New Year Honours 2005

United Kingdom

= Knights Bachelor =

*Clive John Bourne, J.P. For services to Charity and to Education.
*Professor Robert Rees Davies, C.B.E., lately Chicele Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford. For services to History.
*Robert Gerard Finch, lately Lord Mayor of London. For services to the City of London.
*Professor Andrew Paul Haines, Dean of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medecine. For services to Medecine.
*Professor Brian Howard Harrison, lately Editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
*Alan Jeffrey Jones, Chair of Toyota Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd. For services to the Automotive Industry.
*Digby Marritt Jones, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry. For services to Business.
*Roger Spencer Jones, O.B.E. For services to Business and Training in Wales.
*Robert Walker Kerslake, Chief Executive of Sheffield City Council. For services to Local Government.
*Professor John Hartley Lawton, C.B.E., F.R.S., Chief Executive of the Natural Environmental Research Council. For services to Ecological Science.
*Dr. Jonathan Michael, Chief Executive of Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. For services to the National Health Service.
*Dr. Peter James Ogden, Founder of the Ogden Trust. For services to Education.
*Mervyn Kay Pedelty, lately Chief Executive of Co-operative Financial Services. For services to Business and to Charity.
*Matthew Clive Pinsent, C.B.E., Rower. For services to Sport.
*Professor Desmond Rea, O.B.E., Chair of the Northern Ireland Policing Board. For services to the Police.
*Richard John Staite, O.B.E., Headteacher of Beeslack Community High School, Penicuik, Midlothian. For services to Education.
*Michael John Tomlinson, C.B.E., Chair of the A-level Standards Inquiry, Working Group on 14-19 Reform and the Learning Trust for Hackney Schools. For services to Education.
*Professor James Cressee Elphinstone Underwood, Professor of the Royal College of Pathologists and Professor of Pathology at the University of Sheffield. For services to Medicine.
*David Veness, C.B.E., Q.P.M., Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis. For services to the Police.
*John Stuart Vickers, Chair and Chief Executive of the Office of Fair Trading. For public service.
*Derek Wanless. For public service.

; Diplomatic Service and Overseas List
*Mark John Spurgeon Allen, C.M.G., Counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
*Professor Clive William John Granger. For services to Economics.
*Professor Basil Spyridonos Markesinis, Q.C., F.B.A. For services to international legal relations.

Order of the Bath

Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (G.C.B.)

; Military Division

:; Army

*General Sir Michael David Jackson, K.C.B., C.B.E., D.S.O., A.D.C. Gen (475176), late The Parachute Regiment.

Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath (K.C.B.)

; Military Division

:; Army

*Lieutenant-General (Local General) Kevin O'Donaghue, C.B.E. (486538), late Corps of Royal Engineers.

:; Royal Air Force

*Air Marshal Glenn Lester Torpy, C.B.E., D.S.O., Royal Air Force.

; Civil Division

*(Edward) John Watson Gieve, C.B., Permanent Secretary at the Home Office.
*David John Normington, C.B., Permanent Secretary at the Department for Education and Skills.

Companions of the Order of the Bath (C.B.)

; Military Division

:; Royal Navy

*Rear-Admiral Peter Roland Davies, C.B.E.
*Rear-Admiral Niall Stuart Roderick Kilgour.

:; Army

*Major-General Jonathan Bernard Appleton Bailey, M.B.E. (494267), late Royal Regiment of Artillery.
*Major-General Michael Huntley (494362), late Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers.
*Lieutenant-General Anthony Malcolm Douglas Palmer, C.B.E. (487557), late The Royal Green Jackets.

:; Royal Air Force

*Air Vice-Marshal James Andrew Collier, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.
*Air Vice-Marshal Peter Brett Walker, C.B.E., Royal Air Force.

; Civil Division

*Mark Eric Addison, Director-General of Operations and Service Delivery at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
*Colin McLauchlan Baxter, lately Head of the Police and Community Safety Group in the Justice Department of the Scottish Executive.
*David Brummell, Legal Secretary to the Law Officers of the Office of the Attorney General.
*John David Coles, Chief Executive of the Warship Support Agency.
*Naomi Eisenstadt, Director of Sure Start, Department for Education and Skills.
*Mark Gibson, Director-General of the Business Group, Department of Trade and Industry.
*John Francis Gilhooly, Chief Executive of the Parliamentary Counsel Office.
*Brian Leslie Glicksman, Treasury Officer of Accounts at HM Treasury.
*Robin Paul Halward, lately Deputy Director-General of the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, Home Office.
*David Seymour, Legal Adviser to the Home Office and the Northern Ireland Office.
*Douglas Armitage Smith, lately Chief Executive of the Child Support Agency.
*George Macaulay Trevelyan, lately Director of the Delivery Strategy Team, Defra.
*Marjorie Williams, Director of Local Services, Inland Revenue.

Order of St Michael and St George

Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (K.C.M.G.)

; Diplomatic Division

*Edward Clay, British High Commissioner to Kenya.
*Robert John Coleman, lately Director-General of Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission.
*John Douglas Kelso Grant, UK Permanent Representative to the European Union.

Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George (C.M.G.)

; Civil Division

*Elizabeth Kerr Burns, O.B.E., President of the International Association of Volunteer Effort. For services to Volunteering.
*Stuart John Doughty, Chief Executive of Costain Group plc. For services to International Trade and Investment.
*John Charles Odling-Smee, lately Director of the European II Department of the International Monetary Fund. For services to International Finance.

; Diplomatic Division

*Dr. Robin William Baker, Deputy Director-General of the British Council.
*John Cummins, M.B.E., lately Counsellor and HM Consul-General in Moscow.
*Paul Stephen Dimond, HM Ambassador to the Philippines.
*Major-General Robert Duncan Seaton Gordon, C.B.E. (490208), late 17th/21st Lancers.
*Allan Graham Gormly, C.B.E. For services to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Board of Management.
*David John Gowan, HM Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro.
*Mariot Leslie, HM Ambassador to Norway.
*Philip Raymond Nelson, Counsellor at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
*William Charters Patey, HM Ambassador to Sudan.
*Angela Joy Williams, lately Director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

Royal Victorian Order

Commanders of the Royal Victorian Order (C.V.O.)

*Dr. Claude Blair, O.B.E. For services to the Royal Collection.
*Edward Peter Demery, Clerk of the Royal Cellars.
*Major-General Geoffrey William Field, C.B., O.B.E., Resident Governor and Keeper of the Jewel House in the Tower of London.
*Vice-Admiral Michael Peter Gretton, C.B., Director of The Duke of Edinburgh's Award (UK).
*Brigadier Colin John McCrae Harrisson, O.B.E., formerly Chief Executive of [http://www.kingedwardvii.co.uk/ King Edward VII's Hospital (Sister Agnes)]
*Major-General David Houston, C.B.E., formerly Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland.
*Lieutenant-General Maurice Robert Johnston, K.C.B., O.B.E., formerly Lord Lieutenant of Wiltshire.
*Graeme Neil Munro, formerly Director and Chief Executive of Historic Scotland.
*Surgeon Captain David Leslie Swain, L.V.O., R.N., Medical Officer to The Queen abroad.

Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order (L.V.O.)

*Philip Metcalf Bolam, Honorary Press Officer of Royal Agricultural Society of the Commonwealth.
*Elizabeth Faith Currer Buchanan, Deputy Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales.
*Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Guy Cartwright, Secretary of the Central Chancery of the Orders of Knighthood.
*Nicholas John Lucas Chance, J.P., Private Secretary to the Prince and Princess Michael of Kent.
*Nigel John Fordham, formerly Head of the Crown Agents Stamp Bureau.
*The Reverend Charles Robertson, Minister of the Kirk of the Canongate.
*Constance Margaret Tyler, formerly Assistant Fundraising Director of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award (UK).
*Dr. Peter Wheeler, Apothecary to The Prince of Wales.