1985 New Year Honours

The New Year Honours 1985 were appointments by most of the Commonwealth realms of Queen Elizabeth II to various orders and honours to reward and highlight good works by citizens of those countries, and honorary ones to citizens of other countries. ^[1]

534 relations: A.F. Budge, Abaco Islands, Aberdeen F.C., Adam Ridley, Agricultural and Food Research Council, Air Training Corps, AirUK, Alan Civil, Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond, Alex Ferguson, Allan Pyatt, Ambition (charity), Anglican Diocese of Christchurch, Anthony Galsworthy, Anthony Quayle, Apollo (magazine), Army Air Corps (United Kingdom), Army Cadet Force, Army Reserve (United Kingdom), Ascension Island, Ashdown Forest, Askham Bryan College, Aston Manor Academy, Atomic Weapons Establishment, Auckland Prison, Austins (department store), Avon County Council, BAE Systems Avionics, Baker Perkins, Balfour Beatty, Bangor University, Bangui, Batchelors, BBC, Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear, Belfast City Council, Belfast Harbour, Belfast International Airport, Ben Jannif, Ben Line Agencies, Bernard Braine, Bert Sutcliffe, Birmingham City Council, Borough of Guildford, BP, Brenda Bruce, Brian Elwood, Britannia Airways, British Aerospace, British Airways, ..., British Aluminium, British Army, British Caledonian, British Gas, British Library, British Nuclear Fuels Ltd, British Pharmacopoeia, British Rail Engineering Limited, British Railways Board, British Red Cross, British Shipbuilders, British Steel (1967–1999), British Veterinary Association, British Virgin Islands, British Waterways, Bruce Slane, BT Group, C. F. D. Moule, C. K. Stead, Cabinet Office, Camberwell College of Arts, Cambridge Water Company, Cameron Moffat, Cancer Research UK, Canterbury Cathedral, Castle Point (UK Parliament constituency), Catherine Tizard, Central Office of Information, Chance Brothers, Chancellor (education), Charles Horan (police officer), Charles Philip Littlejohn, Chartered Institute of Journalists, Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Cheng Yang-ping, Children 1st, Christopher Hogg, Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade, Cicely Berry, Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives, Clyde Jeffery, Coats Group, Colin Turner, Colonel commandant, Commercial Motor, Commission for Racial Equality, Commonwealth realm, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Confederation of British Industry, Cook Islands, Country Land and Business Association, Countryside Properties, Courtaulds, Craigavon Area Hospital, Crown Estate, David Crooks (RNZAF officer), David Faulkner (civil servant), David Gibbons (politician), David House, David Robinson (philanthropist), David Wall (dancer), David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, DC Thomson, Denys Sutton, Department for International Development, Department for Transport, Department of Energy (United Kingdom), Department of Health and Social Security, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge, Department of the Premier and Cabinet (Queensland), Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom), Derek Eaton, Deutsch Group, Diarmuid Downs, Dowty Group, Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, Economic and Social Research Council, Edith Körner, Education Directorates, Edward du Cann, Eldridge Pope, Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, Electricity Council, Elizabeth II, Elizabeth Raybould, Emily Elizabeth Carpenter, English-Speaking Union, Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom), Exxon, Fairbridge (charity), Fawley Refinery, Fergus Montgomery, Ferranti, First Norfolk & Suffolk, Fisons, Food and Drink Federation, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Forestry Commission, Fort Halstead, Frank Chapple, Frank Kitson, Fred Roche, Frederic Bennett, Gaynes Hall, General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, George Mathewson, George Wimpey, Gerald Nazareth, Girlguiding, GKN, Gloucestershire Regiment, Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, GMB (trade union), Gordon Brunton, Gordon Christie, Gordon Greenidge, Government House, The Bahamas, Greater Manchester Police, Grenadier Guards, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Guy Maunsell, Hants and Sussex Aviation, Harland and Wolff, Hawker Siddeley Switchgear, Health and Safety Executive, Heathrow Airport Holdings, HeavyLift Cargo Airlines, Helen M. Laird, Henry Cooper (educator), Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services, Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services, High Court of Justice, High Court of New Zealand, Hilton Carty, HM Prison Brixton, HM Prison Holloway, HM Prison Magilligan, HM Prison Reading, Home Office, Hong Kong Police Force, House of Commons Library, House of Lords, Hu Fa-kuang, Hugh Casson, Hugh Trefusis Brassey, Hugo White, Ian Arthur Naunton Cook, Ian Ferguson (canoeist), Ian Thomson (Fiji), Imperial Chemical Industries, Independent Broadcasting Authority, Inland Revenue, Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom), International Garden Festival, International Thomson Organization, ITV Yorkshire, James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington, Jane Bown, Jane, Lady Roberts, Jarrow School, Jeddah, Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow, Joel Garner, John Boyd (diplomat), John Cadogan, John Cannon (historian), John Chapple (British Army officer), John Dellow, John Jennings (businessman), John Kingman, John McIntyre (theologian), John Stanton Ward, John Watts (British Army officer), John Weston (diplomat), Johnny Henderson, Joseph Gilbert (RAF officer), Josephine Barstow, Keith Burch, Keith Fletcher, Kenny Dalglish, Kent County Council, Kent Police, Kigali, King's Regiment, Kingston Hospital, Kitakyushu, Lancashire Constabulary, Law Society of Scotland, Lawn Tennis Association, Len Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, Leo Bensemann, Leopold David de Rothschild, Lewis, LGC Ltd, Liberal Party (UK), Light infantry, Lincolnshire Police, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ireland, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mexico, List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Turkey, List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Norway, List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to the Bahamas, London Bach Society, London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, London Councils, London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange, London Regional Transport, Lord Chancellor's Department, Lothian and Borders Police, Louis Lillywhite, Lucas Industries, Maltby Main Colliery, Manchester, Manchester City Council, Manchester Ship Canal, Mangaia, Marconi Electronic Systems, Marianne Straub, Mark Todd (equestrian), Martin-Baker, Mary Charles George, Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, Massey Ferguson, Mauritius Police Force, Meat and Livestock Commission, Merseyside Development Corporation, Merseyside Police, Metropolitan Police Service, Metropolitan Special Constabulary, Michael Carlisle, Michael Colborne, Michael David Thomas, Michael Oliver (cardiologist), Michael Quinlan (civil servant), Michael Rutter, Michael Shea (diplomat), Michael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham, Middlesbrough Council, Miles Warren, Milk Marketing Board, Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom), Ministry of Defence Police, Mollie McGeown, Moorfields Eye Hospital, Morgan Morgan-Giles, Mullard, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain, Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester), Musgrave Park Hospital, Naomi Mitchison, National Car Parks, National Coal Board, National Foundation for Educational Research, National Institute for Medical Research, National Maritime Museum, National Oceanography Centre, National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom), National Semiconductor, National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, Natural Environment Research Council, Nature Conservancy Council, Nautilus International, Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes, Neville Lumb, Neville Pickering, New College Worcester, New Zealand Fire Service, New Zealand Law Society, Newcastle University, NI Railways, Nicholas Freeman, Nicholas Hunt, Nick Whitehead, Nigel Vinson, Baron Vinson, Noelle Barker, Norfolk Constabulary, Northampton General Hospital, Northern Ireland Civil Service, Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service, Northern Ireland Housing Executive, Norwich City Council, Notre Dame High School, Glasgow, Nottinghamshire Police, Nuffield Lodge, Nursing Times, Ocean Group plc, OECD, Office of Public Sector Information, Officers' Training Corps, Official receiver, Orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms, Ordnance Survey, Overseas Containers, Oxfordshire County Council, P&O (company), P&O Ferries, Palmerston North Boys' High School, Papua New Guinea Defence Force, Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom), Parker Hannifin, Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree, Paul Fox (television executive), Paul Steinitz, Peggy Lam, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, Permanent Secretary, Peter John Harding, Peter Tapsell (British politician), Philip Ledger, Plas Gwynant, Post Office Ltd, Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire, Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service, Private bill, Quantel, Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps, Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service, Queen's Lancashire Regiment, Queen's Regiment, R. M. Williams, Randolph Quirk, Rank Hovis McDougall, Regent's Park, Reginald Goodall, Relate, Remploy, Research fellow, Retail Motor Industry Federation, Returned and Services League of Australia, Rewi Alley, Richard Demarco, Richard Johns, Richmondshire, Robert Haslam (industrialist), Robert Hunt (police officer), Robin Nicholson (metallurgist), Roger Lobo, Rolls-Royce Limited, Rosalind Wade, Royal Academy of Dance, Royal Air Force, Royal Air Forces Association, Royal Anglian Regiment, Royal Army Dental Corps, Royal Army Educational Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, Royal Army Physical Training Corps, Royal Artillery, Royal Bahamas Police Force, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Royal Corps of Signals, Royal Corps of Transport, Royal Dutch Shell, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, Royal Engineers, Royal Green Jackets, Royal Hong Kong Regiment, Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, Royal Irish Rangers, Royal Military Police, Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers, Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Royal Navy, Royal Observer Corps, Royal Orthopaedic Hospital, Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary, Royal Regiment of Wales, Royal Scots, Royal Shakespeare Company, Royal Society, Royal Society for the Blind, Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, Royal Solomon Islands Police Force, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Royal Voluntary Service, RSA Insurance Group, Russell Coutts, Ruth Wilkinson (community leader), Saga plc, Salt Island, British Virgin Islands, Save the Children, São Paulo, Science and Engineering Research Council, Scots Guards, Scottish Enterprise, Scottish Natural Heritage, Scottish Office, Scottish Prison Service, Sea Cadets, Secretary for Justice (Hong Kong), Secretary of State for Employment, Secretary of State for the Environment, Selly Oak Colleges, Services Sound and Vision Corporation, Shildon railway works, Shona Dunlop MacTavish, Sidney De Haan, Simon Carves, Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet, Smithfield Show, SodaStream, South Wales Echo, South Yorkshire Police, Special Air Service, Springfields, SSAFA, St Andrews Links, St Bernard's Hospital, St Hugh's College, Oxford, St John Ambulance, St Thomas' Hospital, Staffordshire Police, Stagecoach in Warwickshire, Stanislaus A. James, Stephen Cheong, Strathclyde, Strathclyde Police, Suffolk Constabulary, Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service, Surrey County Council, Swan Hunter, Tain & District Museum, Tate & Lyle, Taylor Hobson, Tayside, Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association, Tessa Sanderson, The Contemporary Review, The Courier (Dundee), The Guinness Partnership, The Hoover Company, The Observer, The Royal British Legion, The Scout Association, Thomas Kennedy (RAF officer), Thomas Patton, Thorn EMI, Torbay (UK Parliament constituency), Track Marshall, Trades Union Congress, Transport and General Workers' Union, Trinity House, Trollope & Colls, Unilever, Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, University of Canterbury, University of Huddersfield, University of Liverpool, University of London, University of Nottingham, University of Oxford, University of Surrey, Vanuatu, Victoria University of Wellington, Vinten, Visqueen, Watkins Shaw, Welsh Guards, West Yorkshire Police, Western Region of British Railways, Westland Helicopters, Westminster City Council, Westminster Hospital, Which?, Wiesbaden, William Long (Northern Ireland politician), William Mathias, William McCrea (astronomer), William Stanley Peart, Winfrith, Wordsley Hospital, Yeomen of the Guard, Ysgol Gyfun Aberaeron, 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers, 17th/21st Lancers, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles), 9th/12th Royal Lancers. 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A.F. Budge

A.F. Budge was a British civil engineering and construction company based in Nottinghamshire.

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Abaco Islands

The Abaco Islands lie in the northern Bahamas 180 miles (290 km) east of South Florida with similar weather with the exception of local patterns.

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Aberdeen F.C.

Aberdeen Football Club (also known as The Dons) is a Scottish professional football club based in Aberdeen, Scotland.

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Adam Ridley

Sir Adam Nicholas Ridley (born 14 May 1942) is a British economist, civil servant, and banker.

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Agricultural and Food Research Council

The Agricultural and Food Research Council (AFRC) was a British Research Council responsible for funding and managing scientific and technological developments in farming and horticulture.

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Air Training Corps

The Air Training Corps (ATC) is a British volunteer-military youth organisation, sponsored by the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Air Force.

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AirUK

Air UK was a wholly privately owned, independentindependent from government-owned corporations regional British airline formed in 1980 as a result of a merger involving four rival UK-based regional airlines.

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Alan Civil

Alan Civil OBE (13 June 1929 – 19 March 1989) was a British horn player.

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Alan Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond

Alan John Watson, Baron Watson of Richmond, CBE (born 3 February 1941) is a UK-based broadcaster, Liberal Democrat politician and leadership communications consultant.

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Alex Ferguson

Sir Alexander Chapman Ferguson (born 31 December 1941) is a Scottish former football manager and player who managed Manchester United from 1986 to 2013.

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Allan Pyatt

William Allan Pyatt, (known as Allan; also spelled Alan or Allen; 4 November 1916 – 24 November 1991), was Bishop of Christchurch in the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia from 1966 to 1983.

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Ambition (charity)

Ambition (formerly known as Clubs for Young People) is a registered charity whose members are a network of umbrella youth organisations in cities, counties and countries throughout the UK.

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Anglican Diocese of Christchurch

The Diocese of Christchurch is one of the thirteen dioceses and hui amorangi of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia.

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Anthony Galsworthy

Sir Anthony Charles Galsworthy (born 20 December 1944) is a retired British diplomat (former ambassador to China) and amateur naturalist.

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Anthony Quayle

Sir John Anthony Quayle, (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was an English actor and theatre director.

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Apollo (magazine)

Apollo is an English-language monthly magazine covering visual arts of all periods, from antiquity to the present day.

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Army Air Corps (United Kingdom)

The Army Air Corps (AAC) is a component of the British Army, first formed in 1942 during the Second World War by grouping the various airborne units of the British Army (which are no longer part of the AAC).

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Army Cadet Force

The Army Cadet Force (ACF) is a national youth organisation sponsored by the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence and the British Army.

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Army Reserve (United Kingdom)

The Army Reserve is the active-duty volunteer reserve force and integrated element of the British Army.

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Ascension Island

Ascension Island is an isolated volcanic island, 7°56' south of the Equator in the South Atlantic Ocean.

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Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest is an ancient area of tranquil open heathland occupying the highest sandy ridge-top of the High Weald Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Askham Bryan College

Askham Bryan College is a specialist land-based college based in Askham Bryan, York, England.

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Aston Manor Academy

Aston Manor Academy is a secondary school with academy status situated in the Aston area of Birmingham, England.

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Atomic Weapons Establishment

The Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) is responsible for the design, manufacture and support of warheads for the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons.

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Auckland Prison

Auckland Prison (original name Paremoremo Prison, colloquially Pare, pronounced "Par-re") is a prison facility consisting of medium security and maximum security compounds in Paremoremo, Auckland, New Zealand.

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Austins (department store)

Austins was a department store in the Diamond area of Derry in Northern Ireland.

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Avon County Council

Avon County Council was the county council of the non-metropolitan county of Avon in south west England.

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BAE Systems Avionics

BAE Systems Avionics was the avionics unit of BAE Systems until 2005, at which time it was transferred to SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems S.p.A (initially 75% Finmeccanica and 25% BAE Systems, but since March 2007 fully owned by Finmeccanica) and was renamed SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems Limited.

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Baker Perkins

Baker Perkins Ltd is a British engineering company based in Peterborough offering manufacturing and process services to the food industry throughout the world.

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Balfour Beatty

Balfour Beatty plc is an English multinational infrastructure group with capabilities in construction services, support services and infrastructure investments.

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Bangor University

Bangor University (Prifysgol Bangor) is a university in Bangor, Gwynedd, Wales.

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Bangui

Bangui (or Bangî in Sango, formerly written Bangi in English) is the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic.

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Batchelors

Batchelors is a brand of predominantly dried food products.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Beatrice Seear, Baroness Seear

(Beatrice) Nancy Seear, Baroness Seear PC (7 August 1913 – 23 April 1997) was a British social scientist and politician.

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Belfast City Council

Belfast City Council (Comhairle Cathrach Bhéal Feirste; Ulster-Scots: Bilfawst Citie Cooncil) is the local authority with responsibility for part of the city of Belfast, the capital and largest city of Northern Ireland.

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Belfast Harbour

Belfast Harbour is a major maritime hub in Northern Ireland, handling 67% of Northern Ireland’s seaborne trade and about 25% of the maritime trade of the entire island of Ireland.

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Belfast International Airport

Belfast International Airport is an airport northwest of Belfast in Northern Ireland.

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Ben Jannif

Ben Mohammed Jannif was one of the architects of Fiji Indian Football Association.

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Ben Line Agencies

Ben Line Agencies (previously Ben Line Steamers) is a Singapore-based shipping agency, operating across Asia.

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Bernard Braine

Bernard Richard Braine, Baron Braine of Wheatley, PC (24 June 1914 – 5 January 2000) was a Conservative Party politician in the United Kingdom.

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Bert Sutcliffe

Bert Sutcliffe, (17 November 1923 – 20 April 2001), was a New Zealand Test cricketer.

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Birmingham City Council

Birmingham City Council is the local government body responsible for the governance of the City of Birmingham in England, which has been a metropolitan district since 1974.

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Borough of Guildford

The Borough of Guildford is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England.

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BP

BP plc (stylised as bp), formerly British Petroleum, is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England.

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Brenda Bruce

Brenda Bruce OBE (7 July 1919Some sources cite 17 July 1919. – 19 February 1996) was a British actress.

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Brian Elwood

Sir Brian George Conway Elwood (born 5 April 1933) is a former New Zealand lawyer, politician, and public servant.

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Britannia Airways

Britannia Airways was a charter airline based in the United Kingdom.

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British Aerospace

British Aerospace plc (BAe) was a British aircraft, munitions and defence-systems manufacturer.

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British Airways

British Airways (BA) is the flag carrier and the largest airline in the United Kingdom based on fleet size, or the second largest, behind easyJet, when measured by passengers carried.

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British Aluminium

British Aluminium was an aluminium production company.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces.

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British Caledonian

British Caledonian (BCal) was a private, British independent airline, operating out of Gatwick Airport in south-east England during the 1970s and 1980s.

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British Gas

British Gas is an energy and home services provider in the United Kingdom.

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British Library

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the largest national library in the world by number of items catalogued.

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British Nuclear Fuels Ltd

British Nuclear Fuels Limited (BNFL) was a nuclear energy and fuels company owned by the UK Government.

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British Pharmacopoeia

The British Pharmacopoeia (BP) is the national pharmacopoeia of the United Kingdom.

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British Rail Engineering Limited

British Rail Engineering Limited (BREL), incorporated on 31 October 1969, was the railway systems engineering subsidiary of British Rail until the design and building of trains in the UK was privatised in 1989.

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British Railways Board

The British Railways Board (BRB) was a nationalised industry in the United Kingdom that operated from 1963 to 2001.

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British Red Cross

The British Red Cross Society is the United Kingdom body of the worldwide neutral and impartial humanitarian network the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.

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British Shipbuilders

British Shipbuilders Corporation (BS) was a public corporation that owned and managed the shipbuilding industry in Great Britain from 1977 through the 1980s.

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British Steel (1967–1999)

British Steel plc was a major British steel producer.

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British Veterinary Association

The British Veterinary Association (BVA) is the national body for veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom and is a not-for-profit organisation.

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British Virgin Islands

The British Virgin Islands (BVI), officially simply "Virgin Islands", are a British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean, to the east of Puerto Rico.

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British Waterways

British Waterways, often shortened to BW, was a statutory corporation wholly owned by the government of the United Kingdom.

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Bruce Slane

Sir Bruce Houlton Slane (10 August 1931 – 7 January 2017) was a New Zealand public servant and lawyer.

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BT Group

BT Group plc (trading as BT and formerly British Telecom) is a British multinational telecommunications holding company with head offices in London, United Kingdom.

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C. F. D. Moule

Charles Francis Digby "Charlie" Moule CBE FBA (3 December 1908 – 30 September 2007), known professionally as C. F. D. Moule, was an Anglican priest and theologian.

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C. K. Stead

Christian Karlson "Karl" Stead (born 17 October 1932) is a New Zealand writer whose works include novels, poetry, short stories, and literary criticism.

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Cabinet Office

The Cabinet Office is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom responsible for supporting the Prime Minister and Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

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Camberwell College of Arts

Camberwell College of Arts (formerly known as Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts) is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is regarded as one of the UK's foremost art and design institutions.

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Cambridge Water Company

The Cambridge Water Company is a water supply utility company serving Cambridge and the surrounding area.

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Cameron Moffat

Lieutenant General Sir William Cameron Moffat, KBE, FRCS (8 September 1929 – 29 June 2014) was a British Army officer and doctor.

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Cancer Research UK

Cancer Research UK is a cancer research and awareness charity in the United Kingdom and Isle of Man, formed on 4 February 2002 by the merger of The Cancer Research Campaign and the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.

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Canterbury Cathedral

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent, is one of the oldest and most famous Christian structures in England.

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Castle Point (UK Parliament constituency)

Castle Point is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Rebecca Harris of the Conservative Party.

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Catherine Tizard

Dame Catherine Anne Tizard (née Maclean; born 4 April 1931) is a New Zealand politician who served as Mayor of Auckland City from 1983 to 1990, and the 16th Governor-General of New Zealand from 1990 to 1996.

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Central Office of Information

The Central Office of Information (COI) was the UK government's marketing and communications agency.

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Chance Brothers

Chance Brothers and Company was a glassworks originally based in Spon Lane, Smethwick, West Midlands (formerly in Staffordshire), in England.

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Chancellor (education)

A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.

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Charles Horan (police officer)

Charles Gerard Horan OBE, QPM (born 23 November 1923, Manchester; died 15 June 2009, Manchester) was a British police detective for nearly 40 years following his service in the Second World War and a former Assistant Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police in charge of the CID.

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Charles Philip Littlejohn

Charles Philip Littlejohn (11 January 1923 – 14 September 2014) was the eleventh Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives ("Clerk of the House").

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Chartered Institute of Journalists

The Chartered Institute of Journalists is a professional association for journalists and is the senior such body in the UK and the oldest in the world.

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Chartered Institution of Wastes Management

The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) is a professional body for the waste management industry in the United Kingdom and other countries.

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Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital is a 430-bed teaching hospital located in Chelsea, London.

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Cheng Yang-ping

Cheng Yang-ping, MBE (19 September 1929 – 25 July 2014), more commonly known as Y. P. Cheng or just Y.P., was a Hong Kong simultaneous interpreter.

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Children 1st

Children 1st, previously known as the Royal Scottish Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children (RSSPCC), is a Scottish charity which aims to give every child in Scotland a safe and secure childhood.

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Christopher Hogg

Sir Christopher Anthony Hogg (born 2 August 1936) is a British industrialist and business executive.

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Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade

The Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade is an Anglican youth organisation with branches in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Bermuda, Kenya, South Africa, Newfoundland and St Helena.

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Cicely Berry

Cicely Frances Berry CBE (born 17 May 1926) is a British theatre director and vocal coach.

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Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives

The Clerk of the New Zealand House of Representatives is an officer of the New Zealand House of Representatives and is the principal officer (Chief Executive) of the Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives.

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Clyde Jeffery

Clyde Molesworth Jeffery (26 February 1917 – 23 June 2002) was the Mayor of Napier, New Zealand from 1974 to 1983, having been a Napier City Councillor from 1962 to 1974.

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Coats Group

Coats Group plc is a British multi-national company.

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Colin Turner

Sir Colin William Carstairs Turner CBE DFC (4 January 1922 – 21 March 2014) was a British businessman and Conservative Party politician.

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Colonel commandant

Colonel commandant is a military title used in the armed forces of some English-speaking countries.

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Commercial Motor

Commercial Motor is a weekly magazine serving the road transport industry in the United Kingdom.

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Commission for Racial Equality

The Commission for Racial Equality (CRE) was a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom which aimed to address racial discrimination and promote racial equality.

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Commonwealth realm

A Commonwealth realm is a sovereign state that is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and shares the same person, currently Queen Elizabeth II, as its head of state and reigning constitutional monarch, but retains a Crown legally distinct from the other realms.

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Commonwealth War Graves Commission

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) is an intergovernmental organisation of six independent member states whose principal function is to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military service members who died in the two World Wars.

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Confederation of British Industry

The Confederation of British Industry is a UK business organisation, which in total speaks for 190,000 businesses, made up of around 1,500 direct and 188,500 indirect members.

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Cook Islands

The Cook Islands (Cook Islands Māori: Kūki 'Āirani) is a self-governing island country in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand.

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Country Land and Business Association

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) is a membership organisation for owners of land, property and businesses in rural England and Wales.

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Countryside Properties

Countryside Properties is a UK housebuilding and urban regeneration company, operating in London and the South East of England, and with a presence in the North West of England through its Partnerships division.

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Courtaulds

Courtaulds was a United Kingdom-based manufacturer of fabric, clothing, artificial fibres, and chemicals.

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Craigavon Area Hospital

Craigavon Area Hospital (CAH) is a large teaching hospital in Portadown, Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Crown Estate

The Crown Estate is a collection of lands and holdings in the United Kingdom belonging to the British monarch as a corporation sole, making it the "Sovereign's public estate", which is neither government property nor part of the monarch's private estate.

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David Crooks (RNZAF officer)

Air Marshal David Manson Crooks, (born 8 December 1931) is a retired senior commander of the Royal New Zealand Air Force.

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David Faulkner (civil servant)

David Ewart Riley Faulkner CB (born 23 October 1934) is a senior research fellow at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminological Research and worked for over 30 years at the Home Office.

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David Gibbons (politician)

Sir David Gibbons, KBE, (15 June 1927 – 30 March 2014) was a Bermudian politician and businessman.

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David House

Lieutenant General Sir David George House (8 August 1922 – 14 July 2012) was a British Army officer who was General Officer Commanding in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and later held the office of Black Rod.

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David Robinson (philanthropist)

Sir David Robinson (13 April 1904 – 10 January 1987) was a British entrepreneur and philanthropist.

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David Wall (dancer)

David Wall, CBE (15 March 1946 – 18 June 2013) was an English ballet dancer, who, at the age of 21, became the youngest male Principal in the history of The Royal Ballet.

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David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn

David Clive Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, (born 14 February 1935, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, 2017 (online edition, Oxford University Press, 2016)) is a retired Scottish administrator, diplomat and Sinologist.

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DC Thomson

DC Thomson is a British publishing and television production company best known for producing The Dundee Courier, The Evening Telegraph, The Sunday Post, Oor Wullie, The Broons, The Beano, The Dandy, and Commando comics.

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Denys Sutton

Denys Miller Sutton (10 August 1917 – 30 January 1991) was a British art critic and historian known for his focus on European artists before 1800 (Old Masters) and Asian art.

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Department for International Development

The Department for International Development (DFID) is a United Kingdom government department responsible for administering overseas aid.

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Department for Transport

The Department for Transport (DfT) is the government department responsible for the English transport network and a limited number of transport matters in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland that have not been devolved.

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Department of Energy (United Kingdom)

The Department of Energy (DoE) was a department of the United Kingdom Government.

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Department of Health and Social Security

The Department of Health and Social Security (commonly known as the DHSS) was a ministry of the British government in existence for twenty years from 1968 until 1988, and was headed by the Secretary of State for Social Services.

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Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge

The Department of Plant Sciences is a department of the University of Cambridge that conducts research and teaching in plant sciences.

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Department of the Premier and Cabinet (Queensland)

The Department of the Premier and Cabinet is a department of the Queensland Government.

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Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)

The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) was a United Kingdom government department formed on 19 October 1970.

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Derek Eaton

Derek Lionel Eaton (born 10 September 1941) is a retired New Zealand Anglican bishop.

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Deutsch Group

Deutsch is a manufacturer of electrical and fibre optic connectors.

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Diarmuid Downs

Sir Diarmuid Downs CBE, KSG, FRS, FREng, FIMechE (23 April 1922 - 12 February 2014) was a British automotive engineer.

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Dowty Group

Dowty Group was a leading British manufacturer of aircraft equipment.

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Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry

The Duke of Lancaster's Own Yeomanry was a British Army regiment that existed from 1798 to 1992.

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Duke of Wellington's Regiment

The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding) was a line infantry regiment of the British Army, forming part of the King's Division.

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Economic and Social Research Council

The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) is one of the seven Research Councils in the United Kingdom.

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Edith Körner

Edith Körner, CBE (10 July 1921 – 17 August 2000) was a British magistrate and reformer of the National Health Service.

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Education Directorates

The Scottish Government Education Directorates were a group of the civil service directorates in the Scottish Government.

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Edward du Cann

Sir Edward Dillon Lott du Cann, KBE PC (28 May 1924 – 31 August 2017) was a British politician.

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Eldridge Pope

Eldridge Pope was a traditional brewery situated in Dorchester, Dorset in England.

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Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union

The Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union, known as the EETPU, was a British trade union formed in 1968 as a union for electricians and plumbers, which went through three mergers from 1992 to now be part of Unite the Union.

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Electricity Council

The Electricity Council was a governmental body set up in 1957 to oversee the electricity supply industry in England and Wales.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Elizabeth Raybould

Elizabeth Raybould, OBE, FRCN, was a British nurse and nursing educator credited with helping to create a new organisational structure for nursing education in Northern Ireland, with a heavy emphasis on the development of nursing as a profession, and the preparation and training of safe practitioners.

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Emily Elizabeth Carpenter

Emily Elizabeth Carpenter (20 January 1917 – 14 March 1991) was a New Zealand university tutor in home science, adult educationalist and consumer advocate.

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English-Speaking Union

The English-Speaking Union (ESU) is an international educational charity which was founded by the journalist Sir Evelyn Wrench in 1918 that aims to bring together and empower people of different languages and cultures, by building skills and confidence in communication, such that individuals realise their potential.

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Equal Opportunities Commission (United Kingdom)

The Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) was an independent non-departmental public body, (NDPB) in the United Kingdom, which tackled sex discrimination and promoted gender equality.

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Exxon

Exxon was the brand name of oil and natural resources company Exxon Corporation, prior to 1972 known as Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.

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Fairbridge (charity)

Fairbridge is a UK charity that supports young people aged 13–25, that has existed since 1987.

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Fawley Refinery

Fawley Refinery is an oil refinery located at Fawley, Hampshire, England.

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Fergus Montgomery

Sir William Fergus Montgomery (25 November 1927 – 19 March 2013) was a British Conservative Member of Parliament for three separate periods, each time representing a different constituency.

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Ferranti

Ferranti or Ferranti International plc was a UK electrical engineering and equipment firm that operated for over a century from 1885 until it went bankrupt in 1993.

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First Norfolk & Suffolk

First Eastern Counties, trading as First Norfolk & Suffolk, is a bus operator providing services in Norfolk and Suffolk in eastern England.

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Fisons

Fisons plc was a British multinational pharmaceutical, scientific instruments and horticultural chemicals company headquartered in Ipswich, United Kingdom.

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Food and Drink Federation

The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) is a membership organisation that represents and advises UK food and drink manufacturers.

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Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), commonly called the Foreign Office, is a department of the Government of the United Kingdom.

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Forestry Commission

The Forestry Commission is a non-ministerial government department responsible for forestry in England and Scotland (on 1 April 2013 Forestry Commission Wales merged with other agencies to become Natural Resources Wales).

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Fort Halstead

Fort Halstead is a research site of Dstl, an executive agency of the UK Ministry of Defence.

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Frank Chapple

Frank Chapple, Baron Chapple of Hoxton (8 August 1921 – 19 October 2004) was general secretary of the Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications and Plumbing Union (EETPU), a leading British trade union.

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Frank Kitson

General Sir Frank Edward Kitson, & Bar, DL (born 15 December 1926) is a retired British Army officer and writer on military subjects, notably low intensity operations.

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Fred Roche

Frederick Lloyd Roche, CBE (11 March 1931 – 9 November 1992), better known as Fred Roche, was an architect, most known for his work in Milton Keynes during the 1970s and for his company Conran Roche in the 1980s.

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Frederic Bennett

Sir Frederic Mackarness Bennett, (2 December 1918 – 14 September 2002), Knight Bachelor (1964), was a journalist, a barrister and a Conservative Party Member of Parliament.

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Gaynes Hall

Gaynes Hall is a Grade II* listed Georgian mansion set in of parkland in the heart of the Cambridgeshire countryside.

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General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress

The General Secretary of the TUC is the chief permanent officer of the Trades Union Congress, and a major figurehead in the trade union movement in the United Kingdom.

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George Mathewson

Sir George Mathewson, CBE (born 14 May 1940 in Dunfermline, Fife) is a British businessman.

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George Wimpey

George Wimpey was formed in 1880 and, based in Hammersmith, operated largely as a road surfacing contractor.

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Gerald Nazareth

Gerald Paul Nazareth, GBS is a senior judge in Hong Kong and Bermuda.

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Girlguiding

Girlguiding is the operating name of The Guide Association, previously named The Girl Guides Association and is the national guiding organisation of the United Kingdom.

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GKN

GKN plc is a British multinational automotive and aerospace components company headquartered in Redditch, Worcestershire.

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Gloucestershire Regiment

The Gloucestershire Regiment, commonly referred to as the Glosters, was a line infantry regiment of the British Army from 1881 until 1994.

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Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital is an acute District General Hospital in Gloucester operated by the Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

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GMB (trade union)

The GMB is a general trade union in the United Kingdom which has more than 631,000 members.

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Gordon Brunton

Sir Gordon Charles Brunton (27 December 1921 – 30 May 2017) was a British businessman, publisher, racehorse owner and breeder.

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Gordon Christie

Gordon Christie (27 August 1914 – 13 June 2001) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

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Gordon Greenidge

Cuthbert Gordon Greenidge MBE (born 1 May 1951) is a former Barbadian first-class cricketer, who played Tests and One Day Internationals for 17 years for West Indies.

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Government House, The Bahamas

Government House is the official residence of the Governor General of the Bahamas.

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Greater Manchester Police

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is the police force responsible for law enforcement within the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester in North West England.

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Grenadier Guards

The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Guildhall School of Music and Drama

The Guildhall School of Music and Drama is an independent music and dramatic arts school which was founded in 1880 in London, England.

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Guy Maunsell

Guy Anson Maunsell (1 September 1884 – 20 June 1961) was the British civil engineer responsible for the design of the World War II Naval sea forts and Army forts used by the United Kingdom for the defence of the Thames and Mersey estuaries.

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Hants and Sussex Aviation

Hants and Sussex Aviation Ltd was an aircraft manufacturer based at Portsmouth Airport, Hampshire, England.

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Harland and Wolff

Harland & Wolff Heavy Industries is a heavy industrial company, specialising in ship repair, conversion, and offshore construction, located in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Hawker Siddeley Switchgear

Hawker Siddeley Switchgear is a British manufacturer of electrical switchgear and overhead line equipment, the company operates a wholly owned subsidiary in Australia.

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Health and Safety Executive

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the body responsible for the encouragement, regulation and enforcement of workplace health, safety and welfare, and for research into occupational risks in Great Britain.

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Heathrow Airport Holdings

Heathrow Airport Holdings Limited, formerly BAA is the United Kingdom-based operator of Heathrow Airport.

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HeavyLift Cargo Airlines

For the former UK Cargo Airline see: Air Foyle HeavyLift HeavyLift Cargo Airlines Pty Ltd is an Australian cargo airline headquartered now in Los Angeles, United States.

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Helen M. Laird

Dr.

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Henry Cooper (educator)

Sir William Henry Cooper (2 October 1909 – 4 September 1990) was a New Zealand educator who served as headmaster of Auckland Grammar School from 1954 to 1972, and later as chancellor of the University of Auckland.

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Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire Services

The title and job role of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Fire and Rescue Services in England, Scotland and Wales is combined with that known as Fire and Rescue Adviser (or Government Fire and Rescue Adviser) appointed by the devolved and National Governments of the United Kingdom.

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Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services

Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), formerly Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC), has statutory responsibility for the inspection of the police forces, and since July 2017 the fire and rescue services, of England and Wales.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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High Court of New Zealand

The High Court of New Zealand is a superior court established in 1841.

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Hilton Carty

Hilton Manasseh Carty, OBE was the Dean of Antigua from 1977 until 1986.

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HM Prison Brixton

HM Prison Brixton is a local men's prison, located in Brixton area of the London Borough of Lambeth, in inner-South London.

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HM Prison Holloway

HM Prison Holloway was a closed category prison for adult women and young offenders in Holloway, London, England, operated by Her Majesty's Prison Service.

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HM Prison Magilligan

HMP Magilligan is a medium security prison run by the Northern Ireland Prison Service situated near Limavady, County Londonderry.

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HM Prison Reading

HM Prison Reading, formerly known as Reading Gaol, is a former prison located in Reading, Berkshire, England.

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Home Office

The Home Office (HO) is a ministerial department of Her Majesty's Government of the United Kingdom, responsible for immigration, security and law and order.

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Hong Kong Police Force

The Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) is the largest disciplined service under the Security Bureau of Hong Kong.

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House of Commons Library

The House of Commons Library is the library and information resource of the lower house of the British Parliament.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hu Fa-kuang

Hu Fa-kuang, GBM, CBE, JP (born 14 February 1924) is a Hong Kong businessman and politician.

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Hugh Casson

Sir Hugh Maxwell Casson (23 May 1910, Hampstead, London – 15 August 1999, Chelsea, London) was an English architect, interior designer, artist, and writer and broadcaster on 20th-century design.

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Hugh Trefusis Brassey

Colonel Sir Hugh Trefusis Brassey (5 October 1915 – 1990) was a British soldier and magistrate.

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Hugo White

Admiral Sir Hugo Moresby White, (22 October 1939 – 1 June 2014) was a senior officer of the Royal Navy and subsequently Governor of Gibraltar.

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Ian Arthur Naunton Cook

Colonel Ian Arthur Naunton Cook OBE (1934 – 1994) was Commander of the British Police Mobile Unit in the New Hebrides between 1978 and 1979 and Commander of the Vanuatu Mobile Police Force from Vanuatu’s independence in 1980 until 1984.

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Ian Ferguson (canoeist)

Ian Gordon Ferguson, (born 20 July 1952), is New Zealand's most successful Olympian, competing in K1, K2, and K4 kayak events.

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Ian Thomson (Fiji)

Sir John Sutherland Thomson (8 January 1920 – 13 March 2008), known throughout his life as Ian Thomson and with his knighthood as Sir Ian Thomson, was a British colonial administrator who served in Fiji for 40 years and was also Administrator of the British Virgin Islands.

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Imperial Chemical Industries

Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) was a British chemical company and was, for much of its history, the largest manufacturer in Britain.

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Independent Broadcasting Authority

The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

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Inland Revenue

The Inland Revenue was, until April 2005, a department of the British Government responsible for the collection of direct taxation, including income tax, national insurance contributions, capital gains tax, inheritance tax, corporation tax, petroleum revenue tax and stamp duty.

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Intelligence Corps (United Kingdom)

The Intelligence Corps (Int Corps) is a corps of the British Army.

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International Garden Festival

The International Garden Festival was a garden festival recognised by the International Association of Horticultural producers (AIPH) and the Bureau International des Expositions (BIE), which held in Liverpool, England from 2 May to 14 October 1984.

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International Thomson Organization

International Thomson Organization was a development of the commercial empire founded by Lord Thomson of Fleet (Roy Thomson).

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ITV Yorkshire

ITV Yorkshire is the British television service provided by ITV Broadcasting Limited for the Yorkshire franchise area on the ITV network.

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James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington

James Blyth, Baron Blyth of Rowington (born 8 May 1940) is a British businessman.

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Jane Bown

Jane Hope Bown CBE (13 March 1925 – 21 December 2014) was an English photographer who worked for The Observer newspaper from 1949.

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Jane, Lady Roberts

Dame Priscilla Jane Stephanie Roberts, The Hon.

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Jarrow School

Jarrow School is a coeducational secondary school located in Jarrow, Tyne and Wear, England admitting pupils aged 11 to 16.

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Jeddah

Jeddah (sometimes spelled Jiddah or Jedda;; جدة, Hejazi pronunciation) is a city in the Hijaz Tihamah region on the coast of the Red Sea and is the major urban center of western Saudi Arabia. It is the largest city in Makkah Province, the largest seaport on the Red Sea, and with a population of about four million people, the second-largest city in Saudi Arabia after the capital city, Riyadh. Jeddah is Saudi Arabia's commercial capital. Jeddah is the principal gateway to Mecca and Medina, two of the holiest cities in Islam and popular tourist attractions. Economically, Jeddah is focusing on further developing capital investment in scientific and engineering leadership within Saudi Arabia, and the Middle East. Jeddah was independently ranked fourth in the Africa – Mid-East region in terms of innovation in 2009 in the Innovation Cities Index. Jeddah is one of Saudi Arabia's primary resort cities and was named a Beta world city by the Globalization and World Cities Study Group and Network (GaWC). Given the city's close proximity to the Red Sea, fishing and seafood dominates the food culture unlike other parts of the country. In Arabic, the city's motto is "Jeddah Ghair," which translates to "Jeddah is different." The motto has been widely used among both locals as well as foreign visitors. The city had been previously perceived as the "most open" city in Saudi Arabia.

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Jeffrey Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow

Vice Admiral Jeffrey Maurice Sterling, Baron Sterling of Plaistow, GCVO, CBE (born Steinberg, in Stepney, London 27 December 1934), is a British businessman and Conservative peer.

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Joel Garner

Joel Garner (born 16 December 1952), also known as "Big Joel" or "Big Bird", is a former West Indian cricketer, and a member of the highly regarded late 1970s and early 1980s West Indies cricket teams.

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John Boyd (diplomat)

Sir John Dixon Ikle Boyd KCMG (born 17 January 1936) was the Master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 1996 to 2006.

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John Cadogan

Sir John Ivan George Cadogan HonFREng CBE FRS FRSE FRSC PLSW (born 8 October 1930), commonly known as John Cadogan, is a British scientist specializing in organic chemistry.

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John Cannon (historian)

John Ashton Cannon (born Hertfordshire, 8 October 1926, died Newcastle upon Tyne 25 October 2012) was an English historian specialising in 18th-century British politics.

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John Chapple (British Army officer)

Field Marshal Sir John Lyon Chapple, (born 27 May 1931) was a career British Army officer in the second half of the 20th century.

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John Dellow

Sir John Albert Dellow CBE (born 5 June 1931) is a retired British police officer.

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John Jennings (businessman)

Sir John Southwood Jennings CBE FGS FRSE (born 1937) was the Chancellor of Loughborough University, having previously been chairman of Shell Transport and Trading from 1993 to 1997, and a director until 2001.

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John Kingman

Sir John Frank Charles Kingman (born 28 August 1939) is a British mathematician.

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John McIntyre (theologian)

Very Rev John McIntyre CVO, FRSE (20 May 1916 – 15 December 2005) was a Scottish minister and theologian.

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John Stanton Ward

John Stanton Ward CBE (10 October 1917 - 13 June 2007) was an English portrait artist, landscape painter and illustrator.

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John Watts (British Army officer)

Lieutenant General Sir John Peter Barry Condliffe Watts KBE, CB, MC (27 August 1930 – 10 December 2003) was a British Army officer who became Chief of Defence Staff for the Sultan of Oman's Armed Forces.

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John Weston (diplomat)

Sir (Philip) John Weston KCMG (born 13 April 1938) is a retired British diplomat.

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Johnny Henderson

Major John Ronald Henderson (6 May 1920 – 6 December 2003) was an English soldier and Aide-de-camp to Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein.

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Joseph Gilbert (RAF officer)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Joseph Alfred Gilbert, (born 15 June 1931) is a former Royal Air Force officer who served as Deputy Commander of Strike Command from 1984 to 1986.

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Josephine Barstow

Dame Josephine Clare Barstow, DBE (born 27 September 1940) is an English opera singer and soprano.

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Keith Burch

Major-General Keith Burch CB CBE (31 May 1931 – 27 March 2013) was a senior officer in the British Army.

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Keith Fletcher

Keith William Robert Fletcher OBE (born 20 May 1944) is an English former first-class cricketer who played for Essex and England.

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Kenny Dalglish

Sir Kenneth Mathieson Dalglish MBE (born 4 March 1951) is a Scottish former football player and manager.

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Kent County Council

Kent County Council is a county council that governs most of the county of Kent in England.

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Kent Police

Kent Police is the territorial police force for Kent in England.

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Kigali

Kigali is the capital and largest city of Rwanda.

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King's Regiment

The King's Regiment, officially abbreviated as KINGS, was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division.

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Kingston Hospital

Kingston Hospital is an acute hospital in Kingston upon Thames.

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Kitakyushu

is one of two designated cities in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan, together with Fukuoka, with a population of just under 1 million people.

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Lancashire Constabulary

Lancashire Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing the ceremonial county of Lancashire in North West England.

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Law Society of Scotland

The Law Society of Scotland is the professional governing body for Scottish solicitors.

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Lawn Tennis Association

The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is the national governing body of tennis in Great Britain, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

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Len Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest

Lionel Murray, Baron Murray of Epping Forest, (2 August 1922 – 20 May 2004) was a British Labour Party politician and trade union leader.

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Leo Bensemann

Leo Vernon Bensemann, (1 May 1912 – 2 January 1986), was a New Zealand artist, printer, typographer, publisher and editor.

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Leopold David de Rothschild

Leopold David de Rothschild, CBE, FRCM (12 May 1927 – 19 April 2012) was a British financier, musician, and a member of the Rothschild banking family of England.

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Lewis

Lewis (Leòdhas,, also Isle of Lewis) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland.

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LGC Ltd

LGC Limited, formerly the Laboratory of the Government Chemist, is an international life sciences measurement and testing company.

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Liberal Party (UK)

The Liberal Party was one of the two major parties in the United Kingdom – with the opposing Conservative Party – in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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Light infantry

Light infantry is a designation applied to certain types of foot soldiers (infantry) throughout history, typically having lighter equipment or armament or a more mobile or fluid function than other types of infantry, such as heavy infantry or line infantry.

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Lincolnshire Police

Lincolnshire Police is the territorial police force covering the non-metropolitan county of Lincolnshire in the East Midlands of England.

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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ireland

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Ireland is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Ireland and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Ireland.

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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Mexico

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Mexico is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in the United States of Mexico, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Mexico City.

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List of ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Turkey

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Turkey is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Republic of Turkey, and head of the UK's diplomatic mission in Ankara.

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List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Norway

The Ambassador of the United Kingdom to Norway is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative in Norway, and in charge of the UK's diplomatic mission in Norway.

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List of High Commissioners of the United Kingdom to the Bahamas

The High Commissioner of the United Kingdom to the Bahamas is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

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London Bach Society

The London Bach Society is a society devoted to performing the music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) with small, professional forces, using period instruments in order to obtain an authentic style of interpretation.

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London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham

The London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham is a London borough partly in West London (Hammersmith, West Kensington) and partly in South West London (Fulham), and forms part of Inner London.

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London Councils

London Councils is the local government association for Greater London, England.

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London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange

The London International Financial Futures and Options Exchange (LIFFE, pronounced 'life') is a futures exchange based in London.

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London Regional Transport

London Regional Transport (LRT) was the organisation responsible for the public transport network in Greater London, England between 1984 and 2000.

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Lord Chancellor's Department

The Lord Chancellor's Department was a United Kingdom government department answerable to the Lord Chancellor with jurisdiction over England and Wales.

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Lothian and Borders Police

Lothian and Borders Police was the territorial police force for the Scottish council areas of the City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, Scottish Borders and West Lothian between 1975 and 2013.

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Louis Lillywhite

Lieutenant General Louis Patrick Lillywhite (born 23 February 1948) is a retired British Army physician and officer.

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Lucas Industries

Lucas Industries plc was a Birmingham-based British manufacturer of motor industry and aerospace industry components.

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Maltby Main Colliery

Maltby Main Colliery was a coal mine situated on the eastern edge of the township of Maltby, South Yorkshire, England, some east of Rotherham.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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Manchester City Council

Manchester City Council is the local government authority for Manchester, a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England.

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Manchester Ship Canal

The Manchester Ship Canal is a inland waterway in the North West of England linking Manchester to the Irish Sea.

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Mangaia

Mangaia (traditionally known as A'ua'u Enua, which means terraced) is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga.

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Marconi Electronic Systems

Marconi Electronic Systems (MES), or GEC-Marconi as it was until 1998, was the defence arm of The General Electric Company (GEC).

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Marianne Straub

Marianne Straub OBE (23 September 1909 – 8 November 1994) was one of the leading commercial designers of textiles in Britain in the period from the 1940s to 1960s.

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Mark Todd (equestrian)

Sir Mark James Todd (born 1 March 1956) is a New Zealand horseman noted for his accomplishments in the discipline of eventing, voted Rider of the 20th century by the International Federation for Equestrian Sports.

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Martin-Baker

Martin-Baker Aircraft Co.

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Mary Charles George

Mary Charles George O.B.E. (10 May 1913 — 18 March 2008) was a Kittitian educator.

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Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock

Helen Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, (née Wilson; born 14 April 1924) is an English philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on existentialism.

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Massey Ferguson

Massey Ferguson Limited is an American-owned major manufacturer of agricultural equipment, based in Brantford, Ontario, Canada until March 4, 1988.

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Mauritius Police Force

The Mauritius Police Force (MPF) is the national law enforcement agency of Mauritius.

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Meat and Livestock Commission

The Meat and Livestock Commission, (MLC), was set up by the UK Government under the Agriculture Act 1967 with Government money with the remit to promote the sale of red meat.

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Merseyside Development Corporation

The Merseyside Development Corporation was a central government-appointed Development Corporation set up in 1981 by Margaret Thatcher's government to regenerate the Mersey docks of Liverpool, Bootle, Wallasey and Birkenhead.

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Merseyside Police

Merseyside Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Merseyside in North West England.

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Metropolitan Police Service

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS), commonly known as the Metropolitan Police and informally as the Met, is the territorial police force responsible for law enforcement in Greater London, excluding the "square mile" of the City of London, which is the responsibility of the City of London Police.

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Metropolitan Special Constabulary

The Metropolitan Special Constabulary (MSC) is the part-time volunteer police force of the Metropolitan Police Service.

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Michael Carlisle

Sir John Michael Carlisle was born in Sheffield and educated at King Edward VII School, and then the University of Sheffield where he studied mechanical engineering.

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Michael Colborne

Michael Colborne LVO (20 January 1934 - 21 September 2017) was a Royal Navy officer and private secretary to Charles, Prince of Wales, and later the Duke of Westminster.

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Michael David Thomas

Michael David Thomas, CMG, QC, SC (born on 8 September 1933) is a retired barrister, who served as the penultimate Attorney General of Hong Kong before the Transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong in 1997.

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Michael Oliver (cardiologist)

Professor Michael Francis Oliver CBE, FRCP, FRSE (1925-2015) was a British cardiologist.

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Michael Quinlan (civil servant)

Sir Michael Edward Quinlan, GCB (11 August 1930 – 26 February 2009) was a distinguished former British defence strategist and former Permanent Under-Secretary of State (generally known as the Permanent Secretary) at the British Ministry of Defence, who wrote and lectured on defence and matters of international security, especially nuclear weapon policies and doctrine, and also on concepts of ‘Just War’ and related ethical issues.

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Michael Rutter

Sir Michael Llewellyn Rutter CBE FRS FRCP FRCPsych FMedSci (born 15 August 1933) was the first professor of child psychiatry in the United Kingdom.

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Michael Shea (diplomat)

Michael Sinclair MacAuslan Shea, CVO (10 May 1938 in Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland – 17 October 2009) was press secretary to Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom from 1978 to 1987.

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Michael Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham

Field Marshal Michael John Dawson Walker, Baron Walker of Aldringham, (born 7 July 1944) is a retired British Army officer.

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Middlesbrough Council

Middlesbrough Council, formerly known as Middlesbrough Borough Council is the local council of Middlesbrough.

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Miles Warren

Sir Frederick Miles Warren, (born 1929), is a New Zealand architect.

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Milk Marketing Board

The Milk Marketing Board was a producer-run product marketing board, established by the Agricultural Marketing Act in 1933 to control milk production and distribution in the United Kingdom.

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Ministry of Defence (United Kingdom)

The Ministry of Defence (MoD or MOD) is the British government department responsible for implementing the defence policy set by Her Majesty's Government and is the headquarters of the British Armed Forces.

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Ministry of Defence Police

The Ministry of Defence Police (MDP) is a civilian special police force which is part of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defence.

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Mollie McGeown

Mary Graham "Mollie" McGeown (19 July 1923 – 21 November 2004) was a Northern Irish nephrologist and biochemist.

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Moorfields Eye Hospital

Moorfields Eye Hospital is a specialist NHS eye hospital in London, England run by Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

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Morgan Morgan-Giles

Rear-Admiral Sir Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles (19 June 1914 – 4 May 2013) was a Royal Navy officer, decorated during the Second World War, who later served as a Conservative Member of Parliament.

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Mullard

Mullard Limited was a British manufacturer of electronic components.

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Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain

The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (MS Society) is a charitable organisation with Charitable Company status.

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Museum of Science and Industry (Manchester)

The Museum of Science and Industry (MSI or formerly known as MOSI) in Manchester, England, is a large museum devoted to the development of science, technology and industry with emphasis on the city's achievements in these fields.

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Musgrave Park Hospital

Musgrave Park Hospital is a regional specialist hospital, managed by Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Naomi Mitchison

Naomi Mary Margaret Mitchison, Baroness Mitchison, CBE (née Haldane; 1 November 1897 – 11 January 1999) was a Scottish novelist and poet.

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National Car Parks

National Car Parks (NCP) is the United Kingdom's largest and longest-standing private car park operator, with over 150,000 spaces across more than 500 car parks in towns, cities, airports and London Underground and National Rail stations.

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National Coal Board

The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom.

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National Foundation for Educational Research

The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) was founded in 1946 as a centre for educational research and development in England and Wales.

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National Institute for Medical Research

The National Institute for Medical Research (commonly abbreviated to NIMR), was a medical research institute based in Mill Hill, on the outskirts of London, England.

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National Maritime Museum

The National Maritime Museum (NMM) in Greenwich, London, is the leading maritime museum of the United Kingdom and may be the largest museum of its kind in the world.

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National Oceanography Centre

The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is a marine science research and technology institution based on two sites in Southampton and Liverpool, United Kingdom.

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National Physical Laboratory (United Kingdom)

The National Physical Laboratory (NPL) is the national measurement standards laboratory for the United Kingdom, based at Bushy Park in Teddington, London, England.

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National Semiconductor

National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer which specialized in analog devices and subsystems, formerly with headquarters in Santa Clara, California, United States.

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National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty

The National Trust, formally the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, is a conservation organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the largest membership organisation in the United Kingdom.

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Natural Environment Research Council

The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) is a British Research Council that supports research, training and knowledge transfer activities in the environmental sciences.

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Nature Conservancy Council

The Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) was a United Kingdom government agency responsible for designating and managing National Nature Reserves and other nature conservation areas in Great Britain between 1973 and 1991 (it did not cover Northern Ireland).

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Nautilus International

Nautilus International is an international trades union and professional association representing seafarers and allied workers, which is based in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

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Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes

The Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes (NAAFI) is an organisation created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the British Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families.

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Neville Lumb

Neville Lumb are a supplier of commercial sanitaryware, part of the Saint-Gobain group.

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Neville Pickering

Neville George Pickering (18 November 1923 – 25 June 1988) was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.

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New College Worcester

New College Worcester (or NCW; formerly RNIB New College) is an independent boarding and day school for students, aged 11–19, who are blind or partially sighted.

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New Zealand Fire Service

The New Zealand Fire Service (NZFS, Whakaratonga Iwi, "Service to the People") was New Zealand's main firefighting body from 1 April 1976 until 1 July 2017 - at which point it was dissolved and incorporated into the new Fire and Emergency New Zealand.

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New Zealand Law Society

The New Zealand Law Society is the parent body for barristers and solicitors in New Zealand.

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Newcastle University

Newcastle University (officially, the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a public research university in Newcastle upon Tyne in the North-East of England.

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NI Railways

NI Railways, also known as Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) and for a brief period Ulster Transport Railways (UTR), is the railway operator in Northern Ireland.

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Nicholas Freeman

Nicholas Hall Freeman (25 July 1939 - 11 November 1989), OBE (1985) was the Conservative Party leader of the London Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council in the United Kingdom from 1977 until 1989; he was also its mayor in 1988.

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Nicholas Hunt

Admiral Sir Nicholas John Streynsham Hunt (7 November 1930 – 25 October 2013) was a senior Royal Navy officer.

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Nick Whitehead

Neville Joseph "Nick" Whitehead (29 May 1933 – 6 October 2002) was a Welsh sprinter.

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Nigel Vinson, Baron Vinson

Nigel Vinson, Baron Vinson, LVO (born 27 January 1931) is a British businessman/inventor and Conservative member of the House of Lords.

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Noelle Barker

Noelle Barker OBE (28 December 1928 – 15 May 2013) was a soprano singer and singing teacher.

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Norfolk Constabulary

Norfolk Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for the county of Norfolk in England.

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Northampton General Hospital

Northampton General Hospital is a NHS Trust hospital in Northampton, Northamptonshire, England.

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Northern Ireland Civil Service

The Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS; Státseirbhís Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlann Cïvil Sarvice) is the permanent bureaucracy of employees that supports the Northern Ireland Executive, the devolved government of Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service

The Northern Ireland Courts and Tribunals Service (Seirbhís Cúirte Thuaisceart Éireann; Ulster-Scots: Norlin Airlan Coort Service) runs the courts of Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland Housing Executive

The Northern Ireland Housing Executive is the public housing authority for Northern Ireland.

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Norwich City Council

Norwich City Council is the city council for the city of Norwich in Norfolk, England.

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Notre Dame High School, Glasgow

Notre Dame High School is a comprehensive state school for girls located on Observatory Road in Glasgow, Scotland, and founded in 1897.

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Nottinghamshire Police

Nottinghamshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing the shire county of Nottinghamshire and the unitary authority of Nottingham in the East Midlands of England.

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Nuffield Lodge

Nuffield Lodge is a house on Prince Albert Road, Regent's Park, London, England.

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Nursing Times

Nursing Times is a monthly magazine for nurses in the United Kingdom.

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Ocean Group plc

Ocean Group plc was a major British transport business.

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OECD

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD; Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques, OCDE) is an intergovernmental economic organisation with 35 member countries, founded in 1961 to stimulate economic progress and world trade.

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Office of Public Sector Information

The Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) is the body responsible for the operation of Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO) and of other public information services of the United Kingdom.

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Officers' Training Corps

The Officers' Training Corps (OTC), more fully called the University Officers' Training Corps (UOTC), are military leadership training units similar to a university club but operated by the British Army.

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Official receiver

An officer of the Insolvency Service of the United Kingdom, an official receiver (OR) is an officer of the court to which he is attached.

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Orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms

This article concerns the orders and decorations of the Commonwealth realms awarded by the sovereign in right of each nation.

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Ordnance Survey

Ordnance Survey (OS) is a national mapping agency in the United Kingdom which covers the island of Great Britain.

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Overseas Containers

Overseas Containers Limited (OCL) was a container shipping company formed by a consortium of British shipping companies in 1965.

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Oxfordshire County Council

Oxfordshire County Council, established in 1889, is the county council, or upper-tier local authority, for the non-metropolitan county of Oxfordshire, in the South East of England, an elected body responsible for the most strategic local government services in the county.

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P&O (company)

P&O (formerly the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company) was a British shipping and logistics company dating from the early 19th century.

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P&O Ferries

P&O Ferries is a British-based company that operates ferries from the United Kingdom to Ireland and Continental Europe (France, Belgium and the Netherlands).

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Palmerston North Boys' High School

Palmerston North Boys' High School is a traditional boys school located in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

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Papua New Guinea Defence Force

The Papua New Guinea Defence Force (PNGDF) is the military organisation responsible for the defence of Papua New Guinea.

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Parachute Regiment (United Kingdom)

The Parachute Regiment, colloquially known as the Paras, is an elite airborne infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Parker Hannifin

Parker Hannifin Corporation, originally Parker Appliance Company, usually referred to as just Parker, is an American corporation specializing in motion and control technologies.

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Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree

Arthur Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree, PC (14 September 1924 – 1 April 2009) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Paul Fox (television executive)

Sir Paul Leonard Fox, CBE (born 27 October 1925) is a British television executive, who spent much of his broadcasting career working for BBC Television, most prominently as the Controller of BBC1 between 1967 and 1973.

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Paul Steinitz

Paul Steinitz OBE (25 August 1909 – 21 April 1988) was a pioneer in the post-war interpretation of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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Peggy Lam

Peggy LAM PEI Yu-dja, GBS, OBE (born 1928) is a Hong Kong politician and activist.

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Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations

The permanent representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations is the United Kingdom's foremost diplomatic representative to the United Nations, and in charge of the United Kingdom Mission to the United Nations (UKMIS).

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Permanent Secretary

The Permanent Secretary, in most departments officially titled the Permanent Under-secretary of State or PUS (although the full title is rarely used), is the most senior civil servant of a British Government ministry, charged with running the department on a day-to-day basis.

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Peter John Harding

Air Vice-Marshal Peter John Harding, CB, CVO, CBE, AFC (1 June 1940 – 27 December 2013) was a senior Royal Air Force officer who served as Defence Services Secretary from 1994 to 1998.

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Peter Tapsell (British politician)

Sir Peter Hannay Bailey Tapsell (born 1 February 1930) is a British Conservative Party politician and former Member of Parliament (MP) for Louth and Horncastle.

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Philip Ledger

Sir Philip Stevens Ledger, FRSE CBE (12 December 193718 November 2012) was an English classical musician and academic.

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Plas Gwynant

Plas Gwynant is an educational resort in Snowdonia, Wales.

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Post Office Ltd

Post Office Ltd (Swyddfa’r Post Cyf.; Oifis a' Phuist) is a retail post office company in the United Kingdom that provides a wide range of products including postage stamps and banking to the public through its nationwide network of post office branches.

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Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire

The Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division.

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Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service

Princess Mary's Royal Air Force Nursing Service (PMRAFNS) is the nursing branch of the British Royal Air Force.

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Private bill

A private bill is a proposal for a law that would apply to a particular individual or group of individuals, or corporate entity.

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Quantel

Quantel was a company based in the United Kingdom and founded in 1973 that designed and manufactured digital production equipment for the broadcast television, video production and motion picture industries.

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Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps

Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps (QARANC; pronounced kwa-rank) is the nursing branch of the British Army and part of the Army Medical Services.

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Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service

Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (QARNNS) is the nursing branch of the British Royal Navy.

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Queen's Lancashire Regiment

The Queen's Lancashire Regiment (30th, 40th, 47th, 59th, 81st and 82nd Regiments of Foot) (QLR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the King's Division.

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Queen's Regiment

The Queen's Regiment was an infantry regiment of the British Army formed in 1966 through the amalgamation of the four regiments of the Home Counties Brigade.

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R. M. Williams

Reginald Murray Williams AO, CMG (24 May 19084 November 2003) was an Australian bushman and entrepreneur who rose from a swagman to a millionaire.

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Randolph Quirk

Charles Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk, CBE, FBA (12 July 1920 – 20 December 2017) was a British linguist and life peer.

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Rank Hovis McDougall

RHM plc, formerly Ranks Hovis McDougall, was a United Kingdom food business.

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Regent's Park

Regent's Park (officially The Regent's Park) is one of the Royal Parks of London.

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Reginald Goodall

Sir Reginald Goodall (13 July 1901 – 5 May 1990) was an English fascist, singing coach and conductor noted for his performances of the operas of Richard Wagner and for conducting the premieres of several operas by Benjamin Britten.

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Relate

Relate is a charity providing relationship support throughout the United Kingdom.

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Remploy

Remploy is an organisation in the United Kingdom which provides employment placement services for disabled people.

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Research fellow

A research fellow is an academic research position at a university or a similar research institution, usually for academic staff or faculty members.

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Retail Motor Industry Federation

The Retail Motor Industry Federation (RMI) represents the interests of motor industry operators in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man, providing sales and services to motorists and businesses.

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Returned and Services League of Australia

The Returned and Services League, Australia (RSL) is a support organisation for men and women who have served or are serving in the Defence Force.

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Rewi Alley

Rewi Alley (known in China as 路易•艾黎, Lùyì Àilí, 2 December 1897 – 27 December 1987) was a New Zealand-born writer and political activist.

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Richard Demarco

Richard Demarco, CBE (born 1930 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish artist and promoter of the visual and performing arts.

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Richard Johns

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Edward Johns, (born 28 July 1939) is a retired senior Royal Air Force commander.

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Richmondshire

Richmondshire is a local government district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Robert Haslam (industrialist)

Robert Haslam, Baron Haslam (4 February 1923 in Bolton, Lancashire – 2 November 2002 in Virginia Water, Surrey), was a British industrialist and chairman of British Steel Corporation and British Coal.

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Robert Hunt (police officer)

Robert Alan Hunt (6 July 193515 May 2013) was a senior British police officer.

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Robin Nicholson (metallurgist)

Sir Robin Buchanan Nicholson, FRS, FREng (born 12 August 1934 Warwickshire England) was a university and then industrial metallurgist, who served as Chief Scientific Adviser, Cabinet Office, from 1983 to 1985.

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Roger Lobo

Sir Rogério Hyndman Lobo, CBE, JP (15 September 1923 - 18 April 2015), generally known as Roger Lobo, was a British businessman of Hong Kong-Macanese, Portuguese and Scottish descent.

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Rolls-Royce Limited

Rolls-Royce was a British luxury car and later an aero engine manufacturing business established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

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Rosalind Wade

Rosalind Wade OBE (1909-1989), who also wrote under the name Catharine Carr,was a British novelist and short story writer.

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Royal Academy of Dance

The Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) is a UK-based examination board specialising in dance education and training, with an emphasis on classical ballet.

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Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's aerial warfare force.

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Royal Air Forces Association

The Royal Air Forces Association (also called RAF Association or RAFA) is the largest single Service membership organisation and the longest standing registered service charity that provides welfare support to the RAF Family - providing friendship, help and support to current and former members of the Royal Air Force and their dependants.

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Royal Anglian Regiment

The Royal Anglian Regiment (R ANGLIAN) is an infantry regiment of the British Army.

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Royal Army Dental Corps

The Royal Army Dental Corps (RADC) is a specialist corps in the British Army that provides oral hygiene services to British Army personnel and their families in war and in peace.

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Royal Army Educational Corps

The Royal Army Educational Corps (RAEC) was a corps of the British Army tasked with educating and instructing personnel in a diverse range of skills.

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Royal Army Medical Corps

The Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) is a specialist corps in the British Army which provides medical services to all Army personnel and their families, in war and in peace.

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Royal Army Ordnance Corps

The Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC) was a corps of the British Army.

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Royal Army Physical Training Corps

The Royal Army Physical Training Corps (RAPTC) is the British Army corps responsible for physical fitness and physical education and is headquartered in Aldershot.

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Royal Artillery

The Royal Regiment of Artillery, commonly referred to as the Royal Artillery (RA) and colloquially known as "The Gunners", is the artillery arm of the British Army.

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Royal Bahamas Police Force

The Royal Bahamas Police Force is the national law enforcement agency of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.

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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) is an inner London borough of royal status.

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Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) is the regulatory body for veterinary surgeons in the United Kingdom, established in 1844 by Royal Charter.

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Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, (Scottish Gaelic: Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba) formerly the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, is a conservatoire of dance, drama, music, production and film in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.

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Royal Corps of Signals

The Royal Corps of Signals (often simply known as the Royal Signals - abbreviated to R SIGNALS) is one of the combat support arms of the British Army.

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Royal Corps of Transport

The Royal Corps of Transport (RCT) was a British Army Corps established to manage all matters in relation to the transport of men and material for the Army and the wider Defence community.

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Royal Dutch Shell

Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known as Shell, is a British–Dutch multinational oil and gas company headquartered in the Netherlands and incorporated in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

The Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME; pronounced phonetically as "Reemee" with stress on the first syllable) is a corps of the British Army that maintains the equipment that the Army uses.

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Royal Engineers

The Corps of Royal Engineers, usually just called the Royal Engineers (RE), and commonly known as the Sappers, is one of the corps of the British Army.

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Royal Green Jackets

The Royal Green Jackets (RGJ) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, one of two "large regiments" within the Light Division (the other being The Light Infantry).

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Royal Hong Kong Regiment

The Royal Hong Kong Regiment (The Volunteers) (RHKR(V)), formed in May 1854, was a local auxiliary militia force funded and administered by the colonial Government of Hong Kong.

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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) is a professional body that accredits professionals within the land, property, construction, and infrastructure sectors worldwide.

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Royal Irish Rangers

The Royal Irish Rangers (27th (Inniskilling), 83rd and 87th) was a regular infantry regiment of the British Army with a relatively short existence, formed in 1968 and later merged with the Ulster Defence Regiment in 1992 to form the Royal Irish Regiment.

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Royal Military Police

The Royal Military Police (RMP) is the corps of the British Army responsible for the policing of army service personnel, and for providing a military police presence both in the UK and while service personnel are deployed overseas on operations and exercises.

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Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers

The Royal Monmouthshire Royal Engineers (Militia) (R MON RE(M)) is the most senior regiment in the British Army Reserve, having given continuous loyal service to the crown since 1539.

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Royal National Lifeboat Institution

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) is the largest charity that saves lives at sea around the coasts of the UK, the Republic of Ireland, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as well as on some inland waterways.

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Royal Navy

The Royal Navy (RN) is the United Kingdom's naval warfare force.

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Royal Observer Corps

The Royal Observer Corps (ROC) was a civil defence organisation intended for the visual detection, identification, tracking and reporting of aircraft over Great Britain.

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Royal Orthopaedic Hospital

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital is a National Health Service hospital situated in Northfield, Birmingham, England.

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Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary

The Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary (RPNGC) is a national police force with jurisdiction throughout all of Papua New Guinea.

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Royal Regiment of Wales

The Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) was an infantry regiment of the British Army, part of the Prince of Wales' Division.

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Royal Scots

The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment), once known as the Royal Regiment of Foot, was the oldest and most senior infantry regiment of the line of the British Army, having been raised in 1633 during the reign of Charles I of Scotland.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Royal Society

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, commonly known as the Royal Society, is a learned society.

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Royal Society for the Blind

The Royal Society for the Blind (RSB) is a not-for-profit organisation providing services to over 11,000 South Australians who are blind or vision impaired.

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Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is a charitable organisation registered in England and Wales and in Scotland.

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Royal Solomon Islands Police Force

The Royal Solomon Islands Police Force (RSIPF) is the national police force of Solomon Islands and in January 2015 had an establishment of approximately 1,153 officers and 43 police stations across the country.

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Royal Ulster Constabulary

The Royal Ulster Constabulary was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001.

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Royal Voluntary Service

The Royal Voluntary Service (known as the Women's Voluntary Services (WVS) from 1938 to 1966; Women's Royal Voluntary Service (WRVS) from 1966 to 2004 and WRVS from 2004 to 2013) is a voluntary organisation concerned with helping people in need throughout England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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RSA Insurance Group

RSA Insurance Group plc (trading as RSA, formerly Royal and Sun Alliance) is a British multinational general insurance company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Russell Coutts

Sir Russell Coutts (born 1 March 1962) is a World Champion New Zealand yachtsman.

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Ruth Wilkinson (community leader)

Ruth Wilkinson (née Webb, 8 February 1901 – 14 December 1985) was a community leader and local historian in New Zealand.

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Saga plc

Saga is a British company focused on serving the needs of those aged 50 and over.

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Salt Island, British Virgin Islands

Salt Island is one of the islands of the archipelago of the British Virgin Islands located about 4.7 miles south east (151 degrees true) of Road Town, the main town on Tortola.

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Save the Children

The Save the Children Fund, commonly known as Save the Children, is an international non-governmental organisation that promotes children's rights, provides relief and helps support children in developing countries.

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São Paulo

São Paulo is a municipality in the southeast region of Brazil.

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Science and Engineering Research Council

The Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC) was the UK agency in charge of publicly funded scientific and engineering research activities, including astronomy, biotechnology and biological sciences, space research and particle physics, between 1965 and 1994.

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Scots Guards

The Scots Guards (SG), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army.

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Scottish Enterprise

Scottish Enterprise is a sponsored non-departmental public body of the Scottish Government which encourages economic development, enterprise, innovation and investment in business.

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Scottish Natural Heritage

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH; Dualchas Nàdair na h-Alba) is the Scottish public body responsible for the country's natural heritage, especially its natural, genetic and scenic diversity.

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Scottish Office

The Scottish Office was a department of the United Kingdom Government from 1885 until 1999, exercising a wide range of government functions in relation to Scotland under the control of the Secretary of State for Scotland.

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Scottish Prison Service

The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) (Seirbheis nam Prìosan Albannach) is an executive agency of the Scottish Government tasked with managing prisons and Young Offender Institutions.

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Sea Cadets

Sea Cadets are members of a Sea Cadet Corps, a formal uniformed youth organisation for young people with an interest in water borne activities and or the national Navy.

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Secretary for Justice (Hong Kong)

The Secretary for Justice is the head of the Hong Kong Department of Justice, the chief legal advisor to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, and the chief law enforcement officer of the Government of Hong Kong.

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Secretary of State for Employment

The Secretary of State for Employment was a position in the Cabinet of the United Kingdom.

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Secretary of State for the Environment

The Secretary of State for the Environment was a UK cabinet position, responsible for the Department of the Environment (DoE).

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Selly Oak Colleges

Selly Oak Colleges was a federation of educational facilities, primarily concerned with theology, social work and teacher training, in Selly Oak, Birmingham, England.

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Services Sound and Vision Corporation

The Services Sound and Vision Corporation (SSVC) is a British registered charity.

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Shildon railway works

Shildon railway works opened in 1833 in the town of Shildon in County Durham, England.

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Shona Dunlop MacTavish

Shona Katrine Dunlop MacTavish (born 12 April 1920 in Dunedin) is a New Zealand dancer, teacher, author, critic, choreographer and pioneer in liturgical dance in the Asia-Pacific.

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Sidney De Haan

Sidney Isaac De Haan, OBE (1919–2002) was the founder of Saga, an internationally known group of companies providing a wide range of services for people aged 50 and over.

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Simon Carves

Simon Carves Engineering Ltd is a British, full-service Process Engineering Contractor headquartered in Manchester, United Kingdom.

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Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet

Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 10th Baronet (born 9 April 1926) is a retired British soldier and former Lord Lieutenant of East Lothian.

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Smithfield Show

The Smithfield Show, formerly the Smithfield Club Cattle Show and later the Royal Smithfield Show, was an annual British agricultural show, organised by the Royal Smithfield Club.

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SodaStream

SodaStream International Ltd. is an Israeli manufacturing company best known as the maker of the consumer home carbonation product of the same name.

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South Wales Echo

The South Wales Echo is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Cardiff, Wales and distributed throughout the surrounding area.

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South Yorkshire Police

South Yorkshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing South Yorkshire in England.

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Special Air Service

The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army.

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Springfields

Springfields is a nuclear fuel production installation in Salwick, near Preston in Lancashire, England.

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SSAFA

SSAFA - the Armed Forces charity, formerly known as Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association, is a UK charity that provides lifelong support to serving men and women and veterans from the British Armed Forces and their families or dependents.

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St Andrews Links

St Andrews Links in the town of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland, is regarded as the "Home of Golf".

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St Bernard's Hospital

St Bernard's Hospital is the only civilian general hospital in the British overseas territory of Gibraltar.

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St Hugh's College, Oxford

St Hugh's College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

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St John Ambulance

St John Ambulance is a trade name used by a number of affiliated organisations in different countries, counties, states or provinces dedicated to the teaching and practice of medical first aid and the provision of ambulance and community volunteer services, all of which derive their origins from the St John Ambulance Association founded in 1877 in the United Kingdom.

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St Thomas' Hospital

St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England.

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Staffordshire Police

Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England.

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Stagecoach in Warwickshire

Stagecoach in Warwickshire Midland Red (South) Limited is a bus operator in and around the county of Warwickshire.

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Stanislaus A. James

Sir Stanislaus James (November 13, 1919 – May 26, 2011) was a Saint Lucian educator, administrator and Governor-General.

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Stephen Cheong

Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen, CBE, JP (31 May 1941 – 18 May 1993) was a Hong Kong industrialist and politician.

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Strathclyde

Strathclyde (Srath Chluaidh in Gaelic, meaning "strath (valley) of the River Clyde") was one of nine former local government regions of Scotland created by the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and abolished in 1996 by the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.

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Strathclyde Police

Strathclyde Police was the territorial police force responsible for the Scottish council areas of Argyll and Bute, City of Glasgow, East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North Ayrshire, North Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, South Ayrshire, South Lanarkshire and West Dunbartonshire (The former Strathclyde local government region) between 1975 and 2013.

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Suffolk Constabulary

Suffolk Constabulary is the territorial police force responsible for policing Suffolk in East Anglia, England.

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Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service

Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service is the statutory fire and rescue service covering Suffolk in East Anglia, England.

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Surrey County Council

Surrey County Council is the county council administering certain services in the non-metropolitan county of Surrey in England.

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Swan Hunter

Swan Hunter, formerly known as "Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson", is a shipbuilding design, engineering, and management company, based in Wallsend, Tyne and Wear.

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Tain & District Museum

The Tain & District Museum, is located in Tain, Ross-shire, Scotland.

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Tate & Lyle

Tate & Lyle plc is a British-based multinational agribusiness.

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Taylor Hobson

Taylor Hobson is an English company founded in 1886 and located in Leicester, England.

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Tayside

Tayside (Taobh Tatha) was a local government region of Scotland from 15 May 1975 to 31 March 1996.

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Territorial, Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Association

The Territorial Auxiliary and Volunteer Reserve Associations were formed in 1908 under the provisions of the Territorial and Reserve Forces Act 1907 to provide local support to the Territorial Force in the United Kingdom.

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Tessa Sanderson

Theresa Ione "Tessa" Sanderson, (born 14 March 1956) is an English former javelin thrower and heptathlete.

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The Contemporary Review

The Contemporary Review is a British biannual, formerly quarterly, magazine.

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The Courier (Dundee)

The Courier & Advertiser, more commonly known as simply The Courier, is a newspaper published by D. C. Thomson & Co. in Dundee, Scotland.

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The Guinness Partnership

The Guinness Partnership is one of the largest providers of affordable housing and care in England.

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The Hoover Company

Hoover is a vacuum cleaner company founded in Ohio in the US.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Royal British Legion

The Royal British Legion (RBL), sometimes called The British Legion or The Legion, is a British charity providing financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the British Armed Forces, their families and dependants.

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The Scout Association

The Scout Association is the largest Scouting organisation in the United Kingdom and is the World Organization of the Scout Movement's recognised member for the United Kingdom (UK).

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Thomas Kennedy (RAF officer)

Air Chief Marshal Sir Thomas Lawrie "Jock" Kennedy, (19 May 1928 – 18 November 2013) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

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Thomas Patton

Thomas William Saunderson Patton OBE (27 July 1914 – 20 October 1993), often known as Tommy Patton, was an Ulster unionist politician.

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Thorn EMI

Thorn EMI was a major British company involved in consumer electronics, music, defence and retail.

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Torbay (UK Parliament constituency)

Torbay is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2015 by Kevin Foster, a Conservative.

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Track Marshall

Track Marshall was a brand of earthmoving equipment who were active during WWII building tanks.

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Trades Union Congress

The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is a national trade union centre, a federation of trade unions in England and Wales, representing the majority of trade unions.

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Transport and General Workers' Union

The Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU or T&G) was one of the largest general trade unions in the United Kingdom and Ireland - where it was known as the Amalgamated Transport and General Workers' Union (ATGWU) to differentiate itself from the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union - with 900,000 members (and was once the largest trade union in the world).

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Trinity House

The Corporation of Trinity House of Deptford Strond, known as Trinity House (formally The Master Wardens and Assistants of the Guild Fraternity or Brotherhood of the most glorious and undivided Trinity and of St. Clement in the Parish of Deptford Strond in the County of Kent), is a private corporation governed under a Royal Charter (rather than a non-departmental public body).

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Trollope & Colls

Trollope & Colls was once one of the United Kingdom's largest construction companies.

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Unilever

Unilever () is a British-Dutch transnational consumer goods company co-headquartered in London, United Kingdom and Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians

The Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT) was a British and Irish trade union, operating in the construction industry.

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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

The United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) is a UK government research organisation responsible for the development of nuclear fusion power.

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United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is a United Nations programme with the mandate to protect refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people, and assist in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country.

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University of Canterbury

The University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha; postnominal abbreviation Cantuar. or Cant. for Cantuariensis, the Latin name for Canterbury) is New Zealand's second oldest university.

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University of Huddersfield

The University of Huddersfield (informally Huddersfield University) is a public university located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

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University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a public university based in the city of Liverpool, England.

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University of London

The University of London (abbreviated as Lond. or more rarely Londin. in post-nominals) is a collegiate and a federal research university located in London, England.

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University of Nottingham

The University of Nottingham is a public research university in Nottingham, United Kingdom.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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University of Surrey

The University of Surrey is a public research university located within the county town of Guildford, Surrey, in the South East of England, United Kingdom.

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Vanuatu

Vanuatu (or; Bislama, French), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (République de Vanuatu, Bislama: Ripablik blong Vanuatu), is a Pacific island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean.

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Victoria University of Wellington

Victoria University of Wellington (Te Whare Wānanga o Te Ūpoko o Te Ika a Māui) is a university in Wellington, New Zealand.

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Vinten

Vinten is a manufacturer of camera supports founded in 1910 and based in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

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Visqueen

Visqueen is a brand of polyethylene plastic sheeting (typically Low-density polyethylene) produced by British Polythene Industries Limited.

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Watkins Shaw

Harold Watkins Shaw, OBE, known as Watkins Shaw (3 April 1911 in Bradford, Yorkshire – 8 October 1996 in Worcester) was a British musicologist and educator best known for his critical edition of Handel's Messiah compiled between 1957 and 1965, which version has largely supplanted that of Ebenezer Prout in British performance - The Times obituarist went so far as describe it as being in "universal use", though this is a slight exaggeration.

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Welsh Guards

The Welsh Guards (WG; Gwarchodlu Cymreig), part of the Guards Division, is one of the Foot Guards regiments of the British Army.

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West Yorkshire Police

West Yorkshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing West Yorkshire in England.

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Western Region of British Railways

The Western Region was a region of British Railways from 1948.

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Westland Helicopters

Westland Helicopters was a British aerospace company.

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Westminster City Council

Westminster City Council is the local authority for the City of Westminster in Greater London, England.

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Westminster Hospital

Westminster Hospital was a hospital in London, England, founded in 1719.

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Which?

Which? is a brand name used by the Consumers' Association, a registered charity (No. 296072) and company limited by guarantee (No. 580128), which is based in the United Kingdom.

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Wiesbaden

Wiesbaden is a city in central western Germany and the capital of the federal state of Hesse.

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William Long (Northern Ireland politician)

William Joseph Long OBE (23 April 1922 – 10 February 2008) was a Unionist politician in Northern Ireland.

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William Mathias

William Mathias CBE (1 November 1934 – 29 July 1992) was a Welsh composer.

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William McCrea (astronomer)

Sir William Hunter McCrea FRS FRSE PRAS (13 December 1904 – 25 April 1999) was an English astronomer and mathematician.

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William Stanley Peart

Sir William Stanley Peart (born 31 March 1922) is a British doctor and clinical researcher who was first to demonstrate the release of noradrenaline after the stimulation of sympathetic nerves.

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Winfrith

Winfrith Atomic Energy Establishment, or AEE Winfrith, was a United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority site near Winfrith Newburgh in Dorset.

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Wordsley Hospital

Wordsley Hospital was an NHS hospital located in Wordsley, near Dudley, West Midlands (formerly Staffordshire), England.

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Yeomen of the Guard

The Queen's Body Guard of the Yeomen of the Guard are a bodyguard of the British Monarch.

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Ysgol Gyfun Aberaeron

Ysgol Gyfun Aberaeron is a bilingual comprehensive school for pupils aged between 11 and 18 years.

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16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers

The 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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17th/21st Lancers

The 17th/21st Lancers was a cavalry regiment of the British Army.

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2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)

The 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles) was a rifle regiment of the British Indian Army before being transferred to the British Army on India's independence in 1947.

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9th/12th Royal Lancers

The 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) was a cavalry regiment of the British Army, formed in 1960 by the amalgamation of the 9th Queen's Royal Lancers and the 12th Royal Lancers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_New_Year_Honours

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