justice, in Jersey. • Veronica Regina, Mrs. Hicks. Grade C2, Ministry of Defence. • David High, Founder, Environmental Press Agency. For services to the Environment and to Journalism. • Clarice Ann, Mrs. Hill, Caretaker, North Hykeham All Saints CE Primary School, Lincoln. For services to Education. • Ms Julie Elizabeth Hill, Programme Adviser, Green Alliance. For services to Environmental Protection. • John Stuart Hills, lately Member, OFWAT Thames Customer Service Committee. For services to Water Consumers. • Harold Patrick Hodgetts, Member, Lichfield Rural District Council. For services to the community. • Alice, Mrs. Hogg, Deputy Matron, Hawkhill House Nursing Home, Aberdeen. For services to Geriatric Nursing. • Dorothy Hogg, Jewellery Designer/Maker and Teacher. For services to Jewellery and Silversmithing. • Brian Holliday, Leading Hand, Assembly Department, Remploy, Blackburn. For services to the Employment of Disabled People. • Norman Holliday, Prison Service Governor Grade 2, H.M. Prison Manchester, H.M. Prison Service, Home Office. • David John Holmes, Warden, Riverside Youth Centre, Oxford. For services to Young People. • Jennifer, Mrs. Holmes. For services to Health Care. Brian William H, lately Grade E1, Ministry of Defence. • Peter Stephen William Horne, lately Senior Presenting Officer, Immigration and Nationality Directorate, Home Office. • Barbara Jennifer, Mrs. Horner. For services to Young People in Market Drayton, Shropshire. • Michael William Horner, managing director, Bullen and Partners. For services to Flood Defence. • Beulah Elizabeth, Mrs. Irwin-Houston, Revenue Assistant, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • Ms Carole Anne Howells. For services to the Newcastle Council for Voluntary Service. • Donald Delbert Howlett. For services to the Community in Liskeard, Cornwall. • Rodney John Huddleston, Consultant, RJH Associates. For services to the Use of Explosives in the Quarrying Industry. • Evan Richard Hughes, Constable, North Wales Police.vFor services to the Police and to the community in Llandudno. • Hugh Hughes. For services to the community, especially Music, in Llandudno, North Wales. • Miss Rhiannon Wyn Hughes. For services to the community in Denbighshire. • Stephen Owen-Hughes, lately Fire Service Divisional Officer, Defence Fire Service, Ministry of Defence. • William Francis Pennyman Hugonin, T.D., D.L. For services to Community Arts in Northumberland. • Stewart Hazlitt Hulse. For services to Mountain Rescue in the Lake District. • Sandy Lewis Hulstone, Community Volunteer Fund Raiser, Staffordshire Police. For services to the community in Bradwell. • Norman David Hummerstone. For services to the community, especially the Little Ship Club, in the City of London. • David Ian Humphries. Grade C, Department for Culture, Media and Sport. • Mary, Mrs. Hunt, Senior Food and Beverage Supervisor, Gloucestershire Royal NHS Trust. For services to the NHS. • Margaret Mary, Mrs. Hunter, Secretary, Diabetes UK in Gateshead. For services to People with Diabetes. • Lynne Patricia, Mrs. Hutchinson, Co-ordinator, Barnardos. For services to Young People. • James Irwin. For services to Allied Distillers Company and to the community in Dumbarton. • David Leighton James. For services to Business and to the community in Ynysybwl, Rhondda Cynon Taff. • Ralph James. For services to the community in Lichfield, Staffordshire. • Annie Mary Beatrice, Mrs. Jamison. For charitable services to Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. •
Christine, Mrs. Janes. For services to Lawn Tennis. • Loretta Jennings, Honorary Legal Adviser, Association of London Government. For services to Local Government. • Allan Derek Johnson, lately Grade C1, Ministry of Defence. • Frederick Johnson, Customer Liaison Manager, BHW Components. For services to the Aerospace Industry. • Jean Hutchison, Mrs. Johnson. For services to the community in Maidenhead, Berkshire. • Elisabeth, Lady Joicey. For services to the community, especially Equestrian Sport, in Northumberland. • Basil Joseph Jones, Driving Instructor, British School of Motoring. For services to Mobility for Disabled People, in Surrey. • Camilla, Mrs. Whitworth-Jones, Arts Manager, Paul Hamlyn Foundation. For services to the Arts. • Dyfanwen, Mrs. Jones, Macmillan Nurse. For services to Nursing and Cancer Care in Powys. • Enid, Mrs. Jones, Governor, Wigan and Leigh College. For services to Further Education and to the community. • Iorwerth Watkin Jones. For services to the Industrial Railway Museum, Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd. • John Gareth Jones, Director, Wessex Water Services. For services to the Water Industry and to Environmental Quality. • John Ivor Jones, Paramedic, Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust. For services to Health Care. • Patrick Jordan. For services to Young People. • Michael Judge, lately Crew Member, Whitstable Inshore Lifeboat, RNLI. For services to Marine Safety in Kent. • Ajit Singh Kalirai. For services to Athletics. • Joan, Mrs. Kearsley. For services to the community in Coverack, Helston, Cornwall. • Jacqueline Rosemary, Mrs. Keen. For services to the Police Community Partnership Group in Haslemere, Surrey. • Jenny Joan, Mrs. Kellaway, Governor, Poole High School, Dorset. For services to Education. • Jean, Mrs. Kelly. For services to Community Relations. • Marjorie Noreen, Mrs. Kelly. For services to the community in Wombourne, Staffordshire. • Peter Wentworth Kendall. For services to the Royal British Legion in Penzance, Cornwall. • Christopher Edmund Kenward, Grade C2, Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, Ministry of Defence. • John George Keylock, Founder Member, Somerset Wildlife Trust. For services to Nature Conservation. • Salim Ismail Kholwadia, Administrative Support, H.M. Board of Customs and Excise. • Lorna, Mrs. Kilpatrick, lately Senior Welfare Officer, Department for International Development. • Miss Mary Winifred King. For services to the community in Bath, Somerset. • Ms Rani King, Information Officer, Department for Education and Employment. • Wendy Patricia, Mrs. Kirkpatrick. For services to the community, especially Young People, in Carlisle, Cumbria. • Phyllis, Mrs. Knox, Matron, Abbeyfield Residential Home, Ballachulish, Inverness-shire. For services to the community. • Davina, Mrs. Laird, lately Domestic Cleaner, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh. For services to Health Care. • Miss Joyce Lambert Home Carer. For services to Elderly People in Greenwich, London. • Renee, Mrs. Lancaster. For services to the community in Baildon Green, West Yorkshire. • Nicholas Edward Lane, Administrative Officer, Benefits Agency, Department of Social Security. • Gladys Hariett, Mrs. Latimer. For public service. • Suzanne Elizabeth, Mrs. Launchbury, Mid-day Supervisor, Brooke Special School, Rugby, Warwickshire. For services to Children with Special Educational Needs. • Iola, Mrs. Leach. For services to the community in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire. • Alan Lee, Crematorium Manager, Corporation of the City of London. For services to the community in East London. • Miss Angela Joyce Lee, Director, Bicycle Helmet Initiative. For services to Road Safety. • Brian Charles Lee, Assistant Printing and Stationery Manager. For services to the Corporation of the City of London. • Carol Alice, Mrs. Lee. For services to the Learning Disability Advisory Group. • Selina Yuet Kwan, Mrs. Lee. For services to the Chinese Community. • Rosalie Judith, Mrs. Lees. For services to Blind Students in Africa (Blindaid Africa). • Raymond Hugh Leigh. For services to Furniture Design. • William Reginald Albert Lennard. For services to the Finsbury Rifles Old Comrades Association. • Eileen Edith, Mrs. Lewenstein, Ceramist. For services to Art. • Helen, Mrs. Lewis, Choreographer and Teacher. For services to Contemporary Dance. • Stuart Harvey Lock, lately Grade C1, Ship Support Agency, Ministry of Defence. • Alan Frederick Long, Goods Vehicle Testing Station Manager, Vehicle Inspectorate, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • John Douglas Longstaff, Higher Executive Officer, Department of Social Security. • Peter Renshaw Lowndes, General Dental Practitioner, Birmingham. For services to the Dental Profession. *Ronald Richard Lusty. For services to the Sea Cadet Corps in Ealing, London. • Miss Elizabeth Anne Mabley, Community Development Group Leader, Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council. For services to Community Development. • Miss
Ellen Patricia MacArthur. For services to Sailing. • James Grant MacDonald, Director of Lifelong Learning, University of Glasgow. For services to Adult Education. • John MacAulay MacDonald. For services to Crofting and to the community in North Uist, Western Scotland. • Miss Margaret MacDonald. For services to the community in the Kyle of Sutherland. • Janet, Mrs. MacGregor. For services to the community in Killin, Perthshire. • Duncan MacInnes. For services to the community in Motherwell, Lanarkshire. • Duncan MacInnes, J.P., Fisherman. For services to the Scottish Fishing Industry. • George Richard MacKay. Potato Breeder, Scottish Crop Research Institute. For services to Plant Breeding. • James Ross MacKay. For services to Conservation to the Bennachie Mountain Range, Aberdeenshire. • Irene Mary, Mrs. MacKenzie. For services to the WRVS in Edinburgh. • Ian Kenneth MacLeod, Dental (Maxillofacial) Technician. For services to Dental Care. • Miss Theodosia Margaret Maddison. For services to the community in Partney, Lincolnshire. • Brian Lynn Maguire. For services to the Police. • Denis William Manners. For services to the community through Morris Dancing in Oxfordshire. • The Reverend John Anthony Stacy-Marks, Director, Amelia Methodist Trust Farm. For services to Young People in South Wales. • Jonathan Robert Marsh, lately Head, Engineering Department, National Institute for Medical Research. For services to the Medical Research Council. • John Edward Martin. For services to the Peterborough Cathedral Development and Preservation Trust. • Gloria Lorraine, Mrs. Mason, Training Administrator, Lord Chancellor's Department. • John Thaw Mathers, Group Scout Leader, 1st Cheadle Bethesda Special Needs Group, Cheshire. For services to Scouting. • Muriel, Mrs. Mathers. For services to SENSE, The National Deafblind and Rubella Association. • Elizabeth Marion, Mrs. May. For services to the Trade Union Movement. • Alan Connely MAleese. For public service. • Miss Elizabeth MAughtry. For charitable services. • Harry MCommon. For services to Young People. • David Arthur MCarthy. For services to Canal Restoration and to the Environment in North West England. • John Alexander MCook, J.P. For services to the community in Nethy Bridge, Badenoch and Strathspey, Inverness-shire. • Nan, Mrs. MCook, Foster Parent. For services to Fostering . • Norman MCorkell. For services to Prisoner Welfare. • William Charles MFarland. For services to Young People. • Margaret, Mrs. MGimpsey, Foster Parent. For services to Fostering. • June Elizabeth Alexander, Mrs. MGregor, Principal Development Officer, Higher Still. For services to Music Education in Scotland. • John William MHale, Bailiff Manager, Court Service, Lord Chancellor's Department. • James Dron MLead, Band Leader. For charitable services. • Bernard MMahon. For services to the Bosnian Support Fund. • George MMillan, J.P. For services to the community in Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute. • Hamilton Coates MMillan, Hotel Owner. For services to Tourism in South West Scotland. • Prince Albert MNicholls. For services to Community Relations in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. • Esther, Mrs. Agyei-Mensah, Administrative Officer, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions. • Christopher Henry Rowland Meredith. For charitable services to the community in Milton Keynes. • Peter Richard Mereweather. For services to the Hotel and Catering Benevolent Association and to Tourism in London. • Philip Meericks. For services to Conservation in Agriculture. • Edward Arthur Tweedy Milburn, engineering director, Arriva London. For services to the Bus Industry. • David John Miller. For services to the community in Orwell, Cambridgeshire. • Trevor Milton, Canteen Manager, HMS Ocean. For services to the Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes. • John Keith Moger. For services to the NHS in Wales. • Mohammed Monir. For services to the community in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. • Doris Nanette, Mrs. Moody. For services to the community, especially Disabled People, in Chadsmoor Cannock, Staffordshire. • Jennifer Mary, Mrs. Moody. For services to the Victims of Domestic Violence in Luton, Bedfordshire. • Brenda, Mrs. Moore. For charitable services to the Royal Marsden Hospital, London. • Justin Moore, J.P. For services to the community, especially the Greenlight Youth Project, in Tower Hamlets, London. • Miss Alison Jean Morgan, Senior Manager, Morecambe Bay Primary Care Team. For services to Health Care. *Michael John Morgan, lately Deputy Officer in Charge, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • Pamela Jean, Mrs. Morgan, Community Nursing Sister, Morlais Medical Practice. For services to the community in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales. • Charles Thomas Reginald Mortimore. For services to Sport for Young People. • William Sinclair Mowatt, Farrier and Blacksmith. For services to the Heritage of South Ronaldsay, Orkney. *Miss Molly Muckelt. For services to the community in Ulverston, Cumbria. • Dennis Murphy. For services to the community, especially Young People, in Lochgilphead, Argyll. • Helen Gentles, Mrs. Murray, J.P. For services to the Justice System in Scotland. • Robert Murray. For services to the St. John Ambulance Brigade. • Eunice, Mrs. Myers, Teacher, High Down Infant School, Portishead, Bristol. For services to Education. • Philip Charles Nathan. For services to the International Association of Lions Clubs. • Anne, Mrs. Neame. For services to the Soldiers', Sailors' and Airmen's Families Association in Kent. • Barbara, Mrs. Needham. For services to the Display Technology Alliance. • Brian Frederick Nellist, Honorary Senior Fellow, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Liverpool. For services to English Language and Literature. • Joseph Anthony Newman. For charitable services in London. • Miss Margaret Anne Newsholme, Accident and Emergency Sister, Bradford Royal Infirmary. For services to Nursing. • Diane, Mrs. Nightingale, Leader, Postellers Youth Hostels Association Group. For services to Disadvantaged Young People. • Alexa, Mrs. Nisbet. For services to North East Animal Rescue, Northumberland. • Jeanette Begg, Mrs. Niven. For services to the Wates Foundation. • Miss
Chi-chi Nwanoku. Double bass player. For services to music. • Conor O'Cleary. For services to Public Transport. • Geoffrey Oldfield. For services to Heritage in Nottinghamshire. • Ann, Mrs. Ovenstone, Director, International Tortoise Association. For services to Chelonia. • Pamela Ann, Mrs. Packer, Personal Secretary, H.M. Board of Inland Revenue. • Catherine Anne Page. For services to Trampolining in North West England. • Stephen Paget. For services to Disabled People and to the National Lotteries Charities Board in South West England. • Christine Frances Hyde, Mrs. Pardoe. For services to the League of Friends of Hawkhurst Cottage Hospital, Kent. • Deborah Lyn, Mrs. Parry. For services to Energy Consumers in Yorkshire. • Joan Valerie, Mrs. Payne. For services to the community in Bromley, Kent. • Barbara Valerie, Mrs. Peacock, Head, Ashlyns Pregnant Schoolgirl Unit, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. For services to Health and Education. • Margaret, Mrs. Pearson, School and Clinic Nurse. For services to Health Care for Young People in Sandwell, West Midlands. • Peter Pendlington, Higher Executive Officer, Child Benefit Agency, Department of Social Security. • Joanna Jane, Mrs. Peppiatt. For charitable services, through Turville Books, in Oxfordshire. • Anne Elizabeth, Mrs. Perchard. For services to Jersey Cattle. • Janet Sandra, Mrs. Petts. For charitable services to Bassetlaw Hospital and Community Services NHS Trust, Nottinghamshire. • Graham Robert Pilkington, Northern Operations Manager, Wastewater. For services to Regeneration. • Eileen Mary, Mrs. Pinder. For services to the community in Evesham, Worcestershire. • Miss Nicola Ponsford. For services to Women's Rugby Union Football. • Robert William Frederick Poole, Columnist and Author. For services to Journalism and to Rural Affairs. • James Colin Porteous. For services to the community, especially Disabled People, in York. • John Rennie Porteous. For services to the Board of Visitors' National Advisory Council. • Mavis Maureen, Mrs. Porter, lately Range B, H.M.Treasury. • Rhodri John Powell. For charitable services to the community in South Wales. • Annie Muriel, Mrs. Pritchard. For services to the community in Bangor, Gwynedd. •
Alison Gail Ramsay. For services to Hockey. • Brian Anthony Ramsay, Resident Manager, Millington Court, Uckfield. For services during Floods. • Derek Charles Randall. For charitable services in Kent. • John Alexander Rankin. For services to Local Government. • Christine, Mrs. Rapley, Personal Assistant to the Head of School, Lambeth College, London. For services to the Cotswold Trust. • John Norman Stickland Rayner. For services to the Wiltshire Wildlife Conservation Volunteers. • Margaret Eleanor, Mrs. Read. For services to the community in Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. • Timothy Reddish. For services to Disabled Sport. • David Reid, lately Head Janitor, Banff and Buchan College. For services to Education. • Elizabeth Mary, Mrs. Cornelius-Reid. For services to Health Care. • Frances Louie, Mrs. Reid. For services to Tourism. • Derrick James Rex. For services to the community in Cwmbran. • Hubert Rhodes. For services to the War Pensions Committee in West Yorkshire. • Ronald Leslie Rhymer, J.P. For services to the St John Ambulance Brigade in Romsey, Hampshire. • Miss Jennifer Alison Richardson, Kitchen Administrator, Whitbreads. For services to the Brewing Industry. • Catherine Mary, Mrs. Riddell. For services to the community in Measham, Leicestershire. • Joanne, Mrs. Riden. For services to the League of Friends of Chase Farm and Cheshunt Hospitals, Hertfordshire. • Irene Hannah, Mrs. Ringer, J.P. For services to the Administration of Justice in Norfolk. • Marilyn, Mrs. Roberts. For services to Local Government and to the community in Llanfaes and Powys. • Malcolm Ellis Robertson, Production Services Manager, South East Water. For services to the Water Industry. • Robert Rodgers. For services to Game Angling. • Enid Marion Lee, Mrs. Rogan. For services to the Community. • Michael Roleston. For services to Health and Safety in the Shipbuilding Industry. • Rosemary Ann, Mrs. Rose, lately Grade E1, Defence Logistics Organisation, Ministry of Defence. • Marilyn, Mrs. Ross. For services to Women's Aid in Ross-shire. • Susan Joyce, Mrs. Rossington, lately Training Support Unit Manager, Lincolnshire TEC. For services to Training. • Donald Rousell, lately Grade C1, Ministry of Defence. • Ernest Edward Royle. For services to the Cheddleton Flint Mill Museum and the Stoke-on-Trent Archaeological Society, Staffordshire. • Michael Gilbert Ruffles, Senior Probation Officer. For services to the Community Service Scheme and the Assessment and Treatment Drug Programme in Devon. • Ms Judith Russell. For services to Disabled Sport. • David Russon, J.P., Teacher, Ridgewood High School, Stourbridge, West Midlands. For services to Education. • Andrew Cummings Rutter. For services to the Harwich Society in Essex. • Elizabeth Anne, Mrs. Ryan, lately Chair of Governors, Honley High School, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. For services to Education. • Lesley, Mrs. Ryan, Learning Support Assistant, Green Hedges School, Cambridge. For services to Children with Special Educational Needs. • David Clement George Ryding, Quality Engineer, Marshall Aerospace. For services to the Defence and Aerospace Industries. • Miss Joyce Ryley, chairperson, Royal Opera House Benevolent Fund. For services to Music. • Alan Daniel Salmon. For services to the community in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. • Catherine, Mrs. Sampson, lately Cleaning Supervisor, College of West Anglia, Norfolk. For services to Further Education. • Malcolm John Sanders, Refit Production Manager, Devonport Management Ltd. For services to the Defence Industry. • John Gilbert Sanderson. For services to the community in Rowhedge and Colchester, Essex. • Sarjit Sangha, Co-ordinator, Gravesend Town Centre Initiative. For services to the community. • Richard Charles Saunders. For services to the Babraham Institute. • Sylvia, Mrs. Saunders, General Manager, International Power Presses. For services to Export. • Alexander Scott. For services to Blind and Visually Impaired People in Scotland. • Miss Maureen Easton Scott, General Medical Practitioner, Troon. For services to Health Care. • Alan Kenneth Scriven, Skipper, Long Mynd Adventure Camp. For services to Disadvantaged Young People. • Judith Mary, Mrs. Sefton. For services to the community, especially Disabled People, in Cheshire. • Gordon Sharp. For services to Police Driver Training. • Charles Shepherd, lately Water Manager, Grampian and Tayside, North of Scotland Water Authority. For services to the Water Industry. • Doreen, Mrs. Shufflebottom, J.P. For services to the community, especially the Douglas Macmillan Hospice, in Blurton, Staffordshire. • Terence John Simco. For services to the Queen Victoria Seamen's Rest. • Miss Kelly Simmons, Head, National Football Development, Football Association. For services to Association Football. • Jean Veronica Ann, Mrs. Skinner, Senior Personal Secretary, Department for Education and Employment. • Peter Skivington. For services to Disabled People in Carmarthenshire. • Andrew MFarlane-Slack. For services to the community, especially Housing, in Lochaber, Inverness-shire. • Colin Stuart Slater. For services to the community in Nottingham. • John Humphry Sleight. For services to Accident Prevention in the Avon area. • Elizabeth Dorothy Anne, Mrs. MCall-Smith. For services to the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. • Frank Anthony Smith, Administrative Officer, Child Support Agency, Department of Social Security. • Miss Helen Margaret Smith, Business Improvement Manager, H.M. Board of Customs and Excise. • Peter Smith, Special Constable, Lincolnshire Police. For services to the Police. • Mohan Sokhal, J.P., Bus Operator/Driver, First Huddersfield Bus Company. For services to the Bus Industry and to the community in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. • Robert Somerville, lately Factory Trade Union Convener, Rolls Royce Aero Engine Services Ltd. For services to Industrial Relations. • The Reverend Canon Peter Clive Southerton. For charitable services to the community in Denbighshire. • Colin William Sparks, Head, Corporate Development, National Crime Squad. For services to the Police. • Renee Hannah, Mrs. Spector, chair, West Midlands Special Needs Transport Ltd. For services to Accessible Public Transport. • William Sydney Spicknell, Sub-Officer (Retained), Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service. For services to the Fire Service. • Veronica, Mrs. Stancer, Member, Consumer Panel, Housing Corporation. For services to Tenants and Disadvantaged Communities. • Miss Maria St. Denys, chairman, Legato. For services to Children with Special Needs. • Ann, Mrs. Bonner-Steel. For services to the Christian Education Movement Wales. • Miss Jennifer Stephenson. For services to the Family Holiday Association. • Rosemary, Mrs. Stephenson, executive director, Patient Services, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Trust. For services to Nursing. • David Cameron Morton Stibbles. For services to the Duke of Edinburgh Award in Dundee. • John Richard Stone, Principal Building Surveyor, House of Commons. • Shirley Kate, Mrs. Strong. For services to the community, especially Guiding and the Society for Libyan Studies in London. • Sigrid Gerda Lieschen Inge, Mrs. Sturgeon, Unit Manager, Lease Hill Home for Older People, Swindon, Wiltshire. For services to Elderly People. • Barbara, Mrs. Summons. For services to the community in Rosemarket, West Wales. • Barbara, Mrs. Takyar, Governor, Addington School, Woodley, Reading, Berkshire. For services to Children with Special Educational Needs. • Eileen, Mrs. Taplin. For services to the Bury and District Disabled Advisory Council. • Jeremy Taylor, Head of Religious Education, Oakmeeds Community College, Burgess Hill, West Sussex. For services to Education. • John Taylor, chair, National Framework Management Committee, Meat Training Council. For services to Training. • Paul Tear. For services to the Wallace Collection's Centenary Project. • John Henry Theaker. For services to Scottish Natural Heritage. • David William Thomas. For services to Disabled People in Swansea, South Wales. • Miss Gaynor Elaine Thomas, Higher Executive Officer, National Assembly for Wales. • Hazel, Mrs. Thomas. For services to Elderly Mentally Ill People in Watford, Hertfordshire. • Margaret Elizabeth, Mrs. Thomas, School Crossing Patrol, Bristol City Council. For services to Road Safety. • David Neville Thompson, Disability Services Adviser, Warrington Community Health Care Trust. For services to People with Disabilities. • George King Thompson. For services to Housing. • Sandra, Mrs. Thompson, Dog Warden. For services to Animal Welfare in Caerphilly, Wales. • Jill, Mrs. Thomson. For services to the Cancer Research Campaign in Falkirk. • Patrick John Timoney, Q.P.M. For services to the Police. • James Johnston Todd. For services to Veteran Athletics. • Cecil Tripp. For services to the community, especially Flood Defence, in Somerset. • Ronnie George Trouton. For services to Road Safety. • George Charles Turner. For services to Meteorology in Berkshire. • James William Vaughan, Senior Teacher, Toynbee School, Eastleigh, Hampshire. For services to Education and to the community. • Patricia, Mrs. Vizard. For services to Museums. • Catherine, Mrs. Waithe, Adviser, Ethnic Minority Issues, University for the West of England. For services to Higher Education. • Brian Walker, Founder, Walker Filtration. For services to International Trade. • George Walker. For services to the North East Promenaders Against Cancer, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. • John Walker, Secretary and Treasurer, Bootle Village Pipe Band. For services to Music in Liverpool. • Barbara Georgina, Mrs. Walmsley. For services to the community in Cookham, Berkshire. • Antony Leslie Ward, chairman, Suffolk Association of Local Councils. For services to the community. • Thomas Stark McMorran Ward. For services to Archaeology in Lanarkshire. • May, Mrs. Warren. For services to Barnet Hospital, London. • Richard Warren, Chief Geologist, Amerada Hess. For services to the Oil and Gas Industry. • Nell, Mrs. Wassell. For services to the community in Barlanark, Glasgow. • Alexander Hepburn Watson. For services to Conservation in Bennachie, Aberdeenshire. • Squadron Leader Edward Philip Weatherhead. For services to the Highland Reserve Forces and Cadets Association. • Rita, Mrs. Weaver, Executive Officer, Benefits Agency, Department of Social Security. • Brian John Frederick Webb, Resident Lock and Weir Keeper, Hurley Lock, Environment Agency. For services to the Water Services Industry. • Sydney Edward Webb. For services to the British Korean Veterans' Association in Southend, Essex. • Graham Thomas Webster, Resident Director, Thales. For services to the Defence Industry. • Miss Ann Patricia Weir. For services to the community in Salford, Greater Manchester. • John Glendinning Weir. For services to Business. • Alan Welch. For services to LabAid. • Patricia Forrest, Mrs. West, lately Head, Records Review, Department of Trade and Industry. • Shaheen Choudhury, Mrs. Westcombe. For services to Community Relations. • Shirley, Mrs. Westwood, Teacher, Helenswood School, Hastings, East Sussex. For services to Education. • Francis Wheeler. For services to Public Transport Pensioners. • Robert White, Senior Technician, Northbrook College, West Sussex. For services to Further Education. • Karen Ann, Mrs. Whitehead. For services to the Oil and Gas Industry. • Douglas Donald Whitlam, Capacity Owner, Rolls Royce plc. For services to the Aerospace Industry. • Mary Christine, Mrs. Whyham, Assistant Chief Probation Officer, Lancashire Probation Service. For services to the Probation Service. • Derek Thurston Wild, Regional Engineering Support Manager, Yorkshire Water. For services to Flood Relief. • Alexa Curle, Mrs. Wilkinson, lately Operations Manager, Milton Keynes and North Buckinghamshire TEC. For services to Training. • Averil, Mrs. Wilkinson, Senior Teacher and Head, Expressive Arts Department, John Colet School, Wendover, Buckinghamshire. For services to Education. • Betty Patricia, Mrs. Williams, Member, Gawsworth Parish Council, Cheshire. For services to the community. • Estelle Theodora, Mrs. Williams, Nurse, Wycombe Hospital, Buckinghamshire. For services to the community in High Wycombe. • Judith Ann, Mrs. Williams, Wales Deputy Director Support, Employment Service, Department for Education and Employment. • Mary, Mrs. Williams, Welfare Officer, BAe Systems. For services to the Defence Industry. • Michael Ingouville Williams. For services to Agriculture, Biodiversity and to the Environment in East Lothian. • Miss Patricia Williams, Headteacher, Kitchener Primary School, Cardiff. For services to Education. • William Joseph Wilson, Director, Bob Wilson Funfairs Ltd. For charitable services. • Miss Patricia Winter. For services to the Cats Protection League in Croydon, Surrey. • Lily, Mrs. Wood, Senior Community Librarian, West Cumbria. For services to Librarianship. • Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Alan Adrian Edward Woodford. For services to the British Red Cross Society, especially Flood Relief, in Devon. • Janet Denise, Mrs. Woods, Senior Probation Officer, H.M. Young Offenders' Institution Thorn Cross. For services to the Probation and Prison services. • Duncan James Woolard, Member, Spalding and District Access Group, Lincolnshire. For services to People with Disabilities and to the community. • John Wyndham. For services to the Royal British Legion Youth Band in Brentwood, Essex. • Carl Peter Francis Andrew York. For services to the Tonbridge Civic Society, Kent. • Mary May, Mrs. Young, Personal Secretary, Polmont Young Offenders' Institution, Scottish Executive. • Sheila, Mrs. Young. For services to the Citizens Advice Bureau in Malvern, Worcestershire. • Konrad Zimand, Interpreter. For services to the Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. • Arnold Walter Zimmerman, Tutor and Principal, Summer Schools, Education Development Association. For services to Education. ==The Commonwealth==